Evening star., 1901-12-28

vote. but the new Classification. which win
be discussed by every political party win
De the intelligent and the ignorant vote,
the moral and the immoral vote.
The time required for the actual process
of voting is SO infinitesimal 1t is not worth
considering but the labor necessary to or
ganize voters, to educate them, to win cleo
uons, especially for great principles of
morality, requires time, brains and energy.
These women will give, but how are they
to secure the leisure, some overworked
woman may ask. The woman's club of to-
day win have departed after having fully
performed its important mission to women
and the world, and in it's place will have
come the political organization where prob
lens of real life are discussed There men
and women will debate those mighty ques-
tions upon the correct solution of which de-
pends the progress of civilization. There
they will teach each other the need of per-
sonaI responsibility for the affairs of state,
and it will all come about so naturally that
men and women viii both forget that 1t
was once spoken of as dangerous revo-
luton"
The Same Dear Haven.
Fifty years hence the American home will
still be the 'bulwark of American liberty"
the haven of husband and wife and the
happy shelter of the dear children. There
may be changes in its material arrange
ment. The city fiat perhaps will lead to
cooperative dining rooms. There doubt
now in its infancy, which delivers by or
der, upon the family table, wel1-cooSed and
satisfactory meals. There will probably be
more wholesale buying of food at bakery
and grocery, and even larger patronage at
restaurants But these are matters of lit
tie consequence. The home itself, that re-
treat chosen, as birds build their nests, by
the instinct of sweet and pure affection.
Win remain. unchanged, To suppose it in
danger because women are growing into a
larger mental world and are learning to
feel sense of responsibility for the things
outside the home is to base it's usefulness
upon the weak subsection of women to an
cient conditions which no longer have cause
to exist. Such fear is based upon the fan
ctful theory that "al men were designed to
be oaks and all women clinging vines" We
nave already made the important discovery
that there are oaks among women and the
most cling1ng of vines among men. Fifty
years hence it will be understood that "God
ana nature intended all men and women
70 De oaks, with full freedom to grow and
to be. They will know in that day that the
cllngers are those abnormal unfortunates
of either Sex who, through inheritance or
environment. have not reached the stature
set for them.
The present recognized inequality be-
tween parents will not blast the force of
the mothers teaching in that day, and
Wnen the home is shorn of this Injustice it
Will shed a healthier and more stimulating
influence on children. The far more dig
nIf1ed position of the wife as political in
dependent will bring with it the happiness
ana seff-respect which are the inevitable
accompaniment of liberty Husbands, too.
viii love their wives with a higher and
holier affection, for that love is safest and
most reliable which is founded upon genu-
inc respect.
In fact, the further enlargement of wo
mems sphere in business and politics will
inJure nothing which is good and, least of
all, the home, which to all women is, and
ever must be, the dearest and most sacred
spot IN all the world. If in the line of their
progress some ideal of today is shattered
we may be sure the ideal was built of
hlmsy sentiment and not designed to lead
TO the real good of women or men, Evolu-
t1on compels the world to move onward.
and 1t may always be safely trusted to aim
at higher and better things for society.