The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-24
womAn,s WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Man Who Does Not Believe In Woman
Suffrage.

have found him. He thinks women
have not intelligence enough to vote and
never will have. He says besides that
politics is none of their business any
how. Their place is to stay at home
and keep house and take care of the chill
dren. The woman who does anything
else "unsexes herself" says the man
who does not believe in woman suffrage.
He is against equal pay of tho sexes for
equal work too. He affirms that women
are such botches and so shallow Drained
that their services are worth no moro
than o third as much as mans. He
would never lot woman who is obliged
to 'unsex" herself and earn II living do
anything but homework, washing or
scrubbing if he could help it. Also if he
had his way he would take away from
women every public clerkship, every
stenographic and typewriter and cash
ier's desk and give them to men, espe-
cially if they pay fairly we'll Ee would
not permit woman to be lawyer,
doctor or preacher if he had his way
and has said so. In brief, he de-
clares out and out that woman is
poor creature at best, inferior to man i'll
every respect. Just so! And 1 have
found out exactly why the man who does
not believe i'll woman suffrage or equal
pay for equal work holds such unmanly
opinions. There is q reason for it. He
is n lawyer now and public speaker
who has attained considerable distinc-
tion-in fact, if I should mention his
name you would know it in minute.
In his youth he was very, very poor. He
did not even have money enough to
study law, but he married u noble, lovely,
energetic lady who was as devoted to
him as If he was not Il mean little man.
She taught school. She kept boarders.
She earned money in various ways and
slilsHed and saved to the last degree to
get money enough to pay her husbands
expenses as n law student. She carried
the whole burden of the family support
till he was able to get practice enough to
keep soul and body together. Whatever
he is or may be in the future he owes
absolutely to this brainy, self sacrificing
wife. Her reward is that now he turns
and rends her, and not only her, but
womanhood. What do you think of n
| man like that? I know one sarcastic
woman who says it served the wife Just
right.
The most precious quality in this life
is human sympathy.
The Emma Willard association is a.:
organization composed of the former
pupils of the school which this eminent
educator founded and conducted SO
many years at Troy, N. Y Forty years
ago it was as much honor to have been
trained at Mrs. Wizards school as it is
or tt,.,f ri +.,I - l.. e
Cornell or Ann Arbor. Mount Holyoke
seminary and Mrs. Wizards school at
Troy were really the pioneers of higher
education for women. The Emma Will
lard association held meeting not long
since in the Woman's building at Chica-
go which was the occasion of much en-
thusiasm. 1t is desired that all the
former pupils of the Troy school shall
become members. Mrs. Russell Sage,
New York, is president of the association.
In the colony of Victoria, Australia.
women teachers in the public schools
are eligible to receive possible salary
of 81 800
This year 10 young ladies passed the
famous mathematical tripos examina-
ton at Cambridge, England. Two of
them would have attained the rank of
wranSler II women were allowed to be
wranglers. They will be, however, i.
course of time even i'll conservative Eng
land. For the present they must con-
tent themselves with passing better OK
aminatlons than the men wranglers
themselves can, as Philippa Fawcett did.
Five ladies have been sent as official
Britain to the Worlds fair to examine
the American school exhibits and see
what features of our system of public in
struction can be adopted with profit in
England.
The New York School Journal pub
hshes u chapter of biographical sketches
OF the great teachers of the past four
centuries. You may or may not be str
| prised to learn that there is not a WON
ans name in the list, although there have
been women educators quite as distin-
guished in that particular line as Thorn
as Jefferson was, to say the least, and
he has a prominent place among the
number.
Mrs. Josephine X. Henry tells us an
awful story on the gallant Henry Wat
terson. She declares that The Courier
Journal once responded to an argument
i'll favor of higher education for women
| by an editorial headed Higher Fiddle
| sticks" Henri, Henri Is it possible?
a comparatively new occupation for
women is now opening. 1t is that of
cashier in large city hotels. At the
Palmer House, Chicago. it was tried and
| proved q great success. Mr.. Palmer tcsti-
| fia9 ~ Woman 1o ,l,;o,.. ,,,o