Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-12

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+ crease of careless parents."- =
+ Judge Lindsey. I
< "co-education is one Of the best ].
I remedies for marriage failures" I
+ Mrs. Eliza Tupper Wilkes. !.
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Z obstlnacy and ungaIIantry Of the !.
! present generation Of men."-T I
= Mrs. Florence Collins Porter. =
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Co-education. a Southern California
woman's college and the juvenile court
furnished food for two lively sessions
at the opening of club woman's week
at the Venice assembly yesterday.
Prominent women from different
parts of Southern California gathered in
the big auditorium and listened to ad-
dresses by Mrs. Jerome Hall Raymond,
representing the Wednesday Morning
club. Mrs. Eliza Tupper Wilkes of the
Friday Morning club, Mrs. Florence
Collins Porter of the Woman's Par
lament and Hon. Ben. B. Lindsey,
speaking for the Civic federation.
"I can't see how the Almighty ever
had courage enough to put men and
women in the same world" began Mrs.
Wilkes. in speaking of co-education.
He did it, though, and there is no
doubt about the advisability Of putting
them in the same schools. They have
the same social life, they should have
the same educational advantages Wo-
mans right to the higher education is
generally conceded-we can leave that
out of the question. The problem is,
how shall women receive this educa-
ton. s3s
co-edueation Is Experiment
"Co-education is only an experiment.
It has been a marvellous success, but
until we have women professors and a
woman dean in every college inviting
girls. we have not given it a chance"
Mrs Wilkes declared that marriage
is more likely to be successful when
founded on the knowledge of each
other gained by four years of college
intercourse, and cited cooperation as
a possible preventive for such large
percentage of unhappy marriages.
Past methods of education have ta-
ken for granted that it is not safe for
well, for fear they may find each other
out. Woman can afford to gain in
courage and self poise. even at the loss
of maiden diffidence."
The softening of mems brutishness,
the beneficial influence of woman's
thinking from the masculine point of
view, the benefits to be derived from
social intercourse and a lessening of
the morbid sex consciousness were 9TH
er points which Mrs. Wilkes declared
tion.
Mrs. Florence Collins Porter in her
address on the wonan's college and es-
pecially the needs of a woman's coll
lege in Southern California, had some
scathing criticisms for the man who
does not believe in higher education
for women.
UngaIIantry Of Men
"It is comforting to know" said She
''that the advent of the new woman
isn't responsible for all the stiff-necked
obstinaney and ungallantry of the pres
ent generation of men,
Mrs. Porter traced the evolution Of
women in the educated world from the
beginning of the eighteenth century,
when the women of America attended
the Danes school and learned to work
samplers" down to the present day,
and as she traced she pointed out the
hindrances which she declares have
been placed in the way of women who
seek greater knowledge.
1.-THE higher education of women
means more for the future than all the
legislative reforms. 1t means higher
standards Of manhood, greater thor
oughness of training and the coming
of better men. A generous education
should be the birthright of every daugh-
ter of the republic and the girls must
have 1t as well as the boys.
II would not complain at the system
of education in the public school, but
would have this system more elective
and combined with more industrial
training. What the girl receives is not
sufficient for her needs.
Practical Education Of Girls
1.-THE girl who is to be dressmaker
or milliner should study harmony and
aolor, so that our women would not
clothed in such monstrosIties OF
sats and gowns. The girl who becomes
housekeeper should know the ehemi-
cal affinities and the results produced
as well as the tests for the adultera-
tion In foods. l would have them learn
these in the high school instead Of the
x-y-z Of algebra and the eonjugation OF
Latin verbs. This will do for many
but there is a large per cent which
should go forward to something higher
but there Is no place to CO."
A picture Of a womans college II
Southern California. such as Mrs. Por-
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