Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — Higher Education of Women. [ARTICLE]

Higher Education of Women.

The higher education for women is undoubtedly an excellent and commendable thing, but it is open to questiom*if it may not get too high for the best practical utility, says the Boston Jester. 1 number acquaintances a most charming young woman, who has devoted a number of her more recent years to the general furbishing of an intellect naturally bright. As a result, she scintillates with a continuousness and readiness that at once daze and delight. She knows as much about literature as the late Lowell, and she handles the piano with a touch altogether Paderewskish. She has also given much earnest thought to the Rig Vedas of the ancient Hindoos, and also to theosophy. She is, in short, intellectual. These tastes naturally compel a residence in the immediate purlieus of Boston, but she occasionally pays a Aeeting visit to her home, remotely situated in New Jersey. Thither at the recent Christmas time she went. On the breaking of Christmas morn her little brother, a young person of 4, was up early to begin the investigations of the day,and Erudita, wishing to lighten the maternal cares, essayed to dress him. Finally, after great deliberation and frequent experiments, he was duly attired. But the young man was not happy, and after the manner of his kind he soon began to snivel. “Why, my estimable brother, what is it that distresses you?” ‘’Boo, boo! my clothes hurt me. ” A long and careful search utterly failed, however, to disclose anything amiss. But the tender tears still Aowed till the mother appeared on the scene. “Who dressed ‘ that child?” she asked. “I did,” replied her accomplished daughter. “Well, you’ve got his pants on hind side before. ”