The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 30, 1899, Page 25

SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1899 W P by the men, it is in the har American educatio dle rules the Not only that,’he d to woman, and the fact that both S N\ N \ \\\\ W A X \\ AL » .Q« , who was also watching i : after ¥Frank answered, nt bi both ks that way,” This pair of forceps was four ration. on the table and st the great skylight ago an up-country doctor 40 -be .aperated upon, I moval of the vermiform “A short time came - to-the-cit . who still doubt whether it is not better that woman who belfeve that only superficially educated women nd mothers. can have no tendency to make man or s g ¢ C al ¢ ure gener tic. Existbbeayse Bhe Has had tw ons l"vr”!l{vvt:(—:rlu e verent. The more thoroughly, educated a Bishop sayvs, too much said of the Inferfority of the wife more able is ghe to fulfill in a noble way the duties of wifé p T and fathers need developing quite as much. Ed- and mothe primary aim is not to make a good wife and mother any < M cd development is as much needed for woman more L it i§ to make a good husband and father. Education Knows no rights, but one of common sense. .. i educational idea is human perfection, perfect manhood and per- o i : are impressive, because they come L o0 oo 000 Given the right kind of man or woman and whatever r ar-sightedness have won him much /s 5 . J DOk A tllon: il b ! ire. In' expressing the: opinions he duties are to be performed, whatever functions are to:be fulfiled, - or idual, but simply Says what he well performed and well fulfilled. Woman's sphere lies wherever she can t hat he thought as to the high edu- Jive nobly and do useful wo! The career open to ability applies to her Y d ihan to man, We may not put legal or social restrictions on the e : growth of the one or the other. It is good to have a stroug and ke 3 he State or by religious enlightencd mind; therefore it is good for woman to have'such a mind. r given by and inc in the handsg of 1singly y o made, T mean in education, women must . : . more thorough mental culture. If to iemar higher cducation for women still seems absurd to yme, we 1 remember that for centuries it was deemed pre- pokterous to give ny education Il If in the past woman has been infericr, it i 1l growth were that of a because the dented her. domestic itives, means and opportunities of If her capacity has seemed to be it Is because she was refused admission to to sce ignorance at work, and the most frightful that which the woman fs called to do in the home An fgnorant wife and mother will dull the minds of ¢hildren. One who is intelligent and appreciative will be stimulus to self-activity, We should do more to bring nte endoymenis of woman, and be ready to offer opportunities tor t elopment of her talents, It is a dull man indeed who ignores the gifts of woman, and it savors strongly of ignorance wien one joins hen the w schoolroom Every woman should be developed on many sides in harmony and com- vieteness, With us in the United Sta s women have access to all kinds of schools and to nearly all the pro cns. They are no longer accustomed to look to marriage as to their one aim in lifé. They are brought up to trust to and industry to maintain themselves in the world. is equal to that of man, and their eagerness to im- prove themselves seems to be greater. The number of women who are receiving the higher inteliectual culture is large and it is rapidly increasing. The genuinely great are seldom to be met with. How rare Is a great poet, artist. historian, orator, general, physiclan or lawyer. Rare also are reat teachers. 1 think I may sav they are rarest of all. since it is not the ntellect or the imagination or the heart alone that educates, but the whole man or woman. Agassiz held that a student gains more by being brought into contact even for a brief time with a man of profound knowledge on whatever subject than a professor who knows little more than he attempts to teach could glve him in many months. As we become capable of deeper insight the clearer do we see that only the greatest men and women can educate. The rest are repeaters and trainers. Take from“ahy nation the hundred minds who are firstinall the spheres “of human activity and the national life is lowered. Human endowments “and if it has, the chances are there are 1m' going in,” said Frank, had calculated of getting to the nest. PDOOVORL SO GHHOCLO0NNO0UNOONOLODDD00DALOTBO0EIVEBTOHDT Curing Idiots. mov inches long, and had remained in the ° The surgeon turned away woman's bod¥ four years. patient who was being prepared for ope- She was a child lying motionless with the e ada ;,I"/,'\\.