The Jasper news., 1908-01-02

be said Of the years which follow,
crowded with opportuhitles--nay. ne
cessities--for reasonable dealing
with the questions of life? No woman
can be her husband s friend and help.
err without logic to which he may APP
peal and an intelligence which COM
pletes and supplements his own. And
this education of character, as OF mind,
Is not taught In school which gradn-
ates girls in white muslin at IT and
sends them out without either mental
resource or control.
8 Geometry teaches the logic of life
and over blackboard problems Rosy
Cheek learns to be the mother, wife
and citizen, which every advanced
civilization 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
1t 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 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 its 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 respon-
sible for this, neither demanding, as
rule, anything approaching rigor-
Gus standard OF education.
1t is sometimes fairly astonishing
to note with what shallow and care
less consideration the whole subject
Of girls education is dismissed. One
wonders what results can be expect
ed from such lax attention to SUI
premely important matter. Can few
weeks of science" a Swimming 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 a
certain fiuency 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 nse? The un-
differentiated adjective of sweet 1G
may pass amid its ripping laughter
and its 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 c
fairer chance of getting husband Il
her charm Is not endangered by an
awkward reputation of cleverness, but
the married woman needs every bit
VI Intelligence she possesses.
The women of America are enfran.
chised by the customs of the country
If not by the prejudices Of tho 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 II our daughters are to be given
the dangerous draught OF knowledge
they must learn to subordinate 1t to
/ charm. There is no a'impossibllity
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, .iinostentatious. as all strength
II balanced and serene. Is sweet. True
education teaches this. as 1t develops
harmony with law, which 4, is the
WORD" OF the world, both spiritual
and material. -
The preponderance OF women who
intend to make college education q
preparation for q wage-earning career
is deterrent to those who consider
the natural association and friend
ships OF youth to be an all-important