The morning news., 1894-04-22
BAB'S VISITORS.
ppnnIe Who Call Unnn Her tO Paw
Her Their Respects.

Her lhelT Respects.
Discussing Many Popular Topics.
voter'-Weary of the Burden of
Creation-The Delightful Woman
and the American Beauty Rose-Bab
Dubs Platform Women 1.-THE Scream
ing Tribs"-Fashion Cannot Make
the Sexes Equal-Are Men Really
Tyrants P-The Dimpled Babies.
New York, April 21.-It is bit curious
how many things one thinks of when the
days are divided, not only by the chimes
of the little clock, but by the times one
| takes dose of medicine, or is permitted
to see visitor introduced, always with
! the provisO as the nurse says, you will
keep quiet, and let her do the talking"
This forces one to the thinking habit.
| The other day my first visitor was
vision of health, pretty clothes, and
shrill, high voice. She told me of the
latest play, the newest gossip, and then
| she drifted in to what she called
! 1.-The question of the hour" She said,
! "Oh, we women must have a vote
You know, my dear, few days
ago, it was only the cranks and the
women not exactly in our set who went in
for woman's suffrage; but now it is quite
the swell thing to do. Think of the years
it has been denied u.s. Think of the
| thousands of women who have lived and
died without having been able to express
their views through the ballot box On,
we must have it; it must be ours Woman
must be given chance to assert herself.
Well, good-by; l am glad to see you are
| looking better, and I'll come in soon again
and tell you everything that is going on.
Good-by, good-by." And out she tiuttered.
WOMEN AT THE BALLOT BOX.
And l was left to think. So it was
fashionable to want vote 1t was nee
essary that woman should assert herself
was to think, by command, of the thou
sands of women who had lived and died
| without expressing themselves through
the ballot. / did. And before me there
arose the pictures of Esther, of Ruth and
Mary. 1t seemed to me that they repre-
Sented more than the ballot ever could
have given them, for they pictured in
their lives wifehood, faithfulness and all
the beautiful virtues that belong
to the quiet sisterhood. Then there
passed before me in procession all
the women who, unrepresented by a vote,
had stood beside the sick and the suffer-
ing on the great battleaelds, and who had
received in return the respect of men and
their greatest admiration. The Sisters
of Charity can to-day walk through any
part of the world protected, not by the
ballot, but by the recognition men have
given to goodness and womanliness. Then
| thought OF the women who had asserted
themselves by bearing men, by bringing
into the world sons who were a glory and
honor to them, and it did not seem to me
that vote would make this any greater
got tired of thinking and picked up a
paper. In one column | read of a golden
wedding; at this there were present, in
honor of the bridal pair, eight children
and twenty~fours grandchildren. In the
next column | read of a young woman
who took it upon herself to announce 1--WE
women are weary of the burden of crea-
ton" And she demCnded the right to
vote.
WHEN WAS A YOUNG GIRL
such speech would have been thought a
little immodest, but the noisy 'sisterhood
consider that the calling a spade a spade
is an evidence of their Independence of
thought Doesn't it strike you as rather
silly that an unmarried woman should
have made such speech2 What does she
know of the burden of creation2 What
does she know of the intense pleasure
that comes from bringing into the world
a HUE CnllQE HOW does she know that it
is burden? / looked at the two columns
| saw, thirty years from now. the woman
weary of the burden of creation" sit
thing alone, old and childless. but possess
ing vote. And | wondered which was
the finer way to assert ones self ::
whether it was in the way old age would
find her or whether il was at that golden
bridal of yesterday, where, standing by
the man who loved her fifty years ago,
and who loves her Just as well to-day, a
woman could see herself reflected in all
those children who rose up and called her
blessed. Surely she knew the glory, and
not the burden of creation.
/ think it would be a good thing for
women TO have the ballot; 1t would be in
teresting TO see what they would do with
it. Surely they would talk about it. AS
a very clever somebody said,
''woMEN ARE MARCHING ON.
to Bedlam." go to sleep for a while
and then I have another visitor. a visitor
whose coming isn't heralded by the loud,
shrill voice peculiar to a woman used to
speaking in public. but by the perfume of
a rose, and / know who it is | don't
know how she is dressed | only know
that to look at her is n delight, and that
she puts into my hsnd one great, sweet
rose-an American beauty-and as I gaze
at it l know that a sister rose in its
trausmigration is the woman before me-
She is noJ interested in the ballot box
but she is interested in telling me about
people like, pictures l have seen and
HOOKS we have both read. And she
brings me, not as some Of the others do,