The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-02
WOMEN OF TOMORROW.
They Have Common Sense and
 Warm Heart.

From the Outlook.
 Great as has been the demand for adaptation made upon the race, that made upon women alone has been still greater. Here are some typical facts Ir 1900 less than 100 women were employed in factories in the United States. Elm ployment in other lines outside those strictly domestic was rare Even women teachers were few. To-day 5000 900 women are engaged in the United States in 4OC different wage-earning occupations.
 In 1S4O there was not college in the world open to women. Tn 1890 in this coun- try 303 colleges were open to both men and women. 127 to men alone and TO to women alone-an actual advantage of for ty-three in favor of women.
 In 1900 there were in colleges in this country 5S.467 men and 34, ,4O7 women-that is. nearly 60 per cent. as many women as men.
 The field that the college alone has thrown open to women Is of bewildering extent and charm. Friendship. athletics, scientific research, several of the profess sions' have brought us their novel offer ings Surprises have been so numerous that women have almost lost the power or being surprised. Education physical vigor, social influence. accomplishments these are our weapons for the battle of
 
 insure 1t. The very phrase "the educated woman is misleading one, but 1t must serve in default of better The woman Of the future will hold her education at lts que worth. and unless she does SD hold 1t she will be unworthy of It.
 rms tuture woman will have the most gracious and alluring manners the world has ever known. She will have the sim cerlty or the Quaker, and the elegance of the French woman of the salon. MT. Beecher used to say that he couldn't see why the devil should have all the good music. Why should the fools have all the good manners? is there any reason, be- cause l have studied the plays of Shake speare. that I should enter the room like frightened rustic? Ought not "the com pany of the high and most glorious poets" to set me free among my peers? Are a strident voice. a hurried gait an elbowine push' the necessary result of the thor ough study of the natural laws of this well ordered and noiseless universe? Has ten the day when 1t shall be Pathological to say She Is an educated woman with beautiful manners"
 The girl who takes prizes in athletics during her four years in college. and then goes home to town or village where there Is neither gymnasium nor basket ball team nor golf links may easily find nerSel1 lrrltaDle under her deprivation. There is one suggestion for the partial solution of the problem, but 1t is not a popular one. The sound mind in the sound body may thrive not only on systematic athletic training, but also on manual la Dor of the most practical kind. The stig- ma so long resting on domestic labor must some time be removed. as that which long rested on trade" has been. If the educated woman can contrive some sort ot return to certain phases of manual work. she will not only provide a relief for her own nervous activity and help to adjust the domestic problem, but she will also broaden the bands of her own sym pathy with ordinarily life.
 The educated woman of the future will nave larger measure of that potent com oination Of common sense. a trained judg- Ileht ol human nature, and a passionate ly warm heart which make for the narfect marriage.