Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11


spheres-man TO be regnant in his
realm; woman to be dominant in hers.
The boundary line between Italy and
Switzerland, between England and
Scotland, is not more thoroughly
marked than this distinction between
the empire masculine and the empire
feminine. So entirely dissimilar are
the fields to which God called them,
that you can no more compare them
than you can oxygen and hydrogen.
water and grass, trees and stars. All
this .alk about the superiority OF one
sex to the other is an everlasting
waste Of ink and speech. A jeweler
may have a scale so delicate that he
can weigh the dust of diamonds; but
where are the scales SO delicate that
you can weigh in them affection
against affection, sentiment against
sentiment, thought against thought.
soul against soul, a mans world
against a woman's world? You come
out with your stereotyped remark that
a man Is superior to woman In intel
lect; and then open on my desk the
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mark about woman's superiority to
man In the item of affection; but ask
you where was there more capacity to
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70 man the throne in,e,lectuaI I.aeny
10 woman the throne afectionaI No
human n,rosaoIogu min ever dac,,ne
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them in ont a, n Mo bunpl,np leg,s-
lature ought 40 attsmnt IN make n deti-
milton. or to saw. "Tbis is the line and
that Ia the line" NV theory ia that
81 n woman xants To vote she ought to
vote and that ~ n man wants 10 en-
broider and keep house, he ought to
be allowed TO embroider and keep
house. There are masculine women
and there are effeminate men. My
theory is that you have no right to in
terfere with any ones doing ANYTHING
that is righteous. Albany and Wash
ington might as well decree by legis-
iation how a brown-thresher should
fly, or how deep a trout should plunge.
as to try to seek out the height and
depth of woman's duty. The question
Of capricity will settle finally the whole
question, the whole subject. When a
woman is prepared to ,preach. she will
preach. and neither conference nor
presbytery can hiuedr her. When a
woman ia prepared to move in high
est commercial spheres. she will have
gerat influence on exchange. and no
boards of trade can hinder her. want
woman to understand that heart and
brain can overly any barrier that
politicians NAV set nm and that Moth
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tastronbes oh woman, thanh COD
Won have a home and that won NAV he
oue.n in II. Better be there than wear
a yictoria's eoronet Better be there
than carry the nurse of a nr,ncesa
Your abode NAV be humble. but Won
can. BY your faith In God. and your
cheerfulness Of demeanor. gild Il with
splendors such az an upholsterer,s
hand never yet kindIed. There are
abodes in every city-bumble. two
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