The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09

E equality with man. and bids fair to< outdistance him in the race for supre- macy. Little did Shakespeare ever dream of woman lawyer, a woman doctor. astronomer, politician and a woman voting. as some have really done in our Western States. but this is one of our rights which we like to reserve. Man is born unto the world full of trouble. and no teeth, well, so is woman for that matter. so even here he has not got tho best of her. She has ventured into all the avocations of life. She has not vainly questioned those pages relative to medicine. law, theology and even commerce, while off, ten times "Ie has knocked at all the doorways of life and found entrance at none."
 "Gon created woman a living soul, and through the reverence she owes to Him. she should never degrade herself by becoming any mans drudge. God endowed woman with individual life. with power, will and understanding. brain. heart and hands to do noble things, and if only in gratitude to Him, she should never. commit that moral suicide of becoming the slave thatsome women are to men.
 The women today who are willing for the men to make all the laws. and do all the voting, provided their own per sonal comforts are secured, are the very ones who retard woman's eman- cipation. If there were no willing slaves there could be no successful tyrants.
 They are quite disposed to sell their liberty for lucre. to become slaves. just so their chains and letters be or gold. Men are too deeply engrossed al 1ffand their religious duties. and they remain at home reading the newspaper while their wives do all the church. going.
 If they think they can enter Heaven swinging on to their wives petticoats. how keen will be their disappointment on the day when Gabriers trumpet shall sound Great big men go swag- xering about calling themselves the Lords of creation" with the ar or 1T am Sir Oracle. when l open my lips let no dog bark thinking all the time when his wife. a delicate little crea- ture. not five feet high can bend and sway him as she chooses, and the poor deluded fellow does not realize IL.
 This is her tact Nothing buoys up the mans spirit as a good dinner, ana in this amiable mood, is the time sne mentions a new bonnet or trip to the mountains-tact again.
 Women are often made Of sterner stuff than men. They have endured persecution and suffered martyrdom. Some have been exiled to the frozen wiIds of Siberia; some, like Florence Nightingale. been ministering angels to the sick: like Madam Roland, have been beheaded, and like Joan of Arc have been burnt at the stake.
 True women are brave, proud, Just, ardent and enthusiastic, capable of the most sublime self-devotion in achieving or enduring to the utmost in the cause of right. As we glance down the long list of ancients illustrious in war, not men alone have their names enron icled, for two women, Semiramis' wno led her army against the Persians, and Artemisia. who so dexterously com- manded a fleet against the Greeks. stand out in bold relief.
 Hetty Green, the richest woman or today. can control her vast wealth as we'll as do any of our steel masnates or iron kings. Woman does not alone shed a lustre over society, for she can wield A pen quite as graceful as salad fork, and sway the rod of empire as successfully as she can manage her husband. c
 
 evil is a question on which casuists dispute, but who shall question the un- deniable good wrought by Victoria?
 Iris true. that woman IS the orna. ment of the home, but "The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world. The grasping man who lives for himself alone. becomes callous to the suffering of all mankind. but she who hves 10 alleviate woman's burdens, to mitigate the misery that attends their bondage and to deny themselves and be perse- cuted for woman's veal, knows some thing of the joy the noble Leel. As state she stands in need of the stern. ness of a Judith, courage of Joan and the devotion of an Agaes. On this morn. ing of the new century, tne ieeS eA uoran's inferiority is passing away, for as she enters into all life's employ ments her intellectual pre-eminence cannot fail to elicit an admiring won- oei' Jessie w. Brooks.