The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-03-22
DEMANDS ON WOMEN.


r. has always been true, from the
dawn of civilization, that the role OF
women in society and in lie has oeen
more intricate, although less broad.
than that of men. It has always been
asked at the hands of women that Iney
should be a thousand times more mex
ihle than men; that they should adapt
themselves to hundred condlIlons
which men ignored or scorned, ana
that they play in the drama OF lie 9
score of parts to every one which was
undertaken by their fathers. ana
brothers, and sons. As life has con-
stantlv grown more and more complex
this difference between the sexes mas
Increased rather than diminished.
Life to-day demands OF q woman more
changes in day than a man IS To-
ouired to compass in month. one
must. from moment to moment, DC one
thing after another, the woman OF So
cietv. the leader of reforms the
sharer in this work of charity ana
that labor of intellectual progress
until it is a miracle that she is able 10
90 any VI ChO
imposed upon her.
~Of course, in great measure this Is
due to the fact that women will accept
these burdens. Men escape much Dy
the simple method of refusing to take
Il unon them. It is idle to expect men
to bend to all changes with which
women cucumber their lives. ana SO
the lives of men remain and are llKely
to remain more simple than those OF
the other sex. Women are, as a rule
sufficiently we'll able to oppose their
wills to personal opposition, but the
women are few and far to seek VINO
ara capable of standing out against
; circumstance. Perhaps the dif-
ference is that man argues
, with himself and is satisfied
with his conclusion, while woman
must argue with a second person or
I her arguments are apt to be as water
q spilled upon the ground, which car
q not be gathered again. A man con-
n vinces himself that he is right and tina
ia the end of it. He acts upon that
4 conclusion, while woman in slmlla
a case would be apt to find it Impossible
# to be satisfied unless she could nave
the confirmation of some one else to as
a sure her that she were justified IN ne
g. decision.
II But whatever be the cause. OF tn
"a fact there is no doubt. The woma
+. who is one of the world to-day must Q
IN prepared to be all things in Succession
lv She must be the careful housewife
So the social leader, the religieuse, tt
as scholar, the wit, the contidante' all
OF turn. She must compass at least
h. show of all learning; she must De
We sympathy with all branches OF know
he edge and feeling and thought; 81
IN must attend to hundreds OF forms
of life of the very existence of which n
,lv grandmothers were ignorant Wheth
she has been wise in taking all tn
nd burden upon her it will hardly Il
he within the province Of the present ge
me- Grafton to decide. Whether the ch
tu- dren or grandchildren of these wonde
EN- full women will be the better or t
be- worse for the extraordinary strs
in which is put upon the mothers OF t
We race, any man may speculate, but
ses man can tell Every woman might
our supposed to decide for herself n
1ey far she will share this high-stru
the life, but as a matter of fact no hum
ned being is able to escape the influence
JOS his day and generation. We are
cts. of whole, and although woman
/, il to some extent withdraw herself Fl
d the current, in the end she Is forced
pes, choose between being left stran
han wait on the shore of the stream
ort, taking her part of whatever the lif'
sa- her time may be.-Boston Courier.
ing A Discourager of HesitancY.