Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-12-19

can be her husbands friend and helm.
er without logic to which he NAV an.
pea ana an intelligence which COM
pietes and supplements his own. And
TINS education Of character, as of mind;
Is not taught in school which gradu.
ates girls in white muslin at II and
SENDS them out without either mental
resource or control.
Geometry teaches the logic of life
and over blackboard problems ROSY
cheek learns to be the mother, wife
ana citizen. which every advanced
clVliization demands. This is the ed
ucation which is developed by seri.
ous' adequate curriculum and by
none other. The special training. is
another matter. equally important. as
it prepares woman to meet the re-
sistless law which links happy useful
ness with occupation. The choice of
study should Of course be adapted to
the individual learning of the stu.
dent, and II indeed there is a mental
constitution differing from that of
man, this fact should be recognized in
fitting her for her probable duties and
her possible use Of talent or ability.
The increasing number of eclectic
courses of study gives an added free.
dom and breadth of opportunity most
desirable and necessary and if right
fully understood should entirely re.
move the popular prejudice that a col
legiate education, per Sc, fills a wo-
mans mind with useless knowledge.
A college education should mean the
best education possible, and it's vari
ETY. should only be equaled by its
thoroughness. The ordinary finishing
school for girls cannot train the mind
adequately because Of the briefness of
Its curriculum and its lack of system.
Parent and teacher are alike resr,n-
sible for this, neither demanding, az
rule. anything approaching rigor-
Gus standard of education.
1t is sometimes fairly astonishing
to note with what shallow and care.
less consideration the whole subjec.
of girls education is dismissed. One
wonders what results can be expect
ed from such lax attention to a SUI.
premely important matter. Can a few
weeks of SCIENCE" skimming of
philosophy, dig the channels of train.
ed and habitual thought? Can germ
of talent, literary, mathematical or
plastic, be taught to grow by brief
planting and briefer tending? Can
an occasional Composition" even
certain fluency in the attractive and
Harmless" literature of the modern
languages, give correct and elegant
forms of expression or teach the his.
tory of the words we use? The I'M
differentiated adjective of sweet 16
may pass amid its ripping laughter
and it's maiden grace, but how about
the woman whose vocabulary is still
confined to exclamation points pune.
tuating the eternal reiteration of
awful" wonderful" fascinating"
and the like?
A young girl may, indeed, run &
fairer chance of getting husband #
her charm is not endangered by an
awkward reputation Ct cleverness, but
the married woman needs every bit
IF Intelligence she possesses.
The women of America are enfran.
chised by the customs of the country,
if not by the prejudices of the SO.
called upper and better classes. Lib.
erty and responsibility are ours and
sooner or later we shall be called
upon to fit ourselves for them. The
working women know this and are
rising to the demands of:both necessity
and opportunity. But, first and fore
most, if our daughters are to be given
the dangerous draught of knowledge
they must learn to subordinate it to
charm. There is no impossibility
about this-only the most vague and
illogical prejudice against it. Every
woman should be taught, first and
foremost, that in all social relations
knowledge must be subordinate to
sympathy, merged into the charm
which listens first and then expresses.
All greatness is simple and, above
all, unostentatious, as all strength,
if balanced and serene, is sweet. True
education teaches this, as it develops
harmony with law, which is the
word" of the world, both spiritual
and material.
The preponderance of women who
Intend to make college education a
preparation for a wage-earning career
is deterrent to those who consider
the natural association and friend.
ships of youth to be an all-important
consideration This deterrent must
inevitably disappear with the i'm
provement of the already established
schools, many of Which already APP
proach the college standard, and with
the development Of the universities
for women existent in America. In
any case, whether this condition dis.
appears in short or a longer time, it
must always be safer and better in
this country of fluctuating social con.
ditions to build the foundations of
character and of mental cultivation
, firmly and we'll. Sweetness and
grace. if individual, will not be de.
stroyed by the education which devel.
: ops character.
v Not Merger.
Jonah was explaining matters.
1T wasn't consolidation" he said.