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THE KING’S BUSINESS the poorest training of any of the professions. In the present state of popular prejudice, it can never be a chosen profession, and blind custom forbids the girl preparing directly for her duties, within college and out.” She says still further : “ The day undoubtedly should come when the college will make g compulsory some course in parenthood and household management.” These words of Miss Grunsky are worthy of the most serious thought. There has been a growing feeling among some of our most serious-minded men and women that there was some radical defect in the education of women as now carried on, that the average college education given to women alienated them from, rather than prepared them for, the work that God has set before most women. While great things hâve been accomplished by women in public life, the women who have accomplished the most for the betterment of the human race are the mothers, and women as a rule should be trained for motherhood, motherhood in its highest and best sense, rather than for the various forms of public life. Sad to say, it has not infrequently-occurred in colleges Vhere women are educated, that the. office of motherhood has been spoken of very lightly and contemptuously in comparison with what is called “ the higher calling of women,” or “ a career.”
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