The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-11
DESTROYS BEAUTY.
SIR JAMES CREIGHTON BROWNE ON
WOMAN'S INTELLECTUAL WORK.
The Startling Warming of n Great English
Physician Against the Higher Education
OF Our Girls-"what viii the Next GEN.
Grafton OF Women BE Like?"

Grafton OF Women BE Like?"
most famous Of English physicians, has
made a fierce protest against the higher
education of women. He urges many
reasons against 1t, but the one with which
he chiefly seeks to arrest public opinion
before it is too late is that this education
will destroy the physical beauty Of woman.
His reasoning Is so earnest so serious
and SO scientific that it must force us to
consider whether we are not doing wrong
in permitting women to enter into severe
and continuous course of study. Every
educational institution for women Is con-
cerned in this matter, from the public
schools of New York to the best OF wom-
ems colleges. In both cases girls and
women are forced to enter into educational
competition with boys and men.
We should remember how much Is Mt
stake. The beauty of woman in our
clumsy civilization Is the one relief to the
weary eye in world of ugliness and sor-
didness. This man of science tells us that
we have inaugurated q system which Will
destroy it.
Shall we exchange the beauty of woman
for "a racial inheritance of nervous degen-
Grafton?
Would 1t not be sorry translation9
Should we not make an effort to preserve
those graces of form which have inspired
the art of the world and alone keep us
from utter absorption in the struggle for
gainp These are the questions which the
physician asks.
The process by which a mans education
inflicted on a woman reduces her to ugii-
ness he declares to be a very simple and
natural one. 1t consists chiefly in the dis
organization of her nervous system. The
results are loss of graceful outlines, loss OF
appetite, lines in the face, bad teeth bad
complexion, short sight and possibly hys-
toria epilepsy and insanity.
There is u growing tendency around us,
says Sir James, to ignore intellectual dis
tnctions between the sexes. The bodily
differences between men and women are
universal and intimate and involve every
organ and tissue. They extend from the
skin to the marrow of tho bones, from the
crown of the head-for, according to Broca
the female Uranium Is less elevated than
that of the maJe--to tho sole of the foot,
| for, according to Delaunay, woman has n
| pantar arch flatter than that of man,
which perhaps accounts for her partiallty
| for high heeled boots.
Il
| to the sexual differences in one bodily or
gan-the brain. 1t is amatter of common
l observation that women have smaller
| heads than men, and it is a matter of sci.
| entiilc observation that in all peoples and
| races without exception, tho absolute
| weight of tho entire brain Is on tho aver
| ago, greater in men than in women. The
| advocates of woman's rights have argued
| that the deficiency in her brain weight
| when compared with that of men is to be
accounted for by her fewer inches, but be
/ quotes figures to prove that there Is great
/ excess of brain weight in favor of the
| male, even when allowance Is made Tor
| stature The average excess of weight in
| the male brain over the female, between
| the ages of 30 and 30 years, Is 6.Ol ounces.
The smaller size of the female brain is n
| fundamental sexual distinction. 1t Is not
| to be accounted for by the hypothesis that
I environment, educational advantages and
habits of life, acting through long series
| of generations, have stimulated the growth
| of the cerebrum in one sex moro than in
the other. This Is made clear by the fact
that the same differences In brain weight
| between men and women have boon found
In savage races. There are also grounds
for believing that thero Is difference IN
the balance of parts In the male and TO-
male brains respectively.
It is in the sympathetic accord of the
differentiated sexes that human progress
can alone be hoped for:
He is half part of blessed man.
Left to be divided by such she,
| And she fair divided excellence,
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
And blindness to this Complementary
relation of tho sexes, so patent to Shakes
peare, is what leads wise men-wise, but
ignorant or contemptuous of biology-tt
sanction intersexual competition In educa
ton and for subsistence with its ruinou'
effects.
"Those tall, graceful girls" says Si1
James in final outburst, whom we SCI
around us 20 plentifully today--and novel
in the worlds history has woman's beauty
been 30 beautiful as In England today
those tall, graceful, lovely girls are the of
spring of mothers who had not the ad
| vantages of high school education.
! "what will the next generation o