[Footnote 28: See Note 4, p. 270.] [Footnote 29: Memory: An Inductive Study. By F.W. Colegrove. Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1900, p. 229. See also Individual Memories. American Journal of Psychology, January, 1899, vol. 10, pp 228-255.] * * * * * CHAPTER XI THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS Equal opportunities of higher education now open--Brings new dangers to women--Ineradicable sex differences begin at puberty, when the sexes should and do diverge--Different interests--Sex tension--Girls more mature than boys at the same age--Radical psychic and physiological differences between the sexes--The bachelor women--Needed reconstruction--Food--Sleep--Regimen--Manners--Religion--Regularity--The topics for a girls' curriculum--The eternal womanly. The long battle of woman and her friends for equal educational and other opportunities is essentially won all along the line. Her academic achievements have forced conservative minds to admit that her intellect is not inferior to that of man. The old cloistral seclusion and exclusion is forever gone and new ideals are arising. It has been a noble movement and is a necessary first stage of woman's emancipation. The caricatured maidens "as beautiful as an angel but as silly as a goose" who come from the kitchen to the husband's study to ask how much is two times two, and are told it is four for a man and three for a woman, and go back with a happy "Thank you, my dear"; those who love to be called baby, and appeal to instincts half parental in their lovers and husbands; those who find all the sphere they desire in a doll's house, like Nora's, and are content to be men's pets; whose ideal is the clinging vine, and who take no interest in the field where their husbands struggle, will perhaps soon survive only as a diminishing remainder. Marriages do still occur where woman's ignorance and helplessness seem to be the chief charm to men, and may be happy, but such cases are no farther from the present ideal and tendency on the one hand than on the other are those which consist in intellectual partnerships, in which there is no segregation of interests but which are devoted throughout to joint work or enjoyment.