The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-02
THE NEW WOMAN.
Have Wives Who Ara MeraIy "a rniabIs
Echoes" ANY Sou.s?


gether and buries herself in her hus-
band and children, having no opinions
OF her own, no thought on any of the
great questions that thrill and move the
world, absolutely no individuality of
her own. She accepts her husbands the.
ology, politics and temperance opinions.
When called on 10 express a view on any
of these topics or any other, the words
OF her husband or her grown son, if she
has any, or of her father and brothers.
simply run out Of her mouth like water
through a sieve. She is exactly what
women in all ages have been told to be,
merely an 'amiable echo" of her hus-
band or her nea On male relative. If she
has no near maS relatives TO form her
mind for her, then she is an echo of her
beloved pastor. She can no more think
for herself than an empty bag can stand
! alone. Now, the strange question asked
was this; What becomes of such wo-
man after DEATH Has che any soul? The
doctrine of the survival of soul after
death is the doctrine OF evolution of indi-
vidual development. There is the uni
versal life whence all that moves
sprang. the nature life diffused through
all the universe. Oriental philosophy
teaches that mankind must strive in all
ways to develop each for himself and
| herself their own intellectual and spirit
nal power This is the only way to in
dividuali2e themselves, and only by in
dividualizing themselves can they de-
velop enough of SOUL to survive death
as a separate person The object of the
earth life is individual development,
the making the most and the best of all
| ones powers. No human being can do
this who does not work and think for
himself To be merely an "amiable
echo" Of another is to be an intellectual
and spiritual dwarf, or a soul asleep,
one that has never been awakened. Ma
ture never created any two creatures
exactly alike. Even. two mosquitoes, if
examined under the microscope, are
| found to be quite different Thousands
OF women are trying to make them
selves even less than mosquito. Really
| and truly have such women anything
of their own that is worth surviving
after death? Frankly, doubt it.
Woman today is the result of 5000
| years effort TO please man. The result
| is satisfactory neither to man nor to
woman
Pegging away at one thing day after
| year is tiresome, but it is the only way
to accomplish anything worth while.
| The reason so many women fail is that
| they want to stop every little while and
| take rest or go to party or something
which absents them from their work.
| Then somebody else who is slayer
! steps in and gets their place and keeps
| it.
Mrs j. M. Fiske has given $l40,-
| 900 to Barnard, the woman s college of
| Columbia university in New York city.
/ rejoice that here is one woman who
| does not pour her thousands into the
! Golfers of theological school to educate
( preachers who turn around and deny
] women the right of ordination as min
I listers and the right to share in church
| management or to hold church offices
and finally rub it in by putting the
word obey" in the marriage ceremony.
Iwish the Daughters of the American
Revolution would not fuss and quarrel
( so much. even though the American
Revolution was one long fight. These
| illustrious daughters will soon be as
| bad as the men. who never can get
along in an organization without quar-
reling.
This is what Emerson says. Better
| be nettle in the side of your friend
than his echo -
Considerable notice has been taken of
the fact that among members of the
merchants association who lately visit.
ed New York to buy fall goods there
was one woman. Miss J. r. Shrumm,
! head of q millinery firm in Columbus.
o But the only odd thing about it is
that there were not 20 women mer.
chants instead of only one.
Mrs S. j. Milliken of Augusta. Me-,
| is member of the board of directors of
the Bangor. Orono and Oldtown Rail.
road company.
William Shaffer had charge of $500
belonging to a society He hid it in the
ragbag at his home The ragbag with
its contents was sold to peddler an0
the money never heard of again Was
that Just like woman?'
There are women who nearly always
preface remark with the words. My
husband thinks q" We learn thereby that
at least their husbands think. although
they themselves never do. Don't be one
Of the my husband thinks wives
The Woman's Klondike Syndicate ex-
petition is the name of an organization
now being perfected in New York city.
Mrs w McDannold, rs Tribune
building is treasurer 1t is composed of
women of some means who expect to go
to the Klondike gold mines in COM
Portable and civilized manner. starting
March |. 1898. 1t requires $1,000 to
min the expeditlou and accompany IL