The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-06
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M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
A WELCOME FOR THE WOMEN.

WELCOME FOR THE WOMEN.
1t is good FORM as occasion may offer, for metropoi-
tan dailes to edtoriay their respect
lively all civic organizations such raternal congrega
tons political aggregations and educational and reg
ious assembages as distinctive honor and calling
for all around congratulations Ordinarily the Eagle is
equal to this required genufecon salaam, but it is
CONFRONTED by task along that line this morning TO
which confessedly unequal To Wichita today, come
the delegated representatives Of the womans clubs Of
Kansas for their conraternity, for comparison
of Joint interests and for the election Of officers for the
State Federation Of Womans Clubs, believe: Still
one might welcome his enemies with bloody hands to
hospitable graves
This is dstinctively the womans age of the world II
We may be pardoned for mentioning age in connection
with woman The dream, seemingly, of the more ambt
tous Of SEX get down to the level of the man.
who is the personhcaton of about all there is of the
brute in the
In no country in the world do enjoy anything
like the freedom boosted by American women. At no
tine in all history her privileges in way to be
compared to those unreservedly accorded the
women of America, both socially and legally Her equal
ity only conceded but her superiority in many d
rections granted We do not only spiritually super
ior but superior along industrial lines In
literature in the professions in music in the arts, and
If not in the sciences the American is holding
her own with her brother In fact the American woman
ger force of heredy and environment is superior to her
sex of any other country and destined to be-
come still more distnctvely superior both physically
and mentally This cannot be said of England's
women.
While It is true that is the of about all
Of mans troubles she is also responsible for
much Of his happiness comfort and content not con-
tnuay or necessarily desgnedly the STILL gener-
ally innocentiy or otherwise, the Man goes off
and commits suicide lays him down to die in bitter
ness the prefers the seance of the
club the task of entertaining him in dull home; but
she may be blame for getting outside Of such
home and perhaps it just well that he is dead.
Woman is an amending temptation to man, but it is
doubtful If would have it otherwise Through temp
tation Adam declared that got with him.
Even before that Eve and the snake had organized
literary or what the serpent claimed educational
club
Speaking of equality, that is the rock on which the
Eagle and the club women and female suragists split
OF course there is all around mental and physical
equality; like bones the womans the more delicate
of the same flesh the womans the softer; the same
blood the womans the purer; the same mental fiber,
the woman's the finer There the parallel ceases When
it comes to the elements of love- of sesacrce, of
constancy of inspiration benefcence of bengnancy
OF benevoence equality is impossibty. Spiritually
superior always has BEEN and will be-
long the home is maintained by the wife as the
inspiration the husband their united hope and as
the haven of their children.
AS for anything else the Eagle bespeaks for fair
visitors pleasant and profitable sojourn within the
outrageous walls beneath the emerald mantle of leafy
bowers so boosted by the Peerless Princess.