The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-25
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THE KANSAS WOMAN IN PUBLIC LIFE.
M. M. MUIR DOCK, EDITOR.

THE KANSAS WOMAN IN PUBLIC LIFE.
person named Lena Baker arrested in
New York the other day. charged with being in
toxcated. Before the fire fixed it was discov-
cred that Lena B. in womans skirts,
and so he sent to the workhouse for six months
That may have been legal but it was morally wrong
and opposed to the spirit of the age. The man. who
was nearly fifty explained that he had masqueraded
for years for the sake Of livelihood
He had been a famous cook in heightened families
and in commanding good wages had been provided
with good home. Unfortunately for him he didn't
live in Prohibition state where drunk would
have been a legal impossibility.
AS the Eagle has once or twice within the last
forty years intimated the of our time have
got grip on the lever OF archimides with which
they are turning the world upside down. Having
eschewed the spinning wheel and the kitchen they
have appropriated about all of the more soft snaps
of industrial life. The have managed to mold
on to the public Offices and the plow but Just wait
until the get at the ballot box This New
York man was adjudged criminal because found
playing the woman, rather for failing to realize
that he and his sex are destined rnudsills and so
he was found guilty by male Judge 1t is all right
for the women to pull the trousers but just let
man attempt to get into skirts If modern rp-
todate new had been holding down that
woolsack, which she soon will be- Mr. Lena Baker
would have been sent up for life without doubt
That old betterhalf conceit is playing out and the
woman will ere long be found be the whole thing
Carrie Nation is widely known today than
any Kansas man. living dead better known Than
the state itself. An intelligent appearing gentle.
man asked the writer of this, the other day. down
in southern Georgia, where we hailed from When
he answered Kansas, he replied "Oh yes I've
heard of Kansas City and of Carrie Nation" And
Carrie Nation holds advantage over Mrs Lease
and Mrs Diggs other suffrage cranks farther than
she may be little crazier.
We have failed to notice as yet the announce
ment of the appearance of any woman adjunct
female continuity waiting upon the solons at To-
peka in body demanding enlarged opportunities
But wait until existence shall have fallen on the
senatorial racket. Possible contingencies are out
of the question Such naturalization is dead
sure iunto. Annie Diggs is in Europe and Mollie
true, but there yet the waiting posts of unen-
franchised downtrodden and enslaved women who
are to have their say and how persuasivey and
guelessly they will say it. Sooner or later we are
all as men doomed, certainly as Mr. Lena Baker"
was sent up for six months for playing potwolloper
in petticoats. when he should have been Furnishing
crOwbar a currycomb.
Uncivized men have always difficulty in COM
pretending the position of women in the more ad-
vanced nations. writer in the Empire Review
records that he experienced very great difficulty
while in Hausaland in explaining the natives our
particular national attitude towards women
All that the Hausas grasp is that fail to manage
women and they laugh in their boards and say
make guns and steam engines, but by Allah
We can't do everything.