The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-03-20
BUCKEYES TALK
ABOUT WON EN-
Argue Whether Ohio Daugh-
tiers Make Better Wives
THAN KANSAS WOMEN
C. A. MatSon Turns Guns on
Captain Burgess.
HAN KANSAS WOMEN

men or Kansas women?
Over the above question the members of
the Ohio association exhausted their
powers of logic and oratory last night
without reaching conclusion and the
question is still as puzzling as it was be-
fore the Wichita association was born.
The question was brought to the atten-
ton of the Buckeyes by a debate on the
subject at the association meeting held in
the hall over 295 North Main street, last
night. The debaters were as follows: At
firmative, Captain w. T. Burgess and w
T. Matson; negative, J. II. Mccall and
c. A. Matson. Eloquently and earnestly
did these debaters argue in favor of their
side of the deep and important question
under discussion and with keen sarcasm
did they ridicule the arguments of their
opponents.
The wording of the question was rs fol-
lows: Resolved, That the Ohio woman
is a better helpmeet than the Kansas
woman
The debate was opened by Captain w.
r. Burgess. who lead off for the affirnna-
tive. Stepping to one side Of the room he
began his remarks by saying that the
original question was: Resolved, That
the Ohio woman is more beautiful than
tAAC AAsNllSrSo 0uAldlr t1Ll INIT tie pTtsl-
dent Of the association. w. T. Matson
had requested the subject TO be changed.
The Ohio woman is a domestic wO-
man. said Captain Burgess as he placed
his hand on the back of chair. "She If
content to confne her activeness to the
realm Of the home. She has the dinner
ready on time and she knows how TO raise
the children. The best wives in the Kan
sas are those who have come from Ohio.
1.sac-
wife he does not have a very good help
meet IF she should be cooking her hus-
bands dinner and should see herd Of
steers run past the window she would
forget her cooking. rush out doors, and
begin TO lasso cattle. Oaughter.)
The climate of Kansas is not calculat-
ed to make good housewives. One day
the sun is shining and the next day there
is a cyclone. She is carried away by the
change in climate and forgets the duties
Of her home 10 go off with some new
movement"
When the captain sat down there was a !
feeling among his partisans that he had
whipped the opposition but in this
they were mistaken. for c. y Matson.
who closed the debate for the negative /
turned the captains guns on his own
head.
Captain" he said pointing his finger al /
front seat. Suppose an Ohio man should /
come to Kansas and marry a Sunflower /
girl, and suppose that his cattle should I
- off on a stampede, CThe captain was /
<upposing' all these things) would his !
wife not prove herself good help meet !
if sho should run out doors and lasso |
some Of the cattle?" daughter and ap- /
plause.
Captain Burgess in his speech had re-
ferred TO the fact that the pioneer Ohio |
women had subdued the forests and strug-
gled with the Indians. Captain J. II. Nc /
Call, who led the negative, replied by |
saying:
THE privations of the Ohio women
We're as nothing compared to the pioneer
Kansas women. When the Ohioans came
to their state and Indians took after them
they could climb a tree. But what could
the woman in Kansas do. IF she was too
large to crawl into a prairie dog hole she
could run across the prairie, providing
she did not fan into a gopher hole. She
was compelled to fight the savage with
bow and arrow.
''The captain said the Ohio women could
do Homework. The Kansas woman can
do something else besides that. She does
not do everything the way her great
grandmother did
W. II. Matson, who closed the debate
for the affirmative speoke from the view
point of the unmarried man and stated
that the Ohio man had a better oppor-
tunity 10 court his sweetheart than the
lIansan.
In Kansas a young man cannot go to
see lady without going through a blind
ing dust storm and necessarily the court
ship is cut short. As a result there are
fewer happy marriages in Kansas than
in Ohio and consequently the Ohio woman
is better helpmeet.
The speaker placed special emphasis
upon the doctrine that the place for wo-
nan was in the home and read IN editorial
from yesterdays Eagle in support of his
Kansas women are all the time run
ming after some career" he said. you
have heard of Carrie Nation. You have
heard of Mary Ellen Lease
The speakers uttered the last words ,
slowly that they might find a lodging in
he hearts OF his hearers. Just as the ar
gument was sinking deep, c. A. Matson !
allied out,
What state are those two women from?
They are from Kentucky
After the regular debaters had finished
heir speeches or been called down by the
imekeeper. there was a general discus
sion of the subject. No vote was taken 10 1 .
iecide which had won the debate. but the
general opinion was that the negative had
von.
During the evening Judge Balderston on
behalf Of the association presented Mrs
Il. Childe and Miss Blanche Chnde. who
'ften sing at the buckeye meetings. a roll
# music and q music holder
Before the debate short program was
'endered
The next meeting viii be held in the
lan over 80 North Main street at s
'clcck on the night or the third WeSnes-