Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-03-31
SOCIETY AND HOME OFFERS A
FAIR FIELD FOR TALENTS.
Girls Now Educated on q Broader
Plane Than Formerly-More Eager
to Make Their Own Way-Fields
for the Restless Girl-None Better
Than the Home - Hardship OIL
Mothers.
BY MARGARET +. sANGsTER.,

lOOheu IOTWdTu u u pIedSant time dt
home, with plenty of fun and freedom,
friends coming and going, possibly the
stir Of weddings in some not remote
future. The girls of our day did not
say very much about it, but it was
part Of their unwritten programme one
day or other to be married and have
homes Of their own.
Phebe's daughters and mine had a
very different outlook on life. | shall
never admit that they have had a bet
ter education than ours for the mis-
sion Of womanhood, but | n deny
that they have had an education on a
broader plane and on more scientific
lines. They have had the mental dis
cipline and the intellectual training ac-
corded to their brothers, and when
they have been graduated they have
very naturally desired to put their edu-
cation 10 some practical use. Either
they have realized, and if they are en-
thusiastic students, this is a matter of
course, that a college curriculum is
only a good foundation on which to
build, in which case they have sought
further opportunities; or else they
have desired a professional or business
career. They have preferred to earn
money, rather than to have it given
them.
To spend time at home in leisurely
elegance, helping with housekeeping,
visiting and receiving visitors, shop
ping, and frittering strength on little
duties. seems a fiavorless and fruit
less thing to some of our finest girls.
Their brothers are in the arena. There
is no reason why they should rust in
idleness when there is SO much work
to be done in the world beyond the
home.
No one can fail to sympathize with
the restlessness Of the modern girl.
She simply feels the pressure of the
surrounding atmosphere. Every ono
she sees is busy. Why should she be
the only exception? There is room
enough for our eager-hearted girls in
philanthropy, where they may live in
college settlements and help their sis
tiers whose lives are pitifully meager.
The universal need for the trained
nurse in the sick ROOF has opened
widely another door for women who
wish to be of service to their age.
Teachers are urgently in demand, and
their training cannot now be too thor
ough, nor their devotion too great to
the splendid profession they select
The "gentlewOman engaged in teach
ing, whether in the kindergarten
among the babies or in the classroom
whnrn {hn caniprc uronn1a with n,,ac.
items profound and wonderful, is one
of the finest forces of our civilization
Our educated young women are loudly
called for, not alone in our home land
but everywhere on earth. In Syria
and Ceylon, in Japan and Hindustan
il South Africa and the Philippines. al
around the globe, there are place!
waiting for our American woman
teachers and our American womeI
physicians, and wherever they so the.
are carrying with them the best Oh
country has to show and give.
In business circles there are chance
for clever girls, not merely for thos
girls who carr a weekly wage, an
who must always be in the majority
but for girls who have the grasp, tn
steadiness, and it may be the audacity
of business men. A girl often succeed
beyond her own hopes, when she i
enabled, by the aid of some capita
and her own pluck and fearlessness, I
do what her brothers have done 70
years and years without eliciting com
ment.
Some inherit wealth. The riches
woman in America, the one most love
and honored, Helen Miller Gould, car
not be called a business woman, br
she manages her wide interests wit
the peculiarly marked talent for finano
inherent in her family, and show
plainly what rank a woman may tai
in looking after large affairs.
Il take off my hat to her brain an
her heart whenever l pass Hele
Gould's door, said a man Of authori,
in the world of business, yet l ha,
never seen the lady to my knowledge
Had he met her he would have seen
fair OF low voice and gracio,
manner, some years under 40. still el
titled by courtesy to the honors Of cir
hood.
No wonder our girls are restle
when so much beckons them from Il
outide and they feel in themselv
the capacity for success. at least
not blame them. fully compreher