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Show THE PAYSONlAN, PaYSON, UTAH, DECEMBER 16, 1921 Standard of Womanhood Raised by Modem Girl ! i Bj WILLia STEELL icier, to anu some ox incur to an .uiiiy laiuka. xuni you see now ui I have easy it is for a loicigucr to vinnuiiua&iug uigrec. laut it about tiiue that some ono icll Xio ciuDuiraowneut u, Vanaua, her!" , should into up and tuil tho real facta wiieio the ioung women attend lee it is the fault of my countryabout our Auioxicau gxrht! Not tliat lures and ciuanca and tieat Uie men men, said he, tu he satisfied wfieu tluuood any dofcuco iu tho opinion at the head ex these witli utter im- ifiey have learned -- ,uuu or a,uuu xuug-nsThis is my huul judg words. To be able to talk of ihvir sweutlioaitb, iutkuis or evou personality. whim some fulfil their material und it meat, and surprise colloquially inuy inthe tailor arc bioUiuin, although ox my European colleagues Uiey nave wants by meauis of an iauuequuto voclined to be entieui by tie iircaule. only to put tho mutter to a personal cabulary is not enough. it keeps The giria liiunraclvca iiuvo maintain- icsi to accept it. u burner between tho races that I Eor it must he considered that i am eager to pull down. ed a dignified silcnto, poiuutting tho auur luoua to uau up Lueulh decrying the relations of teacher and pupil Heat ns Great Lesson tbo independence of tbo modem gen- differ widely m this country irom italy from th Results of the Wax. timse iu prevailing Italy or anyeration, tbo way they dioaa, now where on the European continent. Italy has at last recognized that limy dance, tbeir indulgence now anu tbou m a cigarette, tborr bobbed They are here au much freer und tho three millions of her people who uucouveutional that a narrow Euro- are in the United States and Canbair, and, to crown ail, tbeir lack of respect, much loan ot veneration, pean mind could nut understand them, ada are premauieutly lost to her. It aud would in consequence be liable took tho for an eider generation. great war to teach her that these emigrants of hers were no In tbe complete assurance that to pitiable mistakes. is necessary here in America It 1 aueb crimes are episodical longer Italians but Americans.. merely and aie committed only iu sporadic to make a quite new study of the think this is as it should bo and An open, sen- that it will outer with other women bavo psychology of woinun. inatuucea, tbe young things sitive not long into a better miud is, however, shown wisdom by laughing at nil the rapprochement between iu these understanding young women, the two countries. But these Ital diatribes and leaving tbeir fair fame ; he comes to admiro their iau Americans can become to be cleared by tune. Tbe girls aud soon still bethavent been crushed by the criticul freedom from cant, their simple ter Americans by getting a deeper of the facts of life aud field on the English lauiguage. avalanche, and even if they were recognition their independent judgment of these let me say that it is would rise again. Incidoutlly they 1 am, iu truth, a sincere a grief to me to know that uot a A visit to the different womens facts. admirer of tho American girL single girl of Italian parentage is colleges is all that is necessary to Simplifying ones self by getting enrolled as a student at Vassar. 1 convince one that our girls of this rid of notions that are more or less deplore their absence, which isnt generation have not, and will not, our lower tbe standard of wonieuhood. ingrained in us, a European professor duo to luck of money, for all uudor-stuulike myself soon learns to Italians over here are savers of monVasear, Smith, liryn mawr, Wellesley, and appreciate the serious, ey and they are generally prosperous. Mount Holyoke, are filed this year uuconventiun&l student we meet here as they have always been since their As there is so large a showing us a rule. s . a of foundation with young women healit is wisdom of and in serious In to state in brain, body thy recognize the fact and make Restricted Solely to Classes tbeir outlook on life, inspired by In The foreign Universities them even better Americans than high ideals, but gay aud representathey now are. Colleges like Vassar 'Abroad my work in lecture room would help powerfully in this rebirth, tive of tbeir own era and not that of Charlotte Bronte or Jane Austen. und lyceo represented my labors as and I never miss an opportunity to It ended relations uigo my well to de fellow countryManners change, of course, aud it teacher in total. If by men to send their girls either here is because they do that the eritics between professor und pupil. have been listened to. At the core a nniuto ehuuco a woman pupil over or to a similar college. There is all's well that ends well with the there should seek for additional in- no religious objection s0 far as Vasstruction or explanation outside of sar is concerned, for world of young womanhood. many of the tho class room the professor would here are Catholics. undergraduates Difference of the (fenerations not feel called upon to give it. He Dr. Roselli feels very earnestly a Really is Only Skin Deep would simply refer her to tho pro- desire t0 and tho United - . A variety of little things show of study aud let it that gramme that. the outer dissimilarity between the present and past generations is only skin deep. If the young women approaching tho end of a college course were so hopelessly really frivolous as some dim seeing persons