The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-15

and coerseness and roughness and rudeness Of
those wholly male schools in which boys night
their way on alone, with no humAnizing influences
from the other sex. For my own part think
ovemaking over ones Latin and Greek much
Of English schools, or than many another hing
TO which poor, bindly fermendng boy hood runs
when separated from home, mother and sister.
and confined TO an atmosphere and surround
ings sharply and purely male
ut is certain that the coppanionshp Of the girl
improves the boy, but more doubt has been eX-
pressed whether the dclicacy Of womanhood is
not impaired by an early experience OF the fiat
after ali II is no worse for girl to rt in her Lain
and mathematical class than TO do II in the Ger
man or the polka The studies and drill Of the
wanting in the ballroom and under the gaslight
OF fashionable parties In good school, tho
tual The girl is valued for something beside
her her person; her disposition and character are
In her everyday clothes. On the whole, do
not think a better way can be found to bring the
which obScures their knowledge of each other
than to put them side BY, side in the daily drill
OF good literary institution"
At the Inauguration last week Of the now presi-
dent of Wellesley College, President Eliot Of Tar-
vHTd is an as sagn g om,, colleges for
young men has greatly impaired the value Of
the experiments on the selection OF studies here
II remains to be demonstrated wi at are the most
appropriate, pleasing and profitable studies for
vdu and Of society and this doS U sH
must be entirely freed from the influence OF COM
parson with the intellectual capacities and tastes
Of men. II would be wonder indeed il the
intellectual capacities Of women were not at least
as unlike those Of men as their bodily capac-
ties are
Sidney Lanier speaks Of -the extreme folly
into which n man may be led by mistaking an
man can lift heavier weight than the average
young woman, does II follow that he can learn
a longer Latin lesson?
Potter the Rev. nr. Hamilton and others have
been giving their views upon II. The best way
to prevent divorce is 10 prevent people from wanting
TO be divorced Equal suffrage seems to tend
was granted to women in 1869 During the
twenty years from 1870 10 1890, divorce in the
United States al large increased about three times
as fast as the population. In the group OF Western
four times as fast as The population. In Wyoming
increased only about half rs tnst MS the population
Yet in Wyoming, as in most OF the Western States
divorces are not particularly hard TO get This
wish 10 get them. Charles Kingsley said Where
ever man and wife really happy together. II is
by ignoring and despsing, not by asserting, the
differentiation OF woman 10 man which they hold
pines are frvolity on the part of women and
RIGHTEOUSNESS on the part OF man, Whatever
tends 10 make women more thoughtful and broad
minded tends directly 10 increase the happiness
that tends TO ma Ike believe in an equal standard
of right and wrong for themselves and their wives
Other causes may contribute TO lessen divorce
in Wyoming but while divorce in the country
worthy that the one State in the Union which has
been fully committed to equal suffrage for Fener
alton showed relative decrease.
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL