The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-21
THE CAUSE OF WOMAN.
airs ny W0uEN ~ 1899 no COL
JtoIS am OTHER NSiITt TONS


Tnc dona' on.. cldovmentS and heane''s "
1897 for 81 Icnlioall, 'h'r''Hp'e' re"t.'us Wv
~, ,,..,p.,r. amounted TO over 's0,ooo,"0
TL,r,,,o, including libraries. received lie
- .b,rc rrir!y s8i. 200. Oyo. Ihese figures
80, ,,y,r before bccu e%Iutl"d, not even III
,h,., ,c,r. which rave 10 the country Chicago
.nI r,,.d stanford universities, with their
.,I,vrucr p' n'iHonS.
r.r..u Iyor-ity aud wcman's college without
.,.c.,n.. $50 far rs tic figures have been an
,,,,,,I reports III" largest enrolment this
mn v' .rh oyer has been registered. In The CO.
sdlrrr., . institutions the percentage OF In
ors1sc among women il greater Than among
me.
I.,aa statistics suggest three points fi'st
I'm tho genera. pr,.9nrity of the country IL not
wholly confined To The 'fIll dinner pail, " but OK
tends to the brain A. we'll a. the stomach,
,e,oed. that a considerable portion Of the ac-
cumu!vtcd wealth /, beIag dircct'F applied Tor
the benefit Of those vino are not rich; third,
mat ihc number of women Who are taking the
-hl-.,r cd ration" Is a.cmcntins every year
Last vrtr Barnard college had a
frr,lmln class NJ 0f;y-fodr GtrlS, this
yo-- there wore merry two hundred APP
plcatiou.. Wellesley College has just
dedicated a finely rqu'l I'd 10000 Oh
~. .l.o~v. tho cifI Of Mrs. John G. Within. Vas
an college IA. hrp.cI rruund for a s5C 20
biological laboratory. Radcliffe IL about be-
gInui.s q si1prn dl II residence, the GIFT q
Mrs David =. kuuhall. Rochester University
has iI~t o,eua 10 doors 10 women, and last
woat in that r y vas laid the cornerstone Of
the lev $500 ouI NJ. hanio,' Institute, the gift
OF NJ, George Eastman, which opens every
department t. s."i,
pcrnap4 the m ,st significant event In this
connection will h. the dedication on Nov. 0 of
Trinity Colleg" at Washington. u. G. Ills IL
the arst large ~,t,tlt.ou huilt by the Catholic
ChlrcI Tor 'hc gh,r education NJ women. ard
4 IL 'hc intention ~ make II rank with Hryn
New All 'ho other great non-scctarioa wo-
meI'- colleges.
IT, a sermon recently delivered at Rome by
B-bor Snaldiug Of Peoria, H., he said.
= Sine. II Is our duty to ed csb. It is our duty to give
~ best education, and nrSt Of all n give the best
,drt1unn to worar. Tor she. as mother. Is the Ab-
Or y.,rr Gol-appo.rtcd educator What hope II
ta,-e " genuine progress, In the religious He esre.
rsl.v. Il We leave her unedlcatrd' where woman Is
ignorant man II cJarSe and sensual, where her 70
Us m - bat : sup rstuon he Is ~sccptlcal and irrev.
,rri.
n w. are to have 4 race Of enlightened. noble and
brsy" mon. re must give to woman the best ~ cation
it, possible FOR her to receive. She has the same
~ - as 4 man 10 become all tnhl Snc may Dc, 10 KNOW
whatever may he known. n do whatever Ia fair and
jlN ami good. In souls there Is no ser. II We
icarr bali the race In ignorance. how shall We hope
r. M The other hal'l into TIL light Of truth and love-
There ia n vi Q and Geep gulf between this
gram utter1Nce and the pamphlets which
were pullishe hv eminent GiviIes only a
couple Of hun rel years AGO 10 prove that
,mcn hal no souls. n We reach TX over
ou'N the short span of fftv yes~- We shall I'm!
many sermons an learned articles and legis-
latiyo speeches c~eclarins that the brain OF
woman was not capable OF receiving a college
. ~u"atiNn. tlat her body could not endure
the pOysi al strain. and that even II mind and
mus le were equal II the demands II would
totally unfit ler for marriage and mother
hool. As soon as she got a chance she proved
that the'e OH foGles would have been stoned
10 Geath ~ false prophets II they had lived
a few centuries earlier. Now their NOISY
barkrI descendants are solemnly setting forth
the same ancient age-encrusted. fossllized.
pe'riAe he,orAthe-food objections to al
lowing woman a voice In government. when
she gets this she ought to advise these pre-
historic ca~ve-dwelllng alarmists 10 fall of
the earth. for they will be henceforth and
ever'astinGly out Of a lob.
