| Show HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN to attain to the standard of aduca tion needed by woman to place her on the same pedestal a as man some self dental denial much study and research are needed one or two evenings each week spent in the quietude of her own chamber her only companion a thorough good book and her thoughts bent only on mastering its contents and making the knowledge enclosed between its covers her own are among the essentials needed to expand and solidify the mind and give to it that strength and character needed to fit at her for the arena of science art politics theology or literature to an intellectual woman study and the cultivation of the talents god bod has bestowed upon her are all absorbing she will forego the pleasure of the ballroom or the fascination of the theatre without a pang of regret to store her mind with useful knowledge not many years have elapsed since those boome who devoted much of their time to literature art science or philosophy were called blue stockings or for short blues Blue sJ and this term was looked upon as one of opprobrium such women sought the or society of men of learning and intelligence who often became jealous of their at tain mento ments and snubbed them accord thus thua discouraging them and in many instances stopping their further development or advancement in the world of intellect but today this once dreaded opprobrious term is rarely if ever ardor he be seen in print and why because education and civilization are steadily marching through the land scattering gems of learning as a they go and leaving behind them seeds of the beautiful to mark their progress today if woman wishes to become the peer of man intellectually there are few obstacles in her way min men of the highest learning and erudition are willing even anxious to assist her all women are not equally intellectual or intelligent by nature neither are all men there are as many nonentities non entities in one sex as the other true there are men who possess such a wealth of knowledge one is led to wonder how such a small storehouse as the human head can contain it and a few women are and have been as richly endowed but still more might had they chosen A few more generations must go by before woman can catch up so to speak with man MAD but she will overtake him and keep pace with him when she does ages of oppression and lack of educational advantages have left her stranded as it were upon a lee shore of fashions and frivolity in her blindness she has failed to see the terrible results that would inevitably follow it has been said mid that literary or highly cultured women should not marry that they were not womanly women do not make good housewives and so forth most unfortunately for the world many have not doneso done so but have devoted their lives in the endeavor to better the condition of their st sisters aters oh fatal erroll error can we expect an intellectual progeny from an parentage more especially on the mat maternal einal side aidt who will dare to say that such a woman as E gladstone should not have married Is she not a wo we manly woman in every sense of the word her husband has more than once stated from a public platform that but for her he would not have halve been the grand old man V he to is today the career of her children bears testimony to her maternal care and training they respect and honor her and are themselves honored in bearing the name of such illustrious parents mrs Glad Gladst stones onele pen as well as her example has cheered and helped many a careworn sister while her purse or rather its contents 0 has ministered to their material wants it were well if our young women would make the lives of such noble natures their study and the standard to which they should strive to attain in all ages and in many nations have lived and taught both by example and pr precept e capt women as great and good as those among us at the present time some of whose labors and lives I 1 shall allude to in another article M A Y greenhalgh |
