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• THE CO-EDUCATION OF THE SEXES. ?
® A Clever, Caustic and Brilliant Argument Against the Maseu- $
X linating of Our Lovely Southern Women, Giving J-
Some New Points of View. shorter Harper. JJ
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sept , 20. —
When some of the great and ijood
ladies-in the state of Georgia de
manded that the university throw
open its doors to their sex there was
much pleasing comment, a little face
tious criticism and a very great deal of
inattention. ’‘Ob, they are just amus
ing themselves by making believe
they have an earnest mission,”
thought most of the people. “It’s just
another of the dear creatures? whims,
like their dubs.”
Oh, yes, of course there are good
dabs and good women in them. Rome
contains some noble women—club
women, who have done great good for
humanity, and who have won the
everlasting respect of their neighbors.
Then there are other clubs.
There are art clubs where nine
tenths of the members who pose as
artists could hardly tell a Raphael
from a colored print; there ate press
clubs where a great majority of the
members never did an honest day’s
work on a newspaper; there are char
ity clubs where flue gowns are' worn
(which is eminently proper if they can
afford them) and great balls and ama
teur theatricals are arranged for
sweet charity’s sake (costumes and
otter expense $324, charity $1.64;)
there are literary clubs where—well, 1
know of one not a thousand miles
from my native city where the leading
young gentleman member read a
charming essay on two of Dicken’s
characters, which charming essay
showed that the 1. y. g. m. had read
hardly half way through the book
and hence his deductions were some
what to the astonishment of such per
cent of the members of the club who
had really and truly finished the book.
(I dare not guess how many.)
But it was women and their clubs!
Perhaps this young man presents a
case of what may be a general result
from too close intellectual contact.
So when a few women began advo
cating co education at the university,
the great mas° of people looked upon
it as a pleasing diversion for them in
their recent-made land of make-be
lieve, where women cry ‘‘Behold what
I have done!” After which they put
on their prettiest gowns, their most
fascinating of manners and sweetest
smiles as they say:
“Now praise me because I am a
woman.”
A woman edits a poor little insignifi
cant paper, which if conducted by a
man would never receive a notice ex
cept of condemnation, and lo! and be
hold! She is “the talented editress,
whose magnificent work has attracted
attention all over the south. ”
Bah!
Yet, believe me, there are talented
editresses in Georgia, and many bril
liant women who have the admira
tion of the people, and whose writings
are the envy of such as I. The people
know these, and no one can be unfair
enough to say I do not realize their
excellence.
But to co-education: The chancellor
of the university approves it. (I won
der what Dr. White would say. He
has done more for the university than
any other man alive. And Prof. Camp
bell’s opinion would be interesting.)
Judge Thomas, member of the legisla
ture from Athens, will it is said, pre
sent a bill to the House providing for
co education. Capt John H. Reece,
member of the House from Floyd, is
quoted as favoring it, and my dearly
beloved friend and comrade Jim Nevin
is non committal! (I fee) sure however,
that he will fall right,) Do these
things portend a serious desire to put
the provisions of the bill into effect?
Does it really mean that the people of
. Georgia are going to effeminate their
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Does it really mean that the people of
Georgia have reached the place where
they do not care for the feminine
graces in woman, where their girls
may lose the blush of modesty and
make narrower and still narrower that
divine space which separates the
sexes? ?
I favor higher education for all.
Let woman be educated to a great a
height and as thoroughly as man, if
she so desires. Ignorance is every
where a sin. But is co-education the
proper method?
I ask any recent graduate of the
university if he thinks it advisable. I
ask him if he would like a girl friend
to take his. course at the university
with him? I ask him if anyone of the
present degrees at Athens could be
given a woman without a modiflca
tion of the course—or. rather, if he
thinks she should take these studies
with young men?
Perhaps the advocates of co educa
tion favor such modification. Then
comes a fatal blow to higher educa
tion. Don’t check the men so the
women can catch up!
It would seem from the clamor made
that the young women of Georgia are
dying to learn Latin and Greek and
metaphysics ana geology and biology
and astronomy and the like, and are
being held back by cruel and selfish
men. Yet when one notes that our
female colleges are prepared to teach
these studies to a much more extended
degree than there is any demand for it
from the girls of the state, it would
seem that the clamor is not so much
for higher education but is due to the
fad of aping masculinity, the love of
notoriety, the stylish “do something
for woman,” a desire toposeas pro
gressive and above all a curiosity such
as lost us one garden of Eden and all
things good save hope.
It’s simply a fad. Those young
women who desire higher education
have, as a rule, as ample opportunity
now as they would have with co-edu
cation at the university. If thispropo
sition is denied, then give it to them
at a college for girls and young
women. Don’t do it to the detriment
of our college for young men. Don’t
do it to the detriment, perhaps, of
coming generations whose character
istics will have lost much of that
which makes our women the most at
tractive and beloved and respected to
be found in the land, and which has
given us a race of manly men.
