The San Francisco call., 1896-05-07
Their Congress Halls With Joy the News of
the Endorsement of the Suffrage Bill.

~ the boys go astray (as under this maternal cult
they seem very likely toy, then she weeps and be-
walls herself privately, but is efusvely grateful
to them II they return to her and say they are
sorry after having dissipated her fortune and
ruined her life
Frau Hansen. whose one object is TO show how
miserable women who do not conform 10 the
women 10 the herd of geese who are driven yearly
to market. and who go cackling to meet their
fate" and Of Sophie Kovaevsky she writes:
'She was what the century forces such women TO
be-a genius for nothing, woman for nothing,
ever struggling along road that leads nowhere,
and fainting by the way as she strives TO attain q
distant mirage"
Let us cease to be afraid of our own shadows
slams after a better and truer faith invites our
allegiance.
Why. for instance should women. when they de-
sire 10 start. new organization of any kind, al
ways kotow to the old specters of the nursery and
tho kitchen. by assuring the world that the new
activity Will not make them worse wives and
mothers? Imagine man prefacing his account OF
an improvement in the prntlng-press or steam
engine with the assurance 10 those who are 10 use
IT that II will not make them worse husbands and
fathers! Would not inextinguishabe laughter
shake the assem blies of the gods?
But these delusioDs long and fondly cher
lshed, are slowly disappearing under the clear
scientific weighing Of values that constitutes the
glory OF our time. Fra Angeico's angels are
lovely and nobody insists upon the fact that there
are evidently no bodies under those flowing robes,
out modern painter, who should show himself
equally obivious OF anatomy, would not be for
given though his subject should be the Beata
BeatriN herself: so Ibsen and George Meredith.
Howells and Garland are inexoraby pricking the
old iridescent bubbles, and showing the one sex
10 be as various and little amenable to per-
functory classification as the other, as indeed
born OF the same father and mother, with the same
curious threads of many y-colored heredity twisted
into her personality, how should 1t be otherwise !?
So 1t is TO be hoped that shall finally take the
hint, and realizing that hesh-and- blood baby is
always more interesting than doll stuffed with
sawdust, however beautiful cultivate within our
selves the eternal verties;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength and skill,
till admirers and detractors alike acknowledge
that the reality is fairer than the dream and ree-
gate the old myth to the domain OF cloud cuckoo
land, where II belongs, while press forward to
the goal whittier one of our own California poets
invites
body free and strong, with that high beauty
That comes OF perfect use-s built thereof;
a mind where reason ruleth over duty
And Justice reigns with love.
A seltpoised, roval soul, bra We, wise and tender
No longer blind and dumb;
human being of an unknown splendor
Is she who is to come!
Mrs. Philip L. Weaver, opening the dis
cussion of Miss Kirtland's paper, said in
part:
"The woman who tainted on every occa-
sion, the woman who melted to tears at
the least thing, is relegated to the past,
Women can now stand upon her own
foundation and do her duty because she