Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-11-27
THE WOMAN'S FAULT,

81 WOMAN Of experience laid
~ down the law lately as follows:
~~ In almost all the cases of UNI
happy marriages, or family trouble, 1t
is the woman's fault. Somebody has to
be unseliish, and keep putting things
right. In every household, and the wom-
an is the one to do 1t. When she stands
OH her rights and will not do 1t, she may
be fine character, but the result Is
dangerous"
1t was a hard saying-a counsel OF
perfection. Yet it had more than little
wisdom in it. Every one recalls house.
hold situations where a woman stand
ing on clear rights would have prob
ably wrecked all future peace, but
where woman's wise unselfishness.
instead, brought matters slowly right
In the end. Patient Grizel may have
gone too far but she was on the right
track. There is such u thing as deter
mined Pronunciation Of self in order that
n tangle may be set right, which pro-
ducts even higher moral effect than
insistence upon just rights. Such open
eyed remuneration is very different from
being tramplcd upon or ground down
In spite of protest 1t has the dignity
and the power that belong to all volun-
tary sacrifice; and it calls out In re-
Spouse there is in the souls around 1t.
Individualism is wOmans watchwOrd
to-day. But individualism cannot be
practced by all the members OF fam
lily without breaking up family rela-
lions in short order. Some one In the
| household must take the collective
view, which subOrdinates individual
wills to the common good One such
person in house will make 1t Il home;
and woman has always been the home
maker rather than man.-llarper's
Bazaar.
The Ever-AdvanciuR Woman.
| The first woman to be admitted to
| the bar Of Maryland, has been sworn
in at Baltimore. Two years ago she
was denied admission, though regu-
larly graduated from law school. The
Maryland Legislature has since passed
an act authorizing the admission of
modern Portals to the States courts.
This Is one Of many similar recent
concessions that seem to justify the
Woman's Journal. organ Of the fair
pleaders for equal rights. in saying
that there can be no doubt which
way the procession is moving" The
progress of woman's suffrage within
the past few years Is worth noting.
| Women now have county and partial
municipal suffrage In England and
Scotland; suffrage at all elections eX-
cept for Parliament in Ireland; munic-
ipal suffrage in Kansas, Nova Scotia
and Manitoba; school suffrage In Con-
necticut. New Jersey. Illinois. Ohio,
| the DakOtas, Arizona and Montana;
! suffrage on all questions of taxation
for such of them as are taxpayers, In
all the towns and villages Of New York
and likewise In Louisiana; full suffrage
In Utah, Colorado and Idaho. and
most notable Of all-full suffrage Mt all
elections, including Parliamentary.
throughout the new Commonwealth Of
Australia.
AS revolutions never move back
ward" and rarely stop half way round,
we may apparently make up our minds
that Mr.. Chairman and gentlemen"
as the first sentence of campaign
speeches, will be bad form nearly ev-
erywhere before the twentieth century
is very old.-New York World.
Prom 'nent Nebraska Woman.
Mrs. Emma Page, of Syracuse. Neb.,
who was recently elected president of