Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11
woman this state Of domestic afrairs makes
small difference. She gets III trained

woman this state of domestic etra.rs makes
nurse for Bobby. heads OF her mother:ln-
law with good strong wire about con-
tagious complications In FoRbyS fase ana
to hs e sae s o N Se G ats E eaes
400 other women delegates to the Trans
mississippi suffrage convention. There she
forgets her woes in the joy of wearing one
OF tne most becoming lace-incusted fou-
iards at the show and in being interviewed
by reporters, quoted as Mrs Flossie Froth-
i inl De La Porte Bliss. and described as
the posSessor of a ringing voice a COM
mand of stirring eloouence and a born
leader of women.
Got Down to Business.
Fortunately, though, found 1 wasn't SO
emancipated as thought 1 was At this
crisis it occurred to me that I was giving
good deal of attention to other peoples
business, while my own affairs were get
ting into snarl that threatened tragedy
did not go to that convention Instead l
put Bobby to bed, with his newly arrived
sfanuHother as nurse, and whirled into the
kltchen and welded soapy dishcloth and
of authority
thereafter 1 observed that John Bliss
didnt find it necessary to spend a single
evening downtown Shaving at that mysteri-
P'SHSiiS JuSiiteSS, ana Vet L hadn't
said reproachful word nor shed a tear
II was in that week, too, that 1 wrote
paper Tor the next meeting of nv club
s an 90 l o called 1t "A New Light on the suf-
rage question; or, the Royal Road to the
Ballot Box. 1t was by all odds the best
paper L ever wrote, for it embodied the
actual results and effects of practical ex-
perlment and was full of plain common
sense. IL dwelt on the fact that I had
suddenly discovered that the quickest way
10 get the voting privilege was to give up
organized petltioning and bullying of mas
cullne legislatures and noisy extensive
herNe-Wracklng WomenS conventions
Turning Over a New Leaf.
In place of these hitherto Improbable
ana unproductive methods, 1 actually sug-
gested that club women dispense to their
homes; feed their husbands on the pick
OF the market and the culinary art; get the
children happily off to school in the morn
ing and smilingly to bed at night: serve
meals by the clock; do spring and fall
cleaning by stealth, or some improved
and convenient system; and make the
butchers bill look like 80 cents. the ice
man like philanthropist and the dry goods
account a mere trifle In addition, [ adj
Vlsed wholesale boycott of the servant
problem by every woman going into her
own scientifically fitted little kitchen and
proving what she has been telling the in
competent hired help for years-that cook
ing is mighty easy and homework just
good exercise for any healthy set of femi
nine muscles.
Il ventured to prophesy that as re-
suit of this happy state of domestic affairs.
countless husbands would be sleek and
well fed grateful and admiring awe
struck and surprised, so humble and docile
that, for the asking. they would lay the
voting privilege at our feet and honestly
consider 1t a quite inadequate return for
the incaculable blessings the women had
bestowed.
Ruling by Love.
Il remarked forcibly that it was far
better to win and rule by love than by
fear and that men are human and more
apt to be led to make concessions by force
of generous treatment and diplomacy than
by sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion. /
had to admit that this course would involve
the closing up of several hundred dozen of
other clubs besides the suffrage organiza-
tons, but, after six thousand years of try
ing to break men of the club habit this
fancy of women today for multiplying
clubs of their own on every DreteXt did
look rather queer and inconsistent.
MY heaviest voley of argument l kept
for the last, when I called my listeners
attention to the fact, made evident by sta
tiStics and observation, that with the
growth of women's clubs has been noted
an appalling increase in premature gray
ness. double chins, wrinkles and nervous
prostration. l shuddered to think of what
must be the ultimate results to feminine
locks especially, of many more years of
the club habit.
Il could see that by some of the young
and pretty married women my suggestions
were taken very seriously, but by the
jority my paper was voted down as I'M
worthy of consideration by the strong, pro-
gressve woman of the hour.
Altogether Made Over.
''In me, Miss Emily. you longer see
a woman who is unable to discuss Duse,
worship the latest long haired god of music
or match a dress braid without making a
botch of it. No more do l consider the
mystery of the Infinite while l wash my
back hair at the shampoo club down the
street and 1 have ceased to believe that
we can elucidate the whole trouble of do
nestle service by getting the housemaids
cooks and laundresses together and reading
Ruskn to them in a nice little club of
their own.
My present conviction is that the best
club in the world for a woman is her own
holne If she can conduct that on
creased wheels, she has proved herself the
possesSor Of more tact, patience, patriot
ism, common sense and genuine business
ability than the president of all the feder-
ated woman's clubs of the universe, and
she deserves well of her husband and of
her country
I.andlOrQ-YOunp should