Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-26
WOMEN OF TOMORROW.
They Will Have Common Sense and q
Warm Heart.

From the Outlook
Great as has been the demand for adap-
tation made upon the race. that made upon
women alone has been still greater. Hero
are some typical facts. In 1850 less than
100 women were employed in factories in
the United States Employment in other
lines outside those strictly domestic was
rare. Even women teachers We're few. Today
100000 women are engaged in the United
States in 400 different wage earning occu-
pationS
In 1910 there was not a college in the
world open to women. In 1890 in this coun-
try BOB colleges were open to both men and
women, 127 to men alone and 40 to women
alone-an actual advantage of forty three
in favor of women.
In 1900 there We're In colleges in this coun-
try IS 461 men and "a, 4O7 wOmen-that IS.
nearly 60 per cent as many women as men.
In 1900 in the United States, degrees were
conferred on 10 1914 men and on 293 women
more than one-third 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
search. several Of the professions. have
brought us their novel offerings. Surprises
have been so numerous that women have
almost lost the power of being surprised
Education physical vigor, social influence.
accomplishments-these are our weapons
nor do they insure 1t. The very phrase the
educated woman" is a misleading one, but
it must serve in default of better The
woman of the future will hold her education
at its due worth and unless she does SO
hold 1t she will be unworthy of it.
This future woman Will have the most
gracious and alluring manners the world
has ever known. She will have the sin
certify of the Quaker, and the elegance OF
the French woman Of the salon. Mr..
Beecher used to say that he couldn't see
why the devil should have all the good
music. Why should the fools have all tho
good manners? Is there any reason, be-
cause / have studied the plays of Shake
speare, that should enter the room like a
frightened rustic? Ought not 1.-The COM
pany of the high and most glorious poets"
| to set me free among my peers? Are
strident voice, hurried gait. an elbowing
push, the necessary result of the thorough
study Of the natural laws of this well
dered and noiseless universeH Hasten tho
day when it shall be Pathological to sayt
'She is an educated woman with beautiful
manners"
The girl who takes prizes in athletics dur
ing 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 herself irrt.
table under her deprivation. There is one
suggestion for the partial solution OF tho
problem, but it Is not a popular one. Tho
sound mind in the SO nd body may thrive
not only systematic athletic training,
but also on manual labor Of the most prao.
teal kind. The stigma 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 of return to certain phases OF
manual work, she will not only provide q
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 ordinary life.
The educated woman OF the future VIII
have a larger measure of that potent com.
bination Of common sense a trained judg.
ment Of human nature and a pasSionately
warm heart which make for the perfect
marriage. :