The old Abe eagle. (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 189?-189?, 1895-02-21
A Woman Is After Us.

1.-The Lord deliver US from 'Sissie'
men." The readers Of the EAGLE will
recognize the above as the grand finale
of an article in last weeks issue Of the
paper The writer tells rs "There are
now women of feminine and Of mascu-
line characters certainly. The former is
the woman all manly men admire" Yes,
quite true, only it is condit on Of af
fairs that has existed for some time
probably since the days OF Cain /
think it was brought about to accommo-
dato the unmanly men, for every Jack
must have his Jill, you know,
"She is the goddess Of home, and he
the priest at her altar" This might
seem very beautiful and poetic senti-
ment were it not that it is almost ihvari-
bly, the expression OF men who are mere
than willing that the goddess should
furnish both fuel and sacrifice for the
altar.
Her victories must be achieved with
out the clash of arms" Quite right
Womens victories-and they are legion
have all been thus won Fifty eight
years ago Harriet MarIineau found in
Amsrica but seven industries open to
women, aside from domestic service, 1t
is within tho last half century that wo-
man has proven to mans utmost salts
faction her ability and adaptability to
instruct and govern in the school room
1t is not fifty years since no respectable
family in respectable neighborhood
would lot rooms to female physician
In 1869 the first woman lawyer in this
country was heard Of. One by one the
victories have been won until now there
are thirty-ive co-edurational medical
schools, and two for women alone. Sew
enty-t five per cent. OF the teachers in our
public schools and huudrsds OF wo-
men are successfully practicng medi-
icine and law. AS to industries, it was
recently stated that the occupation Of
professional diver is the OF ly one left un-
tried by women. Hospitals and asylums
for the aged, for the nfrm, for children,
care Of tho criminal. the Indian, prison
and work house reform, the temperance
and anti slavery crusades, the White
Cross and Red Cross movements, all
know woman's guiding, beneticent and
tender hand. Her ability to organize,
superintend and carry to a successful
end has been worry marked in it all,
woman can not afford to descend
into politics" Well, whutever revolu-
ton comes nay dear cir, life will never
turn itself upside down so that woman
will not want the home. Tie home is
her real aim of existence. She will al
ways earn the right TO it and love it. A
man writing in the New York Independ-
eHt some time since, delicately aud beau
tifully considered the situation His
conclusion was that to keep pace with
the woman of today, whose noble ambi-
ton places no goal too high for her to
attain. man must rise TO the emergency,
as woman cries Excelsior" no also must
cry excelsior also, or he will no longer
be fitted to walk by her side sharing
aud lifting her burdens as they journey
together.
Whatever is best for woman TO gain
she will gain, whether in business or log
islation, and the strong outstretched
arm Of manly men will aid Tor.
let us have women who pride them
selves on their femlninity." Yes, but
women have sometimes thought it nee
essury to lay aside their fcmipirity. to
smother their finer sensiblitics, and on
ter upon lifc Of unusual Obstacles and
unfeminine circumstances. Permit me
TO refer you to Florence Nightingale,
who So maryelously created ordcr, dis
cipline and comfort ont of the chaos Of
disorder, death and loa hsome suffering
wrought by the mitmanagement Of tho
British officers in tie Crimea. I he Same
spirit sent scores Of our American wo-
men 10 the bat lie fields aud hospitals
duri & the rebellion. This cry of We.
"mau's sphere" "woman's feminini,y."
and "woman's inability" roso then,
stronger than it has ever dared TO do
since. As to the last clause in tho art.
lcle, we have only to say thSt it seems ia
us to be beneath tho dignity Of gentle
man or a journalist. A WOMAN.
II Madame will permit, we will pui
the phrase into language sho can under.
stand aud say "elremi,ate' men. In
some cases the U. S. treasury furnishes
the fuel and sacrifice. In the charitable
work referred to II is still the man who
puts up the cash that makes her efforts
fruitful. Willingly acknowledging wo
mau'R good work Ia tina schoolg. yet II