‘S g1 “% I 5940 A an instant the chances had been at such pains to sccure. Fred was standing, on the other end of the ledge with-his elub in-one hand, and with the bottom rd and stopped suddenly the youngster would lapse into its former idiotic state or any rate stop off where it was. Think of curse of idiocy hanging over one's head constantly! “What caus to the next things, but ition aside from ent unless self-activity brings them mto play. Culty : propagated. Since. the propagators of culture are few : to gather them in centers to which all who seek illumination may It 18 idle to hope that we shall find genuine teachers in man Such -teachers are not. many, and to have their proper influence requiye the right envitonment. Che progress Amerfca is making In unive the education of omen, is one of the most ri in shaping our national character and destiny ¢ intelligence of the masses makes thorough mental discipline ¥ in the few. Not only are the muititude more intelligent than th Vi ever heen, but the best knowledge on all subjects is now within the reach of many r lers. In every community, in every audience, there are some 1 not tolerate that the accredited public teichers should give evi- dence of ignorance or of the lack of the best'training. Beauty of feature and above all beauty of expression are heightened men by intellectiial culture. The more women learn to:live in the serenc air of delightfui study the longer they retain the fréshness and charm of youth. Tiducation is simply the process whereby the powers ich constitute a human being are strengthened, developed and brought into action. If these endowments are good, education good, and the best i+ best, whether for man or ‘'woman. What interests the one must interest the other. What benefits the one must benefit the other. Women, no less than men, need strong and open minds, the capacity to form defi- nite ideas and sound judgments, to deduce conclusions logically from premises, to weigh evidence and to estimate the value of proofs.” They, more than men. are too-much dominated by the senses, and a better edu- cation, by enabling them to live more in the past and the future, will tran- quillize their whole belng. What shall women learn? Whatever experience and the insight of the wisest have shown to have most efficacy in. opening, strengthening and supplying the mind. Tt is sufficient for those who cannot or will not take up the work of intellectual culture in a serious spirit to have a superficial acquaintance with the higher things in education, but it is unfair to women to place them in this class. The chosen ones to impart knowledge are not found In one sex alone. Woman's average intelligence is not less than that of man. If no one of her sex has been able to enter the small circle of supreme achievement it is due to the force of custom. habit, opinlon and Jaw, and not to inferfority of mental endowment. If a few -womien ‘of -exceptional gifts. and attalnments have seemed to lose some- soo0 their twaddle the way, that in the physiplogy department are working t . “All right,” sald Fred. ““We can't both the other he threw stones at the vicious he dalled egEs In it Tm golbic up ‘to" 86k, ‘anve: g5 f Diiistay Hers\Andtwatol; and If tha HIAS: 1ol hone or ruattertaE S h(l“n. e e : old bird gives you too much trouble cal! away ’ swered etter be careful” Fred cautioned; me over and I guess we can knock her «wpye hte s | ¢ 1 e pick your eyes out. But If you're golng, It didn’t take Frank more than & couble same time throwing his treacnre to Frol, Felit o two 80 am I of minutes to climb over the ledge and who caught it and quickly hid it between men. The attack was met with a series With that hoth men started to climb peer Into the cave. The place Where he twa laras stones : of blows from the clubs. But in such a the cliffs. For arms they took along a Stood was comparatively fevel, and the o o 8¢ StOnes. Tosition 1t wame: diffeult matter tol sEikE couple of he: ticks and determined to opening to the cave was good and lar hen Sthe EhC eptn 8 SlEn oty o r t and but fight if the birds attacked them.” “Hurrah!” he shouted, after SEERho o, Conders paResmeinTions b b ors To reach the ogve into which the con- made a scrutiny of the inside. UL v T ST (G s ous birds ate doy had disappeared was a most difficult no bird there. She must have left while 12d all he col them Boaining task. The weather was warm and to tonasicy e Tuite Oy e a we were climbing the cliff. I see one egg ; o g he 300 o 0 e ’ . 