The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-20

the state of perfection which
1t is hound to reach in the hands of its
present owners there is no reason why
telephone communication should not be-
come as easy in operation between points
separated by the ocean as it is between
points in the same city. Time and dis
lance will then have ceased to be factors
in the problem of personal commun:ca-
ton, the voice of long separated friends
will once more become familiar to each
other, and the affairs of the world, how
ever Important, may be transacted at
the mouth of a telephone transmitter
FEMALE EDUCATION AND HEALTH.
1t is well nigh fifty years since the
movement for the advancement of woman
to plane of equality of opportunity and
social rights with man began to find ex-
preston in the laws of the more ad-
vanced states of the Union Woman
then came to be regarded in the eye of
the law as a free agent. free to own and
dispose of property and free to do or
avoid doing any act without being re-
garded acting at the coercion O. I'M
der the control of her husband pre- sent
or prospective. These laws. relat 'ng
chiefly to the property rights Of women,
were supplemented by corresponding en-
aetments touching her personal rights.
The individual freedom of action of.
fh1JS
for some time before found expires 5 on
in the social habits and irstitu ions Of
these same states and, indeed. generally
throughout the entire country; 50 that
uct of womanhood has been recognized
during the greater part of the period of
national existence.
The advanced education of woman Is
the latest expression Of tbs er, at
movement in behalf of female rights
1t has progressed without Interruptions;
and today the academies, high schools
and universities of the country contain
each its large complement Of woman,
students and teachers Women have
forced themselves into the various call
ings, and all over the country are today
holding positions which before Their adj
vent were held by men.
1t would be unreasonable to telieve
that the habits of life thus encouras ed
on the part of the women of the country,
differing so materially from those of their
mothers, should not have wrought GER
tain effects upon the nervous and phys
fcal systems of the sex. The u:jection
of the child of either sex to the exact
ing demands of our present educat .onal
system must necessarily have a ma ked
effect on temperament and disposition.
The development of the intellectual fac
ulties to the extent which attends upon
graduation from cur higher inst buttons
of learning is distinctive feature of
American society. The consequence, d.,
rect and indirect, of such Geyeloe ment,
especially on the organism of woman,
has been a subject of profound thought
on the part of the students of gyneco1o-
gy for many years; and the results Ct the
studies of many OF the leaders in that
branch of scientific investigation are
sufficiently striking to cause even tie
most inveterate advocate of the hi hec,
education of woman the most se7fous
thought.
DR.. George F. schrady, of New York,
is recognized as one of the leading mem
bers of his calling in the country, and,
indeed, in the world, especially with ref
erence to diseases of the nervous sys-
tenn. He has recently declared in the col
umns of medical journal that, while
from all parts of the civilized world
comes the cry that the vitality of the
race is being Slapped by injudicious meth
DDS of education, in the United States, to
a greater extent than any other country,
has the present system of educating girls
shown its worst effects
He is far from being alone in this view.
DR.. George j. Engleman, of Boston,
president of the American genealogical
society, in his Introductory address re-
l.
In that address he says among other.
things, that statistics have clearly
shown the tremendous susceptibility and
the almost feyerish activity of the system
in the period of developing omanhood;
susceptibility, indicated by heightened
morbidity; nerve excitement, by in
crease of suffering and hysteria; height
ened physiological activity, by increased
growth, and resistance to disease, by
lowered vitality" While calling atten-
ton to the large element of American
population which is invoIved-some 375,
900 young women in colleges and high
schools and over 1,0e0oeo of the same age
in the industries-he insists that the pre-
vailfng system of education tends to ag-
gravate those conditions in the rising
generation of American womanheed, with
the result of general and functional
deterioration in health.
DR.. W. Gill Wylie, another of the lead
ers in this line Of investigation. is per-
haps more emphatic in his utterances
and more striking in his deductions than
either of the other gentlemen named.
The following extract from a recent work
of his on the general subject of the in
fiuence Of mental everwork on the physi-
cal system Of woman presents to view a
picture which ought to be presented gen.
orally to American parents He says:
The American horse receives, OH the
average. better treatment than the young