The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-08-20

war, ciam0flng TOT Iemalc enIran'
chisement. The woman who looms
up In a calico gown like a Grecian
goddess on dress parade; who can,
with a glance OF her eyes, set mans
very soul on fire and bring him to her
feet; who can transform humble COT
tage into q happy home gilded with
Gods own glory; who can make the
husband play the lover through long
life time, and rear crop Of boy babies
flt to wear the crown OF American
sovereignty, never suspeee that the
world will 60 to Hades a-wllOOping II
she doesn't hustle down to the polls
and express her political preferences.
She knows that every law that does
her wrong is written upon the sand;
that every government that fails to
guard her as its chief glory Is doomed
to nameless death. Served by the
worlds wisdom and crcled by its
chivalry, she stands secure an Em-
press by Right Divine. When a man
is good for nothing else he goes to
preaching or starts q reform" news
paper. When woman either fails to
catch man, or in Ut Of desperation,
marries some whiskcred Miss Nancy
without sufficient moral force to man
age her, she concludes that the times
|-are out OF joint and that she has been
raised up to put them right. The wo-
man who Is the crown jewel OF q good
home keeps of the hustlings; but the
one that commands neither love at
home nor admiration abroad feels that
she is being robbed Of her "rights."
Give a woman youth and beauty she
asks not-nceds not--political power;
but when still a maid her mirror tells
her she could not pass Tor five and
forty in the moonlight; when her
bracelets slip over her elbows and q
thumb ring would make her garter;
when she becomes either peram.
bulating tub of unwholesOme lard or
has to pad her diaphram to cast a
shadow, she is apt to be morbidly
sensitive to
"The oppressor's wrong, the proud mans
The pangs Of despised love. tho laws delay
decline tn endure the ills she has, but
flies to others she knows not Of. At
tend any female suffrage convention,
and you will find more wrinkles than
roses. 1t is startling aggregation Ol
brawny fists and big feet, Of scrawny
nccks and bOsoms either fiat or form.
less-a nightmare for the artist, the
despair of a poet. One can scarce
blame such crowd for pleading the
right OF self-protectiOn. They Ger.
tainly need it. In States where full
or partial female suffrage now pre-
walls, the home woman Ofttimcs goes
to the polls, as well as her "prOgres'
sive" sister; but she does so simp'
| ly because those she loves are pulling
for the success OF party, and have call
ed upon her to Offset the female vote
OF the opposition. The home woman
THE woman we love, and whose
slight wish Is our law-cares never a
copper who Is president or pound
master SO long,as the lord Of her lie
is content. The very fact that it has
taken forty years to bring women such
Il little way on the road to "cmanci
patton" proves that politics is foreign
to the law OF her being. She doesn't
have to embark In bitter crusades tt
wiring concessions from those who
live only to serve her; to whom wealth
and power are as bitter ashes and the
mural wreath a crown Of th0rns un
less illuminated by her love. The
true wOman-the woman who Is really
a helpmcct unto man; the woman wht
is first at the cradle and last at the
graves" the woman who meekly obeys
US while ruling as with a golden rod
the woman who laughs ut US, but
loves us; the woman who asks 0ul
forgiveness when we are the offender
the woman who doesn't believe one
half we tell her, yet would make am
sacrifice to serve us, simply ask fol
what she wants, and II IT Is no,
promptly forthcoming makes a quie
sneak on our inside pockets whil'
asleep for circumsta ntial evidence
that will force a verdict In her favor
1t Is usually the woman who Is no
welcome anywhere, who has no one Il
love her, whose very presence make
: man feel like reaching for a fenc
picket, who wants tO be tOrchligh
procession.
AN EDITORS DUTY.-"An editor
duty" an exchange says, "is to spea|
OF his town as the lovelicst place be
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