The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-11

are sometimes excellent persons. ey-
emplary in every relation of life. capa
pie, honest, trustworthy, industrious,
with no household cares and no very
serious problems before them who
Seem to have been born with IA kind
of moral twist which all their lives
long make the grasshopper seem a
burden which sets them at variance
with their kind which makes them see
in every person an actual or potential
enemy. or at least a source OF danger
and anxiety. They are in peculiar
sense the product of Northern people.
with their age-long conflict with the
forces of nature. You can scarcely
Imagine such angular specimens of vir-
tue in petticoats being reared among
the careless. idle, sensuous children of
the sun. There is usually no tanning
Of such shrews by marriage. for they
are the veStals of the British house
Keepers room, or of the respectable
spotless cottage in quiet English pro-
vincial town. We think they are. on
the whole, a special British product
which we must accept along with our
other national mercies and get along
with as we can.
Thus we see from their constitution
and environment how il is that women
take more naturally to nagging than
men. But we have limited at another
cause in the difference of pursuits
Men have, in the nature of things, GER
tain large. wide interests which give
some scope TO their imagination and
lift them above the narrow round, the
seeming routine of trifes which must
make up so much of Women's exist
ence. We say seeming" for the true
work of women-the love and care of
men and the preservation of family life
lis not really a trifle, though it's mo-
ments may be often trifiing. But there
is no denying the fact land it is this
which gives n the movement
it's momentum that there are more ac-
tive and larger daily interests in the
life of man than in that of a wo
man. The workman meets his COM
rades in the open and engages them
in conversation; he sees something of
the stir of life. while his wife is shut
up within the little pinfold of her cot
tage. The stockbroker the lawyer the
legislator, the merchant, are each and
all in close touch with large realities,
with responsive life. So that not only
are their nerves less broken. but their
imagination and intellects are sus-
tanned with greater power. and 1T is
not usually until old age that these
animating and charging lid age that
these animating and enlarging motives
cease to affect their daily lives
Extreme fanatics among the so-called
new women" will see in this another
grievance to be met by women fling
ing themselves unrestrained into the
masculine world of active life We
believe that to be a delusion. because
nature is against it. But we do think
that two great changes might largely
reduce the nagging disposition. First,
a better division of work. not by the
agency of despotic communism, but by
the growth of moral insight in all
classes of society. Secondly, by sys-
tenn of cooperative housekeeping by
the working classes, who at present
M on IT hi nf hn
possibilities of that division of labor
which they see in the factories and
workshops where they are employed
when carried out in their own homes.