The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-05-31

but feg ayOcatiOns were open 10 wo-
men. and il wss regarded UBwomanly
fOr woman 70 venture beyond the
precincts Of the home. Thi. j. 20 no
longer.
We SEE women low entering the
/ legal and medical professions;
/ their voices are heard from the plat
/ form: we see them a. the desk and
/ behind the counter; We Sc them
( handling typewriting machines and
/ the telegraph keys; Ne see them at
I the printers case and editorial table;
in some state they are school com
/ nissioners, and hold other eeIni-pOlI;-
zeal Offices, and 10 all these avocations.
and professions they are achieving
success and putting the young men 70
the blush.
u have the highest admiration for
woman. ] bow bUmbly al Der sbriue.
I would do nothing that would tak~
FROM her the modesty that marks her
the superior Of man.
~ pay humble tribute 10 the wife
and mother. To my mind 10 boiler
picture exists on earth nor il heaven.
The home is the holy Of HOLES. II IL
the place where the heart il cultivated,
where the affections are planted and
blossom ia full beauty, and where the
tendrils IF love are taught TO Irvine
themselves around everything noble
and generous ia humanity.
II would not destroy the beDignant
influence Of the home, nor the distin-
gushing attributes Of the presiding
genius there. Nor do / believe that
eniargIng womsn's sphere Of useful
ness will do this.
~ believe in the dignity Of labor. !
honor the woman who is lot afraid TO
do honest toll, and has the ambition
TO be the architect Of her own fortune.
"If rails are TO be split, think men
should split them; if houses are TO be
built men should build them, but
do not believe in great big. strong
armed, able-bOdied young men mo-
nopOlizing all the soft and easy places
in the business world. They should
gracefully yield these places TO their
more frail and delicate sisters. But
whether they yield gracefully or
not, yield they must, for the women
are fast pushing them aside. There IL
generally obtaining among business
men a concensus Of opinion that
young women are more reliable and
industrious than young men. They
don't drink beer; they don't smoke
cigarettes; they don't chew tobacco;
they don't waste their leisure hours in
riOtOus living, and don't paint the
town red at midnight hours.
81 believe we should teach our
daughters that Catching husband
should not be their chief and only aim
i'm life.
81 have nothing specially against
husbands. Some of them are well
enough, aud some are quite handy to
have in the house, and no doubt some
wives are proud of their husbands and
have right to be proud OF them, but
humbly submit that some husbands
are poor apologies for the heads OF
families, and the patience and for
bearance with which wives put up
with them cOnvinces me that women
are immeasurably superior to men
and that they possess the nobler be-
attitudes and virtues. 1t is wonder
10 me that the divorce courts are not
kept buster than they are. That they
are not, is because Of wOman's meek
ness, forbearance and pride, and not
because she has not complaints
enough and ample Justification"
Touching the subject of divorce Mr..
Harris is in line with the enlightened
sentiment running through the warp
aud wool Of all civilized nations, and
this sentiment has helped to lift wO.
man from being mere kitchen drudge
and bedroom slave, whose chief end
of existence was to pander to the
carnal appetites and baser passions OF
men, TO the proud, intellectual and
exalted being she is today.
Under the old dispensatiOn the hus-
band needed no legal. enactment in
the matter Of divorce.
The mere fact Of his being the hus-
band and not the wife gave him that
authority and lac used it to suit his
pleasure, base or otherwise.
Civilized nations, in fixing the right
Of divorce in their statute laws, lifted
the wife to the same level with the
husband and it was done for her pro-