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her body or her natural instincts ; but, as far as the writer can see, she 

 is decidedly an exception. To the average highly intellectual woman 

 the ordinary cares of wifehood and motherhood are exceedingly irk- 

 some and distasteful, and the majority of such women unhesitatingly say 

 that they will not marry, unless they can get a man who can afford 

 to keep them in luxury and supply them with their intellectual re- 

 quirements. The gradual disappearance of the home, which any 

 thoughtful observer must deplore, is, to a large extent, the result 

 of the discontentment of the educated woman with the duties and 

 surroundings of wifehood and motherhood, and the thirst for con- 

 certs, theaters, pictures and parties, which keep her in the public 

 gaze, to the loss of her health and the ruin, very often, of her hushand's 

 happiness. 



Fortunately, nature kills off the woman who shirks motherhood, 

 but, unfortunately, it takes her a generation to do it; and in that 

 short lifetime she is able to make one or many people unhappy. 



What about the supply of female school teachers? Is not the 

 very highest education possible necessary for them? From the 

 writer's point of view most of the women who are now teaching school 

 should have been married at eighteen and in a house of their own 

 which might have been the schoolmaster's home. The profession of 

 teaching was once exclusively in the hands of the men, and it can 

 not be denied that they have achieved some great results. But as 

 education rendered an ever-increasing number of women unsuited for 

 marriage, that is, unwilling to marry the available men, they invaded 

 the schoolmaster's rank to such an extent that his salary has been 

 cut down one half, and now he is unable to marry at all. Two well- 

 known consequences have followed this state of affairs; first it is 

 impossible to get men in sufficient numbers to become teachers for the 

 boys' schools; and secondly, even big boys being taught by women, the 

 effeminization of our men is gradually taking place. Although there 

 are some instances of a mother alone having formed her son into a 

 manly man, yet as a rule the boys require the example of a man's 

 character to make them manly men. This subject has recently been 

 dealt with in several elaborate papers by well-known educationalists, to 

 whom it appears to be a real danger to the coming generation. 



What about the men? If the higher education prevents the 

 women from being good wives and mothers, will it not prevent the 

 men from being good husbands and fathers? To some extent it does, 

 and in so far it is a misfortune, but to a much less extent than among 

 women, for the simple reason that the man contributes so little towards 

 the new being; while, on the other hand, high intellectual training 

 enables him to win in the struggle for existence much better than if 

 he were possessed of mere brute force. But nature punishes the man 



