The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-04-28

the divine look of motherhood in the
eyes of Raphael's Madonnas.
If housekeeping hearts are hap
piest," what must be the thoughts of
these women, as with flushed faces and
fierce eyes, they fight for what they
call justice?
Do their lonely husbands, lounging
at the clubs, never long for the touch
of truly womanly hand and the sound
OF voice that speaks nothing but love?
Do their suffering, well-nigh mother
less babes ever sigh for justice?
Woman's sphere is in the home
there she may reign with the grace and
the power of coroneted queen, send
ing forth his strong, pure influence
through the kingly sons she has reared.
But when she gets out of her own
beautiful sphere, them the beauty and
the truth of her womanhood fail to APP
peal to the world.
The new woman will never give to
the world sons of genius and daughters
of purity; she will never make the
world better by having lived in it. She
has lowered the standard of woman
hood in the eyes of the world. Why is
it that she never inspires the lordly
chiyalry that characterized the knights
of century ago, who would willingly
have died for the smiles of those dainty,
white handed danes that we now laugh
to scorn? If the new woman is such an
improvement upon the ancient queens
of hearts, why is she not revered and
honored among men as were the women
of those days2 She scorns to do the
humble duties of her own sphere, con-
sidering them beneath her, uot know
ing that they are the grandest duties
that ever appeared to humanity, and
desires only to become the "equal" of
man. That road-browed poet who
said. woman is the lesser man" fore
told the heights to which woman would
aspire. Woman is the lesser man in
mans work, and in only that.
Why can she not be content with her
own sphere?So long as sheremains with
in it she is honored because she is o
true womaa, but when she attempts to
soar beyond that God-given sphere,
{ then her womanliness is gone and with
it all that makes woman beautiful.
The gushing poet who invariably re-
fers to woman as "a lovely dream" pos
sesses very common but deplorable
D ideal. Men who revere only beauty in
I women have lost that old-time honor
and nobility that distinguished our
) forefathers. With them the veriesi
I demi-monde received courtly saluta.
T tion-because she was woman. The
{ ancient regime, crowded with its noble
hearted women, is gone, and it seme
4 times seems that it has gone forever
h The new woman declares with pride
that all women before her day were sill
ly. painted creatures that lived only fol
i show aud admiration.
Was the Spartan maid, Joan of Arc
' who led her troops through volley o
death-arrows, q dolt? Was Harriet
q Mattinean fool? Was Florence Night
ingale painted, mincing court-damei
Was the woman who gave to the wcrlt
n the father of his country, Georg'
: Washington, shallow-hearted co
"a quethe? Was Una, for whom the Rec
,l Cross knight slew the dragon, feath
. er-headed society queen?
Ia All, there we're true wOmen in thos
Il days, those foolish ''unadvanced" days
when woman was content with the loft
mission assigned her, and looked upo
man as her superior in everything
And how wise we are now. in this busy
progressive age, when women forge
., their duties as wives and mothers, O
ID sisters and friends, and faunt thei
le faces before the grinning populace a
10 they cry for the rights that belong onl
to ment
10 All, those foolish days, when wome
ID were pure and mon reversed them bt
80 cause Of their purity; when their hal
~ py hearts were full Of faith and hor
n and chivalry And oh, these wise, Gle
ly er, advanced days, so complacentl
y, contemplated, when we doubt ever. IL
r. mercy of God, when we believe only
trickery and lies, when we strive I,
IN nothing save sordid, gold and when v
Is care for no living creature but on
at selves!
he Surely, surely there are yet woman
n women who are not Lorelies, Turin
a.. men to destruction and'crushing fire.
is the human heart that old sweet, sacrt
MS regard for the name of wemaH, b
stroRg, true, gracious beings, pure |
M the sunlight and noble as the Christi
p- Do not try to be new, yeu who Al
k so In favor Of advancement, b
he remember the days our fathers lov,
%. aud the women Of their times. VIII
cir although not 'new," were honor'
l. among men because they knew the
nc sphere and kept within its boundaries
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