The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-09
THE NEW WOMAN.
Twaddle About Taxing Bachelors and
Forcing Them Into Matrimony.

Forcing Them Into Matrimony.
Again some one has started up that
foolish and dreary old talk of putting a
tax ON single men, TO force them to take
as wives some of the girls who are sup
posed &c De waiting TO drop at their feet
and thank them for it. A more degrad-
ing and demoralizing idea of woman
hood was never imagined than that
which the arguments of the advocates
of bachelor tax would imply. The
| true ideal of womanhood is that girl
should hold herself as a person TO be
won, and that not too easily. There is
nothing more repulsive TO one who has
the best interests of women at heart
| than the thought of woman watching,
waiting, planning 10 catch a man off
his guard and induce him in a moment
of weakness 10 marry her. The eager
ness, the waiting and the planning
should be on the mans side, not the
woman's. Nature meant and made it
so. When the plan is reversed and
women lie in wait for men to trap them
into matrimony, it can arouse only dis
gust in the mind of man. If men prefer
a single life and the enjoyment of self
ish bachelor luxuries, it is because no
woman has as yet touched their hearts
in the right way, and that is not their
fault either, but plainly the fault of
women themselves. If women were
what they might be and ought to be.
they would not have to go cunning for
husbands, dragging them in by the ears
unwilling and holding them fast till
the marriage ceremony was over. The
husband who had been taxed or trapped
into marrying could not do otherwise
than despise ever after the woman who
had thus trapped him. Let the men go
their own way, TO marry or not to mar
ry at their own sweet will. If women
were as really attractive, as self help
full, as they might be, they could get
husbands fast enough-that is, if get
ting husband was the chief end and !
aim Of woman's existence, which it
is not; quite the contrary. If there were
half as many marriages as there are,
such as they are, and half as many |
children born, such as they are, the |
race would be better off. What women |
want nOw-all women-is to become |
and capable of earning a
good living for themselves without |
reference TO men one way or the other
There is no more wicked or degraded
woman than she who sells herself for
nome and support, even though it be
under sanction of marriage ceremony.
There is one breadwinning occupa-
ion which women have not yet entered
% any extent 1t ought therefore to be
easy for them TO gain
oothold in its field. 1t is advertising
writing. This has now become an art
II itself There is ten times as much
dvertising as there was few years
go. The old stereotyped workings will
lot do. There must be learning, wit,
vide knowledge, skill and wisdom in
he advertisement of today. A great
merchant whose wares are not at all ex-
eptionally cheap or good has distanced
lis competitors and built up tremen-
Ious trade simply because he was for
innate enough TO secure man who
new how to write advertisements.
he writer in this case receives very
arge pay. Girls who want to be jour
allsts, unless they have real genius
or some particular form of newspaper
york, would have a much better chance
they turned their talents to the solic-
ting and writing of advertisements.
he field lies all around. Any girl in
lllage where newspaper is published
an try her hand. There is also now a
chool of advertising where the intrica-
les of the art of writing ads may be
Mastered by correspondence
The New Testament itself declares
he sexes are equal and are one in
'hrist, but the churches have made a
Inference and put woman down far be-
DIV man in her rights and privileges.
wonder if they ever think of this.
Whatever you do, let your work be
judged as work in general-man's |
York, angels work, anybody 's-never
lerely as 'woman's work. :"
While learned men go on proving
hat woman's brain is smaller and poor
r in quality than man and that there
ore she never can amount to much,
'oman goes on quietly proving that
er brain is i'll every respect equal to
lan's and sometimes superior. Every
hing is coming out right. Women have
My to work quietly, making no fuss
ecause they are women, but just doing
leir work as well as it can possibly be
one and learning all they can, and be-
Dre they know it even the crabbedest
scientists and theologians will be
edging and finding some way of get
ng around his previous sweeping as
ertions of woman's inferiority. The
uality and completeness of the work
rove the capacity of the worker.
The Denver Teachers club proposes
place the executive control of the !
ational Educational association in the
ands Of women, seeing that nine tenths
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