The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-07-31
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All BtuueHtb OF curTeHt cNcnto fcdi-
ize the large place woman fills In in
dustry. To the woman with meager
education there Is practically no open
ing save the work of the factory shop,
farm, or domestic service. The high
school graduate has rather greater
latotude, In that she may seek en-
ployment in certain forms Of office
work in teaching Casually OF an ele-'
mentary order), or In some semi in
dustrial art. The college, trained girl
may choose from the field Of industry,
bringing to bear upon her work SUI
perior judgment and greater chance
for success, or she may elect to enter
any of the professions, the arts, or the
sciences, or she may do as her less
we'll educated sisters will undoubtedly
do much earlier in life---marry. And
here, again, her chances for success
are better All OF the strong women's
colleges are affording their students
special opportunity for pursuing thor
ough courses In home economies. Col
lege women make good housekeepers.
They know from scientific study what
constitutes n good meal, how babies
should be clothed and fed, and they are
knowledge. Necessity need not drive
the college girl into an uncongenial oc-
cupation. nor does she have to marry
TO escape the heart-rending toll of the
industrial worker. She can calmly con-
slider where she will cast her life. and
fter the decision Is reached she has the
same freedom in working out her own
success. Women should have the lib
erty of choosing their own occupations
even more than men. because OF the
necessity for their physical protection.
There are too many girls behind coun-
tiers during the long hours OF depart
ment store trade; too many sewing ma
chimes running in poorly ventilated
city sweatshops: too many overtaxed
farmers wives and daughters; too many
unprotected girls filling positions in
homes as domestic servants, no one
caring for their bodies or for their
souls. For the sake OF motherhood and
the little ones to be born II might be
much better for us to have more WON
en- physicians. architects, lawyers. coll
lege professors. artists, Journalists, and
musicians. The college 10 ths friend
lest road that leads to these great
goals.
A college education makes a woman
mistress OF herself by training her In
self-eontrol. II lifts her above those
petty frivoIities commonly considered
a mark Of femininity.
Modern education outside OF college
rarely tends to teach girls self control.
Feeling and emotion are stressed more
than reason. The social life entered in
to by young girls OF high school age is
not calculated to calm the pulses OF ex-
citable youth. The vanity OF parents
seeks qualification In the excessive
adornment OF their young daughters.
The love OF dress is sometimes a pas
sion even with very young girls. The
speech of the young girls of today be-
trays their excitable temperament.
Their sentences are overloaded with
and their descriptions abound
In hyperbole. Emotionally excited girls
arc easy 10 lose poise; temper flashes
and reason cannot do its work until af-
ter the emotion Is spent.
The college girl. taught to respect
the sacredness OF scientific fact, to think
In logical sequence. TO admire intellect,
and to appreciate true values, exercis-
es better control upon her temper, loses
the dominating love OF dress which
swayed her in her high school days,
and by association with thinking wom-
an. Almost all college girls include
matrimony in their plans for their fu-
ture lives but they are not so easily
swayed by the opinion or admiration
of the opposite sex. The college girl Is
nearly always highly social is more
amiable toward the minor faults OF
people, and worries less over trivial-
ties. In this last respect she differs
from almost every other class Of her
the fellowship OF her. own kind, and Is
sex. The college trained girl enjoys
almost boyishly loyal to her friends
her class, or her sorority.
A college education makes a girl
more conscientious az to the DISPOSE
tion she shall make Of her life. II de-
velops her sense Of personal response
bility.
The greatest obligation upon an in
dividual is not to the work she may
elect to perform In life. There is moth
ing great in any work per Sc; work is
great only In its reflex action oni indi-
vidual character. In the right type Of
college the girl is taught to answer the
proposition, not so much as to what
she will do with the work assigned or
elected by her. but what will this
elected or assigned work do with me?"
She faces the proposition of life in the
same fashion; and II the ideals OF the
college in which she is studying are on
a par with those which have typed the
American college girl for US, she will
dream dreams and see visions" Hence
we find our strongest settlement work
ers most successful reformers, and our
most Generated missionaries coming
from our colleges. The atmosphere of
the true woman's college 10 hospitable
to the entertainment Of the noblest con.
captions and the most unselfish enthu-
siasms. While the college girl loses
none of the spiritual exaltation of great
she is fred by a hui
recognition OF the claims
of the motherless. We find the college
girl studying the child labor laws the