The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-01-21

/ The Training of Girls for Their Mis-
sion In Life, is subject which il
of live interest all over the countr!
and Of no more vital interest than her,
i'm North Dakota. This was the It'll,
OF subject which was most intelli
gently discussed at the meeting of tn,
Tri-state Grain Growers convention
last night by Miss Jessie M. Hoover
dean o fwomen at agricultural college
As 1t is of great Importance it is given
IN full as follows:
II were to go into one of the gram.
mar grades of the public schools of thi:
city and ask this question of the boys
Of that school: What viii be your life
work? They would promptly answer
"a doctor, an engineer, a mechanic OF
a teacher. If / should ask the girls in
in the same room the same question ]
would wait for an answer. The girI
knows with far more certainty than
the boy, but she would not tell That
the girl no longer begins at an early
age to prepare for her home is true.
We no longer see the well filed chest
She secretly cherishes the hope that
she may one day be mistress Of her
own home, but she does not talk about
1T. Why does this state exist? just
as truly as the boys are being educated
away from the farm just so truly are
the girls educated away from the home
and home life.
Present Education insufficient.
From the beginning of a girls edu-
cation to the end she is taught the
three RS and that rightly, she is aught
language, she is taught how to COM
pute bank discount, she is laugh book
keeping, the declension of Latin nouns
and the conjugation OF Latin verbs,
drawing, music, elocution, in fact she is
taught everything and anything except
the things that will fit her for her pro-
fession in life-that Of motherhood and
homemaking. Wher she goes to col
lege she studies side by side with her
brother. Each taking the same sub
jects but each filing very different
spheres, one as important as thesother,
but essentially different.
Being educated in this way can we
wonder that women should consider
that the higher attachments and ideals
are without the home? And so af-
ter much educating we find the serious
problem of the day the so-calIed
Emancipation of Women"
Education of Girls Certain.
The education of the son is more
or less beset with question and doubts
there are so many fields for men
but the universal profession of
woman whether temporarily against
her will or not still remains that of
home making and house keeping. 1t has
always been so. 1t is she who must
bear the burden of the race. 1t is
on her efficiency as mother and home
maker are the very heart and soul of
good nations. A German motto says
Whatever you would have appear in
a nation you must put into it's schools"
If the home is the unit of the nation,
then 20 have good homes and he.lce a
good nation we must teach the home in
the schools. But some educators,
some steadfast adherents of foot notes
and Latin constructions will say we
cannot add more fads to our already
curriculum. This last is prob
ably true. The curriculum of the ord
mary school, college and university of
today is overcrowded. 1t is over
with tverything but the
thing that viii make girl efficient in
ler life work. If the girls are to be
he homemakers, and housekeepers as
he vast majority are, (either in their
own house of another) let them be
prepared for this most noble and diff
icult task.
First of all select that branch of
study for girls which shall meet their
universal needs--horne economics, do
nestle science and domestic art Then
having placed the most necessary
branch first, I'LL out the remainder of
he course with such subjects as will
oe best suited to develop efficiency in
he home.
Education of Women Should be Broad.
do not seek to eliminate entirely the
'o-called cultural education (Which in
he ordinary acceptance of the term
means classicaD for anything that will
broaden and refine the woman and
lelp to elucidate the principal sub
ect makes the recipient all the more
tilted for her position as center of
he home. But the study of home eco |
lomics SHOULD be primary and other
branches of learning secondary. When |
yer the girl of today Is educated to a |
ealization that in being a good wife |
md mother she has done more for her
country and more for the race than the |
an by simply being good teacher,
or stenographer, then will
We cease to hear of the emancipation
# woman.
The Professional Woman.
Many girls from their training and
do not desire a home
hey think they will take training to
% professional women as lawyers,
reachers, physicians or teachers.
hey take their training and In nine
Y cases out of a hundred are married
efore they have followed their pro-
ession or vocation as long as their
eriod of preparation. After working
while they begin to decline in health.
re nervous, irritable. and they realize
hat their dream of a career is nearing
he end, so In order that they may not