The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-03
FROM THE H-Me SIDE.
The Question Of WOman's Rights From the
Domestic Standpoint.

Tho Question Of WOman's Rights From the
Domestic Standpoint.
This subject has been SO agitated
through the length and breadth Of our
land that one feels as though there is
nothing new to be said in this direction.
From general standpoint, says wri-
ter in the Household, the question has
been whether a woman should be allow
ed to vote, and to . great many people
this one fact has covered the whole
ground. Now l would like to look at
this subject from another standpoint.
leaving the right Of ballot entirely out
Of the question.
When new home. or rather family,
is formed there are two people who en-
ter into sort of partnership with one
another. Partnership implies joint
rights. each to be sharcrs in the profits
and losses Of the company. One part
ner, the man, goes out into the world to
his daily occupation and conducts his
business in the way that seems best to
him.
The other partner, the wife. goes to
her daily task Of looking after her home,
beantifying it and getting ready to vel
come her husband. The man. having TO
battle his way out in the world. grows
more stern in his nature, and before he
realizes it, governs his household as he
does his business.
Now ii he would only be more thought
full, II he would repose more confidence
in his wife by letting her be sharer in
his business perplexities, trust TO Ter
wisdom and Judgment in managing the
ways Of her household and make her feel
as though she was real help instead Of
hindrance to his success, If this could
be SO, many a tired, discouraged one
would look up and forget her treadmill
existence and many woman's domestic
happiness would not be marred. And
il Of his own accord he would allow her
each month enough for family expenses,
it would save a refined, sensitive nature
from doing that which she must shrink
from. namely, asking for the necessary
wherewithal to run the house. The
good. true wife would have just as much
regard for their Joint interests and
would develop moro self-rcliance and
independence. Woman's rights thus re-
| garded would not make her less refined.
| less cultured or more unfeminine. Then.
indeed. would she feel that the heart OF
her husband safely trusts in her, her
children will call her blessed and her
own works praise her in the gates.
DoINGs OF WOMEN.
MRs. LAURA NJ. JOINS, president OF
the Kansas l.. S. A., has organized two
| new local suffrage associations, at Jet
more and Sterling.
Miss SUsANNAH NJ. DUNKLEE. of New
| ton, Mass, was the first woman to be-
come q bank treasurer in the United
States. She has held the position for
Is years.
| MRs. NJ. O. MINER. who lately gradu-
ated in Philadelphia. will return to Hi
awatha, Kansas, and enter drug store
there. She will be the fifth lady phar-
macist in the State.
Miss MARY CoDDIN6roN has left S40,.
900 to the City missions of New York. to
build boys club house. A building in
the Bowery will be erected and fitted
up for that purpose.
| MKs. CALLIE L. FRENCH, Cincinnati
woman, is licensed as pilot from
| Vicksburg to New Orleans and the
Atchafalaya river and its tributaries.
being registered at New Orleans. Mrs.
French has acted as a pilot on the Mis-
sissippi river for twelve years, under
the direction Of her husband, Captain
A. II. French.
Miss AMELIA Is. EnwAEDs, LII. D.,
has prepared for the Century an article,
richly illustrated. upon The Recovery
Of the Ruins Of the Great Temple of Blu.
bastis by the Egypt Exploration Fund :"
Miss Edwards has made arrangements
for sixty lectures in America during the
coming season, selected from among
three hundred applications.
MISS MARTHA n. PIERCE has for sey.
eral years filled tho place Of station
agent, post.mistress, and agent for Ad
ANS Express, in Charles River Village
part of Needham. Mass. AS she doe
her work in q satisfactory manner, it /
another pleasant instance Of a woman;
capability to do something once sup
posed to belong only TO men.