Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-10

! ranging Tor the meeting or the Texas
| Woman's Press Association are re-
minded that meeting is called for
Tuesday. June 10, at o'clock p. M.
Mt the parlors OF the Plcl<wlcls hotel.
II is hoped there will be n full attend
| ance and that the ladies' win have
| their reports complete, and viii be
| prompt, At $3.50 o'clock the local COM
mittee will be happy to meet any la
dies who may desire to confer with II
| ona arrangements and also the enter
| talnment committee OF the II. p. A.,
| which convenes here at the same date.
| June 20.
Last week there was assembled in
| this city body OF women earnest.
| bright and capable. who are couscien-
| tlously at work to aid IN securing equal
| suffrage to the ciiizcns OF this ropub-
lic That they ure enthusiastic work.
| ers there can be no question, nor that
| they are battling In what they believe
| 10 be the right way for securing purity
| IN the home ana In politics. Believing
| this and working honestly to gain that
| which all good persons must desire
| however much difference there may be
as 10 the best means FOR the end. these
women are entitled to respectul hear
ing, Truth is fearless discussion and
atultion make It brighter and tend
to divest it of fictitious trappinEs,
quite number OF the papers showed
thought and careful preparation. and
some OF the arguments fortified as
they We're by facts derived from ac-
tual experiment are not TO be over.
come by rldicule, The mistake that Is
too often made was not wanting here,
These advocates did not in every in
stance regard the race In its entirety
ana fell Into narrow lines. sometimes
scolding when cold logic would have
better served their purpose. Stll this
is not peculiar; all new gospels suffer
from friends
No amount OF casuistry will do away
with the truth that God created them
In his own image, male and female
created He thcm." and like all other
OF the animal creation the sex differ
encc means difference in powers and
IN purpose OF being one Of the speak
ers alluded to the difference apparent
In the family training OF boys and
girls, another said the first ten years
Of the boys life were guided by the
mother Now there is no better estab-
llshed truth than that during the first
decade OF an individuals life there are
stamped indcllibly characteristics which
largely mould his or her future 1t Is not
true then that IL boy develops into
a selfish tvrant scnsuallst, or a man
nation that the mother ia IN marked
degree responsible2 Granting as must
be, that there Is heredity and natural
depravity to combat, these are the
heritage OF race not sex, Candiily, do
not mothers favor their boys and II
there IS left a trace of original servi-
tude OF women to men have not moth
ors something TO answer for In this
matter? An observer readily sees In a
majority OF families that mother and
sister walt upon son and brother be-
cause he is n boy, and when original
sin crops out In most aggravating fash
ION II is not the father who excuses.
but the mother who SAYS: "oh, well,
boys win be boys" BOYS will be bovs
but there is no refutlng the truth that
boys Will be gentle boys and grow
up gentlemen IL mothers will deal with
them as regardless of sex as the equal
suffrage woman would have grown-up
boys deal with the ballot.
College education for girls, admira-
Bile as it is, Is but one method OF get.
ting an education. There are othe.
ways adapted TO individual eircum.
stances by which girl may attain
the same amount of knowledge. Per-
maps the great value Of colleges is that
they present an incentive to all lower
grndes OF education to raise their stand. |
ard and inspire women to learn nil |
they can as self-tralned students. Nom |
eoliegiates, II they have intense desire |
LOT knowledge and sufficient will pow |
er, may cope with college students in
gaining the education which makes |
character refinement, Righteousness |
breadth OF sympathy and comprehen- |
sion OF the relation OF events and stud |
les, Suen understanding Is a finer test |
OF education than any college degree.
Or. Edison, q noted New York phy-
stefan, mas been looking over statistics
ana as a result or his research finds |
mat the marriageahle age of women
mas advanced from 10 years for the
decade preceding uS7S to iSSO This |
shows that women are not rushing 10
marriage as thor salvation, but seem |
10 be gaining In self-reliance, or else
there are not enough men to 40 round
~ preferable by NIL odds that
EWi Wtlt until she knows the nature
OF the step she Is taking by marrlame
nnd delay gives more time Cor proper
usNelopmenL that she may be more
opiy nlted for the duties marriage en-.
taiis. The evils Of early marriage arr
Seo numerous TO enumerate here, but
Ina tiasr ' icy NAYS a real existence has
nren ucmonStfdted Ivy the action ~ |
lhe diocesan conference which took
Steps 20 remedy them, ana has pvar
stnoe assumed governing voice in
wy Wnliet IN those countries over
Which 1t has Jurisdiction.
Inc municipal authorities OF ri Paso
by forblddipg women 10 appear on mo
streets with divided skirts have Write,
". ~. ipsyiNes i'ogherrys, and have shown
,.s lAey belong TO the times when
women We're forbidden To dress thslT
inAl. lh certain fashion. AZ ono period
y" We history % Rome women wer.
eo.iillNNnded 10 '~'-r IN manner Ia
s 49, men beeanse o. their indlffer.
~ - Asea there have heen men Wins
conception ~ thelr aificlal ,;,,ty cirelf'',.
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