, 1891-03-21
womAN's wonLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Why We Keep Before the Public the
achievements of woman.

Achievements Of Women.
Some Of the best friends of our sex
have doubted the wisdom of publishing
it in the newspapers so much when a
woman steps out Of the old contracted
sphere and accomplishes successfully
works that the world used to believe
could only be comprised by the hand
and brain Of man. They say We should
cease to think of these things as extraor-
binary merely because women have done
them, but should Judge of-the work
simply and quietly on its own merits,
without reference TO the fact of its being
done by man OF woman In brief, say
these good friends, cease to spell woman
with n large w. This is an excellent
thought, in one way. BY all means
let the work Of women be judged on its
wi merits strictly and without mercy.
Only in this way can our sex learn to
excel in what they undertake. If a
woman assume to do a task. and then
slurs or Sights it: if she is incapable Of
doing rightly what She attempts, and
then claims immunity because Of her
sex, by all means show her up for
the fraud she is. But when she does
achieve something out of the old line,
and does it grandly aud thoroughly, let
us still publish it in the newspapers yet
awhile. Do you know Why 1t brings
inspiration and hope 10 other women
who are struggling out of-the ancient
ruts. If one woman has painted a good
picture, if she has written a successful
book or amused n competency in bust
ness, Horticulture, butter making, poul-
try, let us still tell other women about
1t, so they may know there is
chance Of success for them if they
are faithful to the powers they
feel dimly stirring within them. 1t is
with nc desire TO give women "A newspa-
per ~notoriety, no intention of gratifying
a silly personal vanity. that we print the
story when certain women have striven
and achieved. God Forbid But it is
for the sake Of the comfort and hope the
story brings to other women who are
struggling and have not yet achieved.
Nothing is more gratifying thar the
progress women are making in extern
pore speaking. Even in Sorosis the Ia
dies five wears ago could speak nothing
like as well rs they do now. Often they
use no notes whatever, They way to
learn extempore speaking is to begin
and preach your speech over in your
mind beforehand, thinking 1t out care
fully, but not writing a lie Of it except
the headings. Then when you arise to
deliver it you will probably forget two
thirds Of it, but mini. Keep prac-
ticing, and you will gradually remember
more and more of it, and new thoughts
will at length come TO you upon your
feet. No matter if you d. forget part.
Even Wendell Phillips always did that,
but nobody knew it but himself.
A dealer advertises life size dolls for
so. | have seen life size dolls with life
in them that were worth even less than
that.
The New York Sun advises woman
suffrage ladies to go among their OWN
sex now and convert them to suffrage.
Cardinal Gibbons says, The prejudice
which allows women to enter the profes
sion Of nursing and excludes them from
the profession Of medicine cannot be too
strongly Ceusured." Cardinal Gibbons
seems to me to be the best friend to
women that the Roman Catholic church
has ever had in America.
Don't be "A tabby, old or young. If
you are spiteful and deceitful and given
to retailing gossip when you are young
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meaning of the Scripture saying that
nothing is hidden but shall be revealed.