The record-union., 1898-01-23

commercial establishments, where only
the hard and fast dollar rule prevails.
Her home hours are the hours when
tired nature demands rest, and her rec
reation is snatched from time that
should be given TO acquiring the
housewifely arts. From these
girls with pencils in their
back hair youth forms it's estimate
very largely of its duty to womanhood.
Even the influence of mothers and sis
ters at home fails to disspate the logical
conclusion at which he arrives, that If
woman goes into the business whirl she
must take what comes in it, and not
demand or expect more Difference than
is accorded to any other interloper.
OF course there are EXCEPTIONS; of
course there are instances, alas, of dire
necessity driving unhappy woman to
the counter and the midnight tramp OF
the reporter; but we are considering not
cases. but the results of conditions, and
their inevitable tendencies. We lift our
eyes to broader and more distant hori-
zon than the present, and with deaf ears
to cases of distress, look forward to
what should be the position of women in
the social order of things, taking lessons
all the while from what once was.
Looking, however, at the subject in
another shading of light, the st. Louis
''Globe-D Democrat has this to say to
the woman in the Detroit Free Press"
and we believe it to be truth untouched
by sophistry or false statement:
Is it not barely possible the women
themselves-or, rather, a class of wo-
men-are responsible for the state of
affairs which our friend says exists?
The continued harping on the rights of
women has finally made an impression
on man, and he is willing that she be in
dependent in so far as the social ameni-
ties are concerned. She wants to face
the world on an equality with man, and
it begins to look as if he were taking her
in earnest. The thoughtful have feared
that the agitation for political rights
would affect the social condition of the
sexes. Advanced women have pooh
poohed such a result, and have inti
mated that they did not much care if it
came to pass. Other women though
the great majority of them-who do not
care a piccayune for the privilege of
standing in line at the polling BOOTH but
who miss sadly the gracious manner al
ways accorded them by masculinity, are
made to suffer by the constant demands
for recognition made by their stronger
sisters.
The change in the social relations of
men and women where the latter have
full suffrage is so marked as to cause
comment from the outer barbarian. 1t
comes as a necessary corollary of the
ballot. Women do not run for Office just
for the pleasure of seeing their names
printed in the newspapers. They want
to win. and will do all in their power
to attain their hearts desire. II lower
ing Of the tone of man follows his en-
trance into politics, why should an oppo
site effect be produced on a woman who
is as anxious to succeed as is a man?
The effect is the same, only different in
degree. When the woman has been as
long in politics she will equal her brother
| politician in lack of refinement. The
esthetic side Of life will become
shadow and each for himself will be the
shibboleth of women as it always has
been of the politically ambitious among
her brethren.