Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1904-07-14
rHE EDUCATED WOMAN II CON
QUERIN0 HER WAY.

ming, spirited young woman, was
appointed ambulance surgeon in
New York. She has theoretically
done the hard work of her position
responded to calls at all hours. GO
ing into the worst OF neighborhoods,
probing bullet wounds and sewing
up cuts received by rough men in
street fights. She has marched into
saloons and crowded, excited tene-
ments, carrying her instrument case
and ready for immediate business,
just as male doctor would. Now,
having served the necessary APP
premiership, she has been appoint
ed house sergeon at Gouverneur
Hospital.
DR.. Emily Dunning is doubtless
shocking phenomenon to all those
educator" and "sociologists" who
of late have been warning us OF the
baleful effects of the higher educa-
ton on woman. Her place, they
insist, is the home and her highest
duty is motherhood. When she
cultivates her brains and ventures
upon a professional career she un-
sexes herself and worries elderly
gentlemen who make speciality of
the human races future.
1t is an odd circumstance that
these alarmed and disappearing
educators and sociologists concern
themselves only with the educated
woman. They cannot with patience
see her storing her mind with
knowledge and then using that
knowledge to make living with.
The work is too hard for her, they
say. Yet these same disturbed
persons wh0 think that medicine,
law, theology, journalism and other
occupations not calling for excessive
physical exertion are sure to break
women down, can look without a
tremor of fear for the future Of the
race upon women toiling at the
washtub, sweating in the kitchen
and drudging in the factory.
DR.. Emily Cunning as an ambu-
lance surgeon often had to work
hard, and as house surgeon she
will frequently know what fatigue
means. But in comparison with the
women who have to support them
selves by manual labor-and such
women number millions in this
Christian and chivalrous country
hers has been life of leisure.
The simple truth is that under
our competitive civilization the bur-
den Of woman's support is being
steadily shifted from mans shout
ders to her own. The oak -and-vine
conception of the relation of the
sexes no longer fits the facts. The
professors and doctors who are
bothering the public ear with OBJ
jections to women's colleges are old
fashioned survivals whose ideal
woman is the sheltered one-the
queen of the home, the wife
and mother, who has no fighting
contact with the selfish and siren.
uous outside world. A beautiful
ideal it is, too. Would that every
woman could be the queen OF a good
home. But, as one self.maintaining
and weary sister puts it, there arn't
homes enough to 90 around.
That being so-and who can deny
tits it either sensible or kind to
declaim against those who strive to
fit themselves by superior education
for the battle of life2 Venerable
cant to the contrary, physical labor
is much more disagreeable and ex.
hausting than mental labor. Let
the lawyer or doctor or educator
who doubts it try hod-carrying OF
shoveling-not for a month or q
year, but for an hour-and then re.
port. The women's colleges prepare
women to take up professional
studies and qualify themselves in
other ways for doing well-paid and
relatively easy work. Therefore
every generous man who understands
the age he is living in should be
their champion.
One clear eaded, brave and am
bilious girl like DIR. Emily Dunnine
is worth more to her sex than all
the talking and writing old gentle.
man who still prattle of woman s
sphere" Honor to her as a pioneer,
who has cleared the path for others.