The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-08
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M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
A WOMAN ON CLUB WOMEN.


daughters who have read after US. We have simply
contended that any weakening responsibilities
of its ties and Of its pleasures by just much renders
life not worth the living You take the woman out
of the home and have home Heaven without saints
and angels would simply prove to be the other place
woman however angelic and talented cannot devote her
time to outside interests the time preserve
those nearer and dear ones inside She cannot desert
her home and still have it longedfor haven any more
than man con turn homekeeper and at the same tne
be it's rlainstay is cannot play the part
of man and at the tine be successful house
keeper any more than be both the keeper ana
the bread-winner of the home.
What happened TO the homes of Elizabeth Lease.
Carrie Nation Anna Digs al Kansas women all who
made such violent breaks into public life? The very
hawks steer clear Of enclosures containing growing hens
He who is an accessory the crime of converting petit
coats into breeches void of sentiment and has no soul
A goddess logged out in would prove an i'm
possible divinity \ short-haired with baritone
intonaon is an abomination Of desolaton. an undream
able hero And so the Eagles contention has not only
been for the preservation the home but for the life
within it. not one of jealousy, envy hate some seem
to think but enc Of love- respect and admiration Hence
to lovable woman whenever she is found essang terres
trial rolls jar the pnfeathers from the
wings of the celestial hosts the misrepresentation
of the club and caucus creature and lofty
intent
After all is said the Eagles editor has not been guilty
of any more heinou dosyncaces unconventonaltles
than those embodied in the foregoing. He has never in
duIged in the awful roasts perpetrated by some women
writer's along this line. A woman can say the things
that cut sister deeper Such heartbrusing things in
fct wounds that spirit and brain in way that no
man can this is the season OF birds buds and woman
clubs Dorothy Dix wellknown author and writer
perpetrates a scald which the Eagle would prove
utterly incapable Dorothy, writing for the New York
Journal starts out with: The club woman, which was
originally barnyard fowl gotten gay and flown the
COOP" Think OF that Further "Tiring Of trying to
make the home happy while its mate away enjoying
itself she got on her pked out to if
there was not something doing in wide wide world
After further dissenting the strength of the club wo
mans voice and the reach of stride she goes into
al around analytic dissertation from which make the
following excerpts the purpose of convincing
our readers that our mild comparison. But
let US quote:
The club belongs to the migratory birds that
always the Pullman (genus Terminus hotfoot
0usl and said sleep with its bonnet and its latch
ay in pocket It is also exceedingly gregarous al
ways go;4g in focks and this naturalists to
classify among the chronic joners of which it genCs
clubwomanis) perhaps, the most highly developed
species In appearance the club is inter
estng rather than beautiful
1T likewise possesses severe expression but
atey not so dangerous as it look for although it
which objects seldom infcts more than harmless
peck and il has been peckng away the subject
womans rights for thItyive years without making any
impression upon it, 1t viii be seen how innocuous its
little bin is. In its habits the club woman is extremely
strenuous is thought be the only living creature
that rests reaXes, lets well enough alone
From the of its waking until its stays
night madly subject subject
form reform and undoubtedly only the that is
pigeontoed keeps it from arriving some tangible
suits
THE attention of the student is also called to
the strange power that this interesting creature has of
changing entire opinions and religious beliefs
a moments notice that you capture meateating
orthodox Presbyterian by the time you get home with
it may have become vegetarian Esoterc Buddhist a
New Thoughtist
The chief characteristic Of the club woman is its
enormous appetite the avidity with which will
swallow any kind of a subject matter tough or
dry. only it is fed in classes Art literature civil
reform, Ibsen plays, Maeterlnck philosophy, De Mon
tesquou poetry village improvement old thing goes
Unfortunately, though, its digestion is equal
appetite and the postmortem examination over the re
mains Of many club disclosed the sad fact
that they untimey end through being gorged
with half-baked philosophy
Another popularity of the club is its curious
way Of amusing itself by listening ongwinded papers
dug out Of the encyclopedia by its fellow club
This is most painful ordeal as its mates are re-
CURED. IN TO listen it gets even but scientists
have been unable TO explain why fowl related to
the goose family should be willing 10 thus voluntarily !
alct itself The manner in which these curious crea-
lures caught is instructive the elder duck
the club woman is generally worth pluckng and the
fowler who wishes set to line his own nest