AJanuary 14 1909
The Cincinnati Post, Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday, January 14, 1909
Philology Helps Her Rear Children
By Ruth Neely.
“I have learned nothing that I do not utilize in the care and training of my four children. My one regret is that my education was not more extensive.” —Mrs. Moses C. Buttenweiser
If a woman of average education had made the above remark, it would hardly warrant notice.
But the statement acquires significance with the additional information that Mrs. Buttenweiser, wife of Prof. Buttenweiser, of Hebrew Union College, is the third woman of America, including Canada, to have graduated from the University of Heidelberg.
The degree that the Cincinnati woman took at Heidelberg is that of Teutonic philology. I suppose one woman in 10 knows what that is.
Yet, according to Mrs. Buttewieser, who is perhaps the foremost college woman in Cincinnati, there hasn't been a bit of her college education wasted.
Before her marriage to Dr. Buttenweiser, which took place in Germany, Mrs. Buttenweiser, a Canadian by birth, had been a teacher at Winnipeg Collegiate Institute.
Now, she admits, her entire time is occupied in caring for four wonderfully happy, healthy babies for whose [illegible] gy, or, at least, the mental culture and strength it gave, and all the rest of the mother's acquirements, are brought into play.
The Cincinnati woman is the most significant Cincinnati exponent of ex-President Eilio's famous statement that the purpose of higher education for women is to make wives and mothers.
This does not mean that Mrs. Buttenweiser advocates turning her back upon intellectual interests and pursuits.
At a meeting of the Susan B. Anthony Club Tuesday the woman graduate of Heidelberg read the most scholarly and one of the most deeply interesting papers ever presented before that body. It concerned the women of Ibsen's dramas, and in her remarks the speaking plainly indicated her sympathy with the famous playwright's views.
“It is a beautiful thing that Ibsen has so often chosen women characters to be the vehicle of his finest thought,” said Mrs. Buttenwieser.
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“He has given us all kinds of women, but his best stand for thought and growth, truth and freedom, and for sacredness of personality.
“Like his great men, his women rise above sex, creed and conversation. They are free, and that is the greatest recognition any man can show woman, to see in her not the eternal feminine but the human soul.
The college professor's wife is a native on Ontario. She took her first degree at Queen's College, Kingston, and has been accorded the honor of special mention in “Canadian Men and Women's of the Times,” the “Who's Who” of Canada.
