Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-04-17

III IKE a trumpet challenge to old
n foSyism comes the splendid
GAm@ pronunciamento of DIR. Nieho-
las Murray Butler, the new
president of Columbia university,
on the subject of coeducaticn. DR..
Butler is only thirty nine years old,
the youngest university president ia
the world, an athlete, worker,
scholar, q reformer educationally and
as manly man mentally and physical
ly as ever trod a college campus. And
this is what he says in a New York
newspaper: Modern educational nf-
losophy demands that to WON
granted the fullest opportunity
cation of every kind My ow,
ment is that it is not well for az
grow up associating only with bo
taught only by men asa that
equally unfortunate for a girl to
up associating only with girls
taught only by women. Such Il
cedure seems to me unnatural ant.
violation of the spirit of the most etc
fectiye and fundamental institution ia
the world-namely, the human family.
In some sections of the country the ed
ucation of men and women together
and in the same institutions is a mat
ter of course, and anything else would
be regarded as extraordinary and ca
pricious.' This is enough to curdle
the blood of Miss Edward Box and
Bishop Doane. Already Bishop Doane
must have received dangerous shock
when the ancient and honorable Uni
versity of Pennsylvania that recently
created him an LII. D. on the same
day and from the same platform made
Agnes Repplier doctor of literature.
If his and Miss Edward Bok's intel
lects survive the aggressive, noble ut
terance of the new president of that
university which is the pride of New
York city and state it will only be be-
cause some thistledown seed of Wig
orous modern thought has taken root
in their souls in spite of themselves.
Blessed be the young. and still moro
blessed be the old who have kept their
minds young!
OF course if you sit down and whine
over your misfortunes nothing will go
right with you and still greater misfor-
tune will come to you.
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A large number of women have been
appointed as school inspectors in New
York city, but of course none on the
board of education. That is a reach OF
modernity that Mayor Seth Low Is not
equal to. Even as president of coedu-
cational Columbia university Mr.. Low
had no modernity in his soul on the
woman question.
What are probably the two most sue
cessful plays Of this year were written
by women, one "Her Lord and Mas
ter" by Martha Morton, the other "A
Gentleman of France" by Harriet
Ford.
Ladies, the very farmers are crying
cut against your monstrous cruelty in
wearing birds on your hats. An intelli-
gent agriculturist from Pennsylvania
declares the awful slaughter of domes-
tic birds to crafty women's heathenish
taste for corpses as ornaments has In
creased a billionfold the number of
worms and insects that destroy farm
ers' crops. He mentions especially the
increase of the codling moth in apples.
The barn swallow destroys 5000 to
10000 injurious flies every week-that
is, it would il there were barn swal-
lows any more. But the swallow, the
equally useful and surprisingly beauti-
full golden oriole, the robin redbreast
and the little jenny wren, likewise the
pretty snowbird of winter. have been
decimated in numbers. They have been
murdered to put upon the hats of ten
der, gentle woman.
Tie number of women who earn
their living more than doubled in the
Union in the decade between 1890 and
1900 The largest increase was among
women who went into trade, which is
good sign. 1t shows that they are
gaining courage to open business for
themselves. not content with merely
working for other people. There are
twelve times as many women in trade
us there were ten years ago.
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1t is astonishing the number of really
nice people who think bath once a
week is often enough.
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Many women are now serving as city
school superintendents in the smaller
cities. and three states-Colorado Wy
oming and North Dakota have risen
to the achievement Of electing ladies as
state superntendents of public schools.
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Alice Stone Blackwell says that Ii
women could vote OH municipal af-
fairs city communities would have
pure milk. as mothers would see that
milk inspection laws were enforced on