Don’t!
Now if those of you who are easily
bored will leave off here (though no
doubt you have already done so,) and
those who can stand a little science
bear patiently, I wish to give some
extracts from a striking article in
Natural Science [August,] which is
practically an abstract of a lecture
already delivered several times by the
author in Boston and Cambridge in
which Prof. Alpheus Hyatt points out
that the modern efforts to make
woman more and more like man may
have an important, and probably a
harmful, effect on the progress of the
human race. Progress hitherto has
been associated with divergence of the
sexes, and altho tendencies in the op
posite direction have always existed
to foster those tendencies is to help on
a movement of retrogression. Says
Professor Hyatt:
“People do not yet recognize that
the tendency of evolution is qtfite as
often toward retrogression and extinc
tion as in the direction of progres
sion; the former indeed being the final
result both in the life-history of the
individual and of his family, and
finally of the race to which he belongs.
The laws of biology have not hitherto
been used to test the assumptions that
coeducation and the changes of occu
pations and habits induced thereby
and by the legal freedom of choice of
occupation conferred by the use of
suffrage upon women, will be benefi
cial factors in the evolution of the fu
ture.
“Men and women, like the males
and females of most animals, show by
their erganization that they have
been evolved from a type in which
both sexes were combined in the same
individual. The separation of the
sexes did not destroy this dual nature,
as is demonstrated by the develop
ment of secondary male characters in
the old age of many species of animals
and of women in extreme age, and of
feminine characters in aged men.
This opinion can also be supported
by the structure o. the tissue cells in
the body, the .nuclei of which are
made up of paternal and maternal
parts. This dual structure enables us
to understand the fact that secondary
sexual characters are latent in both
males and females, and liable to make
their appearance after the reproduc
tive period is passed through, or before
this time and prematurely in abnormal
HIE HOME TRIBUTE. SUNDAY OCTOBER 3. 1897
individuals, or perhaps under certain
conditions of habit or surroundings.
‘‘The maternal (in larger degree or
wholly feminine) parts of the nuclei
are certainly prepotent during the entire
reproductive or adult stage of growth,
and their constant employment in the
performance of feminine functions pre
vents the development of latent male
characters. During this time the pater
nal (in laraei degree or wholly male)
parts of the nuclei have remained inert
knd may be supposed to be still capable
of multiplying by division and produo
ing extra growths, thus even in old age
building up secondary male characters,
such as the comb, wattles, etc , in some
birds, or giving rise to secondary male
characteristics in old women. This may
also take place prematurely through sup
pression of the natural functions, either
by change of habits or by surgical or
other artificial operations. These state
ments apply equally well to men, and
some of the most remarkable examples
are to be found in this sex, but the dan
gers of feminiz ition to the men, altho
Dossibly greater than we now suppose,
do not seem at least to be so Important
or threatening as those that lie in the
possible future of the women. These are
striking out into new paths, and are
being helped by men who are equally
ignorant with themselves of tho qature
of their own organization and of the
possible dangers to their race of the suc
cess of their efforts.
“In the early history of mankind the
women and men led lives more nearly
alike and were consequently more alike
phy.-ioally and mentally, than tbey have
become subsequently m the history of
highly civilized peoples. This divergence
of the sexes is a marked characteristic of
progression among highly civilized
races. Coeducation of the sexes, occupa
tions of certain kinds, and woman-suf
frage may have a tendency to approxi
mate the ideals, the lives and the habits
of women to those of men in these same
highly civilized races.
■‘Such approximations in the future,
while perfectly natural and not in a
common sense degenerative, would not
belong to the progressive stages of the
evolution of mankind. Such changes
would be convergences in structure and
character, and, altho they might lead to
what we might now consider as intellect
ual advance, this would not in any way
alter the facts that women would be
tending to become virified and men to
become effeminized, and both would
have, therefore, entered upon the retrc
gressive period of their evolution. The
danger that men may become effemi
nized may be greater than would at
first sight seem probable, but this might
not take place at all or to such a slight
extent as not to affect seriously the pro
gressive evolution of the race. On the
other hand, the danger to women can
not be exaggerated nor too carefully con
sidered, in view of the fact that ad
vanced women have adopted the stand
ards of men, and have not tried as yet to
originate feminine ideals to guide them
in their new careers and thus maintain
the progressive divergence of the sexes,
“There is a rise of the individual
through progessive stages of develop
ment to tno adult aud a decline through
old age to extinction. In the evolution
of the stock to which the individual be
longs there is a similar law, a rise
through progressive stages of evolution
to an acme aud a decline through retro
gressive stages to extinction.
• ‘The position of man is at the ex
treme end of a series of converging lines
in his own stock, This is also indicated
by his structure and development, and
it is therefore of the highest importa* ce
for him to avoid all movements tending
to the increase of his natural and possi
bly inherent tendenices toward retro
gression. The approximation of the sexes
in habits of body or mind is therefore to
be avoided, as possibly leading to con
vergence of the progressive characters
non-existing between the sexes and the
inauguration of retrogressive evolution.