The Unite States are all right In respect
W TIC tlh'dNlOu u NpLlti bIbdb bTlNhlH
lags a little behind. but she Is trying to catch
ny. France il giving her women the best
possible opportunities in this direction In
the French institutions for what is cailel the
higher = .uoation there were enrolle IN 1850
loo women in 1919, 2o,OoD. In the other
open the universities tn girls, hut a lack 81 the
Necessary preparatory schools. Germany,
who gives TO men etuGat,Pna a ,vaqtases
abreast with most clTillze nations in eiucat-
Ing her women. The present ,Prussian Min
"a twelve years course Of uninterruTtc stuCy
woll make such Ceman-s on the mental an
Ihyd,al power Of Eir.s thai; aiter rraGGa=
Only q hun RED. wears benin the times, that's
FL. There IL, however. some advance along
this llne even In Germany.
Janln has shown her characteristioally
proS,e@iys spirit IN providing already a uni
Z, girls and lltds Porto Rico sends ur TO know
II Chicago University will not take some OF her
ts-1S TINT tho modern tendency Of ali clvi-
lied nations IL In the directton Of educating
yon"7 without stuoati2n they must remain
In an tNfaripr position; viii education there Ia
no limit to their 20 siblo achievements
Along this line the Boston Herald said a few
days ago:
,.H,rr'.' T@, si Il: 'oIS'I, aHi u fpVs'n' II
S,h.t ,cnn1ls A.. g,epstap ;, 70 is un.yet'al and
bNN tAlNlFINNt ~ w y lIFIhN dHn
scie lac cnlnu Ia n ae feeble and eclutrd n com
ard " u provpk-S an Gu tlvairs. or a sosc.ll 'ru
o. m Il the mo PRACTICAL ih' most general, tue
oct efs.uyc
TIE Heru'd IL opposed To women's taking
part In q Presidential " any other election
and would bar them ogt from this greater
ell icat n than Ill the 'chr0l. md gIl-craities
II " ~ 'pni0" tAon wholly ~ The "ferble
and ~Ncl lHd literary ant scientific erthusi-
asrns, and forbid them tNiR great awrEeuIHg
OF intellect al trior." y vo.'i deprive them
e]ntirriv of 'hiS most 0r1c'ical. most general
AM mp1 effective Of al! ,p"CIl e!loQtions,"
ENt''iv "a. -lw' apjrJ a f"S generations
ag2 1,hr~rl women from the high schools
ar colleges.
r., HrrrH may say that Il meant = cam
paigH" instead II an "~''',tiYn, and . az women
shtra IN H. lIGitip' 81 llvl1t1re b. reading
IN" olperf and attend : the public meetings.
B. n what avail B., "a. knowledge thus gained
L It clnuot be mad" cH.-ti. = on clrcli'' t.y?
Tho Hpch".'r~ H,uorrdi ard 6hrpni, t., COM
m'rii7r ~ tbs paragraph, Savs. TIE HerGh
/ : quite rtcht. \ great cause l. tried before
q I nv " -. peo.i'. md the best thought ~
th' N'' mind J., aTul."d to tho problem II
50 i|1F fDrfN 'Go 'Int- and convincing the
p j. lurg.u" the lrwyer- In a case labor
inS with m.'It aud main g. convince q fury
OF 'cul.' n'u and 'lau allowing only xix -
th'n - go IN tho verdict The nations
o. . nay DO. trio! before a jury Of the r%eolle,"
bi Ialr pu"-aIF ~ tho iury l. permitted to
re- t. n rc-Iln'. Women may attend tho
Ug|if "a. mo .f...- An e.. to- such gr1lu1bs a