The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-25

I good bishop is so luminous, COuVjualrar
/ and inspiring that the Temptation II,
/ give a few extracts is Irresistible
is she only a mother to give birth
! to her children. giving up afterwards e..
mercenaIies the functions of maternity
u e 1t is a mothers duty to ar.
tend to the soul as we'll as to the b. ~.
CT her child she can even be more cas-
lily replaced in his physical than in his
intellectual and moral education.
the former, so many people can H. ~.
her: for the latter. unless she is sur
rounded with obsca cles, she reigrs
alone. To follow the development off,
mind, and the studies of young MAJ.
to watch over him. to guide him Wit,
that influence that is given by a SCUM
and authoritative judgment by cat
paeity Joined to kindness. and thus in
spire confidence and admiration, III,
this implies a combination of intellac--
uai qualities which are far from ord
nary
How many mothers have lost all
power over the souls of their. sons be-
cause they have been una BILE to nourf4o
and to develop their inteIlectuaI as nov
have done their physical being? To be
q mother mother in all
the elevation, the extent and
the depth off the word-that alone
Justifies all the noble efforts of a worr-
an to acquire the greatest superiority
OF mind Now, if you admit that the
Intellectual development of woman
ought 70 be encouraged, even from q
useful point Of view, the development
must be complete, and no arbitrary
limits to. it must te fixed beforehand
With regard to her husband, intel
lectual work makes a woman worthy
OF him, provided he is intelligent. No
unity can last in married life unless the
fellowship of hearts is accompanied by
the fellowship Of minds. A
woman who has studied shares her
husbands serious occupations. she sup
ports him in his labors. in his strug-
giles She follows her husband and pre-
cedes her sons. *% She does not
make boast of it, but she rests Sc
curely in her happiness, for she is con-
hdent that nothing can disturb a union
which has foc it's basis the perfect fell
lowship of two souls and two minds.
and that the love of both will last as
long as the souls whom it unites"
In reply to any objectOr who may say
that the scope of woman's education
has widened greatly since Mgr. Duplan-
loup wrote his book on "Studious
Women" let the following extracts
serve for an answer, as trey were in
tended to serve in the authors own
law:
" But say my directors. young girls
ire taught a vast quantity of things
Turing their education
Doubtless they are, and this is ex-
Jctly what 1 complain of; Girls have
lot to take a degree, and all their edu-
alton tends to give very extensive and
-ery superficial general notions. Moth
ng serious, grave or deep, but a smat-
ering Of everything. 1t is evident that
UGH desultory efforts cannot produce
ny really good result. In this way a
title of everything. and nothing prop
rly, is known; no developed talent; no
aculty, rot even serious taste for
nything is obtained These half tai
nts, these tastes of superficial study.
% no good. This is exactly what is
wanted to shine for a moment, and to
all Snort of being something or some
Ody.' This is exactly what is wanted
o leave off doing anything as soon as
he education of the convent is over.
low, it is precisely an opposite course
hat ought to be adopted, if the object
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'omen. who may one day be useful to
heir husbands and their children.
L cannot state everything here. and
rite a whole treatise on education; L
ill only say, as a sort of recapitula-
on. that the essential principle is this;
girl musL be brought up in a COM
ete manner. What does this mean2
means to develop her intelligence, her
cart, her conscience, her character, at
lie same time as her practical facuI-
es. without neglecting her health. her
hysical strength, nor even within due
mits, her outward charms; in one
ord, to render her capable OF forming
0t only an element in the life Of man,
ut of sympathizing with his thoughts.
nd to realize in marriage that intel
ctual union which is the perfection Of
moral bond and fellowship of inter
;ts."
With this last extract. it is safe to
ave the reader, since it alone justifies
.e claims that this old book is really
new book. Nothing newer on the sub
ct of w0man's education has yet been
lid, and even in our American col
gss for the higher educati- n of woman
broader, compieter or more exalted
cal has been set. In reality. these
Try colleges are working along exactly
e lines marked out by this one little
lragraph CT the good, the great, the
atholic Bishop of Orleans.