San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-04
GL.AosToNlAN VIEWS OF WOMAN.
Tho Statesman Has No Admiration for
the "Unsexed" Slsterhood.

A=S 49,
At the ffty-frst anniversary of their
marriage Mr.. and Mrs. William Gladstone
invited u 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 sweet
est smiles. and after congratulations
formed a circle about the venerable states
man AID Ield him captive for a school
girl speech"
What those pretty British maidens heard
must have made a very deep impression.
Mr.. Gladstone reminded them that they
belonged to the favored half of the human
race, that they were sweet and lovely be-
cause they were women, and that their
very presence was sunshine to the world.
He ran ovcr' the achievements Of their
sisters and their mothers, admitted the inn
prOyemcnts their industry and earnestness
had brouEht about, and predicted even
greater and better changes. Then he be-
ccrae very emphatic, and jerking his right
arm away back let fly a powerful blow at
the strong minded grenadier women Of the
age.
Il do not believe in the unseXed women,
and ] am not in sympathy with the mascu-
line women. The destiny of the advanced
woman is doubtful. The blue stocking,
the business woman and the female politi-
clan is a superiority" He referred to the
saloon raiders IS unlovcly, called the polit-
zeal rcforyners his 'shrieking sisters" and
numbered the female bull .ghters and
female leaEucrs" among the intOlerable
evils of society. His observation led him
to believe that tine greatest need of the
world is home women and home girls to
maze that sacred S2U5 beautiful, whole
some, lovely" He thought the world too
big and too bad for any one club, one
organization or one community to reform.
Home is u little place, and there a good
woman can make 4 heaven, rear a throne
and reign q goddess. In concluding this
wise old pH"l,&TcntaCian said, shading his
cTcs with his hand and looking toward
Mrs. Gladstone, who listened attentively
and aDDla"Gcl with approving smiles: Il
cannot tLinh that anything which attempts
or aGects to alter fundamentally the rela-
ton which the Almighty himself has es-
tablished, the design of which he has
marked out in our constitutions and ca
pacities, orwhich draw women out of their
own sphere, would ever succeed"
Some of his views are most disCouraging.
He has 1.-The greatest admiration for the
woman who has done something in any
line, provided she kept away from the pub
lic,' but has yet to meet the heroine of a
career who is not brazen or tiresome. 1T
is not her fault" he says, shut the result
of contamination. 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 professionals more than overpow-
cred by the loss of modesty, gentleness,
faith and womanly dignity.
When asked what women should do he
said: Marry, make homes, mind their
children, keep the honeymoon from eclipse
and keep Off the street. Any reforms they
want to make should be made through the
husband"
When told that all women could not
marry he said: at is their own fault, then.
A sweet woman cannot be resisted which
means that too many of our girls are being
educated and trained Oh a wrong basis
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