The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-19

and from the accepted traditions The
total decentralization of home and So
ciety, it is prophesied, will be newt
able If this continues. Then, they are
gravely informed, il they learn to think
and do for them selves men will cease
to love and respeos them-a state CT af-
fairs that would De disagreeable with
1t is very true that the liberty of
women has been greatly extended with
in the past twenty years. In the United
States woman can do almost any thing
she likes for which she has strength and
fitness. Notwithstanding the protests
of people like the writer in the Regis
ter, and of ultra orthodox clergymen,
not straw is thrown in her path. Ex.
act justice has not been done yet in the
matter of pay, but that Is coming. With
the editors and the preacher, IL is sor-
rowfully admitted, there are conserva-
tive women who array themselves with
the opponents of the unmarried, possi-
bly, because they have found wifehood
and maternity the best career for them
selves and think it must be for every
other woman. But with all the free
dom that has been granted, 1.-THE woman
who dared" has not asserted herself to
any alarming extent, so that all do not
and can not marry.
Years ago the situation of the unmar-
ried woman was not enviable. She was
thin, detected, pallid creature. living
with her sisters, or other relatives, do
ing the mending, nursing the sick and
taking care of the children. The hus-
band never came, or she was faithful to
an ideal or to the lover of her youth,
dead or estranged. She lived her I'M
eventful days, growing feebler and more
dependent. and possibly more unwel-
come at the board and the hearthstone
where she sat in the pitiable role of
''the poor relation"
In these bustling and practical times,
when there is more to do than there
ever was before, while she remains I'M
married just as her predecessor did, she
does not eat the bitter bread of charity
if she can help herself. She enters land
in the far West and farms; she buys and
sells, learns stenography and type-writ-
ing follows profession, and earns con-
siderably more than livelihood. She
likes nice gowns and bonnets, and is apt
to be fastidious about her gloves and
boots, and-as with most women who
go out into the world to fight her own
battles-she wants to vote.
She gets what she likes, goes where
she pleases, has time to study, to enter
tain and be entertained. Is she neg
lected by men because of her strong
minded proclivities? Not a bit of it.
On the contrary, since they realize that
her friendship, is purely and essentially
friendship, and will never be any thing
else, they are very apt to like her, and
their liking is returned. Their favorite
compliment is: "She has no nonsense
about her."
When she visits her kin she is an
honored and distinguished guest. Her
coming is the occasion of dinners and
luncheons and receptions. She is made
much OF. Very unlike the forlorn
creature who twenty years ago darned
the stocking and stirred baby's Cruel.
Furthermore, she is envied by hundreds
of women who have not found married
life all they anticipated, and even by
those who have, for the love of liberty
is an inextinguishable passion in most
human hearts. Very frequently they
whisper in her ear, conscious Of disloy-
atty to that ''blessed state, upon which
they themselves have entered: Never
marry" and, as a rule, she doesn't
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