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Show I TIMELY TOPICS "1 WEAKER BEX! HUH1 It has bren a popular pastime in learned gattier-Inaa gattier-Inaa to severely crlilciae the modern ayalem of education edu-cation of women. According to recent remark, made by dlgnltarlea of tha-.flnancial and legal worlda. the training given to girl today quit rob them or their feminine heritage, without conferring any genuine benefits In Its place. On learns that woman approached ap-proached the Ideal along about th Victorian era, and aha haa been ateadlly allpplng ever elnce. Presumably Pre-sumably ahe haa hit th bottom now with a eraah. On vaat Improvement that education haa made In the female of th epeclea. for whlah we should ail offer up a prayer of thankfulneee, has een quite overlooked by the self-appointed crltlra. ThJ la tha Inculcating In them of a aplrlt of d!llke for physical physi-cal weakneae and admiration of health and atrength. ao that they no longer ravel In th enumeration of their fatal Ilia . In th day of our grandmothera no one was a real lady who had not acquired a fine aeaortwlent of lllneaae during the course of a lifetime, and a vlalt of the doctor was a mark of distinction. Feminine Femi-nine gathertnge were enlivened by dlsqulaltlona on the part of th sufferers of every malady under the eun. and there waa no Incentive to overcome them when they made th victim bo popular a a raconteur. But modern education haa promulgated th doctrine doc-trine of a sound body In a sound mind, and those who ar stricken exert themselvee to overcome It. The lady who "en)oye poor health" la rapidly paaa-Ing paaa-Ing Into the limb of forgotten thlnga. Widening woman's scope of vlelon by teaching her science and politico and almllar eubjecte hae had the beneficent reeult ef turning her thoughts outward Inatead f In. and her eonvertatioa Include mora enlivening topics than III health. It la really a form of egotlera that leada people ta Inflict on olhere aucb conversation. Inasmuch aa they are actuated by a desir ta bask In th limelight lime-light In one way or another. If you have had every mortal malady from hookworm hook-worm to housemaid's kne yu are. of coura. allghtly differentiated from the common herd who have enjoyed no euch fine aaaortment of Ilia and aa aurh worthy of tha careful attention of all llatenera It la on thla ground that the boree proceed, and the ducat or who gave the ladles something elae to think and talk about aauredly ahould be bleeaed as mankind's grcateet benefactors. Los Angeles Times. |