The record-union., 1895-11-29
DAILY RECORD-UNION
A SENSIBLE WOMAN.

WOMEN OF ner yOutH nANo sLuuleu HhoIO
or thought more deeply. Yet she is by
no means blue-stocking. for she retains
her womanliness, her love of home and
domesticty, and takes a bold stand
against the new woman" idea as now
propagated. In all parts of the United
States this talented young author has
taught and lectured, and has on all sides
inspired respect for her courageous, hope
full. helpful words.
It is very gratifying to find such
young woman SO prominent in the world
of thought and commanding the regard OF
the thoughtful for the wisdom of her
work for humanity taking bold. strong
position against the fashion-we cannot
dignity it by better word that mas so
much called forth the condemnation of
the Record Union, namely, the pushing
of woman away from the home and her
natural position in life into fields for
which she is untitled by temperament.
unintended by nature. and incapRoitated
by physical conditions.
Woman in business, we apprehend,
will have no sympathy from this vigor-
GUS yet gentle thinker Of her sex, and
who is likewise an observer of remark
able experience for one of her years.
Miss Franks aims and hopes are higher
and better than ever dreamed, much less
thought of, by the modern woman suf-
fragist and woman rights agitator. The
latter have no conception of the loftiness
of purpose of such as Miss Frank in her
labors to benefit the race.
This sensible woman announces "The
home before everything" as the true
thought for woman to keep upon the top
wave of her mind. Ii is now no longer
necessary nor pardonable for women to
be one-sided because domestic, says Miss
Frank, and no one has ever commended
that it was, though the talented author
is unquestionably right when she
says that there was time when the aver
age domestic woman was nearly always
the one-sided woman. But IN this day
all the world believes in the woman of
the age being bro2dened by education TO
Just the furthest limit of capacity. AS
she puts it:
In no walk of life can woman or man
either be too highly educated in the true
sense. \ mother whose life work is the
training of young minds and hearts 10 be
J. ~,airf OF lar or q n
not bring too much mental equipment 10 her
work.
But while women need no longer be
one-sided to be domestic there is danger
that they may become ons-sided in other
directions; indeed, our orator and author
holds that her sex is already thus
afflicted.
They are still one-sided they are beginning
to forget how all-lmportant the home ana the
family are. They must be brought back and
taught TO see that every innovation, every
change is not progress. They must take their
intellectual! life first into their homes, after
ward into the streets.
Really this covers the whole ground OF
contention in which the Record q Mon
has so long and SO much engaged with
the misguided people of the female sex,
who accuse it of uncharitableness and
narrowness of views on the woman
question. If women will take their in
telIectual life first into the home" and
do their full duty there, there need be
no fear of over-exertion by them or de-
sertion of home by them for the CONNER
cial walks of activity.
The Record Unions entire battling has
been more in the interest of woman than
of man. As the home is woman's greatest
bulwark and best srmor against oppres-
sion and wrong, we have contended that
abe should there remain and be chief on
guard; that in displacing man, the natural
care-taker, in business life they are dis
placing the home; that if their education
in these modern days turns them from
domssticity. ii is bad for the race; that
whatever trains the girl to distaste for or
inexperiencs in housewifely arts units
her for that lofty pedestal that she ought
to ocoupy-nsmely. mistress of the home
and true motherhood.
Miss Frank says of the Jewish woman
she might have brosdened it to include
all women:
Ny work is directed chiefly to the Jewish
woman, who, through all the ages has been
the great hOme-bulider, the foundation OF the
family VIII she now at this iate day when
her intellectual development is more than
ever on an equal with that of men, forsake
her Old duties her old high calling, which she
has fulfilled SO long and so noDly?
Referring to the woman suffrage ques-
ton, Miss Frank, in al interview with a
San Francisco reporter, is quoted as say
ing-and with these quotations we leave
the thoughts thus expressed by this clear
seeing, sensible woman with our readers:
AS FOR woman (in answer to the charge that
the cause OF woman was one OF her enthusi.
aSmg}, l speak OF her only a part oil the
whole. ! have been interested 10 the Mom-
ems Congresses because am q woman, and |
believe IN all forms Of intellectual progress;
but am not suffragst, because / do not be-
lieve that a woman can properly fulfill her
home duties and be out in the world, too.
believe Ia independent professional
women. but ! 60 not believe in married
woman carrying on "a profession. She cannot
do both. The women L have met who at
tempted both invariably failed in one, and IL
is apt TO be the home that suffers For the
unmarried ones there might be a limited suf-
frage. I do not believe in universal suffrage
for either men or women. The suffrage should
be granted strictly according 10 the intelh-
gence and capacity OF the individual for gov
eminent.
one great thing against the woman suffrage
movement is that IL is carried on by women
without any mental training. II college-bred
women with some philOSophIc grasp OF mind
should take II up IL might DC different thing
Many OF these women are silly and volatile:
at best they know their side OF the story ana
nothing more. They not willing la We not
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