Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-27
What Girl, Should Study.

So much is heard nowadays regarding
the fake and the true" in education
that the opinion of Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe relative to the training of girls is
interesting. She says:
The concession of the higher education
IN women marNs, more than any other
measure. the progress of the last fifty
wears. 1t implies on the part of society
. racit confession of the injustice so long
done them in their exclusion from the OPP
Dcrtunities of an instruction correspond
ing to their natural ability and best aspi-
rations. Saints, heroines and martys.
many of them unrecOgnized as such. have
helped to form the ideal of womanhood
which has led to the present happy era.
and which still points beyond it 10 new
efforts. to new achievements for the good
Of the race
While in the plan of education the di-
vprsitieS Of talent and of circumstance
should receive our consideration we must
not forget that the cardinal points OF
training are properly the same for all
Every girl should be taught to look upon
herself as a member Of a civilized Chris
tan community, and as such bound to
hold the interests of such a community
dear and sacred. She should early learn
As the natural guardian of the home she
is bound to have in charge its dearest and
most intimate sources of well being. If
she marries, it should not be with view
only TO the personal suiting of tastes and
circumstances, but with an earnest desire
to fulfill the duties and to deserve the
Gignities which belong to true matron-
hood. If she has children, she must train
them from the start as servants of the
state and as members Of the church uni
versal.
To the individual the great values Of
life unite in thought and affection. Each
of these has its mean and its heroic side,
and the facile sympathies of youth can be
led in either direction. The responsibility
implied in this statement is so mOmentOus
that one may well tremhle in assuming it.
Having done our best to prepare the
youthful mind for acquisition in the mo-
raj departments of learning let us ask
according to what order and method we
shall furnish the fair receptacle with its
treasures. | speak with ditfidence, hav-
ing been bred in thu old-fashiOned ways
of sixty years since. Bat according to
my best judgment | should say: Ian
guage first i'll order that thought. as it
develops, may find its pure and appro-
pirate expression. Fortunate do | ac-
count those WAC are born to the possess
SION OF the English tongue. Let each en-
Gcayor above all things to speak it with
clearneSs and precision. | doubt whether
there exists another Gee lental tongue in
which so much may be expressed in words
of one syllable Half-educated people are
apt to seek indirect modes of expression.
of which certain euphuism is the result.
" orSe than this do | account the more
common confusion of who" and whom
which the smallest understanding of
should render impossible. For
example. one would never say, II saw a
81 ham 4. HI
say II saw a man whom | thought
v ould do this. the grammatical offense
being as great in the second of these for
mulas as it would he in the first
People with still smaller appreciation of
language are anxious to adorn the minds
OF their children with a Smattering of
foreign. languages. And 50 these children
are torn from the bosom of their mother
country. aud carried into strange lands.
in order thar they may forget the grand
inheritance of their native tongue and
become aliens to its true significance.
Next, icgic. not the technical dialectic
Of the Scotch and German schools, but a
discipline which shall point ont the true
qurhcc of facts and ideas. This always
with reference to real life, ii which the
&feateSt failures often come from an IRA
tjondl mode of reasoning. | once knew a
4ad III whom the promise of intellectual
attainment appeared to be only mOdcrats-.
Jay the question had been asked. How
small we measure the strength Of chain
which has one weak iinK?' This youth
at once replied The chain will 0nty be
rs strong as its one weak link" This
changed my opinion of his mental capaci-
~ and my later view has since been am
ply justified
History next, in order that the pupil
may learn to reverence the past and be
prepared to receive and value its vast
Inheritance
Then bellies lettres-the poets drama
CStS. essay!sts. ancient, medieval and
modern, the grand fictionS which embody
the ideals of the nobest minds. picture,
winch enrich life and shame its mean
ana selfish side.
Of the three great disciplines. mathp-
MATES. metaphysics and linguistics. the
choice should in some degree depend upon
me mental endowments of the student
should stipulate for as much knowledge
OF Grcek and Latin as will explain the
Indebtedness Of the English language to
nose tongues. For so much metaphyS-
ics that palpab!e fallacy shall not i'm
pose upon the pupils mind. For so
laUch OF mathematics as will explain the
processes of Astronomical scienct-for as
lhucn more of any or all Of these as the
PupIi may have the opportunity and de
slre to attain.
! should always advise a well-dirccted
study of the Bible The part which this
DOCK has borne in the social and religious
progress Of the race renders it an inds-
pehSable aid to the right understanding
OF relglous history and DE- ~trine. Few
people Of culture today accept the book
a. the literal and sole Word of God.
p.t mat 1t is foremost among the words
deny
cannot close this very imperfect
SAetch without word in acknowledge
uent of the educational power OF the
'atlous associations Of women through
uul the country, and especially of the
Women clubs. These afford opportun-
.eS IF friendly intercourse by which
,nought is stimulated and its horizon
widely extended. In them the stronger
members naturally assist the weaker.
anu the best attainments of each are
W 4I to rebound to the good of all
h'n we add To this the constantly iu-
Easing cooperation of the foremost in
mElauals of both sexes in matters Of
Puoilc interest we shall feel that to both
I IaH been issued the edict. Come IN
a Z, and ;hat it has not been issued