The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-05-26

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and may be filled with the widest de
sire TO Danish pain and disease from
the face of the earth; but we requir
more than this of him before We in
trust our disease stricken bodies to hi
care. We require that he shall hav
spent years in careful and systemati
; study of the anatomy and physiolog,
of the human system
The social organism of which we ar,
a part is as complicated as our owl
bodies; and like every complicated anC
highly developed structure is subjected
to an ever increasing liability to dis
orders and disease. Shall we intrust it:
health then to quacks or to those whose
sole recommendation is their sympa-
thetic zeal? Therefore it is that L urge
you to seek for yourselves opportuni-
ties for the highest education possible
for whatever sphere of life you may
choose your guidance and counsel car
be power for good and for intelligent
progress.
Formerly a young woman's education
was finished" when she was gradu-
ated from her academic course; just as
our young men We're supposed to have
obtained a superb mental equipment
when college had brought them to
that stage of intellectual development
| indicated by a baccalaureate degree.
But today universities have grown up
on all sides to lead young men and
young women further in the pursuit
of knowledge. They are marked fea-
ture of the age; and if they indicate
one thing more than another it is that
the stereotyped phrase 1.-THE Problem of
Life has put on new meaning for us
of today and demands for its solution
a deeper study into the laws of our life
and being.
The university man and not the col
lege man has now become the type of
intellect and culture. And our young
men are found in universities at an age
at which they were formerly supposed
to be old for mere study and books.
The same is fast becoming true of wo-
men. The legal age of majority remains
where it has long been; but by common
consent we are slowly, though none the
less surely, raising the age of her in
tellectual maturity. Time was when a
girl should be through her education
by Is or 10, should then formally enter
society and begin forthwith unobstu-
sively, but earnestly, to angle for
husband. And if she failed to land
the man" by the time she was % she
was regarded with pity and looked
upon as a failure. This in intelligent
circles has ceased to be the case. We
now expect women to devote more
years to their education; we have given
the term youth" greater expansion and
even the term "old maid" is falling into
disuse and is ceasing to be a word of
reproach. A nd if you are thus expect
ed to extend the period of your studies
it is because it is plainly recognized
that new conditions demand it.
And, after all, will these conditions |
make women less lovable? less influ- !
entail, less respected by man? On the
contrary, believe if the new tenden- |
eies are properly directed, the good |
nurtured and the bad eradicated, wo-
mans influence will be increased and /
that she will extend her sway by walk
ng in the pathway which has been
opened to her by Jesus Christ, whose
immaculate Mother remains forever the
glory and the ideal of all women.
The ages of faith have furnished us
With illustrious examples of glorious
who have seized the opportuni-
les which presented to develop all that
S best and noblest and purest in wo-
mans soul. Maud, wife of King
Henry I, made daily pilgrimages to
Westminster Abbey during the season
f Lent where she would wash and kiss
he feet of Gods poor and enrich them
f her bountiful aims. The same spirit
the soul of Alice, Duchess of
of Blanche of Navarro, of the
lustrious Matilda, whom a poeticaY
ritter says must have been in the mind
Spenser when he penned his Fairy
.ueen."
Whose only joy was to relieve the needles
f wretched soules, and helpe the helpe-
Jesse pore.
IL nieht she spent in bidding of her {
9
nd all the day in doing good and cody 6
decides" {
Lest, perchance, you should think
lat 1 have unduly accentuated the
eed of higher education, have but to
~ that the intelle D lal splendor of t
er woman was, during the ages of
nth, one of the Church's chiefest glo-
es. Countess Mathilda was the equal
the bishops of the Church.; Anna of l
rittany took rank among the astron- l
ners of her age; Helena Cornora's re- I
own resounds to this day from the I
Ills of Padua, where as a Doctor of Il
philosophy she manifested a perfect q
lowledge of Spanish, French, Latin. '
reek, Hebrew and Arabic languages,
I'd who, at the same time, was both d
'et theologian and astronomer To L
.ch of these lovely and most intellec-
al Christian women might be applied II
ears description of Cordelia:
Her voice was ever soft, t
sntle and low; an excellent thing in r
women
And then, also, what illustrious exam
es of courage and suffering and en- u
trance have come down to us from II
e same ages Thus speaks the Lady d
Branksome to the British lords who %
me to demand the person of Sir Will n
IN Deloraine, leading before her eyes ii
+ little son their captive: "
or the young heir of Branksome's line, =,
I'd be his aid, and God be mine! p
rough me no friend shall meet his u
doom. Ii
IRE, while I live, no foe finds room II
AT the moment when Sobieski
ounted his horse to hasten to the re-
of Vienna, during the memorable ~
ge of 1888, when the Turks threatened
conquer this bulwark of Christen-