This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... 132 What shall toe do with our Daughters? CHAPTER VII. SUPERFLUOUS WOMEN. /"* To all the arguments for woman's better industrial training, and to all the movements now in progress for its accomplishment, there is con] stantly interposed the objection that it interferes S with the marriage of women. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... 132 What shall toe do with our Daughters? CHAPTER VII. SUPERFLUOUS WOMEN. /"* To all the arguments for woman's better industrial training, and to all the movements now in progress for its accomplishment, there is con] stantly interposed the objection that it interferes S with the marriage of women. The objection dcfi1 nitely stated is this: that if women are trained to / self.support, and are able to maintain themselves / by their own labor, they will not marry, but will, ignore their "fore-ordained work as mothers and Tjursea of children." Dr. Ely Van de Warker, in "The Popular Science Monthly," avers that "the effort of woman to invade all the higher forms of labor is a force battling with the established order of sexual relation." Dr. Nathan Allen of Lowell, Mass., in "The Journal of Psychological Medicine," says, "In all the situations and pursuits of life the Almighty has established bounds, or limitations, Superfluous Women. 133 beyond which woman cannot go without defeating the primary objects of her creation; and maternity is the primary law of her creation." Charles W. Eliot, writing in the August number of "The North-American Review," 1882, I says, "Gu.ls are being prepared duily, by 'supc- I rior education, ' to engage, not in child-bearing and house-work, but in clerkships, telegraphy, / newspaper-writing, school-teaching, etc. And' many are learning to believe, that, if they can but have their 'rights, ' they will be enabled to . compete with men at the bar, in the pulpit, the Senate, the bench." Now, women have done most of the drudgery of the world since it was peopled. They are to-day doing much of its menial labor, of which men are glad to be rid. Everywhere in Continental Europe you see women engaged in the most...
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