, 1890-08-28
oladstone's Views Of wom,u.

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Gladstone's Views of Woman.
AT the ffty-first anniversary Of
their marriage, Mr.. and Mrs. vii.
liam Gladstone invited a lot of the
Burlington high school girls to have
an Ice with them on the lawn. The
girls went in their prettiest white
frocks, their brightest ribbons and
sweetest smiles and after congratu-
lations formed circle about the
venerable statesman and held him
captive for ''school-girl speech"
What those pretty British maidens
heard must have made a very deep
impression.
MIR. Gladstone reminded them
that they belonged to the favored
half Of the human race, that they
were sweet and lovely because they
were women and that there very
presence was sunshine to the world.
He ''ran over" the achievements of
their sisters and their mothers, ad-
mitttd the improvements their in
dustry and earnestness had brought
abuot and predicted even greater
and better changes. Then he be-
came very phatic and jerking his
right arm away back let fly pow
erful blow at the strong-minded
grenadler women of the age
III do not believe in the unsexed
women and 1 am not in sympathy
with the masculine women. The
destiny of the advanced woman is
doubtful. The blue stocking, the
business woman and the female pol
itician Is a superfluity." He re-
ferred to the saloon raiders as I'M
lovely, called the political reformers
his "shriekinR sisters" and num-
bered the "female bull fighters and
female leaguors" among the lntol-
erable evils of society. His observa-
tion led him to believe that "the
grsatest need Of the world is home
women and home girls to make that
sacred spot beautiful, wholesome,
lovely" He thought the world too
big aud too bad for any one club,
one organization or one community
to reform. Home is q little place
and there a good woman can make
"A heaven, rear IA throne aud reign a
goddess. In concluding, this wise
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his eyes with his hand and looking
toward Mrs. Gladstone, who listened
attentively and applauded with APP
proving smiles: II can not think
that anything which attempts or
affects to alter fundamentally the
relation with the Almighty Him.
self has established, the design of
which he has marked out in our con-
stitutions and capacities, or which
draw women out of their own
sphere, would ever succeed"
A New York lady now in Lon
don, who was a guest at this de-
lightful gathering, Is slyly stealing
the opinions OF Mr.. Gladstone oil
the woman question, which she will
present to Sorosls when she comes
back. Some of his views are most
discouraging. He has "the greatest
admiration for the woman who has
done something In any line pro-
vided she has kept away from the
public" but has yet to meet the
heroine of a career who Is not brazen
or uresonie. lit Is not her fault ~
he says, "but the result of ontanii-
nation; no one can elbow the street
crowd without losing some
OF the sweetness we prize In
woman." He thinks that the gain
that comes from the outer world,
from the shop, the rostrum and the
public procession is more than over.
powered by the loss of modesty,
gentleness, faith and womanly dig.
nifty.
When asked what women should
do he said: "Marry, make homes,
mind their children, keep the .hon.
eymoon from eclipse and keep of
the street. Any reforms they want
to make should be made through
their husbands.
When told that all women could
not marry, he said: ut Is their
own fault then. A sweet woman
can not be resisted" which means
that our girls are being educated
and trained on n wrong basis.
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