The herald., 1895-04-01


only been properly TccoSi ICED and allowed
to try her housekeeping principles upon it.
There never has been a time in the his
tory OF nations when man has not re-
sponded, and nobly, to each crisis OF de-
velopment. and women show them selves
novitiates in public affairs when they shout
so vociferou ly that men are incapable to
right the affairs of state municipal or
national. without their votes. Always,
at all times, since the first Mother Eve,
women have advised and influenced and
men have gladly welcomed and responded
to this reserved force.
Woman Is influence wi | not be as potent
or forceful if she is transferred from re-
serve to regular on the political battle
ground. The public man has always
stood in awe of this reserve-not able to
even estimate its strength or sway.
If women should be as capable of man
aging state affairs as she is in managing
her household-whato of that? Men have
shown themselves superior in the kitchen
and command wonderful salaries, but all
men do not want to become cooks
Women do receive, as a rule, lower wages
than men, but there are many good
reasons for this, and it is chiefly woman s
own fault. A young girl, W shing an in
crease OF pin money, or thinking to help
along little, is willing TO work for less
than man who supports a family-the
woman supporter suffers too. Who can
blame the employer for choosing the less
expensive hire? Then women are prone
to marry and cannot be reckoned with as
steady employees.
Women have gone mad about being in
dependent about earning money out in
the world for themselves; instead of help
ing at home with house work and serving,
they go out to earn money to pay for
this. Sisters underbid their brothers !;
busy women are working for low wages
and idle men, and the result is-tramps.
So, thinks this feminine women; if
women stayed at home and intelligently
looked after their own departments, both
men and women would be better off.
OF course there has been, and always
will be, women, who by force of neces-
sity or misfortune, must become bread
winners. To these all honor be given.
They are patient burden bearers, putting
to shame the pseudo independence OF the
otner class. This brings this rather
lengthy review to the very big mountain
man S refusal to let women vote. That
suffragist wields to bring warning women
into line. A woman is only a child of
larger growth in this-to have a man dare
say she shant, makes her determined she
shall and when woman starts to do a
thing with that kind OF al incentive she
is pretty sure to accomplish her end, and
a large majority of women who do not
wish such an end will have to swallow it
and make wry faces-just as wilful child
makes his companions swallow green ap-
pies and suffer from the resultant stom-
achache with him.
yS This feminine woman's coagitations
lead her to believe. that the franchise to
women will not be the expected panacea
to her woes. Mems votes alone will ac-
complish quite as soon what they expect
of their divided vote added to mems di-
vided vote. Still, she is rather fair
minded, so she will go step beyond her
convictions and concede all these supposed
wrongs may be righted by women votes
will the gain be worth the price she
pays for it? But time is pressing, and
she avows she is doing what she criticises
in the New Woman "-neglectng home
duties-and she must not follow out this
question to its conclusion at present.
She promises to think it over, and in
another issue of The Herald you will find
her further coagitations. But as she
gathers up the dropped ends OF the house
hold menage she may be heard to MUIR
mur:
To vote or not to vote, that is the question,
Whether it is nobler in woman to suff r.
10 cook and slave for unregenerate man,
Or TO take votes against a sex which troubles
And by balloting end himl To speak, to vote
The backache and the thousad ny We nsua rp knocks
W. man is heir to. lis consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To speak. t,-vote,
~ Bcl peTCuduCe all OUce, aye, lnere 3 the
rub
For from that ballot box what shocks may
come.
When we have shuffied off our household ca
Must give us pause. There S the resp ct
That makes femnin1ty OF SO long life:
For who would fear the pangs and pains OF
birth,
The childrens tattle, the husbands protecting
air,
The home with prescribed work, the laws be-
trayl,
The ins0lence OF servants, and the hnsks
That patient woman OF imperious man takes,
l. she herself m ght her freedom make
With a bare ballot? Who would these bur lens
BEAR
To toll and fret under the household care,
But for the fear of some hing worse than this
Unnecessary duties from which none
May flee, or hating shirk, yet try the soul.
This makes us fatht + bear the ills we have
Than fly TO others we know not of;
For knowing would make thinkers of us all,
And thus the honest test of reasoning
BE flooded o'er with the bright light OF truth.
The suffrage question of great pith ami mo-
ment
To all women-its raison d'etre remov'd
Would los. the name of duty. List you now
The noon-tide bell! The hour calls for lunch
Be every dish remembered,
And so murmuring vanishes-for this time.
DAME DITRDEN