The Sunday globe., 1901-05-19
A WOMAN'S VIEW.
What is Sauce for the Goose Should
be Sauce for the Gander.

q Editor Sunday GLOBE:
awe commend the spirit of The Globe
I in it's desire to dress down the damsels
of influence who disgrace the depart
mental service with the hope of for
cling them into the paths of virtue. All
self.respecting women employees OF the
departments would unite in inexpressible
! gratitude to the power that would rid the
government offices of that incubus which
not only brings aspersions upon their
good names, but endangers their health
and public security.
"But mark you, Mr.. Editor this ex-
purgation will not be made for the rea-
son that the power is confined solely to
one class, which is as corrupt as the Of
tenders in question that is, in the hands
of the men.
Therefore, would respectfully sug-
gest that your method of dressing
down. is impracticably directed. You
can not kill tree by plucking at it's
fruit The surest way is to begin at it's
roots.
"While Clerk, Glass One, War De-
partment, quoted in your last Sundays
issue, took such infinite pains to ascertain
the moral of the female contingent
of the departments, it would appear
that he must have strained at a gnat
: and swallowed several camels, for while
= in his sieve he caught four grass widows
of doubtful virtue how many men,
allied to those in morals, do we reckon
he allowed to slip through the meshes
unnotedf
"The confession of his personal guilt
as amiably set forth in Pope's couplet on
vice, which he agrees,
Seen too oft, and face to face,
We pity first and then embrace,
give the tone of fasco to his whole ar.
gument. Apply little logic to his in
, ferred premesis and it is evident that he
thinks all the vices known in the calen-
dar are to be allowed men, wholesale, by
Government patent.
did Clerk, Glass One, ever think,
wonder, OF the double significance of the
lesson in the instance where the accused
woman was brought for ChIists con
demnationH
woman, who are these, thine accu-
, sers2 Let him who is without guilt
throw the first stone.
"And the men all turned and fed
Mark you, here, the proportion of men
to one woman signifed as guilty. And
the same mathematical rule has always
prevailed.
While the women of the class in
point are known to men by their peculiar
stamp, and might, therefore, be Stunned,
the men are quite as often wolves in
Sleeps clothing and preferably choose
their victims among the most innocent
and unsuspecting,
1T is unnecessary to further emphasize
the situation, but it is to be hoped that a
new light will dawn upon such moral
teachers as the clerk, and others, that
while they are administering their warn
ings to few disreputable females re.
tained in the departmental service, spare
not the scores of men who are as deep in
the mud "PoRTIA IN OFFICE"
("Portia's' points are well taken, ex-
cept, if she will allow the remark, the
woman invariably makes the first crimi-
nal advance. No man, however de.
PRAYED, will make improper advances to-
wards virtuous woman. There must
be some encouragement, some sign, Gig.
nal or outward manifestation OF the in
ward immortality before any man will
have courage to even lay siege to the
fortress of her honor. We admit, indeed,
we know the superior virtue of the fe.
male sex in the Government Departments
as everywhere else, hence it is our aim to
protect, if possible, the virtuous women
and maids against the evil of contamina.
tion with Grass Widows" ct al
Ed. GLoBE)