| Show IN SOUTH AMERICA or our southern neighbors ID educational matters the city of mexico has a normal school for women teachers in which free instruction in a four years course is given to students the government according to the new york commercial has provided for the education of women in a literary and scientific institute sti tute which has a high grade of study A lyceum for women was also founded in which tabes up aub ejects that are considered essential to the proper training of women in the school of arts there are many busy students from the young girl to the woman of mature years all of whom receive free instruction in such branches as printing bookbinding sewing fancy work knitting trimmings fringes making cords and cassels tassels tas sels piano and vocal music is also taught the mexicans bid fair to rival the united states as well as europe in educating their daughters for that higher sphere for which nature intended them in nicaragua the education of girls has become quite popular and in the city of grenada there is a college where several hundred young ladies are unrolled rolled on in brazil boys and girls arc now beings educated together in the higher grade schools when one can easily date back to a period in that country where girls were kept under lock and key where they would remain until husbands had been obtained for them such an attempt at coeducation means the beginning of a new life for women chill has the institute nacional Xacio nal where there are among the many male students two or more women studying law this however is looked upon with more disfavor than if they had taken up the study of medicine in the colegio norte americana over two hundred and fifty girls belonging to the higher classes of society are studying the hitcher branches |
