The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-04-26
SOME HIGHER EDUCATION
NONSENSE.

brain of the two sexes, particularly to
be observed in the relative effect of
higher education.
Man goes through years Of profound
study, and becomes a walking encyclo-
pedia of knowledge. Yet he, as rule,
retains his emotions, his sympathies
and his passions.
Men very wise in learning have often
proved themselves to be the veriest
fools in love-and all the world loves a
lover.
Many of us would give but a pass
ing 6 lance to a man whom we we're
told excelled in the sciences and con-
versed in numerous tongues, but we
would all crane our necks to look a
second time at the man who had be-
come known as willing victim OF
some woman's charms.
The staid and renowned professor or
the famed inventor is never so interest
ing as when revealed to us as the
lover, the husband. or the father.
Once in generation we hear of a
great man who seems all brain and
little heart, save as the heart quail
ties may be revealed in his scientific
labors for humanity, but such cases
are rare indeed and but serve to ac-
cent the rule.
On the other hand, a little observa-
tion will prove the fact that years of
continuous and profound study along
college lines Of mental training almost
invaribly dwarf the emotionanl nature
of woman.
OF course this assertion will be met
with instant denial by the leaders and
followers of the higher educational
movement for women.
Women whose own atfectionate
natures have been stunted by slow
insidious process for years, all un-
conscious of their own loss and the
change in their natural impulses, will
combat my theory and declare my
assertion has not a foot to stand
upon.
They will believe me wrong because
l am so very right that they do not
know what has occurred to them dur
ing this educational process.
The natural, normal minded girl is
full of latent romance, and hidden deep
in her heart, like the perfume in rose
lies her ardent dream of love.
She never mentions it, perhaps, yet
you have only to look in her eyes and
you see it slumbering there. 1t is her
chief charm, the fragrance of the flower
of unfolding womanhood.
To the highly educated girl such
| dreams become mawklsh sentimental
lism. She has no time for them, and
she soon grows to think of the average
man as very crude creature. She
analyzes him, and discusses him, and
frequently falls into the habit of ridi-
culiny him. She becomes his com
petitor and his rival. Her life is FASH
ioned on lines which do not include
him as a necessity, only as pos
sibility.
The sex cravings which God implant-
ed in both man and woman in order
that His world be perpetual become
extinct in her. To her higher in.ellec-
tuality they seem to belong to lower
order of being.
In her presence you are conscious Of
her brain, rarely of her personality.
She radiates no atmosphere of feminity.
The intellect, not woman, calls to
you.
Speaking with the president of 4
| woman's college on this subject, l
specified one case rs type.
Miss A. is beautiful in feature and
FORM" | said "Were l to see her
portrait, should be fascinated by her
attractions. Yet in her presence l am
chilled and almost replied by her abso-
lutte lack Of magnetism and sympathy.
| am sure she has educated these
qualities out of herself, though she
does not know it,
'Perhaps she never possessed them"
the lady responded. "Yet while l am
the champion of higher education for
women, truth compels me to say that
| do observe and deplore the very effect
you mention in too many instances
4 man whom we both knew ap-
preached at this juncture. Learning
the subject under discussion, he said
to me: i quite agree with you. |
knew beautiful and fascinating little
girl. She breathed sympathy, affec
tion and temininity, as Summer morn
ing breathes fragrance and warmth.
She entered schools and colleges and
became ftarfulIy and awfully educated.
In ten years she has utterly trans
formed herself into a cold, almost re-
pellent though still beautiful woman"
He mentioned her name. 1t was Miss
\. the very person whom my friend
suggested might have been born with
out the sympathetic qualities.
have observed tnat the majority