Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-18

one. and the woman came out abeas
and was elected.
Woman suffrage in Wyoming. w-,r-a
women have been voting for thirtv-tv,
years, according to the census renar5
has been the cause Of domestic ham.
ness. there are only one-sixtb ss
many divorces in that State IN pro8a--
ton to It's population. as in the rest y
the United States.
Again, it is said to vote is not WON
ans sphere, woman's sphere is social
and coeztensive with mans sphere
The world is woman's sphere, just IS
the world is mans sphere.
There's not a place in earth or heaven
There's not task to mankind given.
There's not q blessing or a woe
There's not a whisper. yes or no
There's not a life or death or birth
That has feathers weight OF worth
Without a woman in it.
It is said that women don't k;tev
enough to vote, and here again rHa
census report shows less per cent as
illiteracy among women than il does
among men. The census report n
1890 shows that the $1,000 coo schoIa-s
taught in the public schools OF tH.s
country are given instructions by ST.
5S1 male teachers and 245,S71 female
teachers.
Artists and teachers of art. Mae.
1851; female, 10,S15; clergymen fe-
males, Lab; physicians and surgeons.
1851; professors in colleges and UNI
versities. females, 695. Professional
service in the whole United States
there are: Males 632646; females.
3I1,6S7. Prof Harris, National Com
missioner of Education, at Washing
ton says, that the women in second
airy and higher education number
287 162, and the men number 23J zg5,
the women constituting 54.9 per cent.
of those seeking education higher than
the elementary schools. Anu it 3
said that the number of women who
are getting ready for college is aston
ishing Probably at this time three
fourth of the teachers in oue eiemen-
tary schools are females training the
the ballot, and yet we say these teach
ers don't know enough to Yots.
Think of that mothers, to whom We
are indebted for all that we are; who
gave us instruction in political econ
omy and moral science; who led us to
the bedside and taught Us how .
pray, DIS Sut HUNS OhCI ll4t JAttEA-
ments of Heaven to-day; are you will
ing to meet that gaze and say, mother.
you don't know enough to vote, you
are not good enough to vote. Are you
ready to say that; We think not.
Again it is said that woman is Lot
good enought to vote. Don't say that,
the women of West Virginia only fur
nish 5 per cent, of the criminals. or
one criminal woman to 10 criminal
| men. Woman not good enough TO
vote? Women who largely compose
the membership of our churches
woman who gave birth to the Savior
of mankind; woman who broke the
alabaster box of ointment, very pre-
cious Amounting the body of Jesus Tor
his burial; woman who was last at
the cross, first at the Sepulchre; and
to whom Christ first appeared after
his resurrection; woman who is typi-
cal of that church which Christ poured
out his blood to give us. If the side Of
the first Adam had to be pierced to
give us woman so the side of the see
ond ADAM or Christ, had to be pierced
to give us that church of which Solo
man said: Thou are beautiful. Oh. my
love, comedy as Jerusalem, fair as the
moon, clear as the Sun, and terrible
as an army with banners.
To Be Continued.