The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-28
WOMAN QUESTION.
No. III.
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. %, 80.

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. %, 80.
Editors Herald:
Seeing an article in your paper
headed "The Woman Question, my
attention was attracted, it being 6
subject in which We, as women, are
deeply interested. l have never been
able to see why the question of sex
should limit the full and free use oil
intelligence. While your able cores
pondent, "Ben Lomoad" admits
this, there is a thread of lightness
running through his arguments,
which Eayors OF patronizipg. ! think
we Should be entitled to all privi-
leges that our capabilities can in
sure for W, as a matter of right, il
not OF might. Accorded to US in this
way, the effect is ennobling to
woman, and becoming in man.
The writer OF letter 'No. 2" upon
this question, paints a very pretty
picture of the domestic, home wife,
whom all men must admire. Some
men, however, would carry the sub
ject little farther and argue that in
no way would woman be deprived of
her domestic attributes by extending
her domain OF thought. Where the
immediate cares of household and
the rearing of Children devolve upon
the wife, and mother, her lines, for
the time at least, 8re cast, and in
pleasan! places, too. But while the
bands are busy with baby-tending,
and stocking mending, the mind,
ever reaching and never satisfied,
might be exercising come thought
the future career of the
baby boy; and while under the i'm
mediate influence of his mother,
imperceptibly is his life being
moulded for future usefulness, or it's
Time passes; the boy is 6
man; the, mother relieved from re-
sponsibility; yet not from her anxiety. |
Now, she may have more time TO
exercise those thoughts that then
found place IN her mind and heart.
She neglsc!s no duty st home, by ex-
her sphere of usefulness, and
should she even enter the list OF
for office, and be elected
Governor of Utah, she certainly
could not be guilty of greater errors
n experimenting than some of her
predecessors have been. The stronger
| man is in his own individuality the
more manly he is. So says common II
'erdict. Then why is the rule 20! good
n woman's case, as we'll? Anything
approaching the masculine character
n woman is not becoming, and on
he other hand anything approaching
he feminine in man, is unbecoming.
But to say that weakness is any more
n attribute OF woman, Rs a rule, |
han OF man, as rule. is not true.
me more fully woman is strong in
mind, and clear in intellectual ,
bility, the more is she truly
7omanly. And as man would soorn
} ape any OF her feminine attributes,
D also would she soar above appro-
rating any of his. Gail Hamilton
as coined the VOID to meet the \
tustion, which is neither the man =
spending upon the woman nor the
oman depending upon the man en-.
rely. The relation is one of ''inter- 7
spendance," each mutually looking
the other for that which they have
ot. I can conceive of men being
limited in metal cslibre that they
Guild guard with jealous care a 2
lies superior qualities, fearing that
cir own might suffer by public con.
sst. This is narrow, and short
GIFTED. They far better glory in
cir wonderful powers OF persuation,
at committed this intelligent life to
cir own, making the twain lone =
III With but single thought, two -