The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24
Copyri ght, 1897.

T such story as this Is by no means I'M
common.
An intelligent man wrote to me- ask
ing my advice. He had married charm
ing girl who was graduated from one of
the Well-known colleges for women. He
loved her devOtedly. During the early
years of their married life he sometimes
grew weary of her continual talk about
her college, her foolish idea that a wo-
man couldn't be intelligent unless she was
college taught and her continually going
TO various alumnae meetings all over the
country. He hoped she would get tired
OF this. Now she is the mother of two
dear little children, and she proposes Ieav-
ing her home in the charge of young
pretty cousin, while she, wife and moth
er, goes back to her college to take {.
special course in Greek literature
Properly enough this man asked: Can
my wife blame me if l drift from her
since her college, her college chums and
the benefits to be gained from her college
are more to her than her husband, her
home and her children?" Do blame him?
l only blame him for one thing, and that
IS for not putting stop to this college
| business when it first began. The place
of the average woman is at home l
don't want her to be a slave to a man
no woman is unless she chooses-but l
fail to see that any good is gained by
CHASING around the country, making
speeches at different alumnae meetings
| and being called Mrs. Adelaide Simmons
Brown" when as a married woman she
ought to be proud to be known as Mrs.
James Brown
The college girl rises up and SAYS: do
you want women to be ignorant?" and I
say, very positively, that l fail to see the
| value of good many things that are
| taught at college. Too many girls learn
to be ashamed of their homes; too many
girls learn to be ashamed of everything
| but the college and its inhabitants
When men go to college they realize that
1t IS the means to an end. The average
girl, whose brain is not over well poised
regards the college as the end and the
aim of her existence. Too often, when
she has to earn her own living, she is
| helpless. Very little Greek literature is
needed to take a dictation on the type
| writer, manage set OF books or sell
| yard of ribbon. "Ah, but" says the col
lege girl, 'if 1 need to earn my living
| shall teach Greek" How many Greek
| scholars are demanded for this entire
| country? And how many women apply
| ing for such positions are likely to gain
| them when they make their requests in
badly written, badly spelled and badly
| Worded letters?
1 firmly believe that the more a woman
knows about everything the more capa-
| bic she is. But she's got to get her brain
set at level first of all. She's got to put
| everything at it's right valuation. and
| she's got to realize that thorough know
ledge of the three RS means more than
! all the. Greek literature that ever was
| taught or studied
The Jennie 1 have cited may be met in
| almost every small town She is a sor-
row to her parents and a burden 10 her
| brothers and sisters. She has gone about
| thlngs IN the wrong way She began by
| forgetting the advantage of a level brain
she has learned what she ought not TO
| learn, and left unlearned that which would
have been of advantage to her. But she is
| very common type. And she is making
men and women realize the value of thor
oughness in education.
superficial knowledge of Greek and
| Latin is worth nothing 10 the average wo-
| man. A thorough knowledge of the Eng
| nsh language, a thorough knowledge or
| her own country and of the needs in life
of both men and women, is the knowledge
| that we want for our girls.
know you are laughing, but even Bah
| grows serious once in a while when she
| sees sweet, young, ambitious girls made
| dissatisfied and Wretched for the rest of
| their lives by the four years spent at col
| lege. Let your girl learn all that she can.
but be sure that she knows some things
well. Be sure that your daughter spells
Well Be sure that your daughter writes
a good clear, sensible letter. Be sure that
your daughter is well posted, not only in
the history of her own country, but in the
| history of the world. Be sure that your
! daughter is a good arithmetlcian. Then
| if it's within your means and she wishes to
take up some other studies, let her do it
But it is not necessary that she should be
an adept at basketball. 1t is not neces-
! sary that she should be stroke oar in the
| famous crew of 1897. 1t is not necessary
that her picture be published all over the
| country as the best gymnast in her year.
And it is less necessary that in lieu of q
wedding ring she should conspicuously
! haunt upon the third finger Of her left
| hand the class ring that took your hard
earned dollars to buy.
/ believe in the higher education for wo-
man, but mine is that higher education
| which is not taught in colleges. It is learn
| ed at ones mothers knee. 1t is cultivated
all through life. And she is the most high
| ly educated who understands best how to
make most happy the greatest number of
! people.
Let your girl learn all that it is wise for
her to know from books, but be sure that
she gets that very highest education which
will make of her a good woman, woman
| whose father and mother will be proud of
! her and in whom the heart of her hus-
band may safely trust. That's the only
| higher education worth having. And If ]
controlled any girl that's the one that she
would be forced to take by the positive
| order of Bah.
A Goat Chewcd His WhisIkers.