The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-03-27

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beds of luxuriant violets, buy trees,
sweet olive, clinging vines of wistaria
jessamine and the thousand and one
rare plants that grace the grounds in
rare brilliance. The ripping melody
of innumerable song birds tilleo the
air, rustling spring zephyrs stirring
an accompaniment among the bud
ding leaves radiantly green. Here
and there through the vistss of hedge
and clinging vines now and then ono
caught glimpse of some pretty girl
IN white. In all verify the atmos
phere seems to have been preserved
Discussing the needs of the State
in an educational way Miss McClin
took said after the writer had como
back to the prosaic that because there
was no high school in the State the
colleges were now compelled to take
girls that we're really not far enough
advanced. This WAS not as it should
be and she hoped very much that
something would come out of the
| discussion Of the Federation.
care you IN favor Of the very adj
vanced ideas that exist IN the big
colleges of the east, Miss McClin
took ?"
81 am in favor of anything that
fits the woman more thoroughly for
her duties in the home. am firm
believer in mind training and | do
not believe in teaching the girl math
ematics because she may need that
study later on, but because of the in
fuence on her mind. There is some
thing she should know besides the
polite accomplishments"
Miss McClintock's attention was
called to the immense harm that had
been done by some of the great east
ern colleges for women. 1t was men
toned to her that in little village
in Maine the other day it was dis
covered that among | 700 women in.
habitants there had been only seven
marriages in the last five years. A
large proportion Of the women in
that place we're college women. Miss
McClintock answered the relative
query by saying that out of five of
her students that would graduate
this year only one intended to accept
a calling.
"There is no danger of any such
results here" said Miss McClintock.
"The southern girl cannot stand the
drive that girl in the north can.
They have to be nurtured and cared
for and for that reason all the cond-
tions for her advancement should be
of the BEST
Miss McClintock went on to OK.
plain that the college education she
believes in and practices is the one
which best fits the girl for her home
life. The polite accomplishments are
Of course necessary, but there must
be something more--son ething that
trains the mind
The writer tried to gather from
Miss McCliutock just how far this
education must go, and called her
attention to the fact that the number
Of Vassar. Wellesley and girls from
the other big colleges in the north
and east who did not or could not
marry was enormous. or The girls
graduated at Vassar ia 1890 only
about 22 per cont. have married Mt
this late day.
This Information did not seem to
cause Miss McClintock the least anx-
iety. She dil not say 80, but it was
inferred that it was entirely different
with South Carolina girls. There
was always Il rising matrimonial
market for them Tho writer caught,
n glimpse Of two Young ladies going
down the picturesque hall--one with
figure and face like Hehc, and the
other Il little Gret chen who would
have sent Chartrain into raptures
could he but have seen her-and i'm
mediatoiy arrived at an appreciation
Of Miss McClintock's failure to be-
como alarmed at the possible failure
of her atudents to enter wedlock.
AS q matter of fact it was learned
later that she cannot even keep hen
teachers from marrying-the engage
men. of Miss Phillips, one Of the
most charming of these, having only