Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-11-30

She has her wings. Then the joy and courage of
her spirit she will impart, both by inheritance and
precept, to her offspring.
1t is claimed that if woman was financially indie
pendent and was allowed to enter the political
arena, she would no longer care to assume matri-
monial relations, and taking upon herself it's cares
and responsibilities. The leopard does not change
his spots nor the Ethiopian his skin, and when the
Glove that makes the world 60 round, touches
the hearts of men and women all else will forever
and aye be adjusted to that love. There might
not, it is true, be as many marriages as there are
now, but neither would there be as many divorces
nor as many badly adjusted, placeless human be-
ings. And "if in the divine shuttle of things - as
Bacon puts it, a woman should never know that
love divine which with its potent power could
make her one with another human being, she
would not be driven, by conditions of her environ
ment to a marriage that in the very nature of
things must be failure. Again, if deathsdeprive
her and her children of him who gave life its best
completeness, or worse, if she should find her idol
all of clay-a weak, worthless, truthless creature
she could still go on, self-sustained, a burden
neither to individuals nor the state, leading her
children up to their maturity in the rectitude and
independence that constitutes good citizenship.
That the requirements of "society - the time
occupied in discharging its obligations the hours
and the dress are more inimical to wife and moth
erhood than the ballot or financial independence
could possibly be, is susceptible of easy demon
s%tration.
The pudding that has been proven by the eating
may, with safety, be pronounced good or the re-
verse, and it is true that with scarcely an excep-
ton, those women who have been and are promi-
nent public workers in different lines are wives
and mothers and have ideally happy homes. In
our midst we have a notable example of this in
Mrs. Myra Bradwell, founder and editor of the
Chicago Legal News, and who, as a wife, mother,
and housekeeper, is without a peer.
1t is. the concurrent conclusion of the most emf
nent medical writer's that, with scarcely an excep-
ton, boys take their moral and intellectual bent
from their mothers, If then we would have great
statesmen, men of power and of rectitude, women
must be allowed to be mans equal companion
that her sons may be worthy of their father. Nv
plea for the ballot for women and her equal Or
p%ortunity in every department of effort, is not in
the name of nor for the sake of women only. but
for the uplifting of men and women for the bet
terment of the race.
The experiment of the equality of women before
the law has never been made, Reasoning from
analogy and such data as is at command, to allow
the mothers of mankind a position of dignity and
tangible responsibility, would be not only a lust
but a reformatory measure. There is no reason
TO suppose that women would neglect their homes o
to seek political honors any more than men neglect,
their business for such distinctions. The specta-
Gle of a mothers neglecting her child for any rea.
son Whatever is not a common one. Therefore,
IN the language OF the Rev. DR.. Robert Collyer of
New York, would say: II believe that allow.
Ing women the suffrage is a safe experiment and
one that should be made"
ANToINETTE VAN HoEsEN.