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December 122, 1001.
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I) ItM'll) Iiiih been iln progress of
l lie Hiiclal ami Intellectual levolu
Hull known n h I he higher, iiI' col
lege 1'ilin nl Inn of women, that It
liim, m to spenk, no pant, tin t rxlHtH
ciitlii'ly In Hip pri'Ki'iit t i me. ami 11 h future
ili'Vrlupiiiriii . mini' perhaps lliau that of any
other movement of the nineteenth eenttiry.
m.iy lie exiin teil to ereato tmow the heavens
ami tl mill of I lie twentieth century. In
ISIDi: fioin iih rcllgloiiH Hignlllcnncu ISTo. or Ihj'renbiiuts, the time hail come
the Christmas rcstlvul Ih Hid lead- throughout the clvllled worhl for women
mg eent of I lie ytur for all. Hi) lo lm cilurutcd, ami, In fmeeaHt thereof. In
origin ih Inst in aiilliUlty for the the Into rids ami early f.itH m I r 1 h begun to lie
modern ('hilHtmuH Is hut the burn with an Instinctive desire to go to rol-
ixiap urn of am lent custom lull Uh lege. I wiih one of those girls, anil I know
c low ih Iiiih been Hteaily uh Ihu develop- from talking w ith other women of my own
mint of the rate. Christians ghu Hi" 'hiy "'at Hi''11' ,'r'' lti !!! rtl like me. Al-
ihe lughcHl leveieiii'o because of the mi- though throughout my girlhood I had never
tivn of Ihu Savior, while the pagutiH celo- known a woman who lnnl none I Ilege nor
lirateil the hiiIhiii l.ui Iimhi for divers mmhuim neen anyone who hail seen a woman who hail
ami gave It various nanus. All these many .one to college, I well reincnilrT that
eleliratioiiH, could Ihey lie nrcillutely from the time I im HI years oM I ilreameil
na. nl, woiihl iloiililli'HH he founil to eon- of college liy tiny ami night until my par-
irgc in the ilarkneHH of aiitliiilty arouml mum ylelileil, uh everything tuiiHt yield to
Mime niipulHi. Inn u of superstition and a such a IiiiikIuk. ami took me to the entrance
link uf understanding of ihu nslionomlciil exanilnatluiiH of Cornell university, thom-
phet una. Al all cU'lilH, the HeilHOIl of solvoH seeing then for the llrst time college
the uar Iiiih among all rnccH heeii olio fur women. It Is no marvel that In every rouu-
r.jnliliig ami merrymaking. Christianity try the harriers of custom and prejudice
him softened many of Uh fealuteH ami Iiiih Kuve way hefure the InimeiiHlty of the de
the song of the sire or women mini to mo to renege.
f
given It new oiicb, and
utigils. "1'iaie on earth, guud will toward
men. IIihIh how Uh highest and heat In
tel pi elation. It Is a Hi'amili uf guod fellow
tihip (me year Ih dying Mid most of uh feel
that with It we are willing to let our anl
That the I'nlteil States Ih today far In ad
vance of all other countries In the number
nf women obtaining a college cilucatloii Is
due, It seems to me, lo two facts- Klrst, to
our national system of edticat luttnl public
u i i ii.k .ii., uiil, ii. 1 1,,.. w HchoolH. which had been III opciatlon since
enter on the new ear at peace with ''"' ''"" '" "
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inr fellow men, with only kindly feeling muugni. ... mm- . .,,, ...... .....
for them and enjoying ll.e genial luwaid bo prepare, for college In the same classes
Mlow that is bo.n of this c Iltlon, while li..r brothers as hooi, as there we e
o.Iuih feel lowa.d uh the same. Out of this tr then, to go o; and bccoii.1. to
. una theghingufgifw, r.gi- ' " f"n"
.. i i... ... i,,. opened to women, there were
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all the beauties uf the HeiiHon,
thoiiKb. Ih the mcllowucHH that cuiiich
in Hie heart of mankind iiIuiik with the ulher
lllll) IIHHOI'llltlOIIH, iiiovIuk to iliedH of niiiiil
win. Ii Hlilne the blighter In the IlKllt of the
ia Men ami women wIiomo dally round Ih
bald. wIioho llM'B aie busy ami fully oc
(iiplcd with other IIiIiikh, nl tlilo tcaHim feel
i lie iinpetuH and for the time al least for
m t heir and tiy to mako iiiIicih feel hapiy,
if only for a day. This Ih the truu OhrlH-
lee found Instant employment. It Ih the
Komi fortune of Ameilrau women that, un
like women In other counirlcH. they did not
have to IickIh their college education by
erealliiK, slowly and painfully and without
Hlate iiHslHtance. coIIcko preparatory IiIkIi
Hohools.
