Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-01-20

ever heon advanced. II, AZ " is
claimed, the tendency Of the higher
education Of woman ia toward matri-
monial decline, ouch tendency IS
justified by the fact that the higher
education also tends to develop IN
women a highly sensitive matrimonial
conscience. Fitted by the college edu.
cation for self support, the majority OF
college, bred women marry conscien'
tiously. They do not marry for busi-
ness purposes, They marry for love,
In regard to the college education
failing to fiji women for the duties OF
motherhood, il we admit the undis'
puted value OF education, and the I'M
disputed influence Of the mother upon
the child, it is absurd in the extreme
TO reiuse 10 admit that the college
education is a power in fitting women
for ideal motherhood. Tho daughter
of Elizabeth CBdy STATION has been
urging Vassar College to arrange for
course in domestic science, which ia a
provision which all sensible women
will approve and heartily welcome.
From the time of our naughty, dis
Obedient, trapHilcursed Eve down to
the present time the husband, the
preacher, the poet, the sage anu no
and of wiseacres have informed woman
that her mission in life was the per'
petuation OF the human race. Galaxy
upon galaxy OF smart magazine writer's
have warned woman that the decline
in matrimony threatens the extinction
! of tho human family. l think, how
ever, that >the CONSCIENTIOUS intel
| ligent, great hearted women of our
land are rightfully busy struggling
with the problem OF over appropriation
rather than urging provision against
any probable extinction of the human
species. We are justly more distressed
| by the condition OF thousands of beings
already born into tho world than We
are grieved by any probable dcarth OF
human existence.
Women have been fondly called
angels, and seraphs, and divinities ami
saints, and no end Of pretty things IN
the one hand, and on the other they
have been called dull, senseless thinga
devoid of both soul and reason. be-
lieve il was bad Lord Byron who paid
woman this last compliment OF cnurse
the cynical poet had reference to the
poor oppressed female OF tho Eighteenth
Century. He would not have dared said
such thing OF the Twentieth Century
woman. Tho Tweutiath Century womau
is not puppet. She is an individual.
She is an individual with Hll an in.
dividual's consciousness OF an in
dividual's right tn individual thought.
individual conscience and individua
actiN ity. She is not a weak adherent
OF precedent, but stauneh advocate
of principle. Her ambition ia TO do il
life not that which looks womanly, hui
that which ia womaniy. Her ideal is tt
do that which is right, rather thar
follow that which Is expedient. Sht
believes not in ahams, but in realities
not in slavery, but 10 Justice. The
Twentieth Century woman has al! tn
virtues of her own tyne joined to al
the virtues of the woman Of Garlic
type. With all the strong individuality
the broad thought. the superior power
of designing and executing, the high
minded generosity and thu nohl
courage Of her kind, she has all th
genuine refinement, the sympathy. til,
tenderness, the womanliness of he
elderly and more conservative sister
To her VS. owe every female achieve
ment in the realms OF literature
science and art, as we'll as our centur.
clubs, our suffrage clubs, our tenn
perance associations, our nsedleworI
guilds, our hospitals. our industria
schools, our college settlements. GU
doors of hope.
II III constantly urged by certai
; type of people that the women who 4
} 10 college. Join clubs and engage il
J works of philanthropy and reform ar
invariably poor home. makers. II is m
experience, however, that the century
club woman is quite as we'll educate
in domestic science and sanitary queF
tions and that the Associa Chart
workers are as slsilful in brighteniu
quite as many homes as the woman
Who brews and bakes,
And cuts and bakes
For me and my husband;
Our daughter Lib and her husband,
Us four and no more.
, Profound questions, animated dis
, cussons and numerous COMMITTEES meet
, ings sometimes may Justly be blame
i for missing dessert or an over cooke
I dinner, but'what matters one or NOR
! puddings out of ones life. or an occ5
) sional burned potato, compared wit
1 such questions and achievements I
J prison reform, compulsory education
university extension and the enfrar
ohisement OF woman. =..@-.
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