say, then the books these girls read would be testimony. Prom Radcliffe some statistics that are meaningful. do the Wlmt froshies Do they choose readf tho lighter, sillier, more ephemeral stuff of the publishers presses! By no means. The record , bring Italy at States into a better understanding. It is improving, he thinks, since the relation war, which ended leaving Italy disgo Here more delightful exists. interest in My personal these Americau students is almost infinitely wider in a scholastic sense. I seek te direct their reading; I am uppleud to as I cross tho campus by students who desiro a repetition or un explanation of the points of a lecture. Such iuforauiilty is a matter of course, and works delightfully both ways. Certainly it permits me to get a better understanding of tho mental habits of these chnnaing shows that the old young women. There is, as you probably know, authors still attract Dickens, Thackeray, Scott and Hardy, Georgo Eliot, an immense background of life aud Victor Hugo, Du Maurier and Mark history for every girl born in a cerIn modern literature the tain class abroad, notably in Italy. Twain. is sane taste and tho authors cited To really know such an one outside as havig a groat following among of ones own funnily is practically the college girls are Wells, Edith impossible. She may appear ingenuBlnsco Wharton, Balnrie, Ibanez, ous and fathomable; in reality She Between her and Booth Tarkington, Rose Mneauloy and is mysterious. who man to is know her only as a This record could Hugh Walpolo, She be expanded by duplications from friend there is a wido gulf. cross will not nor ns rule will a other colleges for women. it, a is It she wish to. In simple words, she straw that counts. has been Vassar girls bicycle from taught by precept, exclass room to clnfss room, to the camouflage tennis ample and tradition to On the green her real self. courts, athletic field. in front of the beautiful Norman liThe American girl and I need to bo not limit myself to Vassar, for I brary there are commoly seen half a hundred stacked wheels; met them in many colleges on the there arc as many near the chapel sumo pletisnnt plnne knows nothing entrance at the hour of afternoon ser- about such confusions. She is frank, vice, a organ and ehorni affair, and outspoken and rarely hides what she near the steps of Rockefeller Hall, the centre of Vassar social which activity. This point is emphasized because silk stockings, low cut waists and rouged lips do not accord with the bicycle. Truly, if observation may bo trusted to afford correct impressions, then this incubator of future wives, mothers teachers and social leaders is still producing gifted, cultivated, Christian women that wore in Matthew Vassar a wonderful vision when ha wrote in his diary: It is in vain to educate women s power of thought and then limit the operation education and liberty walk hand in hand. A male American will surely imbibe this confidence, but he is apt to be prejudiced in favor of his A cultiyoung couutrywomcn. vated foreigner, familiar with the course of education in his own country, might be B safer judge. Bruno Such a individual is Dr. Roselli, first Italian exchuuge professor to visit this country. Arriving here three years ago, ho loctured on in Bubjects political and literary several of our colleges and universiHe returneu this year to be ties. at tho head of the department of Italian history and literature at Vas-aar- . His opinion of the mental attainments and behavior of American college girls is baaed on experience of them and, being ' disinterested, it At onee it should be valuable. Roselli Dr. s opinthat said be may ion is distinctly favorable. 1 am a man, unmarried, not yet very old and prepared by experience of life if I may say so much without appearing fatuous for some degree of folly la young persona teacher ha experienced what Every satisfied because she had seen no American contingent fighting on her soiL Our hope, he said is in the American generation of Italians. The children born here of Italian parentage are Americanizing the family names although we Italians can t help but resent this and are making their old fathers and mothers into good American citizens. These children are a product of the public schools, and I can but hope they will go on utilizing the advantages of a- wonderful college like Vassar. This for the Italo-morion n girls will be a long step toward the absorption of real Anglo-Saxoideals. In truth institutions like Vassar, which foster true Americanism, ought t0 be more widely advantaged of bv Italians whose home and heart are here. Until they do take advantage of such institutions and carry on the education along such lines there will always be immigrants in this free land who do not belong to either country immigrants . who have not yet accepted America. Interesting as these thoughts are and germane t0 the general subject, ill the mala th I of the inter view remained the impression made on a cultivated and pedagogic mind - n and the public private primaiy bools fall under severe criticism. be1 cun say nothing for or against cause 1 do uot know them, but 1 cant miss this opportunity to press the statement that a college aspirant really ought to kuow where is as in iiorenee and Boiogna1, study situated a city to famous as Geneva! Set me down, however, as saying alongside ot men, but it is as U a sacred sword lay between tiiem. Cer- most sincerely about the students ol uksur