The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-19

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rHE SWIFT SPECIFIC co.. ATLANTA ga
endow every woman with beauty and
wealth; but nature is the most partial
jade who ever scattered favors over
an unequal world and, as a matter
of fact, women are born to face pre-
cisely the same needs and hardships
as men. The only difference is that
at every turn in life they are handi-
capped by their sex. They must run
the same race as their brothers and
they must hold up their petticoats as
they run.
That men get the best of everything,
from the cradle to the grave, is too
obvious to need arguing. The only time
q, girl baby is ever really welcome is
when she comes at the tag end Of a
long list of boys, and the family are
ready for anything for a change. Then,
when they are little older, il is little
Mary who stops in the house and helps
with the dishes while little Johnny
goes off to play ball When they are
grown, Mary must sit on the anxious
seat, trying to look pleasant, until she
has been good luck to attract the at
tention of some man who asks her to
marry him; whereas Johnny may roam
from bud to bud, picking and choosing,
until he finds the girl who comes up
to his ideal and fires his fancy. He
may make a mistake, but at any rate
he has had the privilege of using his
own judgment and gratifying his taste.
He hasn't had to take any old thing
that offered.
After the marriage, ii is the fashion
to presume that Mary has the best of
ii. but has she? Not much. There is
no other work on earth so continuous
so wearing, so full of care and
anxiety, as that of the wife and moth
er. She never has a day off. She
stands a twenty-fourhour watch, with
her hand ever on the throttle of the do
mestic machinery, and for reward she
gets her board and clothes. The man
may do his duty by his family just as
conscientiously as the woman does
hers. but his life lacks the grinding
monotony of hers. Moreover, he has
the enormous consolation of handling
the money, and when all is said, il is
pleasanter thing to give than to re-
ceiye, to dole out car fare instead of
having it doled out to you.
If Mary doesn't marry-f no man
comes along and offers to stand for
her board bill-and she has to face the
berad d-and- butter problem and go out
into the working world; then, indeed,
she finds that the accident of sex be-
comes almost tragedy The first thing
she bumps into is custom, and she as
certains that there are many things
she cannot do because other women
have not previously done them. Then
it begins to dawn on her that, as If
nature handicapped her enough by
making her a woman. her parents
have added to the weight she has to
carry by not training her for anything.
They saw to 1t that Johnny was pro-
yided with some weapon with which
to fight his battle for livelihood, but
they did't think Ii worth while to try
to safeguard her future because she
was a girl. There are hundred rea-
sons why every girl should be given
some definite trade or occupat ation by
which she can support herself If she
needs to do it, where there is one rea-
son why a boy should be made self
supporting; yet not one family in
thousand considers the girls needs
while they are alert to the boys neces-
sites They use common sense and rea-
son in trying to provide for the boys
life, and they trust the girls to luck.
Yet a woman can get just as hungry
as a man and she can object just as
much to starving and freezing.
One of the most pathetic things on
earth is the cold fact that the majority
of young girls who go into evil lives
are driven to it by gaunt hunger and
want. They come to the cities seeking
employment. They have been trained
to no occupation. and are ignorant and
incompetent. They cannot live on the
pittance that is paid for such bad work
as they can give, and nobody need won
der that, starving, freezing, misera-
BILE, they are desperate enough for any
thing. I never see woman draw her
skirts away from one of these poor
creatures without feeling like saying:
Before you throw the first stone, /
should like to know, madame, IL you
have seen that your daughter has been
taught something by which she could
make an honest living, and so be saw
ed from such a fate?'
Another disadvantage the working
woman has is her clothes. As long as
women are hampered by skirts and the
lack OF pockets, and have to curl their
hair before they start out TO do a days
work, they will never really compete
with men, and the wonder is. under
such disadvantages. not that women
get along so slowly, but that they
progress at all. If man had to do
even one days work perched on high
heels and laced into a corset and chok-
ed by a stock, he would throw up his
job and be sent to the hospital before
night
Apropos OF the tremendous storm
which RACES just now in the Chicago
Woman's Club II may be OF interest 10
quote some remarks recently made by
a New York society leader on the gen
eral subject of women's clubs and the
influence such institutions WELD. The
were not based on a grievance
Of any sort. but were uttered as the
result OF calm deliberation by one who
Ia so averse 10 publicity that her name
Is withheld from publication. What she
said Is herewith given In condensed
form.
MY connection with women's clubs |
came about In simple fashion. often |
when shopping ! found that ! had an
hour or 40 20 spare but had no suita-
be place to pass the time A friend |
suggested that ! join club. ! forth 1
with acted on her advice and IN the /
'ourse of several years subsequent /
hitting between town and country / !
lcoame associated with several ami- ]