The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-01-27
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woMEN's RIGHTS.
Continually


Then / says, Talk about women hold
Ing the plow and doing sech like work, TO
mans Disgrace be II said, she's done too
much already l know OF lots Of women
right here I'm New England who weed
onions, hoe corn. and help TO do all
kinds OF harvesting, and their husbands
don't object, nuther. when they were first
married, no doubt they didn't want them
10 soil their hands with such an occupa-
tion. but as time wore on they soon got
10 thinking that a sunburned face ana
masculine hands were dreadful becoming
to the women folks OF their houses. be-
cause Il helped 20 pay the taxes Now, no
HONEST wife objects 10 do her share OF Ia
Dor I'm helping TO pay for the farm or
house I'm the city but her sphere OF labor
should come within the home. strictly
speaking. and she never ought 70 allow
herself to do the kind OF work that was
designed for man and horses TO do. But
that doesn't mean that she shall not have
any voice I'm ethical. social, political and
other matters pertaining TO the life or this
world"
Yes" SAYS he. there YOU are again
running right up against the Ideas or
some OF our biggest men. Why, Mandy
your favorite minister. Mr.. Talmage, said
~
10 be satisfied with the kind OF lives that
were lived in the old Bible times. such as
was lived by the Decreases. the RebeccaS
and the Hannahs of the Old Testament
Now what's the use in talkin' agin' sech
big preachers as he was? They've studied
into the matter. and ought 20 know oil
about II. You are Jest wastin' time I'm
trying 20 talk 'em down"
mo" says l. federation. I certainly
have had a high opinion OF DIR. Talmage-
think he WAS one OF the best preachers In
the world but I've always noticed that all
OF our greatest men have one or more
failings I'm their nature as well as other
folks, and DIR. Talmage's besettng weak
ness was evidently his inhumanity 10
women. He probably had never let go OF
theology long enough 10 sec that It's pos
sibe for the Twentieth Century woman
TO live, move, and have her being among
the people OF the world. thinking with
them. talking with them, and acting with
them on a plane that Is equal for all hu-
man beings alike. aud at the same time
live lives as profitable, as pure and as
much for the home life as ever any OF the
Hannahs or Rebeccas OF any period I'm the
worlds history have ever lived!
"Of course you'll have TO argue and
talk" SAYS he, but twon't do any good"
"Time'l tell SAYS l. whether it'll do
good or not. It's enough sight better for
under sech statements and accept them
as the doctrine Of the universe. when the
fact is they amount TO only one mans
opinion The doctor says he could name
twenty living Presbyterian ministers Of
religion who could make n better creed
than John Calvin did, and I've no doubt
that IL is true. but it's my opinion that
can name twenty American women that
could make better and less bigoted
creed than all the Presbyterian ministeSS
put together. with all the preachers OF
the other churches thrown In Fact ont
is man as a rule thinks he's got a mind
and heart as broad as the Atlantic ocean.
but Jest "a soon as you cross his ideas of
the hereafter and the right system on
earth for saving mans soul from damna-
tion, he becomes as narrow as a mill race.
Now, woman is different. You can reason
with n woman. II she's on the wrong
track she's willing 10 look into the mat
ter. but whatever she believes she follows
up with more consistency than man eve~
thought OF doing Why is IL that women
make up nine-tentns or the attendance at
prayer meetings as a ruler Because she
lives her religion more consistently than
man does. 'Twould be just the same with
politics. She'd make no halfway work
about It,"
"Of course you-can hoHvt'' saws he
but the men folks amt agoin TO trust
women with matters or state vet awhile.
Domestic affairs are more 20 your taste
for you see women have been brought up
fer centuries % care for the children aud
wash dishes. and how would they look at
tending 10 national and county business
Out of place simply out Of place"
"Out OF place. or IN place" says I. 81
guess the women Of America wouldn't al
low n few mine owners 20 control the
bowels OF the earth so that millions Of
people all over the United states would
have TO suffer for the want OF fuel which
they couldn't pay fifteen dollars ton
fort"
20, well" says he. such things can't
bN regulated in minute"
Regulated IN minute,' saws 7. 'T.and
II goodness. tho men folks have had
mCre'n n hundred years 90 make laws
that could have prevented any such thing
coming 10 pass. But the men are always
hnd-sighted They can never see ahead
far enough To know what IL going TO
happen. or 90 know what may he needed
I never knew a man Yet 90 anticipate his
wfe's wants enough TO buy her a now
cloak without she bore down on the ne
cessity ~ it for sometime I'm advance.
Regulated I'm minute. That's Just Ike
a man. Always eXcusing himself"
When 7 mentioned cloak. that seemed 10