The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-08
MEN THEIR SUPERI0RS.
W OMEN EXCEL N THREE THINGS,
SAYS CLARICE.


and HOuseIseeperS, and Prove That
Nan Is the BETTER Worker of the
Tvo-Why Women Have the Best
of 1t in the End md Can Afford to
Ignore Any of Mans Airs and Pre-
lenses.
New York, Jan. 6-In the way Of prac-
Hcal professional work. there are only two
things a woman can do better than a man
She is unqucstionably a better sick nurse
and also a better primary teacher, and, /
forgot to add mat no man living can
equal woman when II comes to trim
ming hat In everything else ne leaves
her miles behind.
/ got nome about ten minutes ago from
meeting Of the Artmite Womans CLUB,
where the subject under discussion was
"The Uniform Superiority of Woman.
A printed announcement of the debate fail
"a to state 10 what or whom the sex is SUI
perior. but from the speeches l gather
that it must be man.
All the speakers dHated, of course, upon
her moral and spiritual supremacy, 2nd
depiored the long. cruel bondage she had
endured; bondage that very naturally had
crippled her genius and thereby prevented
an earlier competition with man in indus
trial fields.
Mrs Henrietta Bateman, as president of
The club. concluded the remarks by saying
that all women asked was an equal chance
to write her name large in the world $
history beside that of an Edison, or a
Lincoln. With faculties cramped by igno-
rance. and her field of action confined to
the kitchen or sewing chair, what wonder
if she is slow to-day in proving her eapaei-
lies In science, craftsmanship, commerce
etc.
Being a guest of the club, l was obliged
TO sit by dumby. bottling up all my sound
arguments to prove what stuff the best
of women will talk on such occasions.
1t is the sort of twaddle that is respon-
sible for the feverish, conceited restless
ness we have all seen working like yeast
in the mass of womankind lately.
1t is as false as hurtful, and as incen-
diary as to tell workingman that the
reason he is not millionaire or presl-
dent is because somebody has oppressed
and cheated him out of his rights.
Extoi by all means the freedom that
has made it possible to develop his best
capacities. but for heavens sake don I
suggest that capital and society alone 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 OPP
preston and ignorance to overcome, and
Gat me tpa n Vpf UGtner
our tools to expect anything like ripe re-
suits. The technicalites and traditions
of law, incidence, politics and commerce
must not only be mastered by one gener-
alton of women. but several generations
following must absorb it with their moth
ers' milk, as il were, before we can look
for a Thomas Jefferson or an A. 7. Stew
art.
Imagine the vexation of listening to
such statements and not being able to ask
the speaker why, then, if tradition and IA
miliarity are essential to achievement,
are men to-day the best cooks. the best
dressmakers and the best housekeepers
on earth?
In the sorry past she pictured, men
never denied to women complete familiar
ity with needles and frying pans. All the
long years of our bondage we We're made
to earn our board and keep by cooking
his porrdge and sewing his shirts. Yet
to-day who brings the highest prices in
the market, and is quoted as authority on
food and clothes. but Worth and Joseph,
the first dressmaker the second a cook.
Men. not women, have made records as
housekeepers of the big hotels Having
applied office and business principles to
marketing and managing servants, be-
hold 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 woman would instantly be
put at the head of affairs Her long do
nestle training seemed to fit her peculiar
ly 10 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 deficient
in the kind of brain necessary for all and
every sort of constructive and admins
trative work.
She is fun of earnest desire to do right
but nature failed to endow her with ca
pacity. Certainly no one pretends to-
day that II is prejudice or lack of oppor-
tunity that drags at a woman's petticoat
holding her back from her best develop
ment.
Then why ! would like TO know dc
these walking delegates of society love tC
stir up with such incendary doctrines
They only tend to make us dissatisfied
And, moreover IL directs our attention
from the great sphere in which we are
supreme; that superior hight from which
We can afford to smile encouragingly upor
men struggling in the arena below.
/ If man controls affairs, woman controls
man. She can truthfully say, I am the
/ tree, We are the branches. She is the un.
/ DERIVING, fundamental force in the world
! Her hands hold the power of life or death
| for society. In comparison with hel
/ sphere and work. all that men accomplish
| looks feeble and petty.
Compare the construction of an electric
/ dynamo or the building of an ocean f1vei
with bringing a healthy. rosy child int
/ the world, and then fetching him or hel
| up with a sound stomach, a sweet hear
/ and clear brain.
Aud it is women. not men, who rear
! children. Those first ten years, wher
/ character and constitution are formed
/ the father is a very unimportant second.
! airy consideration. He supplies food ant
clothing, but the mother lays the foun,
dation for an upright citizen, who will