Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-15
wICHITA'S WOMEN.
Why wern't Wichita's Winning Women
Wanted?

| Our board OF trade managers ignored,
entirely, the women of Wichita in their
| late banquet, not even SO much as ac-
knowledging by a toast their existence, or
| that these, our fair co-laborers, had with
| brain and heart sustained and inspired
many of these gentlemen who have so
| suddenly awakened to the realization that
their faith and money had done it all. If
the writer could only have been assigned
the pleasurable task OF paying his poor
! tribute to these queen. of our homes and
hearts, and arbiter sof our fortunesiinstead
| OF being commanded to interest a crowd.
ratified by their own georcous grandilo-
Guence, with a with purely material
| question, even we might have said some
| thing which would have lighted the
neglected chamber. of some woman's soul
| too sweet in its greatness and mag
| nanimity to even complain. We paint
angels fair that they may look like
women. Every line Of limb and
curve OF contour betokens the gentleness
Of their Utmost being. We care not what
the success OF genius of any man may be,
| woman transcends him, infinitely, even in
his chosen field, in that he would fail in
her absence: and however great in his own
estimation or even in that of the worlds
there is a woman for him who can. whose
delight it is. to lead him up to heights IN
dreamed Of and give him glimpses OF fields
beyond, OF whose existence he was wholly
ignorant. These victors. fresh in the
glory OF their achievements. may, as on the
occasion alluded 70. pirate OF the faith and
inspiration by which they won, and al ut
terly oblivious Of the source of that faith,
as they were, and which at best was not
their own, but which has been, in many
cases, instilled, like dew. into their cal
loused hearts by the gentle beings at their
sides, and all uncon.ciou.ly. Some women
absorb a man, some there are whose IA
lures even consume, but thousand time.
against one she mold., stimulates and ex-
allS-saves man. Soft as a landscape
chri.tened by raindrops meath a mornings
sun, she is harmonious even where luxuri-
uriaut, sublime alike in her sweet passion
for, and in her devotion TO man, whose
coarseness would partake of the british
but for her And she possesses an intui
ton which grasped quicker and more sure
Iy than his logic the possibilities Of
Wichita Why was she ignored and for
gotten?
They denied us the women and put us on
manufactures. Save single vulgar allu-
sion TO bologna sausage and dog tails. our
response fell as falls the monotonous hum
Of bumblebees upon the ears of the
sleeping traveller by the wayside-
void OF sense or meaning. Such i.
crowd OF men in the absence of
woman-such is solid sense in an at
mosphere Of gas. They talked of their
faith and confidence in the future Of
Wichita when nine out of ten of them
within the brief Period Of five years never
expected to live to see more than ten or
twenty or possibly thirty thousand people
in Wichita; in their superior wisdom, in
that little while, laughing to scorn the
women who in all these years believed in
and with the EAGLE-the very women who
with the EAGLE implanted and sustained
for years that much vaunted faith before it
ever resolved itself into work which in
sured that success so largely dwelt upon at
that banquet. How we apples SWIM
when somebody is found to throw US into
the stream. Yet these very men if they
desired picture, or model in marble.
would want it Of woman. No bphere,
however bright or beautiful, unless. it.
glory was enhansed by the presence
of woman would be heaven;
and, if that Board Of Trade
can't appreciate an ideal of that exhalla-
ton they had better demonstrate their
ability to make city out Of an Oatville or
a Grassview.
No, woman in Norman caps, in white
aprons: woman in the glory Of full dress
or yelled only by the scant robe of the
Classics; woman mid the friyolitics and
gaitie. Of life, or vet at the bedside Of the
sufferng-a everywhere, clean
and pure, we would rather the presence,
the counsel and the trust of one OF them
than that whole board Of trade-rather
meet one Of them, il but for a moment.
than TO dwell forever with whole street
full of the fellows who didn't know
enough to honor the women of Wichita.