The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-02
DEMANDS ON WOMEN.
One of the Most Marked Chsifa ct eristics q
Madam III

One of the Most Marked Chsffa ct eristtcs OF
( Modern Life.
1t h rs always been true, from the
dawn OF civilization, that The role OF
women in society and in life has been
more intricate. although less broad,
than that of rnerfss has always been,
asked at the hands efAwemensthat they
should be a thousand times more nex-
ible than men; that they should adapt
themselves to hundred conditions
which men ignored or scorned, and
that they play in the drama of life a
score of parts. to every one which was
undertaken by their fathers. and
brothers, and sons. As life. has. con
Btantly grown more and more complex,
this difference between the sexes has
increased rather than diminished.
Life to-day demands of a2woman more
changes in. "A day than a mar Is re,
.quired to compass in month. She
must, from moment to moment, be one
thing aftef another,=the woman Of So
cfety, the leader Of reforms, tho
sharer in this work of charity and
that labor of intellectual progress,
until it is a miracle that she is able to
do any of the multitudineus duties
imposed upon her.
OF course, in a great measure this is
due 70 the fact that " emea.aEil Iaeeept
these burdens. Men escape much by
the simple method of refusing to take
it upon them. 1t is idle to expect men
to bend to all changes with which
women cucumber theirslives, and so
the lives of menNremain and are likely
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 who
are capable of standing out against
circumstance Perhaps the diff.
ference is that man argues
with himself and is. satisfied
with his conclusion, while-a woman
must argue with second person or
her arguments are apt to be as water
spilled upon the ground, which can
net be gathered again A man een--
vinces himself that he is right and that
is the end of it. He acts upon that
conclusion, while a woman in similar
case would be apt to find it impossible
to be satisfied unless, she could have
the confirmation of some one else to as
sure her that she We're justified in her
decision.
hot IA ha nf ~
fact there. is no doubt. The woman
who is one of the world to-day must be
prepared to be all things in suecession.
She must be the careful housewife,
the social leader, the religieusc, the
scholar, the wit, the confidante, all in
turn. She must compass at least II
show of all learning; she must be in
sympathy with all branches of knowll
edge, and feeling and thought; she
must attend to hundreds OF forms OF
life of tho very existence of which her
grandmothers were ignorant, Whether
she has been wiss in taking all this
burden upon herisi will hardly fall
within the province Of the present gem
Grafton to decide: Whether the chill
dren or grandchildren OF these wonder
full women will be the better or the
worse for the extraordinary strain
which is put upon the mothers of tho
race, any man may speculate, but no
man can tell. Eyery<wornan might BIO
supposed to decide for herself how
far she will share this high=strung
life. but as a matter of fact no human
being is able to escape the influence of
his day and generation. We are part
of a whole. and although a woman may
to some extent withdraw herself from
the current, in the end she is forced to
choose between being left a stranded
waif on the shore Of the stream and
taking hcr part=of whatever the life OF
her time may be.-Roston Courier.
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