The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-08
MEN JOIN IN DISCUSSION
z OF MRS. CLAXON'S PAPER.
Ministers "Ideal Wife Defend
Man Declares Girls Are Responsible for Low Wages
Paid Men II Offces-Other w omen Vail in Com
intending Claxon- Woman's Place a Home.

did not have the courage of my convictions
that l requested that my name be not men
toned In this connection. but more because
it is SO easy TO misiudge one through the
press. and l feared / might be misunder-
stood. especially since ! did not have the
time. even if l had felt qualified. to express
Until 1 was interviewed on the subject l
had really not given the matter serious
thought as a critic. OF course. l am al
ways interested in such matters, more or
less. Why? Because. first l am a woman.
and. second, business woman-a stenogra-
pher l do not feel as do because have
have been more successful than the aver
age Yet have not achieved success in this
Necessity alone has spurred me on TO
achieve the best results and | have been
rewarded in this respect beyond my expec-
tations. 1t is mot because either. that
feel that ! have not been accorded as much
respect from men as any other woman in
my position: in fact. have often had cause
to feel fiattered, yet the atmosphere, so TO
speak, which surrounds a refined woman in
the business world. the nonchalant manner
in which men usually treat -. business
There are Just as noble and just as re-
fined women In the business world as In the
home and society, but l am not of the
opinion that they are the ones that are
there from choice or because they think
they have mission to perform. as some
Claxon's paper so ferociously. but always
from necessity. L do not. of course, think
women were put here to be burdens; they
have a mission truly, but 1t is decidedly
different from mans.
True. things have changed from Mother
Ewes time; it has changed from nifty
years ago, and women are now compelled,
and are being more often compelled every
day to go forth and toll alongside of men
for their existence, but every woman's true
place is in the home. 1t is there where she
is appreciated most. 1t is as wife and
mother she Is most honored and respected;
that is her mission, and / cannot under
stand how any true woman can feel there
is any greater.
II am not intending this to criticise or
to blame. but merely to defend Mrs. C1ax-
ons ideas as / understand them, which
were also. l believe, not intended to critf-
else or blame. but were facts merely stat
ed as they exist.
of her paper which alluded to the business
woman. W. L. n.
ANOTHER MANS OPINION.
. r. L. Carter of No. 992 Baugh avenue,
East St Louis. writes as follows:
From one mans point of view the article
appearing in your issue of March the 4th
severely criticising Mrs ClaXon's paper
must have been written by business WON
an-one whose. highest ideal in life is Of a
business nature. and whose entire being Is
so permeated with some sort of a mission
to perform as to crowd out those of wom-
ans attributes so admired by man,
, 1.-THE world holds few of that type. But,
thank God. only few. We do not fear
them from business standpoint. but We do
greatly deplore the fact that they are max
ing inroadS upon that which man chershes
above all earthly treasureS-a woman true
to her sex. whose highest hopes and am
billions are centered in her home even
though she be fifty years behind the times
Such were our mothers, and it is among
that type of women that We look for the