college that they are tain lectures are heard in common material. It is an amazing because tneie is really no division ox place or of time possible. Never- reflection to make, but one justified theless, tho barriers put up by cen- by the progress that they are makturies between tbo - sexes nave not ing iu a, handful of years what has been taken down. taken a lifetime for women of other Largo groups of women who are und older civilizations. suffragists and who demand new free- Girls Sure of Their Ground dom do not exist iu liuly. By edjJi. ivoac-ioy iUe American gin. was OiuugHni nucjk lu il uy a question as lo women s colleges m xtuii. There am none, knicliy speak lag," said He, "and eocilueutujn where it xs found is due cliiciiy to A oiuen iu itaiy do, lack of space. Bc s und tradition tbe has ever been for a sheltered life for women. This, I must continue to think, will still remain her ideal existence, unless, as I have hinted American born girls of Italian descent go back in large numbers t0 their ancestral homes aud show by means of their own development what an admirable thing is true freedom for women. Such a leavening of old habits is very possible, but this is tho only means likely to bring it about. When a college woman in Italy has by her deep and serious study arrived at the honor of a savutute, she naturally engages hersolf with soPolitics cial aud political problems. has been affected by women in Italy for centuries; it is an accepted field. Americau girls Not so with whose studies have led them so far; their concern, it seems tq me, is uot politics, although they havo the right to vote, but economic questions. The influence they bring into this economic sphere is perhaps more useful. Indeed, I find, more and more as I talk with tho Vassar girl, an impelling thought, which is nbo compelling in her education, making it tako on the vocational aspect. She wishes to do something essentially useful, and her choice of a life work is most frequently based on what she thinks she might do to bring the best things in the world to her and at the same time make her most useful to her generation. These, none will deny, are fine ambitions, howbeit lacking some of tho poetry we are apt to look for in young ucation training choice When They Undertake a Study. of I have lectured in thirty-fivthe colleges of this country aud have become acquainted Witu your young women students. men aud My the amusement at tne facile way culture American intellect absorbed began with my earliest experincce, and has been growing ever since. It has reached a climax, I tuink, iu e is more to be trusted than my world ingrained doubt. The Americau girl is marvellous, llovv happy I am to be here to diin the rect some of her thoughts channel where mine own flow most freely, to advise, now a book, now a piny or a spectacle which bears On her course of study, to serve her iu what I omazudly must call her vast strides in culture I cannot too stinct old enthusiastically say. Once I was unhappyilv quoted as a critic of some of the v'assnr ways. A simple remark I made was garbled in the quotation, and, as false things have a way of doing, it spread widely- I grasp the opportunity of saying where her institutions are filled every year, as by personal knowledge I am aware they are, with the finest material coining from every town and city this country, America, may safely dismiss as groundless all fears of her future. that The chief difference between the human hand and that of the higher apes lies ia the thumb, which is Vassar. Some of tho conservatism of old always shoitcr in the ape. still lingering with me Europe Roses were formerly the symbol mo whether w'ere not ask to prompts of silence, lienee the Latin phrase, going a little to) last! , under the I dont answer the question nor meaning do I lingor over it, for the young rose, amj so, "in confidence. women of this college almost persuade me to doubt if conservatism in edin kettles aind boilers is Fur ucation is a blessing. the due to tho action of boiling who water making certain carbonates in Neither the young women are educating themselves simply for the water adhere to the vessel used. the joy of it nor those who antiei-patfitting into a vocation, which, Cheaper Abroad. roughly speaking, are the two classes of students we meet here, ever evince A Los Angeles resident has had to the slightest doubt about anything pay five thousand dollars for calling Both classes a neighbor an old hen. Allowing they elect to study. seem tn feel as if by instinct that for the state of the excange, we serve think he could have got bettor valuo everything educational will them either for purposes of culture for his money in this country. Punch or future work. I believe their in llxindon.) sub-rosn- e oooooxxxoxoooxxxxxxooooooxxo E. R. GRAMS women, ns Vassar draws, all persons know, from everywhere, even from the remotest foreign countries as well as from all parts of the United What their preparation for States. college has been differs in wide some of these degrees are surprising, and often they are amusFor my own part I find really ing. fine preparation in literture which chiefly concerns me, but often the ridiculius side appears in a lack of knowledge of elementary things. For instance, I find that many girls arc almost ignorant of geography, to such a degree that I ask myself if the subject is no longer taught in primary schools. 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