Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-01

According to One Authority He should
BE a Paragon of Virtue.

According to One Authority He should
BE a Paragon of Virtue.
At the Federation Of women's Clubs re-
| Gently held at st. Paul one Of its most
talented and experienced members was
called upon to respond to the toast. 9TH
Ideal Husband" and warned her fellow
members that IL they expected her to heer
and jeer at man she was 1.-The wrong lady
to approach" and continued in the follow
ing strain:
"scorn men? Why, I honor them. What
are we that we should cast aspersions Npon
| them? They reared this hall; they lent 1t
to us; they conveyed US hither; they built
this city; they harnessed and spanned this
river; the whole external world, SO far as
It appears to metropolitan eyes, at least, is
the handiwork Of man. At every step we
tread his manufactures underfoot.
Men bore through mountains, they
swarm over oceans, they delve in the earth
and dive in the sea, while we follow at a
safe distance or sit quietly at home and eat
and wear the things they catch.
"The woman's building at a worlds fair
is planned, raised, furnished and decorated
by man in honor Of woman.
Men are indispensable to civilization. In
fact, they are too capable; their abilities
| Nv CnCAB v PONNA ohN 49,
"In their presence we are seized with
mental timidity and physical incapacity.
When they are near we cannot throw any
thing straight, nor set an alarm clock, nor
| carve a turkey, nor walk a plank. nor climb
a fence, nor harness a horse, nor put up a
stove, nor talk in prayer meeting, nor per-
form any other of the more delicate, dan
gerous and intricate Offices of life for which
nature has refused US the proper faculties,
/ believe the men of the uncultured classes
are not so averse to the usefulness OF
woman, but whatever exciting and inter-
esting occupation is going forward your
true club husband will CALAMITY exclaim,
sit in the rocking chair and let me do IT..
So we must always wait until they have
gone downtown before we begin to move
the furniture around.
but this club woman does not believe in
allowing man to have his way. To her
men occupy merely the positions Of an ad-
| viscry board and such, ! hope, they will
ever occupy to this Federation Of Women's
Clubs. Let as listen to their practical and
dislnterested advice, but let us never al
low them to invade these precincts with
their terrible activity, to cast us all in
the shade. Let US keep them out OF some
thing. OF course, they can do everything
better than we can, but even we need
mental and physical exercise; we don I
want to be all clothes and conscience.
Meanwhile we exclaim with Hamlet:
What a piece OF work is man! How noble
in reason! How infinite In facultles! In
form and moving how express and admira-
BILE! In action how like an angel! In APP
prehension how like a god the beauty OF
the world, the paragon Of animals!'
1.-The paragon OF animals'-there's the
test. When in our weakness We feel IN
clined to ~criticise the nobler sex let us
range him up with other animals and see
how grandly he bears comprehension
graceful and subtle when compared to the
elephant. how pleasing and accommodating
TO the bear, how humane to the goat, how
logical and independent to the sheep! Nay,
even on his own ground man surpasses the
lion in magnanimity, the fox in acumen,
the parrot in repartee. the monkey In YER
satility, the ant in thrift, the fish in self
control. the spider in all that goes to make
up a valued member Of society.
9TH horse Is regarded as a useful ami
NAL. but statistics show that on a toilsome
journey through q broken country a man
can travel more hours a day, more miles
to the hour. on smaller ~rations, than the
strongest horse. The mule practically
comes nearest man in utility, but I dare to
say that II all the facts we're known the
mar is more OF an absolute success than
the mule.
Then here's to the men!"