The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-03-11
Professor Advises Physical
Training for Young Women.
Scott Nearing Of University Of Penn
sylvania Says Emancipation Of
Women WIFE Only Come
Through "Tomhoyism."

Philadelphia More girls should be
tomboys only through physical and
Industrial development may woman
hope to emancipate herself. =
This is the theory advanced by
Scott Nearing of the faculty of the
Wharton school Of the University OF
Pennsylvania, in a book he will pub
fish soon upon Social Adjustment.
1.-THE city woman's physical durabii-
ity," says Mr.. Nearing, is the culm1na-
ton Of misdirected training begun in
youth. Boys are taught to go out ana
play rough games and romp and deVei-
op physically. Girls, on the other
hand, are expected to stay at home ana
be 'ladylike' If boy does not soil
and tear his clothes he is Sis IL 9
girl does soil her clothes and romp
she is 'tomboy.' 1t Is as disgraceful
for a boy to atrophy physically as 1t IS
for a girl to develop physically.
"The development Of the girls BODY
should be begun and carried on at the
same time and on the same basis as
the development of the boys body.
Their plays should be equally arduous,
until the age Of twelve at least. There
is no justification for denying TO girls
tie physical development provided FOR
boys, making them weaklings before
the age when there is any physical dlf-
ferentiation due to sex development.
Already this truth is being realized
and the emancipated women OF the
United States are emancipating the
bodies Of their daughters, by putting
them in 'rompers' and sending them
out to play with the boys.
every normal being should engage
In some form of constructive occupa-
ton. The woman Is no exception, ana
the education of the woman OF the fu-
ture should include not only effective
physical development and an adequate
training in self knowledge, but also a
training that will enable her to I'LL
some position in life and fill 1t we'll.
Home life is narrowing and unless sup
plemented by education leads to the
life in social sets so disastrous to the
development of Individuality
Mr.. Nearing adds that there are five
groups Of women who should always
be engaged in some form of gainful DC
cupation. He Classics these groups
as follows:
First, girls between the end OF
their schooling and their marriage.
Second, women who are suffering
from any transmissible disease or de
feet should be absolutely denied the
privileges Of motherhood and should
therefore, spend their adult lives In
some form of Industrial occupation.
TN the third place, women who are
geniuses- perhaps one in ten thousand
and the social value Of whose careers
would be lessened by motherhood
should continue their chosen vocation
Fourth, a large group Of young
| wives who during the first two or three
| years Of Wifehood have no children
should by all means begin or continue
some productive occupation, principal
Iy, as Doctor Patten has pointed out
because Of the addition to the hus
| bands income, but also for self-deyel
/ opment.
In the fifth place, women who a
middle age send their last child to col
lege or to work and have no exactins
1 duties In the home.
II woman Is to mean all that shs