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Show I DOES EDUCATION i UNFIHOM? II Canadian Takes Some I Radical Grounds. i 1 iff Modern Tendency to Lift fil ; Women to Intellectual If Pedestal Is Bad. , 81 "Hcrature of Country, Another Phy- II siclr.n Says, Is Largely Inspired Iff by Use of Drugs. Gal 7L.AXTIC CITY, N. J., June 12. 1" k Seaside resorters continue to dis-r dis-r cuss a11 atldress dcIivci'C(1 D' Dr- 1 A- Latnronc Smith of Bishops col- W lege. Montreal, at a meeting of the Iflry American Medical association, in rtfjk- which he declared that educated wom- wl cn are unfit for wive?. jjAk This sensational statement yuppHcd m A t,y an eminent physician, provoked mucn or,t,cisin and Seneral comment. Wtm Dr. Smith Decried the "national craze. $lm both In the United Stntes and Canada. J&f to raise woman to an Intellectual pe- , : dcslal." f "We are affecting the homes of two J nations," he said. "We are sapping the & ; phjslcal strength of two peoples, and cfi : going at a headlong pace which must JJ fome day bring us to a realization of :i i the mistakes that arc being made. 1 1 Would Cut Out the Classics. a ' "Higher education untlts girls for 8 motherhood. The mental strain affects $ the nerves and makes ihem dread mat- iji ; rlmony more than did the girls of an- i ; other generation, because they realize ' that their physical systems are weaker i and less able to endure the strain and responsibilities of motherhood. ; "What plan have I to suggest to i,' ; change this7 It Is simple and I( think would be effective. Cut out Greek', Lnt- i In, mythology, and algebra, and turn them out of school at an earlier age. f t Give the girls an opportunity to rest "j after a schooling that Is practical and i : useful, and let them build up their phy- $ f slcal systems for the trials of wifehood. ; Youthful love founds a stronger home ; and produces more healthy children. ; Toun? married couples who are not 3 overeducated haVe the healthiest chll- i I dren. That Is what is needed. I Late Marriages Condemned. 1 i "My observation Is that the Ameri- , can nation is drifting to marriages at S ' the age of to 40 for men and 30 to j 35 for women. Nature never Intended ; them to mate so late in life. Happl- V , ness cannot be the outcome of mar- i : rlages of that kind. i '"Then education, as has been pointed j out often, makes a woman independent i - and crowds men out of employment. It reduces wages and makes It more dlf- : flcult for men to take wives. But that rl rl Is the economical point of it, and has ii i WH no bearing on what I desire to convey. l' Ovcrsludy in school, then more study : I In music, painting, and perhaps some-1 some-1 ft thing else, stunts the girl physically, although it may Improve her intellect. It ruins her for motherhood. Earlier marriages. I have noticed, are less I liable to bring about divorces. I "I think a girl should have an ordl- j : nary education, such as our grand- y mothers had. and be satisfied to enter J Into her home and rear a family of say j' eight or ten children." I Literature Tinctured With Drugs. ; In a paper read before the Medical ,' j Editors' association Dr. T. D. Crothers I of Hartford, Conn., slated that Utera- ?j ture, both, medical and general, con- n tains numerous examples of work done 1 under the Influence of spirits and 3 drugs. The style and treatment of the $, subject bear marks of the form of drug a used The cocaine writer has a peculiar 'I form of expression, which is. never seen In other persons. A j Thi8 is to marked that the exact si form of the spirit and drug can be I scn. and a large parjt of the transient f literature of the day can be traced I back to the form of spirit and drug I. ud to spur up the writer. |