New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-23

Although the United States has accomplished 81
much Tor the education and industrial training OF
the blind. OF tho most interesting OF recent
Developments along these lines halls from London
Ia English sanatoriuHls. It seems the blind have
for some time practised massage with great
cess So highly developed IS their OF touch
that II gives them natural aptitude as ulRsseurs
and IN learning the work they leave FAR behind
those who are blessed with sight They are CAREFUL
attention IS called to a bIGnder they never make
ga x 1--sSAAe second TINE u is said that the
seurs. 70 teach massage 10 their own pupils.
John Oliver HOBBIES is a believer in the theory
that the lack OF chiva4ry IN modern man. as COM
pared with that OF his grsat-grandfather is due in
q large degree 20 the working woman OF to-day
She says that men, seeing their sisters and wo1n-
en- friends Shaving by their side In the city and
elsewhere. become less and less willing 70 work
FOR women. less and less virle, less less cou-
Tageous, less and less chivaIrous IN their ideals"
What Is poor woman 20 60? She hates 70 think that
she is deInoralzing the general run or men. yet
she cannot close her machine, her typewriter
these women did not work male relarives nrob-
ably with families OF their owl would have 10
support them Would men be overburdened with
money rom their pockets7
Apropos OF the peony show al the Botanical Gar
dens Il is interesting how this OLD fashioned
flower has forced ITS way into social prominence
AZ one Of the smart weddings the bride chose
peonies for church and house decoration ignoring
the rose. which has hitherto been considered to
have q monopoly OF romance. Theodore EIavemeyer
Is one OF the gentleman farmers who have made a
rad OF peony culture The new peony Is. however.
which blooms in old gardens in conpanv with
bleeding hearts purple iris, larkspur and bachelors
compared the peonies which the scientific florists
have succeeded IN forcing 10 the dimensions OF
soup tGreen-
The Association OF Collegiate AIurnuss IS about
10 and NJ fatfg Al
investigation OF college women who have taken
their degrees between 1863 ana 1898. This investi
CATION deals with 1895 women graduates from the
twenty-five most advanced colleges IN the United
States. OF these, 26 per cent came from families
whose total income while their daughters were
IN college was less than 1850. Forty-six per
cent came from families whose total income dur
ing the same time did not exceed 260o. and only
L per cent were prepared exclusively by private
schoo!s OF the total number Of women graduates
over 7s54 per cent have at some tine engaged n
remunerative occupations
IL is clear that college women IN the past have
not come from the leisure class. With these ag-
ures President n Carey Thomas. OF Bryn Mawr.
cor,pares the statistics from his college, Bryn
Mawr which was opened only nineteen years ago.
and therefore represents the newer conditions OF
women's college education as conuasted With the
earlier conditions prevailing among coAese women
as far back at 1853
OF the graduates OF Bryn MaTr up 20 1902. 90 per
cent came from families whose income was over
On p per cent that, according
me collegiate alurnnas statistics came from fam
uies with an income OF under $500 only 40 per
cent OF the Bryn Mawr graduates had at any tuao
engaged in teaching against 70 per cent OF the
graduates OF the statistics before mentioned F-
naIv N 1892 = per cent OF Bryn MawT's graduates
IS against y per cent Of the women Of the sta
tlstics. had been prepared Tor college In private
MIS- Thomas also draws attention a point In
the ever engaging discussion over college women
ana natrimouy. which seems 70 have been over
looked by other thinkers
''Ir anything in the world IL proved" she says,
'rt IS that a girls going TO college for four
does net affect ner MARRIAGE any more than q
mans going college Affects his Why, then. do
only about per cent or college women marry
Because the college women OF the past have come
from the classes in which only % per cent OF
10 Go with Il. except. perhaps, 20 give college
women the intelligence 20 select their husbands
a trfde more sensiby. Statistics collected in Eng
and this country show that ABOUT % per
c,nr ~ the sisters and cousins OF college graduates
Who have not themselves been TO college marry.
and that about 50 per cent Of college graduates
I'6a fact is there are only two classes in which
ALI women ua-ry-the working class. IN which the /
woman "a nor an expense but contributes her share
n household labor at home or IN paid work out /
women bring inherited wealth TO their husbands
IN the reat intermediate class, where the Wife Is
STo1 fbe circumstances OF her husbands position
~ conduct her household without servants or 20 4
earn mart OF the common livelihood. only % per I
cent marry The other 81 per cent or unmarried 4
49, 80 awisfsnre on what be spared from the /
ea-Ds-vs ~ their brothers nearest male rega-
tfves And the 80 per cent who DO marry /
should also be seif-supporurg because IN many |
Ices thev must al some time FOR longer or 1
shorter period support their children their hus
bands"