The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-13
DOMESTIC HELPS AND
 AIDS TO HOUSEWIVES
so. NORWALK PROUD OF MT. H0LY LYOKE'S
 WOMAN PRESIDENT.


 Many ancient theo1ogians. and not a few of later day, were rather in clined to doubt that women possess immortal souls. Eventually that ques- ton was decided in favor Of the fair sex. It was not until the last oen~ tury, however that the mass of mas outline mankind was forced to the re- luctant admission that women have minds as well ass souleg and shat they are capable of Feason. Id tas lGtte6i part of the eighteenth century a few scranks.'s like Thomas Paine, urged the education of girls in the aaane branches as boys. It was not uuEiI 1S2A in the United States, that the common schools were opened to both sexes on equal terms sand this recoSe milton of feminine rights was achisFee even later in Canada and Englsnd
 E7u the women were not Eatianed with instruction ln the "three Ee1n,r and began to demand somethfng more than the weak and diluted imitation of learning provided by the yo1nG la- dies mem1naries Of the period One Iof the first steps in the direction e eal higher education for women was tsEen in 1896, when Mary Lyon founded 1Et EIo1yoke Seminary at South ETaGdgy Mass. A dozen years before 1 Lyon had opened a. seminary at Lon donderry, N. H.s which marked sa4 opening Of a new educational epoch GpE her sex Later the 1ustitufiou Ee5 removed to Ipswich, Mass. and in i1231 Mt Holyoke Seminary was 1aM1GEaa. The chief pioneer in higher educaG3on of women in America died in 1e1o, at about the time when Matthew Va the Poughkeepsie brewer. wassplsraE szcs the college which was to perpefute his name and wh3oh was the stirst in- stitution in the world to offer VFuual the san1eacourses of study as ara gbg- trv4<S 1sr,--
 ndiss Lyon's successors as preslta1t of Mt HoIyokes now a 6uib-GedsI college for women, have incIudsd Bcxne Of the foremost educators Of the Gl1F sex in the world. Last but not least ig Miss Mary E1Tnraas tFVoolIey. who n1- gently discontinued the houaehold and domestic service work of the students at the college ana thus deprived 1GCuus Hoiyol1e of about its last peculiarly feminine Characteristic Miss Wool ley was born at south Norwa1l conn. ffty-one years ago today, July 16 1s6s and was tne daughter of q c1ery- man After graduating from BroE7n University she became an instructor and later professor and head e ths de- partment of Bible history and litera- called to the presidency of Mount Elol- yoke College in 1900.
 From her father, the Rev. Joseph lWoo1ley of Pawtucket R. l.. she in- heriteo a fondness for Bfble study (which has made her one of he fore most authorities on Holy Writ in America. st. PauPs advice as to the Limitations of feminihe activity has had little effect on Miss Woolley, however. for she is not only a firm believer in the higher education and advancement \ Of her sex, but she is also an ardent suhragfst and has exerted a strong. influence in behalf of that cause.
 Tn dropping domestfc service work flor Mount I4oIyoke stu 1dd7sis A 1Eiss Woolley declared that the hoasehold duties interfered seriously with the academic work and that it was not sescfentfdc management"
 ssIt is not for many yearRs 2 e1zD3-ill- ed Miss WooDey, that the studeuts have done the heavy work of tte ilouse They were not expected to so into tle | kitchen at all. .sss 9fFu1fn1 boon E l Mount Holyoke under 4f3sg CcI iEy direction has grown into an.sttSl lll- i ton with a faculty of a,hout uiuaty and with 800 students, and ig @uEpass- ed by very few colleges of its Afnd in America.