Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-04-19

should be more than one side to it,
The vision Of the opponents is INSTRUCTED by
great stonewall, and on it is marked the word
"sphere." The advanced thinkers on the other
side have chiseed away at it for about forty years
and it is gradually crumbling, but there is still
enough standing to hold up the word "spbere."
1t will drop some day with erash-it is almost
transparency now.
If there is one principle involved in the manage
ment of the human race concerning which there is
more general knowledge floating about than there
is about sphere, should like to know what it is.
St. Paul had great many prescribed ideas on
the subject, and since the woman question has
provoked so much discussion he has been enjoying
apositve boom. If one-quarter the other good
things he said had received ope-quarter the atten
ton of this subject the world might indeed be
better.
First it was thought sphere meant brains, but
co-educationa statistics dealt this theory power
full blow.
Then it was held sphere meant muscle. l will
Illustrate:
During my residence in the South there came to
my door each summer morning woman with fruit
and vegetables to sell. She carried heavy bucket
on each arm and over her shoulder bag with an
equal amount of vegetable in either end to balance
1t. She was veritable beast of burden. She
had five young children at home and her husband
was too delicate to work she said.
AS winter approached [ ventured to inquire
what mode of livelihood she pursued after the
fruit and vegetables were no longer to be had.
ooh, said she, cheerfully, "then | take my
ak and go into the woods and chop"
Now, how about sphere! Think you there may
have been delegation awaiting her at the woods,
TO demonstrate when they saw this lone woman
coming with her ak. No, the woods were empty.
Her entrance kept no wood-choppers out and no
one fused about sphere.
So now sphere is at last simmered down to ba-
bies and buttons and cookies. This solicitude for
the babies is not bad thing by any means. Now
and then some one hugs the theory that The babies
are on the decrease, and the final disappearance
of the race stares them in the face. Montrose
Pallen, M. d., Of this city aired the rather pecu
liar view few weeks ago, that education untitled
women to fulfill the duties Of maternity But these
are such unnecessary burdens. While the world
exists there will be babies; while there babies
there will be mothers and while there are mothers
there will be cookies baked and buttons sewed.
Should the babies be less in quantity they will per-
haps be better in quality.
Now if the Creator had intended man should
relegate woman to her proper sphere, he would
have made Eve first and made Adam to look after
her. Strange to say he didn't take Adam into his
confidence nor ask him his views on the matter.
Perhaps if DR.. Montrose Pallen or Mr.. Grant
Allen had been on earth with their ideas about
sphere, they would have been consulted.
The Creator deputized no mortal with the trust
that involved the happiness of the human race;
no mortal as custodian of what would be regarded
as the sphere of woman. But he appointed such
a God-ike sentinel to the charge-as vigilant, as
unerring, as divine as the angels themselves
when he placed in woman's breast mothers
heart.
Think you woman will ever be able, even if she
desired, to evade the sentinel, armed with the
hottest weapons that ever battled for right? The
l-Wise Creator knew best what were the COM