The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-10

not only England, but the nations of Eu-
rope, were anxious to shower upon her.
Most blessed things come silently, and ST.
lently depart;
Nofseless steals spring-time on the year
and comfort on the heart.
God spake not in the thunder nor in the
crushing blast;
His utterance was in the still small voice
that came at last
Would we send our Miss Nightingales to
the legislature with brutal men? Yes. If
they could be of service. If they could end
war as well to heal the wounded, there
would be the place.
The only question invoived should be the
good that could be DONE This achieved
would more than balance the behavior of
bruteS and blackguardS Such women are
too pure to be cowardly or corrupted.
Purity means, not ignorance, not inno-
cence, not weakness, but weighed in the
balance and not found wanting.
The ignorant, innocent and weak might
chance to be pure, but not necessarily.
Purity means the distillation of a power
and beauty that disarms ribaldry and is Sc
cure against temptation and time 1t means
more than a coat Of ''adipose tissue with
out which this beautiful creature is fraud
and snare to enguf the race.
Henry Drummond. in his ascent of
Man," says: us it too much to say that
the one motive of organic nature was to
make mothers? It is at least certain that
this was the chief thing she did,
This being true, isn't it little ridiculous
for sex considerably lower than the
angels debating to the chief work of ma
ture, pointing out the paths she is to fol-
low and the position she is to occupy?
Imagine Cordoba, the mother of the
Gracchi, being told by her sons to keep her
proper place. The chief work of nature
ought to be able to seek her own level.
Drummond in speaking of the father,
says: Among the carnivora the mother
has often to hide her offspring from him
lest they be devOured.''
We have fathers today who have devel-
oped far beyond the stage of eating their
children, although class insists even yet
in devouring their neighbors' little girls.
So ''age of consent laws are strenuously
fought for to bring the slaughter upon a
legal basis, but, law or no law, the devour-
ing process goes on.
Then we have another class of fathers
who have become sufficiently tanned to SUBJ
nit to being supported peacably. Quiet
reigns at the hearthstone, while the moth
ers are performing the protecting act.
In New York city there is estimated to
be something like 10000 wives supporting
their husbands and children. Here is ex-
emplified Darwin's discovery, 1.-THE struggle
for life" as also Drummond's discovery,
The struggle for the life of others.
There is one philosophy that some of
these husbands appreciate, if not the phi
losophy of the pathway to the ballot-box
for their wives, and that is 1.-The struggle
for the lives of Others"
1t is beautiful saying that God could
not be everywhere, so he made mothers"
Bacon said: This 1 dare affirm in knowl-
edge OF nature-that a little natural phi
losophy and the finest entrance into it doth
dispose the opinion to atheism, but on the
other side much natural philosophy and
wading deep into it will bring about mems
minds to religion"
Thus 1t is that a little thought upon the
philosophy of woman's political equality
doth dispose the opinion to disfavor, but
''wading deep into it will bring mems
minds to conviction
MRS. MARION TODD
Lansing, Mich. Box 442