Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-13
WILL WoMEN'S RIGHTS
BRING HAPPINESS


Out to Her Sex the Mistakes 1t IL
Making.
At some time or other all of my read
ers must have attended a womans
rights meeting, and many OF you per-
haps are interested in the movement
Well, I went to such meeting recent
ly. / heard lot of talk about down.
trodden women, about how they were
able and willing to support themselves
in the same'field with men, and great
deal more in the same vein. Women
were urged to fight for the right to
vote. Women to be looked upon as
mans equal by the law, women as
property holders, women on school
matters-all these things were dis
cussed. Discomfort for the present
condition of affairs was expressed In
every speech.
l left the meeting, saddened. True,
the lot of women of the present day is
not what it should be. They are I'M
happy, dissatisfied.
But will equal rights with men bring
them happiness? Will it make them
more contented?
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it. The women of two or three gener-
ations back were contented and happy.
There were few i'll mated marriages,
few divorces. Yet women never thought
of having equal rights with men. They
were willing to be the sex to honor
and obey" Women were worshlpped
by men as something holy. Men did
not dream of asking them to take care
of themselves. Their mission in life
was not to support themselves, but 70
be true wives and good mothers.
On the other hand, many of the
women of today are totally unwilling
to fulfill their conjugal duties, or to
devote themselves to the rearing of
children. They spend their time,
rather, in jealous guarding of their
rights in the position OF the wife, )"
and in forcing individual and state
alike to recognize their equality with
man.
Why is It that we cannot feel as our
grandmothers did? Why all this guard
ing of our rights? The fact of the
matter is the trouble lies in our physi-
cal rather than our social condition
ouI HClC oIi'Cheo,
healthy women, well able to attend to
the duties nature assigned to them.
We for the most part are broken in
nerves, many of us suffering from some
female disorder that quite units a wo-
man to be a wife in more than name.
So the bonds which held the family
together and gave woman her rights
through love no longer exists in many,
many cases, and she must now demand
and insist before she gets what she
considers her due.
| have known so many young people
who married and for a time were as
happy as two doves. The rights of
women did not trouble the wife. She
was content with the gifts of affection
showered upon her by her husband.
But by and by clouds arise Sometimes
there is a child, sometimes two The
mother is not strong enough to care
for them. Her relatives come to her
help, but even then she hasn't time to
devote to the husband she has promised
to love until death. He finds his way
to clubs, to matters of other interest.
Business occupies much of the time
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cumstances have been spent at home.
Then the woman feels herself neglect
ed, the care of the children is turned
over to nurses, she goes to women
clubs and demands of the state equal
rights with men. But is it these rights
she wants? Is it not rather the rights
of the wife, the rights she willingly re-
linquished when she allowed herself
to be physically unable to attend to
her wifely duties?
It seems to me. therefore, that any
woman who feels herself unfairly
treated, who does not believe that she
has the right to which she is entitled,
should look for the trouble in herself.
Discomfort and unhappiness often are
the result of nervousness. Nervous
ness can always be traced to female
trouble.
| do wish that every woman who
feels dissatisfied with her lot would
realize that she is sick, and would take
steps to make herself well. If your
back aches continually, so that you
stand it, don't let the pain continue.
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up your work in the morning, the cares
of your household seem more than you
can bear, remember that these are but
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you strong and we'll content with your
life.
Mrs. Pinkham's medicine will make
a woman cheerful and happy, will
make her more ready to meet the
wishes of her husband, and once more
will they realize the joys of home.
The children when they come will be
blessing, delight, and not burden.
Then will the demands for womens
rights no longer be necessary, for
again woman will have found her true
voaction-to be devoted wife and low
ing mother HELEN MARVIN.