The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-01
Afternoon in Mountains.

The most delightful session of the en-
tire two days was that held at the Her
mitage this afternoon. The start was
made from the church Immediately after
luncheon. and despite the rain of the
night before the ride was most delight
full. Eight immense mountain wagons,
carrying in all nearly two hundred wo-
men, made the trip, and all reached the
Hermitage filled with admiration of the
wonderful scenery and enthusiasm over
the ride. After a hearty greeting from
Uncle Billy" Wilson, whose warm hand
clasp gave an added feeling of hospital
ity, the women were shortly seated in the
parlors for the program of the after
noon. 1t opened with the paper by Miss
Clara 1. .Colburne on THE Education of
Girls" which was one of the fullest
topics presented during the entire con-
vention. Miss Colburne said in part:
when succeeding generations look
back upon this twentieth century and
compare it with those that have pre-
ceded and followed it, they will call it
a century of reconstruction. therefore a
century of perplexity and doubt. 1t is a
century of experiments followed by bril-
liant successes and lamentablei failures
Those who look back upon us with the
clearer vision which. the lapse of time
will give may lament our follies and rid
icule our mistakes, but they will at least
acknowledge that we were intensely &C
tive and intensely earnest. and that our
hearts and minds were united in the so
luton of problems upon which depended
the upuIllnS OF humanity.
Training of Girls.
Amidst all the problems that clamor
for solution, there is none more impor-
tant than this: How shall we train our
girls that they may best fulfill the duties
the one side the conservatives who de-
plore the new woman movement and on
the other side we have the extremely
progressive who affirm that the home
ie ar1fG TCf a 1G
woman's; that marriage is but a partner
ship; that woman's sphere is but ira
dition which, like many other traditions,
is passing away.
loses sight of the fact that all women
do not marry, and of those who do many
will be called through death or other mis-
fortune to support a family. The advo-
cate of the new women thought on the
other hand forgets that a large proper
ton of our women do marry and nature
has decreed that woman VINO bears
and rears a family must spend a large
part of her time within the home walls.
They also overlook the fact that woman
is not clamoring for new vocation.
She is growing more and more to realize
that marriage is a vocation more SER
ious than any, however important, that
man may choose
Three-foId Development.
''Our girls reasonably ask of us that
they shall be well trained in body, mind
and soul, and for this three-fold training
1 would put first the training of the
body, not because IL is the most impor-
tant, but because it is the most likely TO
be neglected. We all know that wo-
mans duties demand more strength and
endurance than mans, and yet many
mothers who would deplore it If their
sons lacked strength. think it quite a
proper condition for their daughters.
They will say almost with pre-. My
, darrohfer Sfr1nQf and n
pany the statement with fond, APPROX