, 1901-10-01

Give her the same chance in the
world for a higher education and she
will prove herself the peer of nan
Oily within "A quarter of a century
have colleges taken up the work of wo
manhood.
Vassar, one of the Oldest of women's
colleges. is a little over a quarter of a
century old. When she takes up art
! literature or religion. many times it is
OLly a smattering she gets. and ends
up her career at some sO-Called finish.
ing school. where she is taught to be
more brilliant in society and charm a
husband more readily.
Did o ever hear of a finishing
school for boys? And why should We
sec girls wasting their time in such
ways? Educate boys and girls in the
same way; give them a purpose in life
and make their goal not to be a man or
a roman catcher. but a useful power
in life's desteny.
OF course, We know that her physi
cal structure will lot stand the strain
of al professions and trades in life,
but this in many cases is due to a false
system Of bringing up.
Raise your girls as you do your boys
give her equal liberties to grow, eX-
pand, develop, and she will hold her
own against him every time.
A Grace Darling saving sailors in a
raging sea; a Florence Nightingale un-
YEARLY nursing wounded and dying
men, and a thousand other heroic wo,
men have found sex no barrier for good
and hard work.
Raise your boy as you sometimes
raise your girl; tell him he is never to
be an independent, ~self-acting being.
but a dollhouse plant. a passive Great,
ure without will of his own. always to
be dependent and to lean upon some
one stronger than himself. and you
would soon see what namby-pamby spe,
cimens of men we would have in the
world.
The time is past when men can say
that all the science a woman needs to
know in chemistry is enough to keep
the pot boiling and geography enough
to know the different rooms in her
house, or when it was believed that a
woman's library need contain but two
books. a Bible and a cookbook. No,
No, The world is %conCeding the fact
that w~omanhood is capable to occupy
all spheres of life, and her training for
such places is grounding duty. a neCes-
sity.
Some people zeal that public life
will unseX womanhood. and fail to
think that you cannot change Gods
h%andiwork as easily as we think. Ma
ture has stamped her sex too deep in
her system that the training or follow
ing of a profession should be able to
deliberate it. 1t is engraven upon her
differing form, size, function and dis
position; upon her richer sympathetic
nerve system. larger emotional en-
dowment; he" greater love, deeper
feeling and all things which are found
in tru ~womanbood.
Critics fear that she will be easily
tempted from the sacred precincts of
home or weancd from the Unborn long
ing for founding her own, but such
thoughts are lacking III faith in Gods
creative. power and his wise cndow-
ment of woman.
Home is her sanctuary and domestic
life the truest element of her existence.
AS the needle points to the pole. no
matter on what sea. so her heart turns
to home, no matter how far away or
how vain the hope.
Her happiest life is as queen over
her W family circle. and the instincts
of motherhood are implanted in her
from her birth; and nothing
in the wide world can kill
those God-given instincts of her nature
Such men as Garabaldi. Gladstone.
S%purgeon, Phillips and Bismarck tell
what the influence of woman has been
upon their lives. and in the cast of Bis
marck this comes the more convincing
when we know him as the Iron Chan
cellor-the man of blood and iron
who left the impress of his character
upon the policies of Europe for a
century. and yet in his love letters he
gives the most beautiful testimony to
the world of womanhood in the home.
Let me quote just one passage of
line. Il married you in order to have
you in God and according to the need
of my heart and in order to have in
the midst of the strange world a place
for my heart which all the worlds
bleak winds cannot chill and where
| may find the warmth of the home
fire, to which | eagerly betake myself
when it is stormy and cold without"
Womanhood, all things are yours in
this world, but chiefly remember the
words of Goethe. The ever womanly
draws men on and in thanks to God
because of your power, just humbly
and reverently claim your province and
your sphere.
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