The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-05-13

Two prominent editorial writers of the
state have of late characterized the
EAGLES sentimental appeals for the
preservation of the womanly side OF
woman as being something lacking in
virility, akin to senile affectation, or as
wholly unworthy an aggressive age of
progression, and unbefitting the merits
of the innovation sought by the advo-
Gates of female suffrage.
While we are but too well aware that
the class of women who are ciammoring
for the elective franchise are prone 10
sneer at sentiment, and that their male
indicators and supporters are incapable
of any appreciable idealiStic excitation,
we nevertheless still avow that senti-
ment is the alluring impulse to all that
is good and beautiful in human life.
Without sentiment. ideality in art and in
poetry, as also all inspiration 10 heroism,
chivalry and craftsmanship, were I'M
possible. And woman is not only the
embodiment, but the truest revelation
of all these higher aspirations of the hu-
man soul. The creature yoked with the
cow to the Holland plow is not referred
to, or the woman harnessed up with the
dog to the German milk cart; nor the
female slave of the savage not yet mans
scum.evolved victim of the slums, but
the ideal woman of all the cultured ages
of civilization, she whose perfected type
buds, blossoms and fruits in the homes
of America. in that home
(which is tie sphere of harmony and peace,
The spot where angels find a resting place
When, bearing blessings, they descend to
earth?" Mrs. Hale.
We will go further: The highest in
centive to the youth Of culture is his
life-romance, at the end of which is the
cottage OF his Imagination in which are
dreams of mutual love and its fruitions.
Eliminate the submitting woman as his
gentle mate from the picture, and the
instructive dream and its treasures van
ish and the most inspiring motive of
life is wanting; there is left instead of
the youth of pure and exalted ambitions.
an incipient male brute, whose desire for
a woman Is only that she be female,
beyond that he not caring whether as
menial she is yoked with dog or a COW,
or otherwise found publicly posing as a
short-haired mental and political sup
erior, trigged out in abbreviated bifurca-
tions. haranguing crowd of mixed citi-
zen5 on the next election or the impend-
ing war of the sexes
In that stiffness
Which most becomes woman-cs I'm and holy
Thou sittest by the 1resGe OF the heart
Feeding its flame.
-Lonerellow.
The present woman is the elimination |
of all the ideals of the poets, paint |
ers, sculptors and Iomancists of the |
heroic ages of the past, as she |
Is the embodiment Of all the !
conceptions of refinement, of grace
and mcdesty Of this now nearly COM
pleted nineteent.. ca:.iury.
"Oh, fairee. q, creation, last and best
Of all GODS works. creature in whom excclls |
Whatever can 10 sight or thor 20 rorn,'d, |
Holy, Divine. coed, amiable or Sweet"
Milton.
Bifurcated skirts and short hair! Well. |
the ballot means public life, and public
life means active participation and equal |
responsibility. Modesty, the most ex-
quisite and charming of all womanly
graces, and publicity cannot exist to-
Eether. The woman in whom
"still from the sweet confusion. some new grace
flushed out ey stealth. and lanEuishd her face,
ovid.
would turn female TO whoop it up on a
corner dry goods box, or to stride some
side alley IN search of much needed
stray voter. Everything in common, and
all would be common. That difference
in the likeness of the sexes, which rem
ders life so attractive, and without which
IT would not be bearable, is sought to be
leveled-level down, not uptown into
the lnsensate coarseness of a common
ality and of equal chances for the most
dirt.
The idealists of all times and of every
realm OF art have peopled Paradise with
woman's form-long hair, flowing skirts,
decollette, sweeping wings and all the
rest, and so comes our conceptIon of
angels; not from bald headed old men.
whiskered like a PETER, Tapping his
featherless wings, a spraddling spectacle
before high heaven.
Women act their part
"heh they Go MAKE their ordered homes know |
hem- j. sheridan Knowles.
"A woman independent and mannisb grown
is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.
shakespeare.
The van-couriers who are now rang
ing the state of Kansas, marshalinc their
outriders and coilocating lingo for the
boot and behoof of their down trodden"
and ''enslaved SEX" illuminate their let
ter heads with the picture of a woman
in wooden shoes, with dangling duds.
yoked up with a cow, of immense udder.
10 plow held by brute in breeches:
This rudeness is a sauce 10 their good wit
Which gives men stomachs 10 digest the;-
words
With better appetite -SbaLes,aa-o |
That vignette is an insult to the re-
fnement of the state. These same wo-
men and their confrees hung up before
the eyes Of The whole world, in the
Kansas building, at Chicago, last sum.
mer, a painted banner with inscrintions
proclaiming that women in this state
are held on plane with idiots and
irresponsibles. This was injury added
10 insult
Meier shall the daughters OF Coluru bia be slaves
While the earth bears plant or ths sea rolls her
waves. Dwight /
Speaking of young men, their senti-
ments and aspirations, let them take
this matter home-no we do not mean
home-but 10 a personal, and fair-no
far isn't the word IN this connection
but to practical test. One section of
this ''slave" screeching cohort is adver-