Evening journal., 1904-12-29
jOST FOR and
| ABOUT WOMEN
The College CHI

.sWoll. said the stenographer,. Il see
HAT i.e last disqualification Of my sex
tor the higher education has been re-
moved. and now it's up to the Ionahs.
who have been declaring that women did
not have the ability TO take a thorough
college course, to go away back and sit
down"
what Intellectual stunts have women
been hearing of just now?" Inquired the
bookkeeper.
"The ability to take college education
nowadays consists of brawn and not
brains" i,eturned the stenograplher. "and
that's what makes me so proud Of this
last achievement OF my sex. Nobody has
doubted forAa long time that when it came
ito wrestllngt with the higher municipalities
or digging lAp Greek roots or reeling on
History and little simple things like that,
,'that the girr student in college could
!, strike a gait that was liable to put the
man student in the also ran class.
But we've always felt that, when 1t got
to the real, serious, strenuous things Of
college life, ike foot ball and throwing
the hammer and fiat-footed jumps, may
be nature hadn't adapted women for the
higher branches, of learning. Her college
yell was little ahrill.
Basket ball sonhehow lacks ginger, and
can't say that muscular female sprint
ing around the track or doing fip-hons
over a bar makes any hit with me. Still /
can't help being glad that my sex has at
last qualified for admission into the halls
of learning on an equal footing wath
men"
what have they donef" again in
quired the booklSeeper.
"They have shown replied the~steno-
grapher that they have acquired the no.
BILE and elevating art Of hazing, and that
they can be just as brutal and cruel as
any A. NJ. or B. A. or Phi. d. who ever
adorned the classic shades of Harvard OF
Princeton or Yale.
Il point proudly to the fact that out
in Indiana one girl is dead and six others
are seriously i'll as the result of their
initiation into a secret society. The candi-
dates were made to believe that a red hot
iron was being chased up and down theiI
4 spinal columns, and that they were eatine
a plateful Of angle worms, and the ofher
girls looked on with screams Of laughter
while the poor victims tainted under the
ordeal. For neat and workmanliAe biz
Of torture this deserves to rank W It'll the
artistic electrocution that the San Fran.
cisco college students have Just pulled
of under similar circumstances"
THE higher education is sure doing q
lot for women" remarked the booltkeeper
IT'S doing too much. It's working over.
time when it makes a girl so philosoph.
ical tnat she can see a fellow-creature in
agony without wanting to rescue. her" re.
piled the stenographer. Between wo.
man without sympathy and without edu.
cation, give me the lady whose grammar
is rickety, but whose tears are always OF
tap for the sufferer"
Don't you believe in the higher educa.
tion for girlsg" asked the booklSeeper.
1T depends on what the college edu.
cates' returned the stenographer. III
it educates her heart as well as her mind
it's III right; but the complete course II
hoodlumism that the average colleg,
girls feels called on to take at her alma
mater doesn't appeal to me. It makes ms
dead sore to think Of the poor. worn
weary mothers who are taking in board
ers and frying over cooking stoves ant
shaving themselves to death over sewing
machines to send TO college their girls
who are acquiring nothing but stomach
strong enough to find amusement in pre-.
tending TO feed worms to other girls"
college girls and college boys seem tS
be getting pretty much alike" said the
bookkeeper.
Worse luck" agreed the stenographer