The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-06

the lines of my predecessors would
to my mind, have bocn to prove my
own weakness for We cannot change
woman's nature any more than we
can mans, and, therefore, to attack
women because they are tickle or
vain glorious svems to me as absurd
as to attempt To prove that man Is
not the superior animal because he Is,
by instinct, fond of cakes and ale
Really, | do not want to attack at
all, because 1t is as natural to me
to be fond of women as it is for chill.
dren to be fond Of toys. My real idea
Is to give women an opportunity for
defense, and To prove their strength.
II is for this reason that attack them
where they elect to be considered
strongest, namely, in their homes. The
cry OF late years is that women are
as good as men, that they have been
prosecuted and kept under for years,
and that, therefore they should not be
expected, in the first years of their
emancipation, to be up to competing
with men as brCad.winners. That Is
quite reasonable. and. therefore, do
not grid at their mismanagement of
the political and commercial sides OF
life.
But the management of the house
they have always had, and, as have
said, there they fail sadly either to
provide comfort or to spend money
in the proper way.
WOman's mission is to always put
the blame on some one else. Eve be-
gan 1t. She put the blame on the
serpent, and her daughters have ever
since blamed the serpent on the
hearth--the servant. Do not run away
with any idea that | am going. for
mere love of paradox, to champion
servants. A French writer has said,
80 many servants. 50 many spies"
and, in my mind, servants are many
things worse than spies. But let serv-
ants be, as they are, woman's excuse
for everything that goes wrong, Just
as servants put everything on the cat.
| accept the gage. For the purposes
of argument, We will admit that serv.
ants are at the bottom of all the evils
of home life. Now let us inquire into
that. The first question to ask the
woman in the box, who is giving evi.
dence for the defense, is:
who engages the servants?"
The answer is Il do" The witness,
be 1t understood is speaking on be,
half of women generally. The next
question is:
who directs the sCrvants?"
The answer is the same, 81 do"
Pur1 ling this line, ask the mistress ::
"From whom DO your servants learn
tneir BUSINESS"
"From mel"
And anyt hing they don't know, |
may take 1t, is due to the fact that
former mistresses have not taught
or have failed to teach, them?"
THAT is SO"
"Then If the entire education en-.
gaging, paying, managing and dis
charging OF servants is carried on by
women. and If the proportion of WON
en- over men servants is very large
the entire blame for the unsatisfac
tory state of the servant question must
be due to wOmcn?"
The witness does not answer, and
on being pressed, bursts into tears
and finally says:
1T is all the fault of the mem"
Men, as rule, have nothing to dc
with servants, the larger proportion
of servants are women, and, there
fore the faults of servants is only
another proof that women are incapa
Die of managing another very large
section of n necessity which SHOULD
60 to make comfort and economy il
tho home, But perhaps it is not fail
to judge entirely by maiorities. Lee
US look at the exception which agar
proves the rule Bachelors keep theil