Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-02-06

gave me, and my visit TO the poor
house in Philadelphia, gave me the
groundwork Of the poem"
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MANS ESTIMATE OF WOMEN.
"What else could you expect Of a
womenW
The question was asked in tone
bordering on the contemptuous, OF a
man who had been telling how his
wife had Numbered in a business
transaction. Such questions are too
common to attract particular atten-
ton, 80, as a sort Of explanation OF
the prominence given this one, IL
must be said that the man who asked
il 10 we'll known TO the writer, aud
that he has much less business ability
than his own wife, who not only at
tends to her household affairs, but
nearly supports the family by her
work at the carpet loom.
"Women don't know nothin' bout
politics, and don't need tor know. If
us men can't make laws 'nough, then
we'll git long 'thout laws"
That little speech is quoted word
for word The speakers wife told
him the names Of the democratic can
didates at the last election just before
he went to vote, that he might be i'm
posed upon by politicians. He is a
teamster in this city, who works ten
hours day, and doesn't have time
to read. HIS wife has little children
to care for, and works sixteen hours a
day on an average or the men who
listened to, and agreed with him, it
is safe to say that not one-half were
mentally superior to himself.
In this city there is a young college
graduate who declares that women
are mentally inferior TO men, and
should be denied the privilege of q
college education because of physical
as well as mental inability. He proves
his theory from books he has read
Yet two Of his sisters are graduates of
the same college from which he grad
uated, one with honors equalllng his
own, one surprising him. But Of
these sisters are not only self.support-
ing now, but are helping to pay the
college expenses of younger sister,
while the young man, unable to take
care Of himself, receives help from bis
father. If his sisters are cited in ar
gument against him, he says, they
are EXCEPTIONS" and il the names of
niue out of Ten Of the women of his
acquaintance were to be mentioned
with equal proof against his asser-
tionS, they would all be set aside by
him as exceptions.
A popular preacher, in a recent leo
ture on women happened to make the
remark that a woman would rather
walk ten miles with the thermometer
below zero, than to wear a bonnet out
of season. 1t is needless to say that
the remark was received most cor
daily. When a speaker desires to
get up q laugh he has only to COM
ment on the weakness Of woman.
After the lecture this particular re-
mark was referred to by several men
who pronounced it "true to nature"
IAN excellent hit" ETC., etc.
The queerest part Of it all is, that
the mothers of these young men have
worn the same bonnet year after year,
aud that very evening one had escort
ed lady wearing an old-fsshioned
bonnet. Two Of them had, on more
than one occasion, escorted ladies
who wore summer bonnets in cold
weather, and one had seen earnest
members of the w. @. 7. U. wearing
summer bonnets in December because
they could not find time to buy new
bonnets. 1t is safe to say that large
majority Of the lady friends of these
young men would not have walked
ten miles IN any sort of weather sim
ply to avoid wearing a bonnet out of
seas on; yet the preachers remark was
considered true to nature" and their
sensible lady acquaintance did not
count when they proct eded to pass
judgment on womanklnd.
Should there be ten woman of good
business ability in nelghborhood, to
one who knows nothing of business,
men would shut their eyes to the
work of the ten, and cite the in
efficiency of the one as a true repre-
sentation of woman's business ability.
Find man whose wife surpasses him