Amerleii In Ilie l.enil.
In consciiueiue of these pro-exlstliu;
conditions, and also of (he Hympaineuc
-m
III!
m ( mn Tiini ii.i.mi i.ni uu n mwu
KIISIT I'll- ii I "pwnhi II I her Knuiii n
t i ii ii Hplrlt, for It Ih the fruition of that ..a., f American men toward their
llrst of ChilslnniH carolH, "Peace on earth, Wlm, (aI, attitude which Ih In all prob-
Kood will toward men."
l'Treiueu have other UiIiikh to do bcHldes
puttlliK out the lire when a hillldliiK Ih at
tucked by llamcH. Should the Una he hut
partial the tliemen have to devote some
time to cleatllUK up the lillllillnn, removlllK
the debrlH and KettliiK tlilnn In a cunill
tlou of Hiifely before leaving. If the 1i.h Ih
total practically similar couiIUIoiih prevail,
for the tlremeu iiiust hi III have every thing
safe before IciinIiik. Sometimes this en
tails u lai'Ko amount of really daiiKerous
work. One lire In Omaha recently left walls
HtandliiK In Mich condition as to be a
menace to public Hafely. It wiih necessary
fur the lliemeu to pull down the totteritiK
remaliiH of the building In order that no
danger might threaten trallle in that neigh
borhood. One of the plcturcn In thin num
ber kIiows the men engaged at this work.
the Heveral hoards of
ability duo also to these same conditions)
college women In America oiiliiumber by
many Ihouiands those of other countries
I'rance and (iermany It Is probable that them ami cause htm to desert or malt re it
women are lit t oil In a peculiar manner to wife and family'' ono by one college
lecomo the teachers of the race. The col- women have patiently and successfully met
ii, . I in llitglaiid In iviii. it w.is proved from
. ,i re ii I investigation ol t'le ueaiin 01 1..11
college women that In marriage, chlld-
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above, not below, the aveiage standard of
women. In the June number of the maga
zine of the American Statistical association
fur lvio there were published tlie results
i,f alio her Investigation, covering 3IS college
bre I married wont n and :!I:! non-college
In . d married sisters ami cousins, and In
pin; there will appear the r. suits of still
another Investigation, com ting col
lege women. 1.IS7 non-college slsti rs nml
I.u7:i college brothers. These four Investi
gations, conducted llnlepi mleiitly of each
oilier, contain absolutely coin lm lug proof
of the g I results of Intelb i tunl work for
women. There Is not a shadow of evidence
to prove that a colleg lm atlon works
anything but physical good to the college
unman or Impairs In any way her functional
life. They seem also to prove that only
about .".ii per cent of the classes from which
t lie majority of college women come marry,
whether they have or have not been to col
lege, but this is not Hie fault of college
woimn. College women, like other women,
are dependent on men for marriage and the
ollege presidents who enjoin upon uh lo
teach women womanly virtues and educate
t hem to become wives and mothers should
legln by educating their own college men to
become husbands. And how can women be
educated In peculiar womanly virtues unless
we educate them In so-rallrd feminine de
fects? Justice, righteousness, truth. love of
knowledge, sympathy, reasonableness are
both womanly and manly virtues nml happy
are our men's or women's colleges If they
teach some tiny fraction of them.
Mciiilll) liiilnliiu on Men.
How can women be educated primal ily 10
be wives and mothers? I do not know. 1
have never met a woman that did know. I
have asked many devoted wives and unit li -era,
who have laughed at tho preposterous
ilea. What teiillies the perficHon of all
our human powers can scareelv be taught
to women In high scIiohIh or in colleges by
nil" of thumb. The college wiiim n of the
future will be im numerous, and piobably
mure numerous, than college men In col
leges and universities. Women are now
iteaillly gaining on nun, in the college de
partments of some co-educr.tlotial universi
ties, like Chicago, they are already in the
majority. If wo may Judge fioin the con
tinuous Increase of women teachers In the
ichools for the past thirty years, the coh
lege women of tho future will have nlmrtol
all the elementary and secondary teaching
uf the country In their hands and they will
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taken together. Accord ng to the last " " .. n - .- . compete with men tor prorctooi snips in
"ill d S a el educational .eport there were professions ns well as teaching; ns II- college education Insulllclenl phyHlcal universities. When this Is tl...
