Mr. Dix Criticised

In answer to the iament or Dr. L)ix 01 STew York that "real wonien" aredying Dut, and that tho "ideal oí an earnest, modest, simple womanhood" is being superseded by a poor substitute made of "vulgarity, heartlessness, froth and 3haff," a London, Eng., paper thus uriticises the reverend gentleman: That there are many girls in New ïork, as in London, Paris, and every other center of wealth and luxury, as despieable as those whom Ur. Dix describes, is true enough, and pity 'tis 'tis true. But that this picture of the American girl applies to any more than the mere fringe of the sex we altoarether refuse to believe. The worst of it is that Dr. Dix himself and men of thatway of thinking are partly answerable for this abnormal development of female folly. Dr. Dix has just been distinguishing himself by heading the opposition - which has unfortunately been successful- to the admission of women to Columbia college. Notwithstanding the success of Newnham and Girton, and of the Woman's Annex at Harvard, it has pleased Dr. Dix and others to denounce the higher education of women as if it were certain to result in the ruin of the sex. Women, in his opinión, ought to regard the love. admiration and nappiness of man as the chief end of their being, and a well educated woman, he seems to believe, judging perhaps from his own feelings, would be much less attractivo to mankind than her more tenorant sister. It is that kind of tcachiñr which leads directly to the "irnmolation of tho child in society" which Dr. Dix so utterly lamwnts. He would shut them out from all but social ambitions, and an exaggerated devotion to society is the natural result. Almost all the abuses which he assails aro due to the lack of the higher and wider education which he resolutely denies. It is in vain for anyone to preach that either man or womañ oxists solely fcr the benefit of some one else. Each individual exists also for him or for herself, and marriago ought no moro to be the sacrifico of the woman to the man, as Dr. Dix maintains, than the sacrifico of the man to tho woman. It is idle to deplore solid views of marriage when dcclaiming against tho opening of other means of livelihood to woman. It is a somewhat odd notion that if women aro as well educated as men thoy will bo less likely to live happily together in marriod hfo.