The Newtown bee., 1903-09-25

Both are most complete when they
complement each other.
Man was created first, and woman
was taken out of man. But as the old
saying goes: She was not taken out OF
his feet to be trampled on by him nor
from his head to be tyranized over; but
out of his side to be his companion
and partner in life. However, St
Paul argues for masculine headShip.
"For the man is not of the woman, but
the woman Of man; for neither was the
man created for the woman; but the
woman for the man. Say what you
will they were meant for each other,
and should be so educated as to be the
most happy together in the bonds of
holy wedlOck.
Robert Louis Stevenson says, in
"Virginibus PuerisQue." ''That doc
trine of the excellence of woman, how
ever chivalrOus, is cowardly as we'll as
false. 1t is better to face the fact and
know whenyou marry, that you take in
to your life creature of equal, if of un-
like frailties; whose weak human heart
b cats no more tunefully than yours. !"
And then he proceeds to arraign the
popular system of miSeducatiOn which
sets up conflicting standards of con-
duct and character for men and women
instead of teaching and ttIaiping
them together and for each othefr
"lt is the object of a liberal educa-
the knowledge of one sex by another,
but to magnify the natural differences
between the two. Man is a creature
who lives not upon bread alone, but
principally by catch-wOrdS; and the
little rift between the sexes is aston
ishingly widened by simply teaching
one set of catch-wOrdS to girls and
another to the boys. They are taught
to follow different virtues, to hate diff
ferent vices, to place their ideal, even
for each other, in different achieve
ments. What should be the result of
such course?"
The more highly civilized and culti-
vated people become the more complex
be. The more simple the lives of the
people the fewer the differences of
tastes, opinions, prejudice and convic-
tiOnS to be consulted when persons
marry. The cO-educat iOniOf young men
and maidenS, under proper social con-
ditiOnS, ought tOha rmOnize all the es-
sential elements of character so that
mutual adaptation and understanding
should become easy within certain
limits which it is not wise to overstep.
In heathen countries the women are
still regarded as slaves and chattels
and treated as the drudges and depend
ents of men. But the Christian relig-
ion has redeemed the feminine part of
society from the traditional curse and
degradation of lnferiOrity. In the
Jewish church and in the Christian
church women are the social equals of
men, and occupy the most exalted pO-
sii ions in public and in private life,
in trades, professions, and even in pO-
litical circles. The women of Holy
Scriptures were not only godly women,
sisters, wives and mothers, but they
were judges, rulers, prophets, and the
honored advisers Of great and good
men. The higher education of women
in these days tends to their social, eco
nomic, and moral independence; and
if they are not educated along with
men, they are schooled on the same
lines, imbued with the same
thoughts, trained by the same
standards, inspired by the same ideals.
and are free to 60 their own way,
choose their own career, marriage or
no marriage, for they are not the mere
appendageS of men, waiting to be wed
as the chief end Of their existence.
In thousands Of cases the wife and
mother, for one cause or another, be-
comes the head of the family and has
to bear not only her own burdens but
those of a weak, unfortunate,o or worth
less husband, even though in the be
ginning she had every reason to think
that she married well. 1t is therefore
wise to consider what each can bring
into the cOpartnership, before the en-
gagement ring is given and received
10. O. Wright.