Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1891 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE]

THE FAIR SEX.

Mrs. Bennett Edwards, the authoress, has made a donation of $5,000 to Geu. Booth t • further his scheme for the regeneration of “Dark st England.” In 1866 the services of the fair sex were dispensed with in the Royal Academy of Music in England for various reasons known to the committee. But this is the woman’s cycle, and now, in the face of old traditions, Miss Kate Steel has been seeded professor of a aging in the royal and national institution. And fair woman has gained another victory to rejoice over. Frau Sophie Salvanius has written a treatise making a forcible appeal to German women to resist the tendency of woman’s education to treat girls ex« clusively as future housekeepers and mothers. The writer argues that this is an injustice, since no one thinks of educating boys simply to be future ho iseholders and lathers. She insists strongly that the modern system ofed--.ucat ng .' omen results in c amping Aomen's n iividuality and loweringt. e ideals oi i ie. Mr. Ormiston C. Lant, !n a recen' he .ire on ‘ The Women of the Day,” punted out the fact that there had been a waste of womanly examples of rare nooility and high intellv,. ,u J power for the want of some one to chronicle them, and. named as representative women worthy the highest p-iise possible to accoc 1 them Mr a . Jo-ephine Buder, Miss Florence Nightingale Mrs. Frances Willard and the late Mrs, Booth. ■