The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-08

the feeling of apprehension display
ed in some quarters respecting It's
probable effect on the future of the
human race. Princeton University
Oldest living graduate, DIR. James
Curtin Hepburn, now 81 years of age,
replying to a question for women,
this week, declared it was decreas-
ing the interest of women in mar
riage and that all evidence to date
indicated that it was already prov
ing prejudicial to the human race.
college education for women" he
said. certainly lowering the rate OF
marriages and robbing the world OF
many happy homes. The woman
who goes in for higher education be-
comes so absorbed in her work, her
it, that she has no time or room for
love or marriage. Her mission in
life becomes that of cultivating ner
mind, not of making some good man
happy and making a home for her
children. l do not believe that you
will find many. men who want 70
marry strong minded, too highly ed
ucated women. The mans idea OF
an ideal wife is one who depends up
on him in certain ways, leans on him,
loves him and lends her mind TO
softer things than the practice OF
medicine and working out problems
in law. He does not wish her TO
respond to his mental attitude with
a mans mind; he wants a feminine
mind, and that is what woman was
created for.
Henrietta Rodman, instructor of
English in the Wadleigh High School
added that high school training does
not prepare woman for earning her
living.
81 think it is quite plain that the
girls who leave our high schools are
not in any way prepared to earn
their livelihoods," says Miss Rodman
Our educational system prepares
girl to meet conditions which have
not existed for twenty years. We
need courses that will fit them for
life as 1t is to-day"
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis, the
militant head of the Social Purity
Bishop Doane, Episcopal Bishop OF
Albany,and threatens dire vengeance
upon that ecclesiastic, who still ad-
heres to the custom OF the Church
Of England Of wearing knickerbock-
ers. 1t was arranged some months
ago to hold the annual convention or
the league in the Albany cathedral,
for which Mrs. Grannis and her wo-
men co-laborers made elaborate
preparations. Recently the Bishop
notified her that only male speakers
would be allowed to address the con-
n.
voluble talker and has constitution
al dislike to being suppressed In a
church or anywhere else, interpret
ed the announcement as direct ana
intentional plan to keep her quiet:
Her protest being in vain, she vowed
that there would be no conventlon IN
the cathedral, and there is going to
be none, for she has called 1t off. Ar
rangements are being made to have
the annual meeting in some nail IN
this city, where the aged woman and
her satellites may indulge to their
hearts content. their penchant for
talking. In the meanwhile, Mrs
Grannis, who had trouble a few
years ago with the elders Of the
Church of the Disciples Of Christ be-
cause of her disposition to comment
too audibly on church matters with
which she did not agree, AYERS that
the order of Bishop Doane is mans
cabal to prevent a woman from ex-
ercising her heavenly ordained pre-
negative of voicing her sentiments on
a subject in which she is vitality in
terested.
A good deal of speculation has
been done during the last week by
society over the announcement that
Reginald w. Rives, clubman and
whip. and his wife, have come to the
parting Of the ways With the pos
sible exception of Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt, Rives is credited with be-
ing the best amateur whip in the
United States.
For many years he drove the coach
Pioneer from the Holland House TO
Ardsley- n-the-Hudson and from the
Metropolitan Club, of which he is q
member, to Southampton. L. I. Since
terest of the fashionables of the city,
he has not figured so often in the
public prints. 1t was a big surprise
to his friends when they learned the
other day that he and Mrs. Rives had
separated and were now living apart
by agreement. Mrs. Rives, with her
son and daughter. are staying in the
old Rives house. while Rives has
gone to the Knickerbocker Club.
Both sides deny any intention Of
threshing out their troubles In the
courts, and decline to take the pub
lie into their confidence respecting
the cause of the split No imputa-
lions of any kind are made, and it
is generally thought to be a case of
incompatibility of temper.
Mrs. John w. Cox. the gifted wife
of millionaire physician of Gotham
and an occasional contributor of the
magazines under the name Of Mar
ian Cox. took a fall this week out of
some of her wealthy American SIS
tiers, who, by an affectation of snob-
bish superiority, endeavor to make
the world believe them extraordinar-
lily intelligent. Incidentally, she
blamed the American mans lavish
ness as largely responsible for max
ing snobs of their wives and daugh-
tiers.
From the excess of leisure with
which the American mans industry
has lowered u.s." she said, 1--WE have
developed both the virtue and vice Of
leisure, Imagination and curiosity.
The American woman is primitive
enough to hunger after all the fruits
upon the tree of knowledge, and is
civilized enough to desire no one but
herself to enjoy them. She desires
to shut out every one sometim es
even her husband-from her own lit
tie epicurean garden of success. For
her, life is q calculated egotism. This
is the cause of her famed snobbish-
ness, hardness and self-assertiveness
With American women action takes
the place of emotion; experience
takes the place of sympathies. She
Is born adventurer. on whom is en-
grated a caste-worshipping Brah-
min. No matter if she can trace
her ancestry to the Mayfiower-and
all ambitious Americans do-she has
the emigrant instincts in her-inr
stincts which have made the Ameri-
can men the bravest and most ini-
tiative in the world. but have made
her the most restless. striving, insen-
sitive, and audacious woman in the
world. She is incapable of feeling
fear, and so is incapable of deep love
or religion She adaptc cootS opd