The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-15


progress that 1 believe il is the special
care OF God"
How rapidly electricity has been de-
veloped and utilized" said Mrs. Wallace.
Il can remember when we had no
matches and only candles for light. Ii
took my mother all day to dip candles.
The wicks were twis ted and dipped into
a kettle Of tallOw over and over again
until 10y night they were about the size
OF my finger. Then came candle mOulds.
which was a great Improvement, and
then coal oil. No, there were no wOm-
ems clubs in those days. the household
days We're so Onerous that women were
never through. My grandfather was
STAKEHOLDER. and my mother was the
Oldest daughter in a large family. Her
mother would cut pairs of trousers for
all the slaves and i'm the evening the
girls would sew the seams. Women
loved their homes 10 those days. I think
the want Of the coming generation is
home-lOving women. The love for my
children and home has always been first
with me and the strongest motive / have
ever had to make anything of myself
has been my love for my children. / be-
lleVe in women voting, the rights of
motherhood ought to be impressed upon
the nation. In proportion to the polit-
zeal freedom of the men, American wom-
en- have less of the same freedom than
the women Of any country in the world.
The women of Wyoming and Colorado
vote AS we outlive the age of force
women will vote. Women are not ag-
gressive and as we have peace congresses
and settle thing by arbitration rather
than by force. women viii vote. The
women of the revolutionary period, Mrs
Adams and others thought that women
ought 10 be included in the constitution,
but they didn't say much
How did / drift into public work.
Wei, | had never opened my mouth in
public not even in prayer-meeting. when
Dr. Bayltss called a meeting of the wOm-
en- and citizens at Roberts Park church
TO see what could be done toward clos
ing the saloons I was on the committee
to represent tine Christian church. and
step by step was drawn into the work.
Then. when the Baxter law was before
the legislature We got up a petition.
signed by $4,000 women all over the state,
asking that no man be allowed to sell
liquor i'm a place without the consent of
the citizens The saloon men wanted the
Jaw repealed, and were out in full force.
l was selected TO go before the legisla-
ture and present the petition, saying
that every woman over tWenty-0ne
mould be allowed TO say whether she
wanted saloon or not. I was sitting
on the platform when Dr. Thompson got
up and said he wanted to please the wOm-
en- and to follow his Conscience. but he
was there 10 represent his constituents.
Then is flashed over me, Why, am | not
one of his constituencies And afterward
I thanked him. for 200 men had defeated
p. 600 women, and it made a sunragist
IF me then and there"
\ Christian Duty.
Il think that every woman who does
not try TO secure suffrage neglects her
Christian duty. AS a nation. set TO try
the race as self-governing, we shall never
succeed until we get the voice of the
whole race. If l We're an autocrat I'd
put votes in the hands of women. Then
I shouldn't allow a foreigner to vote
until he had been here twenty-one years:
[ shouldn't allow foreigner to hold
office. and l should make education COM
pulsory. The history Of Europe and
Asia shows that those countries have the
best legislation which have the best edu-
cation
why is it that women, especially
women who work and then marry. be-
come dissatisfied with their homes?
Well, there is no money value put on
woman's work i'm her home She gives
up her SIS a week and her husband
never recognizes it. She gets her board
and clothes, and she grows FESTIVE and
wants To be earning her own money
again When mon recognize that the
marriage partnership is a business part
nership also women will be more con-
interest in heI husbands business. a
gentleman asked me once what women
had done for the state that they should
be allowed to vote. | told him that a
mother goes down into the valley Of the
shadow of death three or four times, and
sometimes does die for her child, and
if we count life above meat and raiment
women have done more or as much ro-
the state as men. But ii is a sad fact
that women are growing more and more
aVerse to motherhood. Women love ease
and love society. Then women have
their individual ambitions, and children
interfere with these. The young peo-
pie of today had rather have a large
house full Of bric-a-brac than to have
family Formerly people who married
did not expect much more than one
room, with a shake-down for their
guests.
u do not care much for works of pure
fiction, but when novels deal with the
dues lions of the day. with just enough
story to them to keep the interest, 1 like
them. I enjoyed Mrs Wards 'Marcella
and Bellamy's Looking Backward The
great problem of the day is that of an
equal social standard for men and wOm-
en-. | was so pleased with the remarks
of Judge Wilson in the Breckenridge
case that l wrote him a letter. 1 be
lieve that the moral philosophy Of Jesus
Christ should be applied To all questions
of life, not as a creed, but as rule of
life for individuals with individuals, ma
tions with nations and communities with
communities"