The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-22


any more, - they used to. They eat
their breakfast and go OF to business
like little men. They do not expectorate
on the carpets or break the furniture.
| They do not smoke They co not come
home drunk at 8 o'clock IN the morning
and raise the house with ringing
the front door bell because they are too
befuadled 70 find the key hole. They
don't eat as much Is Hen, though azn
| glad to say they are doing bester N this
respect lately. and eating more than IN
the sentimental days when they lived On
| toast and tea. IhaYe been investigating
| this subject and the only objection / find
TO the girls is that they wash their stock
| ings and haDdkerchiefs IN their wash
basins and want 10 heat an iroa once
week on the laundry stove, to iron them
with Well. what Of az That does not
annoy anybody, and It's good deal bet
ter to wash the things than to let them
60 without. isn't it No. bless the girlsl
yield TO 20 woman alive IN my adznira-
ton of the mascnlinesex. of their intel
lectuality, their lionhke strength, their
broad, generous tolerance. yes. and their
good looks When men have kept their
bodies at their best, and are not too fat,
or tumble down old wrecks, there Ia not
an object in nature more splendid than
they. have always appreciated them,
! confess. Now, hope that Is sstisfac-
tory. But if had to take my choice be-
tween living in a house with all the
boarders men or all women, should
take the women What pleasure have
had with my women contradict clean,
kindly, loyal, sympathetic, merry, While
! like men. rs | have said. / must own
that the truest friends Of my life have
been women, and it hurts me, this dis
elimination against women boarders.
For twenty-five years the ladies of the
National Woman Suffrage association
have been told at their annual conven-
tons that they had not gained a peg in
the way of progress since they began.
Now, however, they can retort on their
prosecutors that they have gained one
peg, Just one. The judiciary committee
of the house of representatives have
agreed 20 recommend an amendment TO
the national constitution eu6tling wo-
men to vote. This has never happened
In either house of congress before. The
nearest approach to anything like it in
the senate was the appOintuientl last year
Of committee on woman suffrage. But
the progress is really very little. The
house committee recommend the pas
sage of the amendment. it n true Then
the house itself must pass the amend
ment. After that the senate, In Its lun
bering, awfully slow way, would take II
up. Say that In the course of three
years or so the senate actually did pass
the amendment, too. Then 1t would still
have to go before the states, TO be rati
fed by three-Quarters of them. The
whole process would take several years.
Moreover, the question is still in dispute
whether the decision IS TO woman suf
frage belongs properly to congress or to
the Legislatures OF the several states.
Wyoming has decided this for herself,
territorially, by admitting women to the
right of full suffrage.
l have been looking over report Of
the work done the past year by a num-
Der of women's clubs. On the whole the
work is encouraging, and deals largely
with the burning questions Of today, the
things on which hangs the earthly saliva
ton of men and women. But some Of
the rubbish these women have been pack
ing into their brains is disappointing.
While not half the women know in what
congressional district they live, while
not one woman in twenty has studied
the United States constitution or that Of
fhe state in which she lives, while not
one woman in a hundred can give an in
telligent abstract Of the laws governing
the property rights Of married women
and widows in her own state. l submit
whether it does not look a little far
fetched TO be investigating the works Of
the early Russian poets. That Is all.
One Of the edifces in Detroit Is the
Mary W. Palmer Methodist Episcopal
church. Of the women who have given
millions Of money 10 churches Mrs.
Palmer is about the only one who has
received any recognition Of the fact that
was worth mentioning. Where else in
Protestant Christendom Is church
named for q woman!
Miss F.lizabeth Bislaud, says that the
most beautiful people on earth are an
Singapore. Their eyes are ike jewels,
their compilations Ike polished bronze,
and their walk and carriage hike that Of
gods and goddesses. The mn are even
more beautiful than the women. In
SAYING this MIS- Bssland states fact in
race development. Among ssTasSs and
unciviizsd Pe~plesthe men AFRO always
taller proportonauy. handsoDer and
more finely fornsed than the women In
the progress of evolution man gsts his
dewelepmeA& first. Woman has not Jet
had her complete dsvelopmGa1 IN any
race. Bat IL VIII COINS.
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