New-York tribune., 1901-03-10
WHAT GIRLS SHOULD STUDY
GARDING MODERN EDUCATIONAL
NEEDS-WOMEN'S CLUBS AN
IMPORTANT FACTOR.

So much is heard nowadays regarding the fake"
and 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 to women
of the last fifty years; 1t implies on the part of
done them in their exclusion from the opportunities
OF @ an instruction corresponding to their natural
ability and best aspirations Saints, heroineS and
mha1rtyrs marty many Of them unreeognzed as such haye
led to the present happy era, and which still points
beyond It 70 new efforts, to new achievements for
While d g tn the plan Of education the diyerses Of
points of training are properly the same for all:
membsr eviizsd Christian GGh
anc 9s ngfh bound to hold the interests Of such
learn that no woman lives to herself alone; As the
in charge Its dearest and intimate sources of
W s being d If M she marrfs it should M not be I with
GGumstances but with an earnest desire to f1h the
train Them from the start a s serVants Of the state
ana as members of the church universal
THE VALUES OF LIFE.
thought and affection. Each of these has its mean
and its heroic side, and the facile sympathies of
sibiiity implied in this statement Is mOmentOus
that one may well tremble in assuming it, Mar
pericnce was heard exclaim: God be mercifu
to me sinner This We may interpret: How
OF this immortal souI?' Thus much We may
say that in this guidance the selfish of talents
and advantages should always give place 20 the
generous ana helpful holding of both
Having done our best TO prepare the youthful
mind for acquisition tn" moral departments or
learning let ask according to what order and
its treasurez / speak with diffdence. having been
bred old fashioned ways of sixty years since
But according to hest judgment should say:
Language first. in order that thought, as IL de-
pr .ssion. Fortunate do account those who are
born the possession of the English tongue. Let
each endCavOr above all things to speak II with
ciearnSSs and precision ! doubt whether there ex-
lists another Occidental tongue in which much
may be expressed in words of syllable. Half
educated people apt to seek indirect modes OF
expression. Of which certain euphulsm is the
result. Worse than this do ! account the more
CoE,mOn confusion of who and whom which
the smallest understanding of grammar should
render Impossible. For example, one would never
many say. - say man 'wIOm | thought would
do this" the grammatical offence being as great
in the second OF these formulas as II would be in
the FIRST.
People with still smaller appreciation of language
anxious TO adorn the minds of their children
with smatteriug OF foreign languages And so
these children are tern from the bosom OF their
mother country and carried into strange lands, in
order that they may forget the grand inheritance
of thoir native tongue and become aliens to its
true Significance.
TEACH THEM COMMON SENSE.
Next, logic. not the technical diaIectic OF the
Scotch and German schools. but discipline which
shall point out the true sequence of facts and
which the greatest failures often come from ir-
rational mode Of reasoning. | once knew lad In
whom the promise Of intellectual attainment ap-
peared to be only moderate, learned. however.
asked. How shall measure the strength of a
chain which has one weak ltnk?" This youth at