, he ye. S . udylng In the United frnrliiim college women nl.eady outnumber health, Inferior scholarly endowment, iude- ,
S nl. " i he i d. graduate departments "... corum of conduct in co-odecatlcna colleges tluMI1M0,VCH ,0
5BMi co-Cucatlona. Sieges. wmnen. A r.. -.M. aUk'a.loo ' ' '-'"...-nam. original ...vest.-
a n.i.i.'ii.'H til... it in nttiit. ... ...v ....... ... i,a .tfii.i.i. i.u . iittr.. .'. i-. ii.iw w.ii.i.'.i hiiiit. tm 1.1111
actresses, and poem, and novelists. In ad
dition to teaching nml library work, as nt
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Ill eleven iiniein-uu. ... r, lil.,, I
i Tin. ,..,il I., nillll.iie.l women's col- rlage of college women. Will college life Mini.
leucs I o.M'i women, a total of 21.S01 women make women disinclined to marry? Do as ,.n,.K,. ,,., vtucher-.
now In college, women forming about 27.1 many college women as other women present, the college woman of the future
'. , , al college students. In the marry? IK. they wish for children? Will Kveii Mr. "wol . n o N v ember hav(i fminil wirtnn nml
mid
y ar there weri studying It. colleges they consent to bear them? Will they be r m me o, u c ,,, vMr suited to her. In which she
.mlversll.es In drent llrl.a.n 3.550 able to bear them? ; 1 1. be able o of h s a C a rlalk. h h to lo Ntn, ,f t 1)CUor. lhnI1 meu
I venture to predict that architecture ami
medicine will be two of these. Certain ill
v.slons of business, Mich as accounts, and
. liemlcal and electrical analysis, now be-
s in i, i... i ,...,,.,. i,.. ,,,. i,ra,- win with the Impossibility, undeslrabillty ami
?oS .".S'lrorn American colleges wives and unloving mothers? No a thou- -;- bo educa ed o o
Tl... Ilnlte.l S ates couimis- saiiii nines, im; . in- .. - v . '
-im nr of education Estimates that there .iiiesllons shows our lack of perspective, that only about ono out of three, or four, or
? r h. ,0 U l ed States . Who would be foolish enough to suggest live, educated or co-educatc.l women marry.
; ol leg "cry XW,moLa. Uua tour yarn of normal college life could and of these ns few been, others or. It
V... 1...... .'L i,, ,,,,,,1,,, these 323 so profoundly alter the natural Instincts of they do, survive the cans ami duties of
.min.K .... " ... -. ,l,ers. these
adjustment of the union raclllc employes ' ' - " a college man as to bat den
e.i'i i,vuv,vu
323 so profoundly
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nave neiu uicir hchsiuii hi .iiiiiiuh, k k " ..." ...... .....i,i i ,..., nHt marrlaue dtnrlve turn
over schcduleH nml arranging with the lug wnai " '. , " " " ,nr hll(!rn r of power
of the company conditions of work mougni ami op........ m. ... "
The llee has heretofore printed i" i,uprcssu.,i iimnc .. ...
tlremeu. eondiictoiH woman tnai we seem ... .... " "
otllcers
and pay
the plcturen
nt I 11.
and brakemen. This week the englnecrh I'crspe.-uve , '"; ' '
are ghen. The bright, keen, alert faces '''''" '"" ''"'" ' " '' 1 ro'
will give a good notion of the class of men Muns.erberg forgets that e have to do
who have engaged In this dangerous calling. .ly thirty years of c, II. ge ed . ou
, i , .Lwrii.t..., infecting only at, Inllnlteslmal fraction of
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coining so important, will tend to fall Into
her hands, as typewriting and telegraphy
have already become the professions of
Ins heart tna'ernitj Hut cold statistics, begging Mr.
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dtprlve him of tender liowells parlnn seem to me to prove just -
beget the recrse in lsvj .11 i. 1 niteu blates. Tho collc(, wnmon tho future will not
only bo self-supporting, but they will be
married to college men as generally ns
to
all women, when he says. In the Juno num
ber of the International Monthly, that
"neither co-education nor the equality of
opportunity has done anything to eliminate
those characteristics of the female mind
which are well known the world oer "
ileulllilixt mill tn.t llen-..i..nlile.