' ‘lt is hoped that no pretense of being
able to solve problems requiring such
vast knowledge aud many-sided consid
erations will be attributed to this arti
cle, which has been intended simply to
call attention to the scientific side of the
question. It seems obvious that the time
has come when thoughtful men and
women should be warned, if this be pos
sible, that their organizations are not of
such a kind that they can rely upon con
tinuous and certain progress. The laws
of evolution point distinctly to a future
in which retrogression and extinction is
perhaps certain; but man’s past history
and the same laws also hold out hopes
for the maintenance of progress through
an indefinite time, if he is capable of
controlling his own destiny through the
right use of experience and of the won
derful control over nature that his
capacities have enabled him to attain. ”
Perhaps the advanced women could
better see the force of Prof, Hyatt’s re
marks had they been here a few . days
ago and noted a band of Navajo Indians
riding down the street. I was not at all
sure which were women and which
were men. At their camp it was
somewhat easy to distinguish them, as
bucks, rested in the shade while the
squaws did the work. Here is equality
of the sexes in all kinds of “honest labor
from which our women are debarred,”
here is dress reform, here is education
to the same degree.
Well may we aek the “advanced”
woman:
‘ ‘Quo Vadis?’’-
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SILENT THOUGHTS
AND UNDERTONES,
Blessed is the wayfarer who sojourns
within the gates of Rome on the boly
Sabbath day. A haliowbd quietude
prevades the erstwhile busy city,brok*
en only by the mellow music of the
church bells. These bells, heaven bless
them, bring to the stranger sweet rec
ollections of home aud loved ones, and
of scenes to heart and memory dear.
In the evening shadows, when the sun
has sent his last rays,like great golden
arrows, athwart the hills and valleys,
then the spires of these old Roman
churches,seem like giant finger boards
pointing upward to that land above
the stars, which is to be the final home
of the faithful and the true. The va
rious congregations extend a cordial
invitation to the visitors to attend di
vine services at their respective
churches today.
#»*
It’s all a mistake to think that the
streets of Rome were all dug up to
give the policemen an opportunity to
smell the gas pipes. It was done be
cause Rome is keeping step in the rapid
inarch of progress, and the traffic of
the city needs better roadways. The
streets are being raised and paved,
like Atlanta, Chicago, and other large
and important cities, of which class
Rome is a member in good standing.
***
Rev. ( Charles E. Wright, a promi
nent Baptist minister, well known
and a much ' beloved in Rome, tells
very good story. He says that a Ba; •
tist preacher was driving along one of
the roads in Walker county one day,
and had a number of turnips and cab
bages in his buggy. An acquaintance
met him and said: “Why, Brother So
and So, are you out peddling on vege
tables-?” “No,” was the reply, “J am
out s wapping preaching for something
to eat; won’t you have a sermon?”
***
There is a conundrum for the citi
zens of Trion. Last Saturday after
noon Mr. Ed McKinney, the genial
and popular superintendent of the
Trion Mills, went out to try hisskill
with the wary members of the fishing
tribe. He caught a string of fish,
which he said was of a certain length,
but some of his, friends differed with
him. In order to show the point of
contention it will be necessary to use
the following two diagrams, with
apologies to the original author:
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Which one of the above represents
the string Mr. McKinney’s friends
said be caught?
♦**
Atlanta and. Charleston are at it,
hammer and tongs, over the latter
city's quarantine against Atlanta.
Honors will never be easy between
these two towns, and this brings to
mind two short stories told at their ex
pense. It is said that an Atlanta gen
tleman, accompanied by his little
daughter, visited Charleston and one
afternoon strolled down to the Battery.
Looking over the beautiful expanse of
water the enraptured little one said:
•‘Oh, paper, if this was only near At
lanta it would be perfectly lovely!’’
It is a tradition in South Carolina that
when a native dies he will go to
Charleston, but when an Atlantian
dies he goes to well, that’s what
the Carolinians claim to believe, any
how.
*»*•
It is frequently remarked that Rome
has more pretty girls than any city in
the country. The compliment is
gracefully acknowledged. It couldn’t
be otherwise with our girls. With
pretty mammas before them with a
climate well adapted to their develop
ment, and the best college in the coun
try to cultivate their minds, they
couldn’t be otherwise than lovely and
intellectual too. Os course this state
ment will make the other towns turn
green with jealousy, but its the
truth, and the Good Book says we
must “cell the truth or die.’’
’ ***
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cow stealing.” “Buck Kilgore is very
sick, and the doctors say he has not
over one mouth to his credit at most
on this earth. Later Judge Kilgore
died today at 12:20.’’ “Jim Gore will
have an immense line of saddles,
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few days. The latest style of tying
slip knots taught free of charge.”
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