The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-07-10

why some of the coeducational institutions
Of the country have turned out their women
students. To discover this one needs but
to peruse the orations of graduates and the
baccalaureate sermons. They were all along
lines of thought pertaining to the young
men. Not single reference did I discovr
to the work of women or the home. Why IS
this SO? If the work Of the women and the
home is not SO important. why is 1t not?
And how can 1t be made so? The time and
talents of many women are more often now at
the disposal of other things. It is change
that is coming surely but slowly and nothing
that men can do will stop it. Indeed, men
have now, it seems, encroached upon women s
work. They used to be weavers,. spinners,
Gamers, cooks and laundresses.- Just as soon
as man perceived the commercial advantages
he took her work literally from her hands
Man milliners trim her bonnets. Men nave
taken her apron and now bake her bread and
pies. If women have invaded the ranks of
men. it lis the enforced reciprocity, resulting
from mans acts. -~-. $50: -. .-....ss.
Highest Aim of the College.
The speaker said that we'll trained
mind was the highest aim of the college.
The true logic was to lift the home until
1t was on a par with the highest education
An artificial division of work could not
now be made between men and women.
Some men do women's work best and vice
versa. It is we'll known that children de-
rive their characteristics from cross in
heritance., So long as daughters are ike
their fathers we shall have silly, vain
girls daughter, and so long as boys are
the offspring of women. we shall nave
boys who prefer to live behind ribbon
counter. Qaughter), but both of them
may scale the heights of learning as their
parents may have done. On one occasion
Mrs Gait had visited a college where the
cook was a man, and his wife was the
professor of Greek. She saw no reason
why it should not be 50. That mother. IS
the best progenitor whose soul is satls-
fed with the knowledge of work we'll
done. =, r. =
Women Who Can Do; Things 4
81 have found college husbands proud Of
college wives, and many college, wives
fondly loving husbands. But despite this
have found much restlessness2 the
fmpedning change in. the home. Many
college women would welcome drudgery
which. would ease their minds from lives
Of wastefulness. No incentive urges them
to work accruing to the benefit or their
college, their sex or their race. These coll
lege men have seized the wheels OF educa-
ton and attempted to deprive the women
Of it's cid. Mr.. Roosevelt talks OF men VINO
can do things. What we need Is women
who can DO things. WHAT we ueeu Is tLo
appointment of more women on college
faculties and school boards. Many for
eign observers have prognosticated that
the time would soon come when woman
would be far ahead of her companion,
and be in position to beckon him up
higher One course of action open to her
might be to institute herself national
detective and see to 1t that foods are
p,lre. if she has test tubes and
chemicals to fight glucose trusts. IN
deed, would like to recommend to- our
secretary OF agriculture turning to Sec
rotary WILSON, that women be included
among those who should be invited to
participate in the departments scientific
studies. I believe it was his department
which IN studying the house moth recon
mended that 1t be kept at temperature
of less than freezing" Naughter).
Mrs Gait urged In powerful sentences
that equal opportunities be given to men
and women, being sure that where two
congenial souls shall meet there will come
the home. Children will come to that
home, more lovely and beautiful than
ever before. The highest motto tor life
was equal liberty for all and no restric-
lions for sex.
Prest. Schurman's Address.
President Jacob Gould Schurman COM
menced his address by saying that at the
time of the Philippine war there was a
university in Manila and scnool sys-
tenn in the islands, but that a large ma
jority of the people could neither read nor
write It should be remembered, now
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