The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-26

plause and began her remarks by stating
that her paper contained nothing particu-
larly new, being sort of ola podrida of
the thoughts and suggestions made in the
congress during the week. 1t was Satur-
day, too, hash day and what she had to
offer was in the nature of a hash
She said:
Home is the combination of father, mother
and offspring, and the home cannot be
happy one until father love is developed.
The mother love has already attained that per-
lection. Father love is prefigured in bird life
where the father helps the mt her to feed and
protect the young. The necessity of obedience
In the home comes to the father, the mother
and the offspring alike.
After evolution of the home came the neces-
sity of location. This tended to draw family
lines closer and resulted in the homogeneous
marriage and that unjust custom of entail
which, happily, does not obtain in America.
:, Home, men and women are existing to-day as
they have existed from the long ago. There
are great opportunities for women, yet there
has been no time in the history of the world
when more outrages were perpetrated against
them. This is because the men of to-day are
more absolutely the slaves OF condition than
ever before.
result of the property idea in which women
have been held is the perversion of the natural
relation between the sexes to-day. Instead OF
mating according to natural selection the man
and the woman being mutually attracted and
equally interested and equally fitted for matri-
mony, the man now selects the woman for
her purely feminine qualities to be a part of
himself, to love, honor and cherish as his own
to work for, to fight for, to control. The woman
accepts, expecting to be possessed, TO be sup
ported. to be controlled; and she is to-day the
one female creature on earth who has to a.
large extent lost the power OF selfs-upport and
who is not in possession of her own body.
Out OF this unnatural relation between the
sexes has grown most of the disease to man
kind, the weaknesses of woman and the in
justices to children. Out of this unnatural re-
lation has come the separation of interests in
the home until home is no longer home. In
the stern fight for money, which man must
make to support his double burden the peo-
pie have centered themselves in cities and
towns and the houses where the women and
children live are from two to forty miles dis
tant from the offices and shops where fathers
live. And the father thus becomes the sole
Garner, while the mother must be the spender,
and must also be father and mother to the chill
dren. In the home the interests of the
father and mother have become separated
until the father has come to be only sort of
money-making machine in the eyes of too
many wives and children, located somewhere
IN that mysterious region called downtown"
Verify the conditions which man made for
Woman's hands years ago, by which he fenced
her in, have grown with the ages until they
have brought forth q boomerang in the person
OF tnls same woman, who now exacts from him,
as the price OF her home and possessions, the
sacrifice of his entire life. Is it a wonder that
he, In his turn is FESTIVE under the strain, and
ne Iushes INTO all sorts OF diversions, question
able and otherwise, controlling man, as much
avlctim of his own injustice as is woman?
The home OF to-day is the flower of the ages
and though to-day the life line may seem to
dip a little backward, though conditions NAV
! seem hard and people may appear less interest.
ing than IN the past, it is only because our
| eyes nave been opened, our hearts have been
stirred. Where we were asleep we are now
awakened. We were once blind; we now can
| see And being awake and seeing, let us Sci
| about making in that home the fit-the more
than ht-successor of that home of to-day
which is the gift of the past
The new home will extend itself into the
streets and demand that, night as well as day
the streets shall be as safe for women AND
young girls as it is now at the best in the day.
/ time. - -o '
Mrs. Smith, who has offered several
altruistic suggestions to the congress fol
the betterment of home conditions, arose
| just read.
! u declare" she said, ain the presence
OF this audience, that if we could have such
hash as that every day of the 365 in the
year, we should be happy. l thank God ]
nave lived to see the day that I could SIT
IN any audience and hear read such 9
| paper as that"
Mrs Emma Gregory arose to state thai
she thoroughly agreed with the sentiments
expressed by Mrs. Carr.
| Until man and woman" she said, "are
on the same level morally, politically ano
in virtue, the home cannot be what il
/ should be''
Mrs. Gregory then went on TO point out