The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-19

mould his character and open his mind
to the influence of poetry.
IA we'll known author says that wo-
men have written no 'Iliad' nor Ham
let but they have given something far
greater and better than all this, for it
is at their knees that upright and hon
est men and women have been trained
the most excellent production in the
world.
Character is not formed in day
but day by day. The several acts may
seem in themselves trivial, but so are
the acts of daily life. Like snowf1akes,
they fall unperceived. each flake added
to a pile produces no sensible change,
and yet accumulation of the snowflakes
makes the avalanche.
80 do repeated acts, one following
another, at length become consolidated
in habit determine the character for
good or evil and in word form the
character"
Women in Mathematics" by May
Bretherton:
"Custon, circumstances and public
opinion have always placed many OBJ
stacles in the way of women attaining
any prominence in the study of mathe-
MATES or science; yet, nOtwithstand-
ing these hindrances, many women
have struggled hard and at last peach
ed the point OF fame
THE most celebrated of these was
Hypatia, daughter of Theon. the learn
ed mathematician of Alexandria. She
was woman celebrated for beauty
and modesty, vet was said to be
greater mathema tician than her father.
She was the last AleXandrian teacher
of reputation and was also an able
philosopher. Born in the latter part Of
the fourth century she exhibited from
earliest youth an amazing intelligence,
in consequence of which her father re-
solved to give her genius thoroughly
phlosophic culture She succeeded her
father in the chair of philosophy at
Alexandria, and the fame of her lee
lures drew around her students from
all parts of the East. The citizens of
Alexandria were proud of her, and
such reliance was placed on her judg-
ment and sagachty that the magistrates
used frequently to consult her on i'm
portant cases. Among those who We're
intimate with her was Orestes, the pre-
feet of the city At this time the bsh-
of of Alexandria was a fierce halter of
heathens and heretics. Detesting
Orestes, who had drawn up an accusa-
ton against him for exciting tumult
he soon cast an evil eye on Hypatia
whom he regarded as a Satanic en-
chantress. His hatred communicated it
self with the lower clergy and espec-
tally to certain savage monks, who.
headed by one Peter, attacked Hypatia
in the streets as she was returning
from her lecture room. The maiden
was dragged to the Caesarians church,
where she was murdered with tiles, af-
ter which her bones were burned.
Marie Gaetana Agesi of Milan was
a woman remarkable for her varied
attainments, especially that of mathe-
MATES. In her ninth year. she could
converse in Latin and gave lectures in
that language, in which she argued
that a knowledge of the ancient Ian
guages was a proper accomplishment
for women. This precocous develop
ment of intellect was encouraged by
her father. who invited learned men to
his house that Marie might dispute
with them on philosophic subjects. At
ter her Goth year she devoted herself
entirely to the study of mathematics,
and when her father was disabled by
intirmity, she took his place as profess
sor of mathematics in the University of
Bologna by, the appointment of Pope
Benedict XIV.
by these examples we see that wo-
men. even though debarred from the
privileges which We're given to men,
have possessed brain and intellectual