The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-11
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pedestal where we have placed you, well
out of the way. Be very careful not to
do anything which will brush the bloom
from the grape, the down from the peach,
as that would be hard on the poets.
All this might have answered for our
grandmothers, although the dear old
ladies do tell us that it made them very
weary, but the modern chivalry is of a
different stamp. 1t says to woman: we
have been tyrants and usurpers for ages;
we are ashamed of the way our sex has
wronged you in the past, but we will do
all we can In reparation. Come with us
and receive the highest education; control
your own property as we control ours;
share with us the guardianship of your
children and ours; II you must earn your
bread you shall have fair chance to do
it; and when your days work is done,
whether it has been in the school room,
the nursery or the office, get your bicycle
and let us have a spin together. Never
mind the bloom on the grape; we prefer
to see the bloom on your cheek.
And so men and women study and toll
and take their recreation together, mark
you, for there never was time In all
the worlds history when there was SO
much companicnship and sympathy be-
tween them. It is not that sentimental
sympathy which made a man kind and
forbearing toward a woman because she
was weak and inferior, or which caused
her to be tolerant and considerable toward
him, because 1t was only thus that he
could be saved from his own vicious ten
denotes; but it is the sympathy of mu-
tual understanding of the conditions
which shape the life of both. such one
as can come only through close comrade-
ship.
If a woman must choose between JUS
tice and chivalry she will prefer JUSTICE,
but the man who is great and good
enough to be just may be. trusted also
to be chivalrous. The form of the chiv-
airy may change, the spirit is fndestructt-
BILE Consider for a moment another SEN
tence in this Interview which is. used for
a text only because 1t is the common ex-
preston of those who are opposed to the
new regime of womanhood:
woman as bread-winner can never
evoke that tender consideration and oour-
teous attention which were hers IN the
olden days, when she did not go forth
into the busy world and hustle for liy-
ing"
Does not every man in America blush
when he reads the sentence? When do
women most need stender consideration
and courteous attention." Is it when
they are safely sheltered in the home
under the protection of father, brothers,
or husband, or Is 1t When they are coHi-
PEELED to ego forth and hustle for liv-
ing?" The vast majority|of these women
who are engaged in breadwinning occu-
pations are not working for their health
or for the pleasure they fnd in it. but
for the daily necessities of themselves
and those depending upon them The
struggle is hard for men: it is doubly so
for women and the man WHO has a spark
of genuine ehivalry in his breast will
show to those toiling wage earners even
more courtesy and consideration than he
bestows upon the favored women of his
ewn social circle who are living in ease
by the sweat of somebody eIse's brow.
The failure to do this does not make the
workingwoman any the less a lady, but it
does render the man unworthy to be call
ed by the name of gentleman.