The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-07-31


jects OF to-day waste time In argument
or discussion az to the intellectual SUI
periority of the sexes. The proof OF a
girls ability to take as strong an, edu-
catioi as a boy has been demonstrate
ed. The points OF discussion to which
! shall limit myself in this paper are
the reasons that appear to be most
convincing for q college education for
girls. The emphasis in the title of this
pamphlet must be placed upon the first
and not upon the second word. ] shall
treat topically four principal reasons,
" girl goes TO college, she will not
be likely to marry before she is ply
sioally and mentally mature.
Ny reason for favoring college ed
ucation for girls on account of its re-
age Is due to recognition of the me-
cessity, first, Of physical and, secondly,
OF mental maturity for the girl before
she enters into matrimony. The coun-
,tenancing ny modern society OF the
marriage OF very young girls Is blot
upon our civilization. A father who
ould mock at the suggestion OF the
marriage OF his eighteen year old son
and hustle attendant upon the APP
preaching wedding of his eighteen
year-oid daughter A girl at eighteen
smiles beningly upon the preparation
to-day may be little woman and ir-
resistibiy attractive TO young men, but
physically her constitution is no bet
ter established than is her boy friends
OF the same age. She may have more
social ease than the boy OF the same
age but her judgments are no ripper.
She may not have to earn the family
livelihood. but she win have to be re-
sponaibIe for the way most OF her
husbands earnings are spent Girls
who contract marriage before full
adolescence. who perform the obliga-
lions OF motherhood. win fade at 25 or
80. viii be out OF touch with young life
at forty, and at nifty win, in most cases
be old women, unprogressive, timid in
the presence OF their adult children,
and with the feeling that the interests
Of life are not for them.
Our grandmothers married early.
Women In pioneer countries always
marry early. Grim hardships force the
young folks 10 swarm and to make
hives OF their own. Girls OF the farm
with few diversions and the daughters
Of the poor OF the cities oil marry ear
": and while emily marriages popu.
late the country more rapidly, IL liz
more desirable 20 improve the mental
and physical characteristics of peo-
pie than 10 multiply and inferior type
In order to maintain numerical
strength A French writer a visitor TO
this country about the time OF the
Revolution. said OF our women that at
sixteen they were charming, at twenty
i've they were withered hays. Too ear
~ marriage is sin. not only against
the next generation. but against the
individual ! efiof, the mother. The coll
lege girl has her mind diverted from
specific matrimonial plans. even while
her studnes In the scientific and prac-
teal sides OF home making and home
keeping prepare her better for t. The
well-springs OF sentiment are not dried
up, but her attitude toward marriage
becomes more serious, and the matter
OF fitting herself for the responsibili-
ties OF the relationship more a matter
OF deep concern. College women rarely
figure in divorce suits. II is the proud
boast OF more than one American coll
lege for women that no graduate OF.
these Institutions has ever been d.
vorced. The spirit OF the college favors
the physical development OF girls by
supplying athletic exercises suited TO
thier physical. life. Physical defects are
corrected. and the many activities OF
the, etudent body keep the minds OF the
girls from brooding over slight physical
disabilities. College women are rarely
netirasthenlc. the widely published
opinion OF those who would dissuade
girls from genuine college courses to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
A college education is form Of in
suranee against future dependence by
giving girl wide range Of oeeupa.
tionaI choice.
Back behind the heterogeneous jun
BILE of occupations that attract men and
women lies the great law OF necessity.
which forces humanity to work In or
der to satisfy humanity's ever increas-
ing wants. The power OF occupational
n'toNtiotiAi btttCtiOil rs ttiIIlObt u HeCeS-
sity to humanity's happiness in labor.
Thousands and millions of grooming.
struggling, suffering men and women
are unhappy in their work because
harsh necessity forces them to labor at
tasks. They are square
pegs In round holes. Occasionally a
fortuitous circumstance sweeps a child
of the poverty circumscribed classes
into surroundings favorable to the de-
velopment of talent and another child
OF the poor has his name added to the
catalogue OF earth's great ones. The
reason that so few names OF women APP
pear In the lists OF the great may be e%-
planned by the fact that until the last
century the higher education of wom-
en- received so little encouragement
Just how much richer in great thought
the world might have been had woman
In the past enjoyed equal educational
advantages with man may only be
surmlsed by what she has achieved in
bringing about reforms in education
In the professions, and In science since
her mental development has been re-
ceiving greater consideration Like the
children OF the poor the girl Of the past
who developed her gifts did SO because
of circumstances more fortuitous than
RHEIlM kTlSM ARRESTED