The Commoner.
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The Education of Women.
. Clark University at Worcester has a
hummer .school, before which, on July
25, President G. Stanley Hall made an
Interesting discourse about the educa
tion of woman. Dr. Hall is in the busi
ness of education, and believes In It
thoroughly. Ho believes heartily in
educating girls, but has his doubts, as
.many others have, whether the sort of
education which is now lavished on
American girls is doing them good,
nnd benefiting 'the race and the na
tion. H6 Is not sure that it is tho
right sort of education for girls; nor
must any one blame him for his mis
givings, for tho education of women
on modern lines is still in the experi
mental stage, and many, even of those
who work hardest at it, are not sure
yet whether they are doing good or
harm.
Dr. Hall especially concerns him
self about the education that girls get
in colleges. He has studied statistics
in the effort to find out about the
health of the college women, and what
percentage of them marry; and though
the statistics ho quoted are not con
clusive nor especially convincing as far
as .they go they make somewhat for
disquietude. Dr. Hall himself did not
seem to trust them, but the gist of the
figures ho quoted was that less than
half of the college womon had good
health; that less than a third of them
married; that those who married mar
ried late and had too few children,
and- of those few lost far too many in
infancy. Statistics, or observation, or
something had led him to conclude
that ..the current higher education was
of little use in training mothers.
"Woman's colleges," he said,-"have
done little or nothing for the proper
education of. women. While I sym
pathize with the claims of women, and
yield to no one in admiration of their
work in the colleges, it looks as if the
colleges were training for indepen
dence and support and celibacy moth
' erhood to, take care of itself."
He doesn't believe in that. Book
ishness, he says, is a bad sign in a
girl.
motherhood. Coeducation should
cease at dawn of adolescence. The
present civilization is harder on
woman, who is less adapted to tho
world, than - on men. Wo must also
recognize that riches are harder on her
than poverty." Such things ho as
serts, and goes on to give his ideas
about what a college for girls ought to
be; how its first aim should be health;
how it should bo a place of cottago
homes, not too far from a city, with
pets, gardening, plenty of out-door ex
ercise, and plenty of time for it; a
place where "regularity should be ex
erclsod, idleness cultivated, and rev-
ery provided for In every way." And
he would have the students learn relig
ion, rudimentary mathematics and
physics, a little chemistry, and a good
deal of botany, but would take care
not to have them oppressed by books.
Think of a college president writing
such a prescription as that! After all,
though, it has been related that Presi
dent Eliot once wanted to know why a
woman who could have a musical edu
cation should want any other, kind.
Men whose estimate of women Is based
on other facts than what the said
women may have learned out of books
in their girlhoo'd, seem not always to
be less wise than other men, nor are
tho women whom tbey admire apt to
bo inferior women. E. S. Martin, in
Harper's Weeklyt
Sonnet.
When from tho vaulted wonder of the
sky
The curtain of the light is drawn
aside,
And I behold the stars in all their
wide
Significance and glorious mystery,
Assured that those more distant orbs
are suns
Hound which Innumerable worlds"
revolve,
My faith grows strong, my day-born
doubts dissolve,
And death, that dread annulment
which life shuns,
Or fain would shun, becomes to life
the way,
The thoroughfare to greater worlds
on high,
The bridge from star to star. Seek
.how we may, ' -There
Is no other road across the,
sky;
And, looking up, I hear star-voices
say:
"You could not reach us if you did
not die."
Henry Abbey.
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The Cost of Britain's War.
Tho London Statist, a sound and
conservative journal of finance and
economics, has calculated the cost of
another year's warfare at the pres
ent rate of expenditure at $390,000,000.
There Is nothing in present conditions
that presages an eany conclusion of
tho conflict. The Boers, having all to
lose and absolutely nothing to gain
by a cessation of hostilities, inspired
by a deadly bate and endowed with a
bull, dog tenacity, seem determined to
fight to tho last extremity. Such be
ing' true It would require far greater
ability than the English army has
yet displayed to force the end. In fact
it would seem from their attitude that
the most sanguine of the war states
men do not permit themselves to
hope for a speedy conclusion.
This conclusion is creating deep un
easiness in ministerial circles. Tho
common people will rebel against a
further imposition of war taxation.
The wealthy, who havo contributed
thoir full share through the income
tax, will hardly consent to an increased
burden. 'And so the war continues,
tho debt Increases, and tho question
of ways and. means becomes darker
and more portentious to those, who
aro pre&umcd to sclve the problem.
To tho American imperialist who
would plunge the country into similar
difficulties, tho predicament of tho
English should bo an object lesson.
Wo havo no income tax to fall back
upon, thanlcs to tho supremo court de
cision, and the common people would
havo to bear the burden of tho Imper
ialistic career. England is no excep
tional case. Italy and Spain attest as
much. "The wages of sin Is death."
Indianapolis Sentinel.
Desirability of Cheapening Useful
Books.
