Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-22
FROM A W0MAN'S POINT OF VIEW

An article Illustrating one of the
problems with which the high
ly educated woman of today
has to contend, that of
the unreasonable criticism of some of
her friends, appears in the Saturday
Evening Post. 1t deals with a taboo
on the college girl, and tells Of the
relates, was accused of never forget
ting the popularity of her education
whereas the fact was that it was her
friends who were always reminding
her of it. That if she was light-heart-
ed and given to fun, as she had learned
to be in the undergraduate world, she
was asked if that was all the good her
education had done her, while if she
spoke seriously of serious things, she
was rebuked for pedantry. The girl,
we are told, reached the conclusion
that the only accomplishment she had
learned in her four years at college,
which her friends We're capable of ap-
preciating, was how to make fudge.
In other words these friends would not
enjoy her other accomplishments
themselves or allow her to derive any
pleasure from them, driving away
happiness with the sharp weapon Of
unnecessary criticism. The article re-
ferred to states further:
'The day has come to raise the Ia
boo on the educated woman. The time
was when learning set heavily upon
our sisters. In order to demonstrate
the masculine might of her intellect
she gave herself over to the highest Of
higher mathematics and the most
deeply buried Greek roots; and abb
sorbed in much ground and lofty in
tellectual tumbling, she became a
stranger to normal ways Of a girl of
her age When she emerged she was
likely to be a strange, uncouth Great
ure versed in unintelligible lore and
ignorant of all the amenities of small
talk, amusement and gowns. An ordi-
nary man would have as soon thought
of making love to an encyclopaedia
bound in calf The maker of perverted
proverbs was quite justified in OBJ
jecting that girls would be boys.
ut took some years for the college
woman to learn that one way for girls
to be like boys was for them to have
all the fun that was going, and that a
better way was to be simply them
selves The young graduate of our
anecdote is the prophet of new gen.
GRAFTON. The time is coming when the
better sort of college woman will be as
intelligently simple and unconscious as
the better sort of college man, and
wisdom will be justified of her chill
dren, female as we'll as male"
prominent lecturer made the state
ment not long ago, that I'VE are proud
of our educated women" He pointed
out with wise discrimination the differ
ence between the fanatical and unwom-
anly product of the new age which con-
siders it necessary to trample under foot
all the sweet traditions of the past in
order to embrace manifold advantages
now, open to womanhood, with that
more representative type, who without
renouncing her love for the duties and
pleasures of home life, believes when
she cannot have these, that "a useful
princess is more honored than dis
appointed queen" He believes that
the balance will be adjusted evenly in
time, and that the influence which
woman has won for herself in the nine
teenth century is but beginning of
the noble work which she is destined to
do in the twentieth century. Girls are
sent to college to broaden their minds
and the possibilities of their lives, and
it were a pity indeed, II narrow preju-