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J\z Co-Education to Go?
[     Prof.   Dewey Sees Danger  to Women  in  Shutting   Her       : 1                          Out   from  Scientific  Training                          j
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PROFESSOR ..TOWN   DEWEY,  of  Co-  i lumbia University,  one of the best i known   authorities   on   education   In   • the United   .States?,  finds  something  por-  1 tentous in  the closing of Wes'.eyan Uni-  t versity  to  women,  after  thirty years  as a   co-educational   institution.                    i
•     "I don't  think  women themselves un-   ' ; derstand   what   a   reaction   against   co-j ' | education   would   mean   to   them,"   says ! Prof.  Dewey.     "It is not simply a ques-   ' 1 tion  of being- educated   with  nien   or  by   ' themselves.    The  closing  of the co-edu-   ' cational     universities     to     thorn     would mean   their   exclusion   from   va.si   educa-   j tional    resources—libraries,    laboratories,! i endowments—the   duplication   of   which  J would   require   millions   of   money   and  , years of time, if it were ever done.         . i "Sums aggregating many millions have   j I been  giver,  to co-educational  institutions   ] j during  the   past   generation,   presumably   ] i for   the   use   of   men   and   women   alike. : The  olot-iiiy   or  such  institutions   to  wo-  { men  would  exclude them from  all bent;-fits  derived  from   these  millions  and  re-   , serve  them  for  men  alone.
Women Would Be the Sufferers.
"New endowments, of course, could bft I secured   for   women's   colleges,   but   that would   be   a   matter   of   long   time   and effort, and the higher education of women
important as the fuel to a locomotive. < Ye begin to think of it, Its quality , ind its quantity. As to its quantity, ' ye may in nine cases In every ten ' safely say "Less." As to its quality, that depends.
Eat  as  little  as  you   can  subsist   on   ; and maintain your strength.                   ,
Remember, that while the stomach • of the adult equals in size that of la , quart measure, it is wise to only half . fill it; that is, to take into it at no ' time more than a pint of food or fluid, or of both combined.
The distended stomach causes many intestinal troubles.    One of the results   ' is   that  always   unsightly  spectacle,  a high abdomen.
The beauty with the persistently blotched skin requires less food and a more judicious dietary. For her skin indicates some form of indigestion, and the first step to cure indigestion is to give the digestive apparatus less work to do.
For that reason I should advise the beauty with spots .upon her countenance to try for a few hours, or, If possible, a few days, the water cure. Let her, .so far as food is concerned, fast, if her physician permit, and live as long as seems judicious on air and water.
I have found that while hot water taken copiously into the stomach relieves a condition temporarily, if the stomach continues habitually to be flooded with it, it checks the flow of the gastric juices. The gastric juices refuge to work, pettishly leaving their functions to the in-! truder. I                                                                                                                                      --------------------------
!       [This is an extract from a full page j    article on "My Secrets of Beauty" by I    Mine, Lina Cavalieri, in the Magazine Section of to-morrow's Sunday American.     The  article,  which  is one  of  a most valuable  series,  one  every  Sunday, deals extensively with what foods should  and  should  not  be  eaten  and gives   much   good   advice   and   many simple recipes and dietary lists to aid .    woman In attaining to beauty.]
¦  would suffer  severely in   the  interim.    It -. it   doubtful,   moreover,    if   the   facilities ',   and    endowments    of    women's    colleges
would   ever   be   made  equal   to   tbost   of
.  the great  universities.
, "Such duplication would involve ;i financial waste, which does not appeal to the business sense, and I am free to say that even w(ith all the progress
,   women   have   madf   if   it   came   to   a
'.   question     between     Endowments     for
•   them   alone   and   for   men   alone,    the men  would  get  the  lion's  share.
,       "The    closing    of    the    co-educational universities   to     women     would   read '   particularly   against     their     education ,! along     scientific     lines.     The   literary-type1 of   education     can     be   obtained from  books.     That  is  one  reason   why 1  women   have   been     addicted     to   that • type   of   education.     As   soon   as   they .   began  to read at all, books were open to   ihem;   and   some   women   educated themselves   very    highly   along   purely literary lines before any higher schools whatever   were   open   to   them.
"But education in science cannot be acquired in any such way. For that, there must be laboratory work, experiment, investigation,   scientific/ training.
Need of the American People.
"In pure science, I do not believe there '  is  a place  in  the  United  States  to-day '  where women have fully equal opportunity with men for training.    The closing of 1   the   co-educational   universities   to   them '  would set them back enormously in this ,   direction.   We need to give women more science, not less.    They have never had \I enough.
,       "It is not at all for the sake of women I say this, but on account of the Ameri-1   can   people.'    Scientific  training  develops not only the power,  but the tendency, to 1   weigh, judge, reason and analyze.    It de-';  velops a desire to get at the facts of any
¦   given  case.     It  disinclines  people to  ac-'   cept tradition or authority blindly.
•      "This   is   the   exact   mental1 habit  most r  valuable to any people desiring to preserve .   free institutions, and it is very important '   to   us   as   a   people   that   women   should
have more of it than they have now, be-r cause women will always furnish the mental atmosphere iit which children l develop. And it is exactly the side on ! which the higher education of women , would suffer most if the co-educational c   universities were closed to them.
"It is an old-fashioned saying nowa-, days that 'eternal vigilance is the price of . liberty'," concluded Professor Dewey. [ "American women have made enormous . gains In education during the last genera-, tion, but they seem to think that these 3 gains, once made, are secure for all time 1 No such thing is secure, unless it is protected by power in the hands or those i   who benefit by it.,
'- Points Need of Woman's Ballot.
. "There are always reactions, and a I thing once given can be, and often has - been,  taken  away  during  a  reaction.
"I confess that I think American women have reached a danger point in their progress. They have gone so far that it is no longer a joke. They have aroused jealousy and dislike in those who do not ' like their advance.
"They must either go forward and secure the oallot to protect their interest*, or they will be shoved back by this element. I don't feel in the least sure that the coeducational universities of America will remain permanently open to women."
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