Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-29
THE WOMAN OF THE FUTURE.
She VIII Prove that She is No Longer
the Weaker Vessel.
From the Albany Evening Journal

From the Albany Evening Journal
There is much talk now about the woman of
| The future. Whether she will don frock coat,
! natty vest, trousers and a silk hat after the
fashion of DIR. Mary Walker, or whether she
will wear her hair short and parted on the side
| Is still a matter of conjecture. However this
may be, the woman of the future is going to
| revolutionize the world. She is going to clear
that cess-pool of iniquity known as politics.
| She is going to settle the burning questions of
the day and prove that she is no longer the
| weaker vessel
The woman of the future. according to the
strong minded. will not be engaged in the pref
| ty employment of doing fancy work and en-
broidery, of making cats and dogs and darned
| lace, but will be holding a seat in Congress,
| hegding a brass band and running a political
campaign. This woman still belongs to the
future. and how she may step down from the
future into the present is agitating the public
| mind. As one can only be fair and Just with a
case by hearing both sides, arguments are Of
ferred on the wrong side of this vital question.
One writer on the subject says that women
| were at their best as women of the house. as
mothers and friends. Whatever they may do
or be is admirable and womanly. They have
fewest of the qualities which make good political
leaders, and to give preponderance into the
hands of women is simply national suicide.
But the voice of the women of to-day calls for
protection and the privilege of taking their
sanctified womanhood to the polls. forgetting
that their best protection is that sanctified
womanhood.
A gentleman on being asked what quality
was most attractive in woman, replied: THE
quality of rest" When a man seeks a few
hours of quiet in his home from the hurry burly
madness of professional or business life. does
he want to hear anything about stocks and
bonds? Does he want to discuss the tariff or
the assembly ceiling with his wife? And as
that man sits under the evening lamp with his
family gathered around him. what matters it to
them whether the ceiling committee has re-
ported, or whether there Is likely to be trouble
with Samoa, or who supports the Vedder tax
bill? Does any woman need further protection
than that which husband, home, and sons can
give?
The home is the ballot-box for women and
all the franchise she needs is to reign queen of
her own household. There her Influence is
perpetual. There characters are nodded for
time and eternity. Benjamin West said. "A
kiss from my mother made me n painter"
Benjam Franklin said, .'All that am all that
l expect to be, owe to my mother" Martin
Luther, the leader of the German reformation
came from an obscure home. His mother was
noted only as woman of exemplary virtue
The silent influence of the home is the reform
that reforms.
Life Is short and partings come quick enough
II all the home ties remain unbroken and an
opportunity is never missed to keep the society
OF those who associate with each other in the
home, When a woman leaves husband and
children to enlist in some great reform or talk
on the suffrage question and plead for her
rights. she leaves all there is worth living for
She takes away a companionship the loss Of
which Is felt daily, hourly. 1t is the best of life
and
when women try to grasp the stars
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