The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-20

| however, as vital question in the
main problem as the other, and the an
swer seems to be in much the same di-
rection.
The tumultuOus struggle with the
uncongenial and unmastered task
which by no stretch of the Imagination
can be made attractive is even more
potent cause of unhappiness and dis
aster in woman's world than mans,
and one of the most far-seeing of all
the worlds great women discerned this
danger and bespoke an escape from it
long ago. What | should like to be
sure of as a result of higher education
for women" said George Eliot. "a re-
suit that will come to pass over my
grave, is their recognition of the great
amount of labor which needs to be
done by women, and which is now
either not done at all or done wretch
eddy. No good can come to women
more than TO any class of male work
ers by aiming to do a kind of work
which only a few can do we'll | be-
lieve and want it to be well shown
that a more thorough education will
! tend to do away with the odious vul-
garity of our notions about functions
and employment. and to propagate the
true gospel that the deepest disgrace
las it is the surest unhappiness) is to
undertake TO do work for which we are
unfit
The GOSPEL of Labor,
If there be vcritable gospel of labor
out of which shall come human happi-
ness. it must be along that line for
both man and woman. 1t may be, too.
that if educators and social reformers
would work upon this principle from
the school room to the state the nov
elists' tips on the quest of happiness
in.the ''one girl myth might not much
mislead the youth of the nation after
all. Minds balanced in themselves
and centered in some general service
could leave the great mystery of love
to work itself out in its own time and
way. The dream of the ideal state in
the minds of earth's greatest sons has
| been one where every man should find
the work best suited to him and Joy
| fully contribute of his native powers,
whether small or great. to the upbuild-
| ing of the whole. 1t is only thus that
any perfect solution of the labor prob
lem can be evolved, and why it should
still remain but Utopian dream of
| the ages the writer's who are recon-
mendinS men to be in love with their
would In tn he
best that can be done with the prob
lem is to weigh it in the sorry scale OF
EaphaZzard marriages and bespeak a
psychological trick to misreppesent
them both, then the whole business is
in a bad way, and the tangle and com
parison not unnaturally suggest the
story of the young woman who said
she always thought Sodom and Go
| morrah were man and wife, and if they
| were not they ought to be-
One of the mobiles, efforts of the
great scholar who has just resigned his
high position as president of Harvard
| was to give to rich and poor alike a
chance to find the true place and work
| in life. 1t was President Eliot who
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from the primary school to the profes
sional for the poor as well as the rich
1t was he who sought to bring school
and society into better unity and ac
ton upon these very problems of life
and industry and proclaimed the re-
sponsibility of the school for "the sor-
ny state of American civilization In
| his own life and achievements he testi-
| fled also. to the glorious work thai
man can do in his true place and call
| ing His wisdom and idealism, his
strength and judgment. were the de-
Gliding forces for real progress in the
| intellectual life of the country" say
! the leaders of thought both in Europe
and America. Not all raen are called
by nature 10 work like that, but ey
cry man has some work 10 which he is
born that more than any other can
serve him and his generation TIC
| find it may be indeed like finding a
| true wife, a good thing" but. being
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