The sun., 1903-08-02

interest to men as to women, but they
have been left to the latter very properly
because men are 40 busy with other things.
Under the present economic situation tne
women Of the middle and upper classes
have much more leisure than the men.
While men are engaged in the great COM
mercial struggle, il IL suitable that women
should foster and promote the educational,
religious. humane and aesthetic side OF
life. 1t is not to the discredit OF men that
more and more they are re!inquishlng
these duties TO women, but where they
are open to the severest criticism is in
compelling women TO do this important
work under conditions which constantly
retard ard cripple it.
For instance, women are trying every
where 10 establish kindergartens, travelling
libraries and other educational agencies,
while the school authorities are almost
universally men and tho school tax is levied
and the funds controlled entirely by men.
Women are endeavorng by might and main
to clean and beautfy the streets, allevs
and school yards. while all the officials
regularly elected for this purpose are men.
drawing salaries for work which they are
not doing and controlling the funds raised
for il nv taxation Not only are the women
crippled by having no official power. but
also hv having no money except the little
which they can secure bv voluntary con-
tributions at an expenditure OF time ard
strength which must be taken from the
other work Since the things which these
women are trying 10 do are universally
approved. whv are they not given the
dignity and influence Of Official position
and a share Of the taxes which they have
paid into the public reasurv'
Again, there is scarcely any public work
in which women are engaged that does not
bring them ultimately before the city
council the Legislature or committee
of Congress Men in general approve OF
this, they want the women to succeed, and
yet they compel them to go before these
law-making bodies as the most helpless
class in the whole country. They appear
either in the abiect position OF beggars,
without the power to enforce single de-
Of those who would gain point by the
questionable methods OF smiles, tears
and cajolery. Since a portion of the worlds
work has been delegated to women which
depends on the favor OF the lawmakers.
why are not women given seat among
these legal arbiters, and the same author
Ivy which is accorded to men for compelling
a recognition Of their claims2
The Congregdtiondhsf, in speaking OF
the recent educational convention in
Bost on, says Of the few women who got
little foothold on the platform: ut was
noticeable that many Of them spoke with
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This was true OF the various representatives,
of the Federation Of Clubs who spoke in
| the big amphitheatre at Chautauqua last
week, and, In fact. it may be said OF the
! majority OF women nowadays who appear
| on the rostrum.
In 1852, at n vomans rights convention
| held in Syracuse, n. Y, the first one ever
attended by Susan B. Anthony, she became
SO indignant at the weak piping voices
| of the women that finally she arose up
and said: Il move that hereafter the
| papers shall be given to some one to read
| who can be heard It is an imposition on
| an audience to have to sit quietly through
long speech of which they cannot hear
word. We do not stand up here TO be
seen but to be heard" Whereupon one
| of the leaders of the cause informed her
that ladies did not come there to screech;
they came to behave like ladies and to
speak like ladies'" Miss Anthony stuck
to her point. and at last the Rev. Samuel
| j. May preserved the peace by urging
the speakers to hold up their heads and
address the people on the back row OF
| seats.
The public has long since enacted that
the woman who takes the platform must
make herself heard or the audience will
walk out. Now it is beginning to demand
| that she shall leave her manuscript at home
| and give an oration. And yet 1t Is much
less than fifty years since woman who
stood up in public and read paper even
in a small, ladylike voice, brought down
upon her the bitter criticism OF men and
| the ostracism Of her sister women.
| At an examination OF the pupils In the
thirty-seven parochial schools in the arch
| diocese of Boston girl received the first
| of seven scholarships awarded for the best
| papers in Christian doctrine, language,
/ history, geography and mathematics. II
seems that the same thing is likely to hap
| pen in the parochial schools which is OF
so frequent occurrence in the public schools
| and colleges. Something will have to be
done about it. Segregate the girls!
The Chicago Chronicle is authority for
| the statement that a woman drummer
| for a corset house in that city makes 81 900
, a year. This is probably an overstatement,
| but, no matter what her salary, 1t ought
| not be allowed, for she is taking job that
belongs to some man. II there is one line
| of work more than another which belongs
! absolutely TO men it is selling corsets and
| the invasion Of women into this exclusive
domain should be rigidly suppressed
The complaint of a masculine subscriber
| to THE sun recently of women's growing
| fondness for dogs, and this papers sym
pathetic editorial. recalls Madame de
| Stael's famous saying, THE more know
Of men the better | love dogs. Women are
getting to know men very well these days
but there was also a dear little poem be-
ginning, "To know thee is to love thee. =
| Which is it? IDA Hustled HARPER.
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