Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-04-26
DELAWARE GAZETTE AND STATE JOURNAL-WIL

teaching him, rs most American men
know, that women are to be cared Tor
always and at all times.
WHAT WOMEN CAN AND CANNOT HAVE.
When the busy clerk, who lisa woman,
gets the ballot, She Will be treated as the
slfiuiiag sisierhoud demand, as an equal
OF nau. He will smoke in her face, he
viii keep his hat Oh before her and he
viii say those words and tell those tales
that respect for the woman at the desk
beside him has hitherto made him forget
in her presence. " hen she gets the vote,
She can stand up in the street cars; she
need never cling in sorrow to o man,
haze any pains except those which man
understand because he has them, and
she need net be surprised ii he fails to
find her Charming, because no man con-
siders . good fellow any thing more than
a comrade. Being oil an equal with
him, she cant cry out her griefs on his
shoulder, and she must put ali her little
weaknesses down, down, trampling them
under foot, because, demanding equality,
sympathy will become impossible. |
suppose she can't even have the liver
wing of the chicken, but wanting to
cultivate bone and muscle and tough
ness, rather than fairness and plumpness
and tenderness, she will dine OFF the leg
or the backbone or the neck.
But even fashion cannot make the
sexes equal. To achieve this, the world
would have to be made ever. Equality and
fraternity between laen and women are
impossible, Women in 50 many ways is
superior to man that equality is impos-
sible, and in SO many Others i'll inferior
to him that it Is equally impossible. She
can, when 1t Is necessary, earn her own
living, but she never does it thoroughly
when she takes for her vantage ground
that which man would choose She is
only success when her work is stamped
in strong womanliness, and never with a
hybrid mixture. She is inferior to man,
| inasmuch as she does not possess what
he does, a reasoning faculty. She may
come to the same conclusion, even with
| greater quickness than he does, but she
does it by instinct and not by putting
line upon line and precept upon precept
MAN AND WOMAN COMPARED.
My shrill voiced friend would,
| think, contradict me and tell me of tho
one woman who got u degree for exact
sciences; another for mathematics an(
another for something else. She doesn't
remember that this is zone woman il
England and one woman in France anC
one woman in the United States, anC
one woman in Australin-hOw about al
the other women Hundreds of mel
get these honors every day and make NJ
fuss about them. But We hear of thest
women, and we are told they will d,
such great things, and after that the
are forgotten, and the other women g
on doing great things every dag in Tn
year; and because they belong to tn,
quiet sisterhood nobody is told of them
But their work stands. And its resul
is seen; it is seen in good, pure women
in honest, manly men, and in respec
and reverence for ali things that de
serve it.
Bah AS A KEEN OBSERVER.
have to stop thinking for little bi
because it is time to take glass d
koumiss; and then go back and assum
the thinking cap. And wonder il th
pleasant, agreeable men sec and kno'
are the tyrants that are talked abou
They don't look like it; they don't tai
like it. Most of them are immensel
proud of the women of their household
aud only too delighted to tell Of the
virtues and their sweetness. | nevt
saw a real tyrant, that is masculil
one. have seen woman tyrant, on
who ruled whole establishment, an
before the fear of whose displeasul
mankind would tremble and stutter, vi
able even to excuse itself. | have see
baby tyrant; one little bundle of fes
t and lawn and lace that made the sui
: shine or rainy weather for the emit
q household. But then that is ca;
: enough to understand. However, tn
l little tyrant will have to say his mo
a beautiful "bye-bye" when women ha'
t a vote, and the burden OF creation b
/! become thing of the past Think of
. world without babies in it l shou
. Just as soon think world witho
e flowers, without love and without su
G shine. have thought until my hei
7, aches, and it seems to me that if this
i the result of even thinking about VOTE
: what will the vote itself do?
!. on, NY DEAR,
y it is true that the ballot will take avn
y from you much more than il will gil
II Your position instead of being what
7, should, womanly and strong, will
q weak. YOU will not have the respt
y shown to you as woman, and certain
'e you cannot claim to be u man.
! somebody is tanning me very quiet
!, and l feel that | am gradually going
e sleep, but just before | get into drea
land where l see women walk
u around like monsters towards bal
2e boxes painted II deadly black, and ha
10 ing before them Aearses that hold lc
~ and all womanly belongings, | ha
hardly strength enough to say, "Plea
please, good Mr.. Legislature, don't g
e, a vote to BAB.'