With tho exception of novels, the
English speaking race is for the most
part without cheap books, a recent
British writer, Mr. William Laird
Clowes, points out. We havo a few
cheay reprints of classics, such as
Cassell's Library edited by Prof. Hen
ry Morley; but all or nearly all of
these, if not Bowdlerized, aro at least
"Cassellized" or abbreviated to meet
special exigencies of sizes or paging;
and, moreover, in the case, at least of
the British editions, they are without
Index or notes. Still more do we lack
cheap editions of useful books books
of reference such as encyclopedias and
dictionaries. Why is this? asks Mr.
Clowes (in the Portnightly Review,
July) and he answers:
"It Is, I think, because we are not
yet a great reading nation, except of
novels. We produce and cosume more
novels than any other people has an
appetite for. There aro certainly three
times as many English reading people
as there are German reading people
in the world, yet Germany publishes
annually many more books on edu
cation, art and science, law, theology,
medicine, and travel than Great Brlt
ian produces; and Prance is a long way
ahead of England in the number of
her new books on historical subjects.
On the other hand England is a long
way ahead of any other country in
ner annual production of new novels;
although as tegards the total annual
production of books of all kinds, Great
Britlan ranks only third among the
nations, being exceeded by Italy, as
well as by Prance and Germany; nor,
indeed, does the entire production of
the whole English-speaking world,
including tho United States and the
British dependencies, equal more than
about two-thirds that of Germany.
"We are not yet a great reading na
tion, but we are on the point of becom
ing one. The Elementary Education
Act dates from 1870. The effect of
that measure was to call into being,
after the lapse of about fifteen years,
the large class of por-wical literature
of which Tid-BIts and Answers are
the best known examples; and, after,
a further lapse of about ton years, to
create the half penny morning news
paper. TId-Bits and tho Daily Mail,
aro signs of the times which cannot be
misinterpreted. Tho people who, fif
teen years ago, wanted Tid-BIts, and
who, five years ago, demanded the
Daily Mail, aro now upon tho
point of clamoring for cheap
good books; not merely tho
cheap books of Mr. Dicks and Messrs.
Cassell, but cheap books of the best
and most useful classes in every
branch of literature, using that word
In its very widest sonso. They will
no longer bo satisfied with tid-bits and
snippets, even though the snippets be
reprinted in transatlantic spelling,
bound up into twenty volumes in full
morocco at sixteen and a half guineas
and labeled 'The Library of Famous
Literature.' Why, as I will demons
trate oro I havo dono, tho people may
have, if they only want them, not
twenty volumes of snippets and clip
pings, but two hundred and fifty or
more entire standard works, un-Cas-sellized,
un-Bowdlerized, indexed and
serviceably bound at a cost less than
that asked for the much advertised
patchwork which has been dry nursed
in England by tho excellent journal
personified in some of Tenniel's ear
lier cartoons as Mrs. Gamp.
"Tho extraordinary success of tho
scheme whereby people were induced
by tens of thousands to purchase a
reprint of the last edition of 'The En
cyclopedia Britannica,' which was of
fered to them on the instalment plan
is another portent. ... I believe
that, astonishing though the sales
have been, they convey no idea of tho
much more "astonishing hordes of men
and women who are waiting to respond
to an. offer of really good and cheap
books on all kinds of subjects which,
at present, they can become acquaint
ed with only at considerable cost A
few cheap books will not meet the
craving. There must be hundreds;
and they must be on every variety of
topic. What I desire to see in evry book
shop in the English speaking world is
a series of shelves from which, no
matter what his tastes may be, the
prowling student can carry away the
best books of the universe not "the
hundred best books," but all the best
books save a few of the most recent
at a cost per volume not much more
KNOWLEDGE OF FOOD.
Proper Selection of Great Imporfanco in
.Summer.
The feeding of infants is a very
serious proposition, as all mothers
know. Food must be used that will
easily digest, or the undigested parts
will be thrown into the intestines and
cause sickness.
It is important to know that a food
can be obtained that is always safe;
that is Grape-Nuts.
A mother writes: "My baby took
tho first premium at a baby show on
tho 8th inst, and is in every way a
prize baby. I havo fed him on Grape
Nuts since he was five months old. I
also use your Postum Food Coffee for
myself." Mrs. L. F. Fishback, Alvin,
Tex.
Grape-Nuts food is not made solely
for a baby food by any means, but is
manufactured for all human beings
who have trifling, or serious, difficul
ties in the stomach and bowels.
One especial point of value is that
tho food is predigested in the process
of manufacture, not by any drugs or
chemicals whatsoever, but simply by
tho action of heat, moisture, and time,
which permits the diastase to grow,
and change the starch into grape-sugar.
This presents food to" the sys
tem for immediate assimilation.
Its especial value as a food, be
yond tho fact that it is easily digested,
is that it supplies the needed elements
to quickly rebuild the cells in the
brain and nervo centers throughout
j the body.
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