The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21

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Woman's Club Movement Of Masculine
Supremacy and .Prmacy-Man Has
l Too Long Been Under the Yoke to
Hise at Once to the High Pinnacle Of
Chestiness Demanded by an Interview
With Mrs. William Tod HeImuth OF
New York.
/ we do not recall anything that has
given us more hope for the future of our
sex than has the position taken by Mrs
William Tod Helmuth honorary president
|of the New York State Federation Of
CUPS, former president of that pioneer of
feminine organizations, Sorosis poss essor
Of seventy-five badges bestowed on her
from all parts of the country by clubs de-
string to honor her, and general all around
|society woman.
MRS Helmuth has, in word, come out
as an advocate of mere man.
ChampiOned by SO conspicuous a leader
as Mrs. Helmuth man may once more
raise his head aloft and breathe the free
air OF heaven with expanded chest.
IN the library Of her New York apart
ments, surrounded by rare pictures and
curlos, the careful society page writer
tells US, Mrs. Helmuth expressed regret
for the growing tendency among club Wo-
men to feel themselves superior to and
to adopt patronizing attitude toward
men.
4 Let us Gull some of the gems of ma
tured feminine thought from Mrs. Hell
Emuth's interview. 1t is we'll for us men
to take them on our thought and to eS-
pand to the full circumference of our
sphere. Says Mrs. Helmuth
i Inc American man is the finest in the
world, the most moral, the kindest father.
best husband, most loyal, most erlight-
ened and advanced, and the most am
lh1t1OllS fnr 7,
family.
i - nave no patience with those women
Who glorlfy themselves and talk inces-
sanity of their activities, as if the respon-
slb1llt1es of the universe rested on their
shoulders Men have managed the world
creoltaply Tor some centuries, and they
can be relied on to continue to do SO,
particularly our American men, whose
ABILITY in all directions is extraordinary
1t is well known that earnestly be-
l1eve In and advocate the advancement of
woman, but I do not believe in woman, S
lutlie ana ridiculous attempt to precede
men. -
when woman praises or proclaims her
self, she belittles her sex When she
boasts of her superiority to man, she
amuses him. He says nothing, but he
laughs in his sleeve. It has no more ef-
feet on him than little fly buzzing
around a big elephant.
|
man? Nonsense! All that the American
woman has been, is and hopes to be; is due
to the American man.
! When man looks back over his dim past.
one of his first recollections is that he
was being spanked by the inflexibe hand
OF woman. little further along in his
career When he tracked mud in on the
clean Kitchen floor, what hand was it that
tWlgged' his offending ear? Woman's.
When he appropriated his first jam from
the high shelf in the dark closet. whose
aVenglng arm was it that welded the
PUNITIVE slipper? Again woman's. On
that joyous and marvellous occasion of his
flrst puppy love- who let him kiss her
at the surprise party and then went home
with the big boy that had the CANDY in
his pocket? Woman again. Who re-
1ected him in his young manhood and
married him outright little later? Wo-
man.
Yet over all these distractions, mans
lndomltable spirit has scared aloft has
remained uncOnQuered and has burned
i with the pure fame of liberty. And now
there is growing a tendency among the
Woman's club movement people to &C
:. knowledge mans supremacy! ca
i What is the matter with US? WHY
We're all right Still we will do well tc
walk bit softly and not to become. toe
chesty, sniff the battle afar off and cry
aloud Aha, aha" You remember the
STORY vi the Ola 1euoW on the train who
approached the drummer whom he cav
taking nip from his hp-pocket Ken.
lucky reservoir and accosted him thus:
MY friend. do you know that there is
one VINO KNOWS your every thought and
sees your every act. who searcheth the
reins Of man and trieth his understand
ing?''
ooh, yes replied the travelling man in
a resigned manner, I'm married.
! Seoul dispatches say that our marines
there are spelling for fight We trust
; that none Of the foreign boys will ac-
. commodate them. Jackie when he is: real
cross is often quite harsh to his foes.
Several Of the Colombian army having
caught severe colds and one having
stubbed his toe severely, the campaign has
been abandoned and the war is off.
The weather bureau costs the people of
the United States about 9 cents apiece.
AS long as it stunts that S-beloW-zero
weather over into New York the crowd
in the Mississippi valley will pay this
tax with enthusiasm.
People in a new Boston sect are called
Religious Israelites.' They wear long
hair-that is the men do-and have it
coiled on their heads If they guarantee
that, we might be tempted to join.
! DR.. Briggs has stirred UP big fuss in
the Episcopal church by telling them in
kindly way that 1.-THE apostolic success
sion hangs by a slender historical thread
and that the Church of Rome has almost
the only claim worth considering. Bishop
/ Potter has sent for DR. Briggs paper.
| which was read before the Church club.
and is now closeted with it. The Epis
copal church papers are jumping on the
doctor and some of them are intimating
that there is plenty of room outside the
church for him. Wherever he is, the doc
tor seems to be wearing theological brass
knuckles, and there is somebody always
excitedly demanding that he be thrown
out.
London Truth says that Society: is
an association of enemies who profess to
| be friends, and it should add 'who are
| trying to poison one another with hot
/ brassy tea out Of samovar'
/ When Mr.. Moses dropped in to get his
| home paper yesterday some one in another
| room was exciting the disgust of the
rest Of the office by whistling something
about 1.-THE Good Old Summer Time.''
and the conversation turned to discus
sion OF the first topical songs that we
| could remember.
/ Shortly after landed on the jumping
/ on place." said Mr.. Moses, ''and was old
enough to notice anything, I noticed that
people were singing Captain links of the
! Hoss Marines and Father, Dear Father,