The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-12

'heir eiieisles toWafd the development
OF q course of education which shall
be distinctly felri.. inc In rs scope.
In their desire to prove their INTEL
lectual equality, and in proving this,
women have accomplished a distinctly
credltable attainment, a few women
have seemed to lose sigh. OF the great
feminine obligation and responsibility
which never can come to men, the
production and care of the children of
the world. Modern education is en-
phasizing this responsibility as essen
tial in the education of every girl, and
m educators are working to in
crease its general recognition. Mrs.
Ella F1agg Young, superintendent of
Chicago schools, contends that even in
the elementary schools a distinction
should be made between the education
of girls and boys because so large a
proportion of the pupils never reach
the higher schools. Consequently, ever
in the lower grades of that city the
girls are being taught some of the
fundamental principles of home build
ing. This will not lessen their aptitude
for any calling which they may adopt,
but it will prevent their going into
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their lives with absolutely no prepa-
ration for the duties of wifehood and
motherhood. 1t also will serve to give
to the girl of foreign birth at least
the beginning Of the requirements OF
the modern American home which diff
fer greatly from those of her own
land, and. therefore. would come out
side of the range of any domestic in
struction her mother might give. In
New York the Little Mothers school"
has become a recognized part of the
educational system of the city and
the special education for girls began
there can be continued through the
college year if so desired.
The rating of q college woman for
the course in which she desires to
qualify will not be discredited because
she substitutes a course in FOOD values
for Greek verbs Or child hygiene for
calculus, unless she is specializing in a
line of work in which these two SUBJ
jects are essential. Now it is possible
for a woman to take a degree as doc
tor of philosophy by research work
upon some subject which may be of
practical value in the development OF
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Day, a member of the faculty of the
University of Wisconsin,, achieved her
doctorate from the University of Chi
cage with an investigation into "The
Effect of Cooking Upon the Digesti-
bility of Starch" Other women re-
Gently have taken doctors degrees by
research work upon such subjects as
"A Precise Method of Roasting Beef"
.''Dietic Cults Pure Food Laws"
THE Possibilities and Economical
Value of Cooperative Housekeeping"
and others similarly practical in their
scope. Modern educators have come
to realize that quite as high INTEL
lectual development is required to
conduct research upon these subjects
as THE Religious Habits of the Phoe- !
nicians' or THE Evolution of Gov
eminent Among, the Ancient Cave
DWellers.' The modern woman has not
risen as yet above the old existing
standards but she is advancing each
year.
The complaint was made regarding
the earlier standards of education of
women that they paid no attention to
her physical development and h no
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a system of athletics in which many
girls attempted to do the same athletic
work as their brothers. 1T is now de-
velOping hat this exercise may be
wrongly directed and involve a physi-
cal strain which frequently is more
harmful than no exercise at all. The
physical education of a woman must
differ essentially from that given to
men. Boat racing, basket ball, lifting,
running and other work must be UNI
dertaken only in proportion to the
physical strength of the girl and with
out reference to hat which is accom-
plished by her brother in his gymna-
SUM. In most of the larger institu-
lions the d~esiraDility of having the
physical education Of girls under the
direction of a qualified woman physi-
clan is admitted.
More than half a million women
teachers are employed in the public
schools of the country, which is about
four times the number of men teach
ers. In the private schools as. we'll
as in the higher institutions, women