The Alaska daily empire., 1915-02-25
EDUCATION AND CAMP ERE CHRIS
Bv DR. IUTHER H. CULfCK

SAlglE EAL Jstsl-0 } FER H. cuLlc1 < to lind ont whether back of Che world E
 unrest with regard to the status ol women there Is a coherent group oi
 facts that could be used for coa l structre program, several things were ! Impressed upon us Those are the points that seem to us clear
 ! lD The first is an assumption, We say that on the vacations Of men call for certain fundamental elements oi character; that no matter whether a boy Is going to be Q commissioner oi education or a teller in bank or a contractor or physician or music teacher, hewill reed such quah,les gs courage. resolution and Che ability to make up his mird and 10 stick Co his purpose. And we believe that Che same activities that have developed these qualities in man all through the thousands of ages which man as been setting IS character orientatton are the means by which the caracter of map shall be developed We believe that the games and athletics of boyhood. which, relatively trivial as they are cal for these fundamental racial quali- ties, are avenues through which power comes that later on may be used in other directions; that the boy who has tho srit that win carry him through a running race to the finish is develop. ing Che kind of grit that win carry him through business; that the boy who stands loyaly by his chum and knows wat 1t Is to play for his team and not one whit for his own slory has in him the stuff of tho man who knows how to be loyal to his city and to .s cause. remembering not one whit his own glory.
 Now during all the ages. woman no less than man has had a distinct group of occupations. Tue activities of the home have been woman's con- cern-an those activities that center about the fire. the cooking and sery- ing of food and the social ceremonies connected with eating together. Those or us who conceive Of eating as a pro cess or nourishing the body arc for getting that 1t Is Q social art as well. that through it ties Of brotherhood are formed that are sometimes stronger than ties of blood Woman has been concerned with form and color; with the making of beautiful things. ot pot tery and of dress; w.th the decoration Of the person; with an that group ofi relationships that relate 10 tho child.
 f ! have correctly outlined the ae- tiYities that have been fundamental in the development of womanhood in the race, then [ have outlined those activities without which girls win ney-I CT become womenly women. To ex- 2eet Q g.rl to become womanly by play ing basketball and hockey is as fat uous as to expect a boy to acquire 3 self-conroned spine by cooking and sewing.
 do not want Co be misunderstood here. ] have no sympathy with those sho attempt to divide men and wo- men ino two separate caegories. Fun We are all alike; we are like in feeling pride and joy and sor- 'ow, Go being affected by success and allure in needing food and sleep. In n the respects in which we are hu. nan we arc alike But there Is a mailer group Of characteristics in mich woman differs from man and lan from woman. These differences, uch of them as are worth observing, ro recognized in the difference be ween the program for teaching girls , nd that for teaching boys.
 If, then. girls are to become woman E f they are to have th.s set Of -ained instinct feelings in regard to he domestic side of life, somehow it 1. lust be possible for them to pass trough the race history of woman, as ie boy in his games and athletics asses through the race history of ' ian.
 But. if we examine the home today ? e find that all the significant activi- 1 es have left it. It is no longer a ome in the historical sense of the il .rm. Historically. the home is the e -oup of relationships that exist be- e seen Q man and a woman, and man a
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