Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-02
DEsEpEr EVENING NEWS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1890

The mountain mlsts were rising fast.
The sun was sinking slow
when n sudden Inspiration came,
As sudden winds do blow.
I took my hat. took my stick.
My load I settled fair.
] approached that awful Incubus
With an absent minded air
And walked directly through him.
As II he wasn't thercl
One Of the shorter poems IN the sec
tion entitled THE World Is the fol-
lowing.
A MAN MUST LIVE.
a man must live. We Justify
Low ahlft and trick to trcison high;
y little vote for a little gold
To a whole senate bought ana sold,
BY that self-cvident reply.
But IL II so7 Pray tell me why
Life at such cost you have to buyI
In what religion were YOU told
man must liver
There are times when q man must die.
Imagine for a battie-cry,
From soldiers, with n sword to hold
Prom soldiers. with the iiaE unrollcd.-
This towards whine. this liars lic.-
man must livol
Tho section dedicated TO Woman"
opens with u bit Of poetic prophecy OF
the new time dawnlng for the sight OF
the sex long hedged and hampcrcd BY
prejudice. custom and eelf-wrought
blindness.
SHE wALKE.rH YELLED AND
SLEEPING.
She wnitcth yelled and sleeping.
For she knowcth not her power.
She obcyeth but the pleading ..........
OF her heart and the hlEh leading
OF her soul unto this hour.
Slow advancing. hating, creeping.
Comes the woman TO the hour
She walketh yelled and sleeping.
For she knowcth not her power.
Another OF like prophetic tenor Is
this;
SHE WHO Is TO COME.
a womnn-ln 10 far az she behoidcth
Hcr one Bclovcd's face.
a mother-with a great heart that en-
foldeth
The children OF the race;
a body. free and strong. with that h'Sh
beauty
Tina, comes of perfect use Is bull, there.
Of
A mind where Reason ruicth over Duty.
And Juatice roigns with Love;
A self.poised. royal soul brave. wise
ana tender.
No longer blind and dumb;
a human being, OF an unknown rplen-
Is she who Is to come.
OF Mrs. stctson's Important prose
work. Women and Economics" Of
which the world In general Il talking
Just now. the author has the following
TO say In regard TO Its motive ana pur-
pose;
"Thls book IL written to ofrer a simple
and natural explanation Of one u the
most common and most perplexlng
problems OF human llfe-a problem
which presents itself TO almost every
individual for practical solution. and
which demands the most serious attcn.
ton of the moralist. the physician and
the Hoclologist.
ITO show how some Of the worst evils
under which We suffer. evils long sup
posed to be Inherent and ineradicable In
our natures. are but the result OF ccr-
tain arbitrary cOa..tlonH OF our own
adoption. and how by removing those
conditions. we may remove thu evils re-
sultant.
TO point out how far We have already
gone In the path of Improvement, and
how irreslstably the social forces OF To.
| day are compelling W further. even
| without our knowledge and against oui
| violent opposltlon-an advance which
may be greatly qulokened by our recog'
milton and assistance.
ITO reach In especial the thinking
women Of today. and urge upon then
new sense. not only OF their sooia
/ responsibility as individuals. but oil
their measureless racial Importance al
makers OF men"
! 90
The Idea most domlnantly ompha,
sized by Mrs. Stotson'a book II tina
woman II the only type, Ia nature wh'
depends FOR livelihood upon the mali
| OF her species, and In rcactricted from
| the fields Of activity and development
open to his privilege and Will Tina
man under the advantage of wide
environment. has had opportunity I,
develop capacities Inherent IN boil
sexes alike. but paraiyzcd In one from
lack OF Incentive and exercise. Tina
man has been free 10 seize upon tn
materials which the various and large
Interests Of III world supply him, AM
that woman has merely looked out a
the broader world In which he move
from the windows OF single sphere
That this dependence and restriction
have produced important Modification
IN race development. since the son a
wei as the daughter inherts qualitls
and characteristics from both parents
'Heredlty has no sale law" Mrs. Stet
ton cSclnims. and argues that the Grip
pied mentality, effort and action OF tn
one sex produces Its result In the rae,
What the effect Of opportunities 10
wider thought. aims and activities 10
the sex would have upon the genera
| tionS IN suggested by Mrs Stetpon 4