Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-12
Through Conservative spectacles.


may he taken as typical of the diverse
views now current as to what strictly be-
longs to "Woman's Sphere" A term
seemingly indicative that the limit ana
bounds of woman's career have been set
tied SO definitely and finally as never to
give occasion for controversy. The cor
ners set up under the supervision and by
command of man Lord and master,
and ;he lines run By man, the friend and
equal, have little relation, and women
being the judges of the boundaries perfer
the latter.
There is no tender, chaster affection
possible than that father feels for bis
daughter as the soft glow of coming
womanhood suffuses her face and the
CLEAN of coming love-light brightens her
glances. That man who hears so sweet a
creature call him father would be less
than human if the vision did not move him
TO greater effort and strengthen a deter
mination to shield her from contact with
the world. Yet il he reflects he must
know that this is not always possible.
Misfortune may overtake him in ways
he could not avert, or It may be some
day the heart once his own viii pass
into another's keeping TO await future
in which he has no part. This father, if
as wise as he is loving, will wish his
daughter to be qualified for future the
exigences of which no human foresight
can forestall.
The diversity of opinion to which allu-
sion has bSen made was exhibited by two
female writer's, the one holding that
there should be no check put upon
womRn's efforts at self maintenance,
and the other contrasting for what she
claimed as woman's inalienable right,
that If being maintained by man, and
the evil effects likely 10 follow man
conversion to a belief in her abundant
capacity to take care of herself with n
little to spare to take care of him. One
took the practical and the other the sem
timental side of the question, and as
usual truth is in each.
In the day Eve walked with Adam out
side Paradise the burden of life implied
work, but not 10 her more than to him
was 1t work only, there was to each COM
pensation in work. Too long have
women waited for the compensation; but
the day has dawned, and women are
themselves slowest to learn the extent of
It. If the spectacles are fairly adjusted
the wenrer will find the cheerful daugh-
ters OF this day are daughters of toll,
the breadwinners, if they have been
properly equipped for their work. Young
women who go in the morning to their
duties, who handle the money they have
earned need not envy young women who
rise at 10 wearied with the follies of the
day before and who sigh in sheer ennui
over the round that must be kept up.
Neither need any alarmist cry out for the
future wives and mothers. That girl in
her neat business suit has not smothered
her instincts, and is more ut for the du-
ties of womanhood than is the pale, will
lowy girl who has whrled for two seasons
in bathrooms and fiirted away two sum-
mers at watering places.
Daughters more than sons need to be
fitted for self maintenance; the condi-
tons of society are such, and are likely
to remain, that young men with ordinary
health, tair mentality and good morals
can successfully steer their way what
ever the buffe.ings, but a woman is at
most unfair odds when she piunges into
the waves with no previous training TO
aid her in combating them. A solemn
duty Is laid on those having the charge
Of girls, that they be fitted for some
thing, that their talents and inclinations
be carefully studied aud cultivated, and
above all that they be thoroughly indoo- |
trinated in the probabilities of life. |
There is no sadder sight IN the daily
grind than some trembling, half-dtted |
grinder at the mill.
The great mistake that men and !
women fall into is that money getting |
and bread winning is all. These fail |
10 see that a woman has aspirations |
and ambitions, that to her as well as to |
him there comes at sometime a voice |
I'll -, f,,a-
10 me il l do not heed. - Neither do |
men or women appreciate how much the
needing of that voice involves; it ia that
10 which George Eliot refers when she
says of her sex: "They are the Yea and
Nay of that good for which men are en-
Turing and lighting" 1t is in ans wer
10 that call within the soul that women
.ave led some of the grandest forward
marches the world has ever known.
Man goes to his labor and the world
lonors him; let generous world grant
% women the same. Not by bread alone
ioes woman live, the daintiest darling of
! rich mans home has moments of utter
disgust; she looks at the silken hangings
md the flmy robes fairy might envy,
lud asks, Is this the whole of life? Now,
he world wonders il she turns from it
III and seeks an outlet for the pent-up
energies of her nature, while pointing q
niger OF scorn at the perfumed dandy
Who suffers his opportunities TO drift by
content IL he is flower petal on the
tream that bears him to eternity. This
8 not just, neither is it justifiabls.
is not imperiled because young
sofuen are learning that marriage is not
heir sole aim. Women that can rightly
their own powers have learned a
essoa not taught in the school of butter
lies, and IN their choice of q husband
Till not be prone TO put their judgment
n obeyance. There is, however, a
hraateued danger man may be wise TO
eed, and it is one that should beget a
7holesome fear and lead to good results.
{ is undeniable that women are con-
family encroachlng and men are giving
lace t. women. Why? Said man,
Yes, l employ women musicians at
hese places of amusement because they
IN Z get drunk, l know l can depend on
heir being here. - Said an employer
f nearly 100 men, al am going to put O.
Toman IN every place she can fill. ~
Vhy? "Because women are more re-
able, pay day does not mean lay off
Or day or two afterward, and they are
OF plotting against employers. Said
mother, 81 want women at the ma
hines because they are dooile and re-
q ble.' Another, 81 prefer women in |
~ office because they are neat about
heir work and exert q refining intiu- 1
nce.' These are hints TO women es
ell as lessons TO men. There is little |
eed for q demand of an equal 1
nance, public sentiment is turned in |