New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-05
REGARDING C0-EDUCAT1oN.
AAbEIH CADY STANTON SAYS THAT IT
ACCoMPLIsHEs THE BEST RESULTS
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ALIKE
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
sir IN reply to Miss walbridges structures on CO.
euucauoh would say first. that co-education ac-
coIlpnshes the best results for boys and girls
LOT the development of character. AS the
Il-e"ork or many individuals of both sexes is es-
sentially the same there is no reason v,hv their
education should differ
second-Thousands OF men are at the head Of
NOTES. where they must understand all depart
roents or housekeeping; at the head Of laundres
bakeries and restaurants: cooks and walters in
fashionable families and hotels on yachts rail-
ROADS IN the army, the navy, on steamers. and
III al engineering and exploring expeditions. Men
are taliors at the head of great mercantile estab-
hshments' making dresses and hats for women. as
wei as clothes for their own sex Men are said
TO be more sl1ilfuI than women in all these In
oustres and the devotees of fashion at the present
uIlle all demand tailor-made suits. Because thou
SANDS or men are thus engaged in what are called
domestic enployments should all men in their col
Iege course be required study cooking and
sewing?
Third-Whi1e rapidly increasing number of
women are crowding into all the trades and pro-
fesslons as lawyers. doctors, preachers, presi-
dents and professors IN colleges writers Of history
novels. poetry. school books articles for magazines
and the daily press; artists, actors. typewriters
stenosTaphers clerks in courts, teachers in public
schools, and IN four States Of the Union the
equals of men, crowned with all their civil and po-
htcal rights, members of the Legislature and
jurors in the courts is it necessary for all these
classes OF women to add to their collegiate course
cooking, sewing, the care Of children and nursing
the sick?
Fourth-AItss Walbridge asks if the masculine and
feminine elements are the same. They are not the
same hence the Importance that they should be al
ways together and in perfect equilibrium.
As Tennyson has well said:
Two heads IN council
Two beside TIE hearth.
, Two IN the tangled business Of the world;
abyss Of science and the mind.
These great moral forces in humanity are as
necessary TO equilibrium the positive and neg
alive electricity the Centripital and centrifugal
forces IN the material world If We had the power
TO throw these forces out Of equilibrium for FIVE
minutes would have material chaos Just as we
have had moral chaos in all civilizations yet tried
pressed and degraded, and until the equilibrium OF
these great moral forces is fully established we
sinai never have perfect conditions.
fIItA-4n the main, woman's work IS Identical
indiy:iduaIs. differing IN tastes capacities and
should nave alike. the highest and broadest edu-
caJlOn, prepared 10 I'LL all positions. To Ctrcur-
motherhood, to home life, TO cooking and sewing
E 70 take very marrow view Of their destiny
Sare OF ,chlldEeIl, nor choose nursing as a pro-
when they already mi four tho 05 places
A general and thorough collegiate education, for
course afterward for the nfework they choose. is
me present custom Tor all students and VIII no
or langUages, knowledge Of !ogarithIns and Latin
fessor Of either sex. Miss WaIbridKe to the con-
trary Notwithstanding. In social life the
JOY very much the same conditions We do not
build separate houses spread separate tables
for men and women. We all eat flesh, fish and
fowl vegetables and fruits and suffer extremes
OF heat and cold To-day the State IS in a con-
dItion OF half-orphanage, as II has no mothers;
the home is in condition OF half-orphanage be-
cause II has o fathers.
When woman awakes to the beauty Of science
philosophy and government, then VIII the first
note Of harmony be touched, then will the great
organ Of humanity be played on all its keys with
every stop rightly adjusted and with louder.
loftier strains, the march Of civilization will be
UNNECESSARILY Quickened Yours truly,
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
No. $50 West Ninety-fourth-st.. New-York, Sep
TENDER 3. 1900.