Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-17
Wonan's Influence in the Affairs of the World

en- shirk it, whilst both our civilization
and Christianity demand that all women
shall take pattern after the the serious,
large minded type of their sex.
Show me the family where the father Is
a man OF integrity and rectitude and IL
the son is a liar and the daughter friv-
olous creature, viii show you weazle-
backed, shriveled-up character IN the wife
and mother. I will show you a secretary
of some society for foreign heather who
is eternaIly absent from home where she
leaves her little ones to be cared Tor ny
some native heather. who, for the reason
that she has tasted of the tree of knoWl-
edge, instiIs more immortality in the minds
of her young charge than the brain Of the
foreign heather ever dreamed OF.
On the other hand, one may find many
a family Of which the father Is anything
else save what she should be and yet all
the children turn out we'll Turn on the
light and you win find that broad-backed,
pious wife and mother who is the pivot OF
civilization.
DON'T understand that such a woman Is
necessarily a religious woman as the
world accepts the eharacter-piety and re-
ligion are by no means synonymous terms
Piety is broad and catholic. but religion
is narrow and often no more than secta-
rian profession. The one is the essence OF
II.
and courtesy. the enc is from within, the
other from without Some of the best OF
fathers, yet even ministers of the Gospel,
have sent out into the world miserable
specimens OF humanity in their children.
Why? Because of the religious Wlfe
whose observance OF rites and economics
deceived the world, but whose hypocrisy
was ABSORBED by the babe at her bosom
The saying that man proposes, out
A. -. "a
the woman; as, when her man child Is
raised, ms is her puppy CT pig, rather man
reared with that moral solicitude COD pro-
poses, then woman certainly disposes-
Whilst man is born IN sim; that Is 70
say, surrounded by contact with II; act
ually becomes the liar or thief by tram
ing, or by what is worse, the absence OF
it, and training or neglect during thai Pc
Rod of life in which most permanent M
preston is made lies entirely with the
mother.
Therefore, Bishop Spalding is right;
three-fourths Of the depravity and SIN
which make. life a curse would dlsap-
pear if women were more serious, anu
may 1 add, more self-respecting-
The observation Of my life contradlcts
the poet who wrote Of women:
Thou art mated to a clown,
With power to draw thee down.
No well balanced woman was ever drag
ged down morally By association Win
low-minded man; she was ready to 1aii'
and probably would have fallen even
though mated with a stronger character
A well balanced woman by Judicious eA-
ercise of her superior spirituality over
man, easily becomes not only fortress
against which the average man cannot
prevail, but one to which the average
man is only too glad to resort for COM
fort and inspira ton.
It is only in the idle hours Of ease tnat
man regards woman as the weaker yes
sell and from this source alone can enla-
nate the pity man has for the fralIues OF
woman, but did Mrs. FELTON, ever see
strong woman who had any pity IoF q
weak one? Never
The mind which conceived the idea that
"sa honest man IS the nOblest work OF
God" was sadly in error. An honest man
Is solely the work OF a woman, and the
woman who reared the honest man - the
nobiest work Of God.
Gainesville. &C.