The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-13

r. chicago we're as fine place for wom-
a. az some Of the ideas efnanating there
.rom would seem to indicate, 1 should
.,.b not only to move there myself at
,,cs. but to institute a grand trek of fem
t,lnity to a spot where 1t seems to be so
a,lv appreciated. It isn't every day in the
s.ek that you can find a town where the
,sdses and the jury say woman is a crea-
,are who ought not to work, and where
~. congressman are willing to report bills
n, the dedication OF distinguished women
for that is virtually what Chicago con-
rressman has been doing.
oueer. isn't It, when the Chicago woman
hasn't any vote? If 1t had happened In
.ome OF the wild and woolly places U'n
not sure of their names) between Seattle
ana Omaha. where woman is enfran-
ebised, 1t wouldn't seem SO strange.
This Is the way, apparently. that it came
shont: Some woman in Chicago had been
reading about the Hall of Fame at Morn
,nr.,de, for which Miss Gould recently
eaye the money, and rushed TO the conclu-
,,on that II was an edifice intended for
man alone. Now, as a matter of fact, the
donors specifications included all kinds of
people, and after enumerating large
number OF classes, such as authors, edit
ors. phiianthropists, musicians. painters,
sr,Iptors, statesmen, soldiers and sailors,
abe adds distinguished men and women
outside the above classes"
don't know why this didn't satisfy the
Chicago lady. Maybe she thinks that
Woman Is Thing Apart. and not included
in any ordinary classification that Takes
in "men and women" There are some
ladies' who seem to hold that view, but I
am ole enough to know that l find It
easier to get along with a woman who
doesn't think II necessary TO salute her
sex with a capital letter. Capital letters
are noisy articles, anyhow, and l wish the
spelling reformers would begin by abolish
Ing a few of them. To tell the truth, 1
Ike women better than men, but when I
see Woman approaching me / usually
have an errand In the next block, or else /
am profoundly absorbed in conversation
with somebody else.
To get back TO the congressman's bill, I
can't decide whether the indignant lady
drew It UP all by herself after lunching on
cold tea and custard pie or whether she
or whether she got her husband to draft
It, and the mean thing took the chance
OF Eetting even with her for cutting down
his daily allotment of cigars. The news
paper article 1 saw which contained the
text OF the bill didn't go behind Congress-
man Fosters responsibility, and so all
the other interesting items are lost to
curious world.
Anyhow. this is the preamble to the
bill:
whereas. Every man worthy of the
name loves and honors women; and
Whereas, Lincoln, the Incompatible.
echoed the thoughts OF millions of his sex
when he said, An I am or can be l owe
% my angel mother. and yet he and his
washington, left to others the
Measure of marking the last resting place
" her whose memory he so fondly cher
shed; and
Whereas. woman's sphere of useful-
ness Is now too enlarged TO leave her good
deeds unacknowledged, except In response
10 toasts to the ladies' at annual BAN
quets, where honeyed phrases without
number are iavished upon them, but which
fade from the memory with the sound OF
the speakers voice; and
whereas, Gallantry suggests and jus
tioe demands at the hands OF the men Of
our day some fitting and tangible evil
dences OF tho wisdom and worth. as well
~ the noble self-sacriflce In peace and In
war, In pestilence and In battle. of the
women of America, whose generosity and
noble devotion to the cause OF freedom In
all our wars as well as whose liberality In
founding philanthropio and educational In
stitutlons. have made the names of
Packer. Drexel and Caldwell as familiar
o. those Of Frances II. Willard, Harriet
Beecher Stowe and Julia Ward Howe, and
Whereas, one of Americas greatest wo-
men. Helen Gould. has generously found
ed Temple Of Fame for Men, II becomes
the duty Of the representatives OF the
people OF the United States. in congress
assembled, 10 rise to the dignity OF the
subject and prove themselves equal to the
occasion By passing the following meas
ure."
The act goes on TO authorize the presi-
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