The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-12


young people there from this cause. At
the Morganton Hospital there are two
from the same school. l am afraid the
fact is overlooked that physical health
is a necessity to obtain an education and
the system of cramming-in vogue in some
palces, is ruinous to the weak and unsta-
bic brain.
THE NEW WOMAN.
Il am quite aware says Sir
Frederick Bateman, that l am treading
ON dangerous and delicate ground but
although j would not discourage the
highest aspiration of women whether Of
an intellectual. social or aesthetic char
acters, | must think a word of caution
in necessary against overpressure of the
present day" las soon," says DR.. Sc
gum, las women assumed the anxieties
pertaining to both sexes, they gave birth
to children whose like had hardly been
met with thirty years ago"
Sir J.. G. Brown in his Grafton on Sex
in Education" says: ITO throw women
in competition with men is to insure to
them largely increased liability to or
ganic nervous disease. Woe betide the
generation that springs from mothers
among whom gross nervous degeneration
abound" He claims that there are or
ganic cerebral differences between men
and women and that they ought to be
educated in different ways, being destin-
ed to play different parts in the sphere of
life.
There can be no question of superior
ity or inferiority," says he, ANY more
! than there can be between telescope
and a microscope; but they are differ
entiated from each other in structure and
function, and fitted to do different kinds
OF work in the world. He maintains that
the weight of the brain is less i'm women
, than in men, that the specific gravity
of the grey matter is less, that the distri-
, button of he blood varies in the two sexes
to a considerable extent and that the
blood going to the female brain is some
what poorer in quality than that going to
the male brain, and contains four mil
! lions and half corpuscles to the cubic
milHmetre. instead of five millions in
the case of the male Mrs. Garrett An
derson and others controvert these opin-
/ ions Of Sir j. G. Brown. She says: IAN
! / would venture to say is, that if it
could be proved that an average man
(
as Newton differed from cretin, it would
still be well to give the cretin all the
training which he was capable of receiv-
ing ........ When we hear it said that
women will cease to be womanly if they
enter professions or occasionally vote in
parliamentary elections, we think that
those who conjure up these terrors should
/ try to understand women better, and
should rid themselves of the habit of
being frightened about nothing"
| 1T seems that one Of her own sex il of
a different opinion, to Mrs. Anderson
as in a series Of articles i'm the Shine
teenth Century for 1891 and 1891 Mrs
Lynn Linton strongly deprecates any de-
parture from the comparatively restricted
area of usefulness hitherto open to wo-
men, and She even boldly states that it
is for maternity that women primarily
exist. She also adds, "be it pleasant or
unpleasant, it is none the less an abso-
lutte truth-the raison d'etre of women is
maternity ..... the cradle hes across
the door of the polling booth and bars
the way to the Senate" The venerable
Phoebe Cozzens after years of advocacy
of female suffrage, changed her opinion
upon maturer deliberation and thought
! that the care OF children was after all
the proper sphere of woman.
| 1t is not for a moment to be consider
ed that would in any way deprive wo-
men of the highest education and adj
vancement, on the other hand | believe
/ that the proper education Of the present
| generation OF women means greater add
vances in the next. 1t is only against I'M
womanly professions. Nothing can be more
certain than that mothers cannot practice
| law or medicine or take active parts in af-
| fairs of State and at the same time
perform well the functions of wife and
mother.
THE HABITUAL CRIMINAL.
Every Criminologist recognizes that
| there is a distinct criminal class which
is absolutely hopeless so far as any re-
formation is concerned. Let any one view
body of conyicts and mark the asyn-
metrical heads, deformed features, the
weak bodies, and limbs, and the various
stigmata of degeneration and he will be
convinced that no reformatory can ever
work any good to them and that there
is nothing for society to do but prevent