San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-23

analysis. In every case there is a
woman in the case.
Yet how sneeringly is she referred to
by the flippant pens of the smart wri-
ters of the press of the present. Kids,
with fabers behind their long ears, who
are not fit to tie her bonnet strings
fling out their impudent comments on
every occasion about the woman in the
case. There is not a scandal, nor a
divorce, nor defualting, nor crime,
of any kind on the catalogue that the
changes are not run on the woman in
the case. When none is apparent,
then the prophetic vision of the smar-
tie peers around the corner and dis
courses of the woman in the case who
has not as yet been discovered. There
is an undignified and an uncalled for
slur upon the woman, in all this, and
therefore it is challenged today.
There is not man who turns up his
nose at the woman in the case, but is
reminded that he came into the world
himself because there was a woman in
the case. That woman, his mother, is
entitled to more than a sneer at the
hands of the boy to- whom she gave
the best part Of her life that he might
be something more than a walking
clothes horse splitting out venom at
the woman in the case. There never
yet was a woman who was unsexed
and made unworthy her womanhood
that there was not a man in the case.
This degeneration of the finest clean
est, sweetest purest and best part of
humanity, by those who as her sons
a hnc nd nd
ers should be her defenders, has gone
far enough. 1t is time to call a halt.
Z AS man thinketh in his heart so is
he. II he has no reverence for the
woman in the case he has no respect
for the woman who was his mother,
the sweet little innocent girl who call
ed him sister, the dearer one who en-
trusted all her young heart to his
keeping and lavished woman's world
of affection upon a puppy who did not
appreciate her womanliness enough to
esteem all other women elevated on
her account. The woman in the case!
Alas, she only proves that there is a
man in the case. She is the silent part
ner in more cussedness than the world
wots of. Silent, because too loyal to
those who have no loyalty to her to
reveal her own betrayal of confidence
and honor and life and reputation at
their hands.
The woman in the case. God bless
her, for few men are noble enough to
dc it She is misunderstood in all
that is best, truest most unselfish in
her nature, and on account of this
misinterpretation of herself goes down
to her generation, pilloried by the pen
of the shortsighted purveyors of events
as the woman in the case. True, she
is, but it as a carricature Of the real
woman that she is that she is pictured
to the reading, scoffing world.
Members of the Light congregation!
Remember that the woman in the case
is some ones child, someone's sister,
perhaps some mans mother, lover,
wife! Remember that it is religion
with her to suffer and keep silent.
That she seldom parades her wrongs.
That she covers from the light of day |
the cussedness of the man in the case |
and takes all the blame on her sore |
heart and heavy soul. The woman in |
the case may and generally is the best |
thing in it. Remember what earth |
owes to women, and begin to pay your
part of the debt by a larger conception |
of what woman really is. Remem- |
Der that the average man is not capa-
BILE of fathoming the depth of a wom- |
ans heart or the wealth of her wom- |
anly nature.