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CHAPTEE XXVII. 



THE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION OF WOMEN. 



&quot; It is strange that a mother, educated as most mothers of the present day are, and who as 

 vrife arid housekeeper has keenly felt her own ignorance of subjects that should have been 

 taught, and her want of skill that might have been acquired, can be cement to give her 

 daughter the same unreal preparation for real life. And it is exceedingly strange that a father, 

 long familiar with the distress suddenly wrought by financial changes, should religiously ex 

 clude from his daughter s education all k-iowledge of bu-iness, and every possibility of earn 

 ing a woman s living, except at the needle, wash-tub, or piano.&quot; J. A. ANDEBSON. 



WOMAN AS AN INDUSTRIALIST THE FIELD OF DOMESTIC LIFE HER VOCATIONS AS 

 A PAID LABORER HOUSEKEEPING AS A FINE ART TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR 

 WOMEN IN AMERICA AND IN EUROPE. 



THE wise man in the Book of Proverbs put a high estimate 

 on the good housewife. He insisted that, although many 

 daughters had done virtuously, she excelled all. Yet, as he does 

 not mention her by name; as we have Deborah spoken of for 

 her wisdom, or Kuth for her comeliness, or many others made 

 prominent by their influence upon the men of the period, we 

 take her as the representative of a class, and know from the 

 condition of the household arts in Palestine, that a good house 

 keeper was almost as great a desideratum in their days as in 

 our own. So, also, the Greeks praised the women of the 

 hearth, though we do not know their names; while we know 

 how Aspasia beguiled Socrates with the graces of her conver 

 sation, and that Sappho took her seat by divine right rather 

 than by a nomination among the poets. We know that neither 

 in Greece nor in Palestine, at a period when poets and prophets 

 abounded, was there a home in which, any of us would have will 

 ingly lived for a single week; nor was there for ages afterwards 

 such a recognition of human rights, of the dignity of woman 

 hood, or the sacredness of the home, as could create a pro 

 gressive home-building civilization. We have seen in the 

 earlier chapters of this work how the ancient civilizations were 

 built upon slavery, which bore equally upon the sexes. In fol 

 lowing the historical development of industry, we shall find 

 that woman has at all times borne her full share of the burdens 

 of the industrialist, in addition to those which are hers by vir 

 tue of her organic constitution. 



In considering the question of her education, therefore, we 

 should cover the whole field of her industrial and special func 

 tions, and provide whatever is needed to give her the highest 

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