Evening journal., 1907-06-19
Wednesday, June 70, 1907
THE SWEET GIRL GRADUATE.

r IJNE seems to be the time when Dan Cupid
and Dr. Syntax join hands, the one to calm
the huttering heart Of the young bride, the other
10 bring before the world the sweet girl graduate
Our schools and colleges are now having their
graduation exercises, and soon there shall be
knocking at the door Of the world lot of young
women each one possessing higher degree OF
proficiency more or less than the other. II is
the highest ambition of many young school girls
to stand focused in the spotlight while they tell
the world the reasons for '"rhc Causes Of Social
ism" and the "Thatness for all Whchness"
About graduation time when everything seems
so rainbow-ke to the graduate some one arises
and declares that the girl would be lot better
off, and so would her future husband, if she had
spent all her time in her mothers kitchen learn
sing the culinary art. But this opinion generally
comes from persons who expostulate more about
their stomachs than keeping their minds unbi-
ased. Because girl can't turn out bread and pies
crisp and appetzing sweeter than nard and frank
&ncense these carpers declare she has no place
jim the economy OF nature But what girl has not
made mistakes in cooking, especially in making
Epies? Culture and cooking have never been and
Fcan never be antagonistc. They should so hand
lin hand and each be the better for it.
The we-bred college girl, despite the fact that
she is dubbed hammock lounger and novel read
er is in most cases good cook; better still, she
can tell the cook just what she wants, and how
she wants it. It's merely the outcomngs Of
learning and a refined nature. On the other hand
there are thousands of girls from the lower walks
OF life who cannot make dainty pie and all
because they have never had the chance OF their
iettered sisters, having TO go out and help keep
the family. This is no discredit to them.
1t is traditional that cooking is essentially a
feminine accomplishment. but strange 20 say
many of the women who try TO cook arc worse
than failures How very frequently in
compatibility Of temper is only another word for
indigestion. Nor can it be said truthfully that
girls seeking the higher education are averse to
marriage and maternity. There is still greater
aesson for each and every young woman to learn
now that she has her sheepskin--the lesson OF
true womanhood. No girl can learn this from
books. If girl is taught enough to know who
uttered the famous lines Beyond the Alps lies
Italy" sing soprano in the church choir and play
tennis and golf and drive an auto and be known
as a good whip and has not grasped the really
vital and essential things from her own life-the
things that make for all that is good, sacred and
sweet in women she is nothing.
Every graduate should love her mother, heI
father, her sister, her brother and her home life
more than her book learning. If she does
not make her surroundings home-like wherever
she Is, whether she be teacher, artist, musician
doctor daughter at home, or a mother in hei
household, and If she herself is not CHEEKY anc
loving, dainty IN dress, gentle in manner, anc
beautiful in soul as every true woman ought tc
be. the world will feel that the one thing need
full Is lacldng-viyd, tender womanliness fol
(which no so-called higher knowledge car
ever compensate. II is better for a woman tc
I'LL a simple human part lovingly, better for hei
TO be sympathetic in trouble and to whisper
comforting message into but one sorrowing cal
than that she should lecture to mutitudes OF
woman suffrage. We wish each and every on,
of the sweet girl graduates success in the rea
battle Of life which for them has only begun. All
hail to the future mothers OF our future America