Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1911-01-18
EDUCATION BEGETS
CONFIDENCE
OUR LIFE is WHAT OUR
THOUGHTS MAKE IT"


THOUGHTS MAKE IT"
That the Delaware boy shall be pro-
yided with free educational advan-
tages, including college course,
which fits him to enter several fields
OF activity, while his sister is obliged
upon completing her high school stud
les, to seek her college education in
another State, is q stigma upon our
little commonwealth.
All who approve of higher educa-
ton for women will admit this.
As a farmers wife, my appeal that
this condition shall be changed is in
elusive of more than desire to see
the privileges ., Delaware College
proper, or those OF like institution
given as freely to our young women
as to our young men. 1t seems to me,
also, that while Delaware is providing
and equipping place where ner
young farmers may be trained lot
their work and no like provision made
for the girls, who, perhaps, may feel
the need, is manifestly unfair.
The woman who is to make her
home upon a farm needs every educa-
tional advantage that she can possibly
secure, especially along natural lines.
OF course, our education is never
complete. We learn each day OF our
lives, and the experience gained in
the performance OF our own duties is
worth more than al taught by others.
Yet in youth, when we are not SO
handicapped by responsibilities. it is
quite necessary to devote our time and
energies to acquiring as much knowl-
edge as possible. 1t is the foundation
of our life's work.
1t may be argued that industry, thrift
and level head are o. more value to
the farmers wife and daughter than
any new ideas or new ways of apply
ing old ideas.
However, higher education along
any line means more to woman than
the knowledge gained.
Cheeriu.ness is matter OF temper
ament, but the educated girl has more
change of being an optimist than the
uneducated girl, and that is the finest
OF requirements. 1t gives confidence
and buoyancy that defies failure.
A current writer has defined opti-
mism as focusing all that is highest
in our character to meet conditions"
and the trained woman is the one
likel yto take that spirit into her work.
The farmers wife who has. seen her
work elevated into a, science is much
more apt to advance, even in her iso
lated home. sometimes even b. reason
of it. The farmer is constantly rub
bing elbows with his fellow man, has
more opportunity to keep abreast with
the times than has his wife
She is in heed of all the knowledge
of which she may be possessed, Tor it
is SO easy to decay. What if she has
had no opportunities?
Men who are working to improve
agricultural conditions in Delaware
will strike the right key when they
train the young women who are to be
the housewives OF farmers and mo
theirs OF the next generation of farm
ers.
A mother who has been trained to
-Galne-the profession of agriculture will
see that her-son Is a progressive far
mer.
Agricultural societies that are mere
names will be alive and doing.
Personally, ! do not want the ballot
Few farmers wives do. Nevertheless,
| do not enjoy hearing the opposition
endeavor to score by sarcasm.
There may be just as much political
wisdom in tha minds of the gigglinR
girl OF Fl. as in the cigarette smoker
and corner loafer of the same age.
When men declare that women, by
remaining within their sphere, can, by
genie influence and reasonable argu-
ments, obtain such legislation as they
desire by proxy. as it were, their
words are assuredly gratifying. We
might almost be told to believe that
they meant what they were saying.
We shall see. We have represent
tative body of men now assembled (?)
at Dover.
The majority OF Delaware women
are IN favor OF an act providing free
educational advantages within their
State for their daughters as we'll as
their sons.
believe also that the majority OF
our legislators are convinced that the
plan is only fair and too-long DELAYED.
Many OF them are even enthusiastic
eally in favor OF the project
1t behooves this bodv of men to re-
member that Conviction, were il
never so excellent, is worthless till It
convert itself into conduct"