The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-08
sEATrLE, SUNDAY. JANUARY ..
wox.S AND THE WAR.

WOMAN AND THE WAR.
wba, does woman think OF the war.
nov that the boys are beginning 10
come home from their long service
coming home with their stories OF hard
ships and disease. their manned limbs
and broken constitutions. or their
weather stained faces and their marks
Of new courage and new strength?
Has she approved the loss OF lives.
the announcement which has caused
suffering IN camp. the deprtvations and
the trials which have tested mems BRAY
cry and overtaxed their human endur-
ancs? Or has the story been to her
long--too long narrative OK things
zone wrong, of disorder and disorgan-
ixation. of numberless evils which
wo,nau's prudence might have rectifted?
The men whose years Of military expert
ence are presumed to have qualified
them TO reduce hardships to minimum.
to check disease and TO promote the
greatest possible comfort consistent
with discipline and effective fighting
mower have done their best. but the re-
suit II simply criticism. Could 1t have
been better had the women been able to
speak Mt the right moments?
Mothers who have had their sons At
the front have shuddered in sympathy
with their ili.clad boys In the rains
and the suffocating heat: they have
longed TO I've beside them when they
were Frustrated with sickness. or
to know that somebody, kind and
thoughtful. was acting In their stead;
they have grieved that they could not
be In the field when the brave fellows
came back from the battle lines wound
ed and fighting with death. Mothers
who have had no sons have felt for the
mothers whose sons were there. and sis
ters and friends have believed that their
own lives would have been better could
they have mInistered to those who In
some manner needed them.
There may hardly be woman who
has no. asked herself. IA. she read Of
boys without oyercoats. Of boys with
cut food. without medicine. without
proper nursing. s!ekened by bad cook,
Ing, enervated by careless sanitation
Must these things indeed have been
ExN fl
clothed Must men In war eat thai
which at home their stnmaehs would
revolt against? Must men DO hattie fol
hours and rieep In trenches for many
more hours with nothing in their haver
SACHS and With the supplies man,
miles away aud inaccssstblef Must 4
b. that nen niust b. carried from IN,
field ia ihe hospital In tolsing wocaeu
carts. with ne shelter above them. will
no p'are bat the vet ground to lie upo,
when they reach avxsiaa,ione
Nc wemsn's hnuas. even In the rough
set az the pieneer world. would permit
such things No woman who has hone
among Ter sex would ALLOW her ssricker
husband. her injured son. 90 sleep upui
the hard ground. O. rest ga an uncieai
house. 20 suffer without some cordial
snnse ansieasiy prepared relief. W.T.,
should such things have been tn m
emergency OF war why should 40
man have The foresight to prepare hinl
self for sueh situations
Man holsters himself With the nrsa
~ physical courage ana Savs these So,
fertsass mug; b expected AMI endured
Woman summons her instructive vi
and saws tAa, they rsass Nc, exist Tn
less the suffering. the hetssr she ss}slai
The mere ceaSesess the egess 70 ass,lag,
sNe sreasor shs capacity n seA,
Woman shrsaks fgom the unfavoraNl
ard fartlfles against Il, Hers e -
slh which keeps man from hls own ~
providence.
Without che wemsaniv restraint -
world gees latn yugrezsaess and ssrft.
with Il. the worla sees tnte strife cat
when strife is suss Ara whsa ~
strife Is siwa anaStae dangers xr~Ss, AZ
fearful. woman rsckons mar re. ~!rmrs
as enc os number. az an sier.sn
which ssssy BE- sseriEaeei II tse psrxssI
~ a safn sar the gssater majority. hss
a. enc who saass Dc sawed I. IL De- rso~x.
bic. IN order that by maintaining ~