| Show GIRLHOOD conr 0 o i or ia BU ch a delightful ot liu man life among facea ig un known lo 10 me and barbarosa barba roua with them tho female child directly from infancy to wife maternity chis h gnp rea son why adiong such peoples a well fals those in the lower of civilization iza tion women age so rapidly and why are no beautiful old women or even comely middle aged women among them early in abc bcd in ita million of youth destruction by tho hard work imposed upon the fornale children of uch acea henry T binck contributes an admirable article on athla subject to tho january number of alar pern it i astounding to bearn from pages that among hii savage racca the oga at which ido men of alic tribe appropriate the birla to i belvey ia j the average ago of marriage for girls amon 48 barbar lan lacoa Is it such lawona aa the chinese and japanese marry at the average ago of among the working classes of europe the 0 ia and among the up classes da ine figuerca for amora are not procurable but though our married at the average ago of marr tago among tho fortunate has advanced many apar within iho recollection of living per Bons added to what our women fiaui from jt ia having marriage deferred to a lat age and relief itom stunting and dulling toil it the influence of education and culture tho right educated mind lands charm to girlhood prolong that lancina ting period auf dignity and power to tho matron gives attraction to old ope and saves it irom dotage and in to tho education of our women wo are id of even those intellectual ol 01 anti whom the women of the hupf classe not subjected to ax j labor it was a truism creeks that the beauty ot woman soon vanished hile a man kept hh and ac may bo said that tho only women of antiquity ano retained their charms were tho courtesans courte sans and they precisely women who crt joyed personal freedom a sort of education band an opportunity to use gieir r minds would seem anat ane these famous hat over tho men of cir time would have taught alie latter the golden lesson of education for the women of their own households and hearts indeed in all ages celebrated dangerous women who have had eo much to do with the shaping of history who fascinated men at the samo time they led them to destruction women of superior intellectual gifta and education general theeo qualities were united with physical beauty but it was the woman au perlor intellectually if inferior morally to their own women that captivated great men how much superior is our civilization to that of the greeks ana this acore of the development oi boni en alone if there were nothing else in which wo could claim pre over them the education of our women with its attendant prolongation of girlhood and its ment and bet dermenc of the whole lifo of half the race with its inevitable elevating effects upon the other half woula giamp our civilization as better than theirs |
