Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-07-26

| homo and attended to them. 1t is true I
did great deal of literary work then, but
did it with one foot on the rocker of a
cradle right in the room where my chill
drcn were and with my household duties
always on my mind. And it was not I'M
til my children were educated and fully
grown that l began to go about as much
as l have done of late years. Now when l
am 50 much nearer 60 than 30 that ] will
not tell you my exact age, l can lean back
and take perspective view of the situa-
ton, and the old and new woman are fig
urcs in it.
Yes ! have known pronounced types
of the advanced woman, the woman who
wants TO 90 into politics, the woman who
rides bicycle, the woman who wears
boomers have nothing TO say against
the one who rides a bicycle, but 1 cannot
approve of the woman politician and the
bloomer. Has man any rights that these
women feel bound TO recognize! Well
that's exactly the question my husband
asked me once, and / could not tell him
that he was secure in anything they might
sec fit To want, but ! think nevertheless
that nature has attended 10 all this and
given the two sexes their respective fields
of work. There's no doubling the fact
that they make u fine team, man and
woman. Then why should one wish to do
the others work! And as for woman =
privileges rs compared with mans, why,
just think Of this: / can go any day and
contract debts amounting To $40, 600, and
the last stick above my husbands head
could be sold TO pay these debts Yet |
could not be made responsible for 6 that
he might owcl And, if ] wished, need
not SO much as mention his name i'm my
will, while he, poor man! could no more
deprive me Of at least my widows share
in his estate than he could fly. 1 merely
give this illustration TO intimate generally
that woman is not in such Il dr2adfuliy
imposed upon position even when she re.
mains in her own sphere.
Il am opposed to woman suffrage be-
cause do not believe that it is the remedy
for the existing disease. We all know that
there is n disease in the body polite, but
giving the ballot TO women will not cure
1t. For every good woman's vote there
would be ten bad or ignorant womcn's
votes cast solid against her, and this would
make things worse than they are already
And besides women are not ready for the
ballot yet You men have been trained in
its exercise for generations, and still it
W AllttN YOU Nt llltlAlt
but a sorry mess of it. Then how could
we be expected TO step in lacking all this
training and reform the world at the polls
after men have for so long made failure
of it?''
The interview was in progress at tho
home of Mr.. j. Cliff Richardson, whose
guest Mrs. Terhune was during her St
Louis visit.
Imagine in the course Of the talk that
you see facing you sunny featured wom-
an, quick TO smile or laugh, yet almost
stately in imprcssycncss of bearing, with
clear, blue eyes hair well silycrcd with
white and brushed mp and back from
pretty brow, "a comfortable figure clad i'm a
dark gown with two rows of soft lace run
ming down the front from the shoulders TO
hem, "a low, southern voice i'm talking, and
you will have some idea OF Marion IIar-
land. What you will miss perhaps is that
gentle magnetism OF manner which makes
every one like Mrs Tcrhunc from the first
moment of meeting.-St Louis Post-Dis
patch.