The sun., 1910-06-03
THE EDUCATED WOMAN BEST
PRESIDENT FINDS ~ HER THE
IDEAL WIFE lND MOTHER.
BryR NaNr Girls Hear Prem NF. Taft SS
the Advantages EnJOyed hy NSdern
MOman Many lines 0f Life Opened
10 Tier President Leaves for Ada, %.

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the Advantages EhJOyed ny NSderR
Woman Wany Lines of Life Opened
10 Tier President Leaves for Ada, u.
BRIS MAWR, Pa. June .-Prusident
Iaft spoke here to-day AZ the graduating
exercises Of Bryn Mawr College. dwelling
on the advantages of higher education tor
women and the strides It has made in the
last fifty years His daughter. Miss Helen
Taft. is a pupil az Bryn MAwr and in conse-
quence shared some of the attention her
distinguished father received.
Actual experiment has shown said
Mr.. Taft. that the claim that there 10
any difference in favor of men in the
quickness Of learning or in tho thorough
ness Of acquisition ol knowledge is en-
tirely unfounded. dissent from the
views that an academic education unite
man or woman for business. II is even
suggested that the higher education of
women rather units them 10 discharge
the duties Of wife and mother, Ut
terly dissent from this view.
The companiOnship of married life is
tbe chief charm and reason for its being
~ far ~ Il relates 10 the two persons
concerned The enjoyment II the home
with children and the training of them. ars
IT course among the most important
duties and pleasures of married life. and
q certainly does not detrac, from the
power u woman TO make a good com
panion or to teach and train her children
a. -. a. -.
. advantage IT the higher education. it
IL not ESSENTIAL that woman who knows
much should CONFORM Ia the unattractive
manner or ways of the conventional blue
stocking. that she should make the extent
| Ot her knowledge a source Of discomfort
| tO those with whom she associates or that
/ she should lose her interest IN the senti-
ment and emotions of lite or fail 20 have an
! appreciation II beauty and romancs
I am quite ready 10 cOncede that mar
| riage and motherhood are a normal status
I for woman. anu, other things being equal
she u happier IN that condition than IN
any other But this is far from saying
i that wOman's lie IA a failure because
she has not marTied and that her life may
not be failure beCalns she has marrisi
B lhc home and the family are the nucleus
OF the highest happin -. but II cirCum-
stances are such a. 10 force women "a
accept husbands whom they do not respect
and love and whom they would not marry
except 10 escap@ a lie og poverty the houss
I an1 the family are not likely 10 be mode
/ Jr Ia furnish az dead
One oi the great advantages 81 the
/ higher education for woman. in my
Judgment, H. IA the Independence that II
! q - her In the choice Of the kind of
/ nfe which she H. "a lead A woman With
| that kind IT education can ordinarily sup
/ port herself She can select profession
| and u she never meets the man WhO she
| believes can make her happy as a hIs-
I band she can become an independent
and useful member IT society. Il l. this
| IndeUendenCe of married life that il sure
/ to make married lfe When and Il o.
comes happier II b. the dependence
uDOn marriage that creates the marital
/ tragedies that We sse too frequently
and causes the breaking up II the home
3 and the wreCklng oi even more than two
hves
i do not think ~ can estimate the
increased happiness that men aud women
/ have eNpari~nCei who as husbands and
wives have enjoyed the higher sense OF
/ CompaniOnship that - made Dossible by
/ The intellectual sympathy and association
I u ideas between two thoroughly ,-du-
! Gated people
Men ui th" highest education have
l sometimes assumed that when they take
wives they should take them with a view
only TO tho attraCtivrness Of youth and
[ the grHce Of manner with but little at
I tehtion 10 the solid qualities II mind. %
| the knOwledge they have. To the mental
| discipline they have enjoyed As life
wears on and the active JOYS that wear
away with youth and Young womanhOod
disappear and the time of quiet lei-ur.
extends itself m ones life the purely
intellectual enIOymcnts become greater
and Il Ons has a mind trained Tor uss In
| solving intellectual problems and In
reading the philosophy Of history. IN the
study u science. the pursuit Of art her
| life h richer. her means - self-enteriAin-
/ ment largely Increased and the possibility
Of serene old age made much greater
President Taft left Bryn Mawr shortly
before O'Clock Tor Ada. OHIO. contrary
% all previous plans Assistant Secr,.-
: tary of the Treasury Hilles started from
! Washington with Mr. Taft and will e.
all the way % Michigan with HIM