The Logan Republican

THE GIRL GRADUATE AND HER CAREER.
It would be interesting to know, when one attends the Commencement exercises of a college for women, how many of these fair and gifted A. B.'s propose to settle down at home and lead the simple life. In many cases, their future is amply provided for. The family feel they need the daughter's presence. Yet most of the girls seem to think some active and bread winning career is inevitable.
The next thing often seems an anti-climax. After studying the literature, philosophy, and art of the ages, the learned graduate may settle down to the routine employment of operating a typewriter. It is useful work. It may be quite as remunerative as the overcrowded profession of school teaching. But four years of classic literature scarcely seem necessary in preparation therefore.
The modern educated girl does not seem happy to settle down at home, particularly if she comes from a small town or country village where society is simply organized and highly educated people not numerous. Thereby the atmosphere of youth and brightness is frequently removed from the home of the old folks.
But it is a normal enough instinct that women should take their place in the working and producing world. Idling around home, trying to fill up the days with little touches of art and music added to the family seems no life work to a great many ambitious young women.
The feeling is sometimes expressed, when educated girls go to work, that they take employment away from men so that nothing is added to the world's work. Yet no man worth anything loses by competition. If he loses his job as salesman or book-keeper, let him quit trying to earn his living at clean handed jobs, and go out and dig in the fields. If he puts his brains as well as his muscle into it, one more efficient food producer is added to the world, as the result of the woman's entering business life.
The only hardship plea that Free-Trade can make is that it got knocked out before for the same offense.