The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-06
SEX PROBLEM In EVOLUTION
Mrs G. Atwood Sees Danger in Conditions That Give
peror Opportunities for Culture Over MenIt May
lance to Marry and Disappointment in Marriage.

cta1 superior of the house employee Do
nestle work will then require a dignity
which will make it the rightful as it is
the natural, rival of any other industry for
women wage-earners.
Technical Schools in Domestic Arts.
Add to this, elemental training more
technical schools offering fine course
in domestic art and domestic science
where women can take normal course
fitting them to instruct in this line of
work or advanced work qualifying them
Ito take responsible positions in homes
hospitals, ETC., as dfetitians and matrons
and you open a wide remunerative field
to women where they will not increase
mans competitive struggle and the great
agony Of strife already his, but will sup
plement his industrial labors.
Imagine the added comfort and thrift
and happiness that will accrue to homes
when mothers and daughters have been
educated In household labor. If our girls
90 enter other avenues of business, when
they marry they will not be ignorant of all
that enters into making a success of what
then becomes their chief care, a happy,
prosperous home
Boys Training ENDANGERED.
Miss Atwood called attention tn the
danger that the gains for the girl in educa-
ton should be at the expense of the bows
rights, and expressed the conviction that
matters had progressed so far that in
many homes women enjoy more than an
equality Of conditions. While the girls
are being highly educated the boys are
encouraged to leave school early to get
a start in money getting.
For the son there is no question of taste
or wish or strength; society says mex
orably you must be self supporting and
must if you desire home create and
maintain it.. Yet the training of the
daughter is far more adequate than that
of the boy. With this inequality in Gull
ture what can we expect but reluctance
and disappointment when it comes to mar
rage between this refined, educated, do
mestically impractical girl and this prac-
teal, Intellectually inferior man? What
romantic halo is possible when she justly
estimates him and knows herself spirit
ually and mentally his superior? We
must raise the level of our boys general
culture that, though he lay at her feet
material wealth, they may together strive
for truth and beauty, morality and relig-
ion, for education and social reform. The
wealth earning power of men is too highly
esteemed, their real manly worth too lit
tie valued. generous education should
be the birthright of every boy and girl.
Symmetrical Sex Evolution Needed.
The economic independence of woman
initiates against ignoble marriage; her
educational enfranchisement initiates
against foolish, hasty marriages, but the
superior education of women initiates
harmfully, unwholesomely against mar
riage. The symmetrical equal evolution
of both sexes in their physical, mental
and moral energies will enable us con-
fdentally to face the future, assured there
is no woman's problem, that without
wasteful friction or competition they will
feel their rightful places in the econ
omy of the universe and the home they
evolve will SO long as time endures. be
the hnlwark of SOcietv rFiUj1iZa tinns
the star that never sets but toward which
the eyes of men and women and little
children turn as the embodiment of
Heaven and earth.''