Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-27
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Herbert spenoer's Jack Bunsby Opinions
on the Woman Question.

as Dean Swift SO pathetically said Of
himself This cannot yet be said of Her
bert Spencer, but his latest contribution
to the woman question certainly begins
to suggest it. Forty years ago, when
this massive mind was yet full of warmth,
light and enthusiasm and still had
ideals, Herbert Spencer was as liberal as
John Stuart Mill on the woman ques-
tlon. Now he hens and haws, and in
the effort to be what his class of think
ers call judicial minded" he reminds
one of the time when the scholarly
Christian world was shaken to its center
by the discussion of the school men as
to the exact number of souls that could
be prisoned in grain of mustard seed.
Cobwebs and fog cucumber the mind
that takes leave of the golden rule and
the plain, straight principle Of abstract
right and wrong. Herbert Spencers
own dictum, laid down long ago,
before he became a dried up, equity old
fogy, will settle the woman question in
one instant. 1t is this, Every man is
free to do that which he wills, provided
he infringes not the equal freedom of
any other man." To say that women
are not included in this dictum is silly
quibbling. When, therefore, men de-
prive women of the legal and civil rights
they themselves enjoy, are they not
infringing the equal freedom of others?
To say that they who do not fight should
not vote is a still more contemplate sub
terfuge. AS western woman said,
when an army of women invade the
country, and when women make war.
then women will go out and fight them.
Likewise when the men rear the chill
dren, then also will women do the fight
ing. The duties which women perform
to the state and which cannot be per-
formed by men are even more important
than those resting on the shoulders of
men which women cannot perform.
One is sorry indeed, too, to see Herbert
Spencer more than half accepting the
vicious old doctrine that woman ceases
to be a human being as soon as she is
married
Miss Aida p Lansing will make a
collection of the native flowers of Colo
RADIO for the Worlds fair.
Who inaugurated it know not, but
most admirable fashion has been intro
duced at some of the state and county
fairs this fall. 1t is that of having one
day of the fair week set apart for "wom-
ems day" On that day the products of
the skill and industry of the ladies have
been made especially prominent, and
best of all one or more famous women
speakers have been invited to address
the throng of visitors. The gate receipts
would be something immense on "wom-
ems day"
The court of Jasper county, Mo-, or
dered tax levy, and Mrs. Anna Baxter,
county clerk, had the levy all entered
upon her books ready for the collector
in less than fourteen hours after it was
ordered.
A British astronomical association has
elected Mary E. Byrd, a teacher in Smith
college, as one of its members.
One of the saddest things that can be
said of woman is that she was a beauty
in her youth. In the true civilization,
when the finer, grander spiritual powers
are fully developed, woman will be as
beautiful at eighty as at eighteen. The day
will surely come when that detestable
saying that lady is the "finest looking
woman for her age" that one knows will
no longer be heard
At the school election in Maple Rap
ids, Mich, nearly half the votes were
cast by women.
Mrs. Sophia Braeunlich, the quiet, pret-
ty little business manager of The Engi-
neering and Mining Journal, has per-
sonally visited nearly every mine of any
Importance in the country. She knows
their value better than any silver tongued
agents can tell her.
This the women of the land owe to
their own sex this fall-to work straight
through against all candidates opposed
to giving to women equal legal and civil
rights with men. If the happy, home
sheltered women who say they have all
the rights they want knew of the horrors
endured by other women they would
never say that again.
Every genuine woman loves her own
sex.
The schedule of teachers salaries pro-
posed for the primary department of the
Brooklyn public schools proves what |
have been inclined to suspect for some
time-that boys are stupider than girls,
have not their intellectual grasp and
are therefore harder to teach. The
schedule makes the pay of those who
teach boys fifty dollars year more than
that of the teachers of girls schools. A
more absurd idea than that of separating
the sexes in the infant schools never en-
tered the head Of an ascetic in the dapk-
est ages. Boy and girl babies are sup
posed to exercise communicating inf1u-
ence on one another.
The editor of Round Table in the
Nebraska State Journal tells the story
of young girl who supports family of
nine by peddling vegetables She carries
baskets of pretty, crisp, tender growths
from house to house and has good
trade. Among those thus maintained by
her labor is her father, who fears any
exertion would make him i'll, therefore
does not attempt to work
One outcome of opening trades and
professions to women will be that they
will become strong, independent and
more worldly wise. They will cease to