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We are simply horrified. What at? Why at the* Lenox NnlML it actually has ladies on its editorial staff. The Scripture command* women to be '’keepers ah home bul. at Lenox college it seems women have taken upon themselves the duties of public teachers. Thay ai*e pushing the nuble men of America out of the editorial chairs. They permit themselves to he besieged bv printers1 devils fnv ‘‘copy,*1 and all this in spite of the fact that woman's ^sphere” is the home. Alas! Where will all this end? 1/ woman is allowed to edit college popurs she will want to edit newspapers, and if she is allowed to edit, newspapersshe will enter politics and ?;ote\ and if she enters politics she will want io run for office and we nifty have a '.adv for president!! Oli, Lenox Nutshell1* do you not see that according io your irvn reasoning 3*011 are hanging over the abyss of ruin ? If it is wrong for Miss Willard to leave - the home and act as a public teacher is it not wrong for you, ladies, to1 edit the Lenox Nutshell? When we read 3*0ur strictures on Miss Willard's course we supposed they were written by some soured and disappointed politician and we intended to dip ouu pen in gall and
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Monmouth College Newspaper Collegian

Monmouth, Illinois, US

Wed, Feb 20, 1889

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