Hut. whatever may be thought of the uti
me
the life of the locomotive engineer, but all
i.u, give no more than a faint notion of his
dally existence. It Is Impossible to re
produce In tpe the conditions that sur
r. uml him In the cab -ihe hiss of is team,
the rattle of the rails, the roar of the ex
haust, tie billows of smoke, the swirl of
the rushing air, the eternal, nlinost In
1 1 ..im... nt ih.. riiltt. im thev miliar-
1.. mil. ..nil Ki.,....l of liclittiliie back reasonableness of women In gmeral.
under the monster engine- none of these college woman Is at least the most reason
Hangs can bo set down. They are the nhle and logical of all women. Ju
background of the engineer's life. Ills pic- wh.ucver we may think of the 1 e. It ho
tore is a lime ear.l. a watch. .1 valve to the women In general, she Is at least the
.ontrol the steam, one to control the air tnoH healthy of all women. In each sur
and an eye on the track ahead. Ills terror cesslvo year girls are ent. r.ng college tin re
1H the el ck that tells of loose bolt or pin. athletic and In better physical
the Jar that betokens 11 stuck wedge, the .ach year at Hryn Mawr the students ea
odor of the "hot box." the feale that clogs more pounds of beef and mui on per head
Uh injector a lot of things the public than It, the previous ear This Improve.
..ois not of. but which bother engine drlv physical condition of women coincides In
era
ordei
set
sible
the clear head, tie ijuick eye, ine . ' --- ... . , .. ,.
. . ' .... ... ti,.u i the successful a teacher that Mie Is swlftb
S r, U s' t..; hlh. . driving untrained women teachers out of
or h s clasH. To be chosen by these .net. as the private and public secondary schools
,rese tlves of their uuUerhU Interests and will soon begin to drive hem , im
,s in, mean dlsUm'.len In the picture the elementary schooH; she U a Uo dm ng
shown this week ate C. W. Vroomati. men from the schools. It In eas to sa
ri.r'. for Ih, lHrd. -Huston SS; Wll- .hit this is because her ; , alary
Ham Holkenberger. vice chairman, division not because she Is rj better teacher, but if
ixa C 'V Trnc. ;ceret.,ry division H this Is tho explanation, why Is the h ghe
S Quick, division Si, A Johnson, division priced college woman replacing the lower
S3 Thomas O.Uler division 11; C. M. priced untrained woman In the schools
laker . slot, 397 A Konald. diWslon The same increase in the umber 0 women
03 U. tobertson. division Hi. John Mc- teachers as compared w uh men U f.m d n
J a ion. division 14, K8la ud Scotland and ha besun Id
more than misplaced switches or wrong ttn.o iui .1 ,.,.......,. . ' --"
rs. lie Is suppoied to control the one ondary and higher education ami is. I be
of troubles, the others He Is .ml re,po- "-. 1 '
for. It s these l i ngs tnai can mr ......h.- - -
. . . . . .. ..... ,,. ..nini.,.it nf nl women, she makes so
I'K KINO OLT THK CHRISTMAS TUHKKY I'hoto by a Start Artist
working women and women of the wealthy
.lasses are now married to men in th
h.uue ciieumslances ns themselves. I'or the
woman who Is able to stand shoulder to
-houliler with the man she lines In the
support of the family there will bo 100 per
cut and no longer DO per cent of mar
riages. Pho will li'de-.d be the only woman
he man of moderate Income can afford to
marry. And tho college woman with In
herited wenlth will be nblo to use her
wealth more wisely than now, for In the
future all women i-f the lelsuro classes will
go to college, like their btothcrs, as a
11,11111 of course, and this tendency Is even
now clearly marked. Two-tjilrds of the
women now at Hryn Mawr havo 110 expecta
tion of supporting themselves. 'Ihe college
women of tho future will sit oil boards of
edui.it ion and boards of charity In as large
numbers as men and they will assume their
full share of responsibility In the direc
tion of municipal and national affairs. No
one who watches the shadows of coming
1 venlfi rati doubt this. Hut It is the chil
dren of tho college women and college men
of the Immcillato future that are to nulld
anew the hoavens and earth of the twen
tieth century. Iir the last half of the
nineteenth century the American men or
the poorer classes and they alone ,11 the
educated as their fathers In our co-educa
uoniu primary ami seconuary iiign scnoois.
which do not exist In any other country In
the world, and to this, more than to any
other factor, Is due, It siems to me, the
phenomenal enterprise nml s,ucrs in cum
mer. 0 of the American, people. In the twen
tieth century the mothers of our wealthy,
professional and middle clnsses will
bo as well eduiated as the fathers and we
may then expect a like succss In spiritual
and Intellectual things.
M. CAUEV THOMAS.
