Others ask questions too, sometimes, and I was asked a free sexteengirl few years ago by a free sexteengirl white friend, "How is it that the men of your race seem to outstrip the women in mental attainment?" "Oh," free sexteengirl I said, "
so far as it is true, the men, I free sexteengirl suppose, from the life they lead, gain more by contact; and so far as it is only apparent, I think the women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount free sexteengirl a barrel and harangue by the hour every
time they imagine they have produced an idea."
But I am sure free sexteengirl there is another reason which
* free sexteengirl Graduated from Scientific Course, June, 1890, the first colored woman to graduate from Cornell.
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I did not at that time see fit to give. The atmosphere, the standards, the requirements of our little world do not afford any special free sexteengirl stimulus to female development.
It seems hardly a gracious thing to say, but it strikes me as true, that while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on free sexteengirl almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteenth century logic. free sexteengirl They leave nothing to free sexteengirl be desired generally in regard to gallantry and chivalry, but they actually do free sexteengirl not seem sometimes to free sexteengirl have outgrown that free sexteengirl old contemporary of free sexteengirl chivalry—the idea that women may stand on pedestals or live in doll houses, (if they happen to have them) but they must not furrow free sexteengirl their brows with thought or attempt free sexteengirl to help men free sexteengirl tug at the great questions free sexteengirl of the world. I fear the majority of free sexteengirl colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education. Not many will subscribe to the "advanced" ideas of free sexteengirl Grant Allen already quoted. The three R's, a little music and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite free sexteengirl enough generally to render
charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.
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