7 % 55 do on tore his clo men were climb the 30 feet to the top proved try- in there, and it's a beau 3 (]1 Ho:on Sondine \“ i on it g and exhausting. At certain points a 5 = S ielr. murderous talons. He wa y foothold -was almost impossible and a g ki UP the ezg carefully Trank put jess and could only cling to the rocky R R Sl R n his handkerchief and ‘SWung it |iqva an keep his / Al his strength : v around his neck, to have both : rgest condor death by falling to the bottom of the can- much as possible. * g hands free to make his perilous trip back T kept up a v prac- Nearly an hour was consumed In get- " on§ the ledse. struck the birds sever s ting on a level with the cave and then , ¢ had made about three-q dEE bRtk S e s other Shivd square: on T i e e e e T ae’R the distance when an ominous rattle of the. beak, ¢ e to T et task of crawling 2l00€ @ wings told -him that danger was near. stun. her 1 cure the condor's nest g up he saw two condors sweeping then drop fifty t Yy pol This ledge was only about seventeen d0Wn upon him. below, followed by St i in the feet long, but from it to the bottom of . The birds were a little timid about mak- This was ce. and vttt TFred the canyon the walls went down almost ing the s times came pisk of his | L jump m risk ! A condor as straight as the walls of a building. It quite n ledge to where Fred was stanc e a situation that called for nerve and again. s gave Frank a chance, and the barest chance he gained b et his first. thought was for the prize that he Onoe he slipped, and would 1 had not Fred grabbed him j - the precipics =R R =] bl 1« and in the Andes. But 1 has the effect < & on the island of Niederws rth, helow Col st sa irless < lentz, where a large proportion of the iquid with R © habits are cretins.” tained by di g . 4 ; 3 $ “What! An island of idiots! How many & Curing Cretinism. Instruments Lost in Stomachs. Producing Somnambulism. Old Remedy o are there?” i for Lockjaw. = “Well, the last time I heard there k=3 3 © 121 cretins in a population of GOOGO00N00BONO000NUN0000000000 SOUONUOOUOS0NBOOBONToay hin syEEsied il the mandr N ¢ of the drug N one of the surgical amphithe gotten and left in patients, and the latter an idiot?” he was asked. water. Smow, by the way, seems was to be ampu- in New York the writer watched the get well. The character of the instru- & good many of. them curlously. ' product of trouble conclusion of an operation. When it ment may be said to determine the demise swallowed: idemic go attacked the was over and the patient had been of the patient. Sponges are bad from 3ut can you cure idiocy members of the crew of aptain Cook wheeled away on a stretcher to one their very nature they become coll can help her. She is a cretin. while on their famous voyage because ¢ he of the wards it was noticed that an agents, ahd soon poison the body Cretipism is a form of idiocy caused by they drank water fro melted iceberg, ba ught 1 assistant, in gathering up the instru- smooth metal objects, on the other hand, the lack of part of the thyroid gland. It and now I see snow habit is ain and again, ments from the antiseptic solution tray, apt to work their way into the alimen- Is a form of goitre. Many children have doing for a lot ikers. to case which I counted them and checked them off on a tract, and then they soon pass away. it. The moment the thyroid secretion return to our cretins. eally seem Wanted to examine memorandum which had been made be- ou doubtless have heard of nee stops forming the development of the to be caused by geologic or climatic con- Curing Lockjaw. fore the operation was begun. The chief which have stayed in the human body for child stops short. If, for instance, the ditions, for it b been known to dis- A man was brought in. He surgeon was asked why this was done. véars, gradually working their way out child had advanced to the age of seven appear from a family after the removal jaw. He lay He nad s ““Oh, that,” he replied, “is to make sure of the system, or of old soldiers who still and then failed of its thyroid, it would of the family from &« certain district. donic” grir s caused in most that no instruments have been sewed UP carry the bullets shot them during go through life as a seven -old child Qther families theretofore healthy had es of s by the peculiar setting inside of the patient.” 2 the Civil War. The glass swallowers of as far as brain development is concerned. cretin children after they moved into that e i e e “But,” was the horrified question, “has the dime museums really perform won- There is an opposite condition brought gistrict. Rather uncanny, isn't it, 10 his ¢ 19, (e etiidantss L TTe st allon such a mistake ever occurred?” ders In the way of resisting forelgn sub- about when too much thyrofd secretion iS think that a man can bring idioey Upon and cut his knee on a muddy curbstone, “ON, yes, frequently,” replied the sur- nces in the human body. deposited. We know it then as exophthal- y:i¢ children merely by moving into an- Nine days afterward the symptoms of geon. ‘But the most wonderful case of all mic goitre. s b R ““And what becomes of the patient in. Was that of an insane man whom I saw A person with this malady is the oppo- T o © 0\ %0 (1o next case had been interesting, since it would afford an op- R caser” in an asylum in Lancaster, Pa. He took site of the idiot—that is, intensely active 3 e e e e el et “Well, some of him live, but the most of to_swallowing things in the carpenter -and alert, supersensitive in ail .things, hrmfzm‘lvn. Jt s o ense, S R e him die. That is the reason we are care- Shop, and before he was stopped he had the antithesis of