The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-22
||ANDMARRIAGE'
III Supporting Women
Is Likely to Weds
1gve or FEMALE THINKERS.


-yIsvs Of Miss Anthony. Miss
g ,s6a. lGrs. Howe ana OTHERS.
son1ysros CIrY. March 19.-[special
S56udence Year by year the un-
z;is5 women Of the United States in.
8 number. There are more than
summarized manageable girls in
nehusetts, and the coming census
~ that fewer marriages are con-
- now than ever before. The fe-
6nnong the government clerks at
fnrt0n City say they prefer indie.
~ oinele blessedness 1t 81, 900 year.
nondent matrimonial existence at
WIolk and no pin money, and 1t is q
= y to whether the new openings
- and professional lives are not
p drive the wives and mothers out
a rnec. During the past winter
every noted independent female
- has visited Washington City. I
- lnet most Of them, and have ques-
them on this subject.
AN 3. ANTHONY on MARRrAeR.
fx1rpt interview was with Susan B.
Y f11Eony. She said: "Our business and
& fcnal life will of course affect mar
& n Il will lessen bad marriages, and it
fon5d women from ill-sorted ones.
IN IKE from immoral and unworthy
70 advantage they now have over
y 0onen a. their only means of sup
~ will give them the freedom to
] ioz themselves. On the other hand,
carriages will be increased by the
Is condition. When women achieve
dependence. and have their politi-
ustrial and financial equality, they
longer sell themselves to . So
husband for so-called home. They
= Be satisfied with board and lodg-
IS pme mans house and a. much else
worldly goods as he chooses. Fl
s. - dependence is the secret Of this
rebellion, for it is the
r of her domestic unhappi-
hen men recognize women as
actors in human government, as
q Inns of financial independence and
~ With themselves, then women will
only be wooed as real swcethearts,
- wives and enjoyed as companions,
they will be respected as self-respect-
human entities. The woman of the
lofs Is going to climb up where she can
1ae 3 look over this field. She is not
ing 70 snatch at anything that passes
I'd man because it draws a salary, and
~ man Of the future will be just as apt to
)oct woman who is mentally developed
companionship and morally fitted for
ctherhood, as one whose physical beauty
- enthralled him, or whose form is
ocialIy adapted for showing off fine
IT.
oEE or ANNA prcKINsox's CHANCES.
Miss Anthony pointed her argument
10 story related of Anna Dickinson
oting the time she was nightly earning
She received at this time proposal
marriage from $40-a-month Yankee
hool teacher, who stipulated that such
1orriage must be followed by her retire.
neut from public life.
NAY WRIGHT sxwAIL.
Too many marriages are made because
women are driven to marriage for sup
3ort, /" said May Wright Sewall, president
olect of the Woman's National council.
eeAs women enter the industrial world. &C
(uire higher education and are admitted to
he professions, they will be fitted for self.
respect which forbids unchaste mar
rage. The man of the future is
10 be envied, he will be accepted because
be is loved, not as mere means of liy-
Ing. Men now have little assurance that
they are accepted for love alone when
there are 50 many other motives impelling
women to matrimony Educational and
Industrial freedom will permit woman to
give her heart with her hand. These larger
activities will improve domestic life, also
Intelligent and scientific method and order
have already been applied to domestic
work, and more than this, a current
Islander that suffragists were ncgiectful
housekeepers has put that class on its met
lie, and the best housekeepers in the coun-
Try today are these same progressive
women"
FRANCES wILLARD's POETIC IDEAS.
"When I was a child" said Frances
Willard, 81 lived in the country and close
life. and unconsciously became student
'of natural laws. II was there, idly watch
Ing the mating of birds and the association
~ the animate creation generally, that
sleArned the fundamental principles of sex.
Though my eyes were keen in those days,
saw nothing of what we call domestic
tyranny, nor of marriage based upon any
hing but natural law. The father and
Mother birds to be first sang together, flew
Slpeether. and then together builded the
nest. Except in tribes that betrayed sex
N plumage, was always puzzled as to
snich was which. When the nest was
MI Of eggs, even then they shared the long
NE world. Each of the birds sat upon the
nest. and when the children had Clipped
we shell both parents brought
them food. sang TO them and taught
thsm to fly. Nor did ever
- manifestations of superior and inferior
nations between horses male and female.
4 other of the nobler orders of the animal
mgdom. They worked and rested, ran
"a nibbled together in apparent equality.
IN cattle grazed tremendously in the
me meadow, and the fishes swan side by
eee. Nature is democratic. Nature also
enanges that her children shall go two by
NO There are no .'go-it-alones" in the
!ad or wood, and if felt that the eman-
laton of woman would interfere with
u divinely appointed union, l would
totally against the woman movement.
by see in woman's physical, mental
oepiritual advancement the only road
natures standard of harmony 10 the
ssaan race. grieve over this unnatural
@vision of the sexes into apparently an
Sonlstic groups. We would usurp no
synts Of men. We are willing to concede
s ~ his half of the world, but he must give
ours. Today rs a transition period in the
s.sMfy OF woman, a critical stage III the
~ cycle of human development and the
asut mat never shone on sea or shore is
sst oy which we must move forward If
~ move in safety. The human being is
aP'ex instrument, and the tuning your
81 ~ = another requires the master musi-
49, nsnd. Since so-called progress began.
~ =, the physical and mental struggle