The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-08

are responsible for the insignificant
place he occupies. No more should you
ferment trouble in my sex by telling us
that we are the intellectual equals of
man.
Mrs. Bateman said we had ages of
oppression and ignorance to overcome,
and that we are 100 awkward as yet IN
using our tools to expect anything like
ripe results. The technicalities and ira
ditions Of law, medicine, politics and
commerce, must not only be mastered
by one generation of women, but sew
eral generations following must absorb
it with their mothers milk, as it were,
before we can look for a Thomas JEFF
ferson or an A. It. Stewart.
Imagine the veXation of listening to
such statements and not being able to
ask the speaker why then, if tradition
and familiarity are essential to
achievement, are men today the best
cooks, the best dressmakers, and the
pest housekeepers on earth?
In the sorry past she pictured, men
never denied to women complete IA
miliarity with needles and frying pans
All the long years of our bondage we
were made to earn our board and keep
by cooking his porridge and sewing his
shirts. Yet today who brings the
highest prices in the market, and is
quoted as an authority on food and
clothes, but Worth and Joseph, the first
a dressmaher, the second a cook?
Men, not women, have made records
as hOusekeeDers Of big hotels Having
applied Office and business principles
TO marketing and managing servants
behold the results are peace and profit
1t would only have been natural to
suppose that when the Auditorium in
Chicago and the Waldorf-Astoria of
New York were built. that a woman
lr-O11fH he OF 1,a Of
affairs. Her long domestic training
seemed to fit her peculiarly to make
money and fame, when the chance
came TO shine along the old humble
path her patient feet had trod for so
many dark centuries.
Not at all. She is congenitally de-
fcient in the kind OF brain necessary
for all and every sort of constructive
and administrative work.
She is full of earnest desire to do
right, but nature failed to endow her
with capacity. Certainly no one pre-
tends today that it is prejudice or
lack of opportunity that drags at a
woman's Dettcoat, holding her back /
from her best DEVELOPMENT.
Then why, l would like to know. do |
these walking delegates of society love |
to stir US up with such incendiary doc !
trines. They only tend to make us dis |
satisfied. And. moreover. it directs our |
from the great sphere in !
which we are supreme; that superior
height from which we can afford to |
smile encouragingly upon men strug-
Cling in the arena below
If man controls affairs. woman con-
trolls man. She can truthfully say. I |
am p tree. We are the branches. She
Is the underlying, fundamental force in
the world. Her hands hold the power
Of lie or death for society. In COM
aarison with her sphere and work all
that men accomplish looks feeble and
petty.
Compare the construction of an cleo
-ric dynamo or the building of an
ocean flyer with bringing healthy,
rosy child into the world. and then
fetching him or her W with a sound
q sweet heart and clear brain.
And it IS women, not men. who rear
children. Those first ten years. when
character and constitution are eorEned.