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tical end rather than a direct educational purpose. But they are de- 

 fensible, I think, on the same broad grounds that the occupations 

 of the farmer are defensible, that they contribute directly and essen- 

 tially to the maintenance of life, and, like his, they may be made 

 artistically excellent. "Well-dressed men, women, and children, well- 

 fed men, women, and children are ethical realities still far in the 

 future. When you remember that we are dressed during the whole 

 period of our social life and that we eat three times every day, eleven 

 hundred times a year (allowing an occasional late supper), it is aston- 

 ishing that these very human arts have not been brought to greater 

 perfection. So I would not disparage the practical turn that is being 

 given to the girls' education any more than I would disparage the 

 practical arts which minister to distinctly human ends in the culture 

 of the boys. But I do insist, quite as uncompromisingly for the girls 

 as for the boys, that the arts of life are secondary, that the major end 

 is life itself. And I hope to see manual training for girls given such 

 a human and sesthetic turn that it will mean not only more accom- 

 plished home makers, but in even a deeper sense more perfect and 

 more charming women. 



I have tried to present an adequate picture of the manual train- 

 ing school. One will get a better picture if one will supplement this 

 criticism by a day spent in the school itself. 



WOMEN" EST SCIEISTCE. 



By HENRIETTA IRVING BOLTON. 



A GREAT deal has been written of late years in regard to the 

 "new woman"; a somewhat vague term expressing the con- 

 trast between the clinging, fainting, willowy heroine, dear to the 

 hearts of our grandmothers, and the alert, athletic, breezy woman 

 who rules the world to-day. According as the phrase is used, it be- 

 comes a title of honor, or a term of reproach; but in either case we 

 are apt to look upon the " new woman " as a fin-de-siecle production. 

 The " sweet girl graduate with her golden hair," who 



" Knows the great- uncle of Moses 

 And the dates of the war of the roses, 

 And the reasons for things — 

 Why the Indians wore rings 

 In their red aboriginal noses," 



we regard as an outcome of this century, and we have only just 

 become accustomed to the idea of women physicians. 



That women should hold professors' chairs in the great female 