dullness, .as it jwere. anesthesia, was necessaiv: ' o R e o ot ful Yet it is wonderful how much the Rulped down 140 odd nalls of all sizes, Exophthalmic goitre can be cured by re- ants r-lljnlli\ Drenated e A e e e e average person will stand In the way of Some buckles, a piece of old iron, some moving part of the thyroid gland from the COCWING ARE BOD I do et bt i forelgn substances in, the body. It screws and a lot of other things—I can- throat; cretinism can be cured, or rather 8azed feafiuly 4t P06 BRETE IO ©8 (00 L e b s o ool the other day by Dr. Morestin, not remember them all now, but it s on held in’ check by administering thyroid Medical radants sha (R S davove BB R e e the well known Russian surgeon, that a the record. Well, they tied him down extract to the idiot. If'a child is taken HE At "“"~]! 1e-tagis b bl Aheh Ehe hean snade ean. who had been treated for con. and anestheticized him and extracted the young and properly doctored with:thyrold JUMP dOWn at him ¢h masse. A NS A GF. Ol se s vy stantly recurring absces: had fin hardware, somewhat after the Caesarean extract it will go on developing just like Producing Somnambulism. 1, Sl l"‘“'”i o ath covered when a pair of hoemos principle. These things are in the mu- any normal child. But—and here is a “Have you had any peculiar experiences _ b o Eifchoating because grdcerihe forceps, which had been in her for years, Seum, and the man—oh, he got well Dbility for a novel writer—if the ad- heticised feniee e Burs. e s sorie of thasm had been accldentally discovered and re- enough. He's a healthy lunatic now. min ing of the extract should be e Tl Satbt b oletaqss (it Some of the Some of them ohtch ticularly wugh and say funny we have little time t to I suppose they dream. By My wi T o lawed reminds me that some men man, “is as womanly a woman as you mmer nails like but she can ha Jelieve for the r i ? ‘]r.w-.rll.‘:.lnlvhn,vwh I understand he never -difference’ of the idiot. Her its physialogi 3o to see if ~’nn:1mn\h;l!t.\*r{l{ cannot vwl made e chors h# appendicitis. -He was' borrowing thick, her tongue protruded, her hair had w that is not exactly known. The to take the pl of chloroform an ‘Mh r tall wed man ing for trouble, and®heigot-it. He didnot im- silky She did not ndemic in many mountain dis- in some ~You know, or t you ce in the yon a prove after -the”operation, .and .ome night to_be an ordinary imbecile. She d to occur most frequent- that somnambulism ean be produced arti- he died. =There ‘wakan y, and it ed no uneasiness under the opera- ly In magnesium limestone formations lr:rm\l ? \\:-I- it ce \_l :‘.n-I most pro- was found that a spc Jeen sewed tion and her case was soon disposed of. It is unknown in England, but very com- nfuml somnambulism At that. It is su d up in him. It was mpst unfortunate. Yet The chief surgeon cleansed his hands in mon in Irance. It is rare in Prussia. posed that in the natural state it i narro | have known ‘of many forceps, clamps ‘the antiseptic washing solution and came Middle = FEurope hs ot of it in the duced by -hf‘ form 1o of a pes vo strik 3 hindseds. ¢ other metal instruments to -be for: over to where the writer sat. mountain districts Also found in the stance which is derived from the stz adelphia North America 2 N R T R IR RCRCRCRORCY R R E R R EOR RORORORC RORIRORORO! 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A learned woman still appezrs to some of us to be an abnormal being The -adversaries of the highest intellectual culture for wom either do not understand what education is or do not believe In _its s effi- cacy. Education teaches us that the indelible stain on the page of history is the world’s treatment of woman. It a to us ple dor which falls on our own country more than on any —the n and the cpportunities this nation has given to woman in the present century. Through the past an has been unjust to man, even cruel: but woman seemed almost beyond the pale of humanity. She was a drudge, a . a chaitel. -She was to be bought and sold. a plaything in idle hours the rest to be immured in the two-fold darkness of ignorance and confining walls. To discourage the higher education of women is to enfeeble the race, To destroy the self-confidence of woman is to blunt her ambition, instead of spurring it. Yet it has been held wise and by many is still thought proper to take a deprecatory tone whenever there is a question of conced- ing to women the opportunities of education and work which are given to men. We should assume their capacity: we should have them to believe that they are able, and then they wili be able. We should applaud and assist every effort made by women themselves to uplift. strengthen and enlighten women. It is the privilege and the glory of the English-speaking eople. with the nolse of whose deeds the world is filled to-day. to have Peeh the first to understand woman's right to the highest education, and to provide for her the opportunities,