The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-03
THEORY IN FABLE READING
PROF. A. j. SMITH DISCUSSES SUR
JECT OF GENERAL SCHOOL
INTEREST
RECENT USE OF FAIRY STORIES
Impending Social Revolution Which
Indicates That Women Are No
Longer to Be Regarded as
"the Weaker Sex"

Special Correspondence of the Globe.
CHICHGO, Feb 1.-The divinity school
of the University of Chicago has been
holding a conference during the past
week, and the good professors were
deeply grieved' over the discovery tat
skepticism was alarmingly prevalent
among the young theologians. To an
outsider, this result seems most natural
since official and profe: SIGNAL utterances
and teachings have been decidedly het-
erodox in this school for a long time.
When there was the usual statement.
"let US pray" one student wished to
know why it was at all necessary to
pray, since the inexorable laws of evolu-
ton could be neither broken nor bent.
This caused the professor 1.-The deepest
pain and it must be allowed that the
young man was exercising decidedly
questionable manners, but he was prob
ably sincere. Another asked what God
had to do with the Rible anyway" to
which the reply was given that there
was "a great deal of good in the Bible.
and that God was closely related to
everything good: therefore he had much
to do with the Bible" Various qu5sti( rs
were asked about Christian Science,
Dowieism theosophy, miracles, etc,
which tended to show great rerplexity in
the minds of the young ministers, and it
is very doubtful ii a better understand
ing existed after the conference that be-
fore The only practical result was a
meeting Of the students for the purpose
of discussing the old question, whether
ministers should smoke and at which a
resolution was passed prohibiting smok-
ing in Divinity hall. This action is treat
ed as a joke by the smokers, who say
that many good men smoke, and that
the Pible does not in express language
forbid it. These students have over
looked the historic fact that the Bible
was written long before tobacco was
discovered and therefore long before it
had become "a necessary Of life but
inasmuch as they have a great deal of
outside work to do they must not be
severely censured for lack of historical
knowledge. However, lest it be as
sumed that they are somewhat indifeer-
ent to the usual proprieties. it must be
mentioned to their credit that one of
them refused to take a lead ng part in
LAS You Like IT, because he thought cit
would be unbecoming a minister to ap-
pear in green tights and a mantle
THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF
WOMEN.
The term ''higher education of women
formerly meant an advance over that
usually accorded women, but now it
means higher than that obtained by
men. This is recognized as fact, not
only in America but in Germany ard
England as well, although it Is not I'M
qualif1edly Endorsed in either country
Recently at Breslau the doctors degree
was for the first time, conferred upon
woman Prof. Kaufman, in comforting
the degree INDUCED in no eulogy, nor
offered any congratulations on the con-
trary he earnestly hoped that study
among women would continue to be the
exception, inasmuch as it was desirable
that they should hold to their primary
ana noblest calling of wife and mother"
But here and in other cities the fact is
seized upon by women suffragists as
strong argument in favor of extending
the ballot to woman, who is already a
powerful factor in municipal and ma
tional matters. The number of laws Sc
cured by various organizations of ladi S,
both state and national the work of
clubs and civic leagues, the successful
demand for the enforcement of laws in
some cities, and the forcible violation in
Kansas, Boston and elsewhere, should be
taken. it is claimed, as evidence of
woman's fitness for pubic duties But
the most serious feature is the probable
1ty that educated women must, in the
future, be governed by ignorant men.
One Of these ladies vigorously exclaims:
How long shall ignorance be continued
in the power of office and ballot and the
educated be disfranchised and kept in
subsection, while liberty, represented by
woman, stands holding her giant torch
in New York harhor, boasting in 81 'ence
of her enlightenment After reciting the
enormous increase in the number of
women graduates in high schools and
colleges, and the decrease in the number
of men comparatively, she asks: 'At
this rate where shall we be in 1925. or
1880, or in the year 20OO9 What will be
the proposition of educated women to
educated men? In a hundred years from
now shall the comparatively ignorant
male population of the country dictate
the government of the educated female
portion of it? Of course, these are
grave questions, and yet the answer will
be withheld, no doubt. In the meantime
many of the ladies express the opinion,
that for the present they should abandon
ell attempts at getting more laws passed
and should compel the enforcement of
those already On the statute books.
This class has been Influenced bv the
work of Mrs. Nation, who has shown
what a determined woman can do, and
there are men that look forward with
misgivings to the results likely to flow
from this unexpected display of woman's
power in politics. Suppose, for instance
that some St. Paul Mrs Nation should