Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-02

changes must have cumulative
effect for good. If we gain in one
poiSt and lose in another so that
the new balance represents a loss
we have receded. Woman primarily
has II peculiar work. sphere if you
please. She and she alone can he
the mother of the race. Man eau
not. Nature appointed the bounds.
Motherhood means residence in a
cave, or tent, or house at certain
times of certain duration in spite
of all the fanatics who may argue
for the industrial and political
equality Of man aud woman. Faith
erhood means at these times abso-
lutely and without the permission
of 1t suggestion that it could be
otherwise, the facing Of the prob
lem of support. His duties lie on
the outside of the tent, cave or
house. ! am not, however, by us
ing the words tent or cave, at
tempting TO analyze savage life. |
am not talking about savages. |
am not talking TO savages. Nature
has promulgated her edict for that
race that would he continuous.
Woman, thon shalt be given a
home and shelter for the Grad.
ling of the race. Man, thou shalt
go forth from the home by day aud
by night to weather the stormy
blast, to swelter in the suns rays
or toll in the shops. Woman,
thou hast laid on thee the care of
the entire race in its kindergarten
stage. This is true not only of
the agricultural stage of peoples
life; the same holds true for the
great mass in a highly organize d
industrial society. Now after we
have made all due allowances, have
permit ed the unmarried to leaye
home and follow the erstwhile
home industries to their new abid-
ing pl aces-the office, the store,
the factory, have granted women
the right to enter the professions,
have lifted the porteullis of law
and custom and allowed even the
married women and mothers to es-
cape from their former citadels Of
too narrow limits, haYewe the home
left? Have we the home for the
new and necessary generationsP
Yes, a thousand times, yes. Send
forh the heralds and proclaim the
truth. Tell those conservative min
listers of the gospel who have been
honestly and deeply worried over
the matter, that the home is safe.
Tell DR.. Mary Walker in her pants
and boots. tell President Roose-
welt and Pres. Eliot, worried about
race suicide, tell our thinkers
of the old school, our anxious
grandpas and grandmas, yea, even
bear the news to all those dear
club women who would rather
dress themselves for a parade be-
fore each other than dress lamb S
leg for hubby's dinner, tell them
all that the home is safe. Why so?
Because the great majority of men
and women of manageable age are
married. They have homes, homes
of some sort. You will never unseX
people. You will never unsex the
woman. Turn on the voltage of
the college and the University
currents; woman is woman still.
Train her till all her emotions are
under control; she is yet a woman.
A woman does not have to get
scared at rat to prove she is a
woman. Lift, ye men, some of
her burdens by making it
easier for her to earn a live
lihood and perhaps she will
not be so hysterical. Put her I'M
der the Juggernaut car of modern
industry, she is still a woman.
heard one of these business wO,
men read a paper recently before d
Press Association. She was a
newspaper worker in a large city.
cannot think of anything more
unromantic than that unless il
would be running for Governor
against Joe Folk. This good lit
tie woman, with an audience OF
married editors and pedagogue'
and a very few women, confessed
in the cOu rise of her paper that il
she were courted by a mar
she could love she would
rather help build a LITTLE
home than to succeed as newspa
per woman. She thus gave proc
of the nurture instinct planted il
: the depths of her nature by thu
Creator of us all. Unsex her!
Take the love of home from her b!
educating her, by putting her int,
business! You might as we'll IT..
to choke Vesuvius with gun cotton
, Woman, thou art woman, aud wo
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