Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-18
His Kindly and Congsnial Pres
ence Sadly Lacking at the
Teachers Meeting
MEMORIAL SERVICE is HELD
Touching Tributes to the Dead Edu-
Gator Paid by His Distinguished Col
Ieasues-Hon. Henry sabin Lectures
on the Education of the GirI-Pro-
ceedinss of the Convention.
Special to Times Republican.

us highest mark yesterday afternoon
Wien The register showed 1850 pres
eat. Yesterday afternoon was the mos
Important day for tnein as the sectiona
meetings We're most interesting to them
taking up subjects dealing with Ill,
knotty problems that daily confron
teachers III their every Cay work.
During the session of the morning
!! VINO have uied durlns the year. The
memory of former President Beard
shear, Of the Iowa State College, was
touchlnsly eulogizeo. Hon. Henry Sa-
BIN, in speaking of him., said: Beard
smear is not dead. He was martyr t.
The cause of education. What a hand
| hat man had outstr., ciled to human
| ity; What an eye lighted with love;
what a voice fiiieu With sympathy!
When Bearishear t;led / and every one
OF you lost personal friend"
o. j. Laylander said: "Beardshear
WAS TO me great man. an extraordi-
nary man. The breathing MacLeans,
Seelleys, Sabins need no eulogies, but
our sympathy
EN-State Superintendent knoepfler
sad. I'm all that makes man he tow
cred head and shoulders above us ALL"
il. II. Freer. of Cornell College, spoke
Of William Wilcox Who was burned to
death
In the sectional meetings Hon. Henry
Saola who had been asked to respond
to the subject, "The Education of the
American Girl stir eG the admirers OF
oo-education. He SAID in part: Male
and female created He them. rhe doc
-rine of sex runs thru Eli animal nature,
and serves its purpose aven in the veg
etabie creation. 1t seems to be one of
he lmuiuta,1e laws which God has or
dained: one of the eternal landmarks
when iilail has no power to remove. L
believe iiidt the law OF sex nN.,deS the
liental sbnele, and that between the
nlale and female mind there is an es-
sential difference.
woman in her natural state loves
children, and understands child nature
without the aid of book or class in
structlon. Her sympathy is large and
sometimes overbaldnoes her Judgment.
In her iiltuitional insight into motives
winch rule tie actions of children man
is in no sense her equal.
in his mental physiology Carpenter
says that the rledominance of the
intellect aid the Will is required To
make the man successful in life; the
lively selsibility. the quick sympathy.
the uTeelfsh Kindness give woman the.
power to make home happy and social
Existence the purest of all pleasures.
mn liI af }c mic foy-
as lar as ii ignores all differences either
pnysical or intellectual which arise
from sexual organization. do not
propose to argue the question of CO.
education. Huxley sums up the matter
ti.as. Women will find their place; and
it will be neither that in which they
have been held nor that to which some
of them aspire. Natures old Salic law
will not be repealed; and no change of
dynasty VIII be effected
''Only in proportion as she accepts
this unfaillng Inheritance with which
naturc has endowed her can she show
us how divine tlii.1S woman can be
made. TINS should be part of her
education.
"rne first thing IN the education of a
girl should be to teach her to reverence
her sex, to De proud CO the fact that
she has a womans wGiK to do, a wom-
ans burden to carry; a woman's power
to bless her race and serve her God.
Il Nouiu nave daughter of mine so
instructed By her mother from her ear
lest Gays that as the years go by and
dangers come she should never be
ashamed Of her gIlinucd or count 1t a
misfortune that she was born to be a
woman.
again, the matter of physical health
is matter of primary Importance to
the girl. No daughter of mine should
go to a school in which the girl is
to keep pace with her
mates, boys or girls, because of the
supposed honor which high rank
brings to her. The nervous tension
which such competition causes is bad
enough for the boy, but it is thou
sand times worse for the girl. 1t should
be avoided al any cost at all ages of the
girls growth. If the girl breaks down
at the end of her high school or college
course, it is not so much from over
study at any particular time, but be-
cause her entire education has been
from the day of her en- |
trance into the primary room, in utter
disregard of the fact that she is in en-
hryo. a woman.
So much Importance do attach to |
this point that I am forced to the con-
clusion that the men and women who
will shape the destinies of America will
be the descendants of the girls like
those In the Tennessee mountains, who
wear calico dresses, and checkered
aprons. and sunbonnets, and who walk
a dozen miles to school on Monday and
back Friday over rough mountain
roads, rather than descendants of the
up-to-date girls from our colleges, with
distorted spines, dyspeptio stomachs.
torpid livers, wasting nerves and Gull
tured brains. 1t is dangerous to over
feed the brain and starve the body.
again. 1t is every woman's duty to
be attractive She may know all Latin
and Greek; may be an expert in mathe-
MATES and sciences; but If she knfws
not how to adorn herself with becom-
ing attire, with pleasing manners, with
4 shapely form, the womanly part of
the woman is missing. Verify nature
made woman beautiful, but she has
sought out many devious devices.
This should be part of every girls
education to cultivate an honest pride
n her power to charm and interest and
win the respect of the other sex.
Household economy, how to care for
children, sick room duties, should be
omy must be crowded out
N the curriculum, even II politicall