New-York tribune., 1904-09-02
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WHY WOMEN POTTER.

Why do women potter asked the man,
Why 90 women potter returned the
My dear sir women potter because from the be-
ginning Of time until they have never been al
lowed 10 do anything but potter When We first
catch glimpse of the human animal in the
twilight Of prehistoric times. the men occupied
with hunting ana fighting, and the women were
doing something else. They were weavers potters
builders, farmers cooks and educators. The men
were simply hunters and fighters. They were
specialists even at that early stage of human
progress: the women jacks Of all trades. As
uu7 went on. there came 10 he less hunting and
"ehuhg 10 DO and the men invaded wOman's
spheFs- But they didn't attempt 20 DO everything
Sne had done. Not they. They took up some par
ucuiar thing for which they happened to have
peollectlon and they did it 10 the exclusion prao-
lIaIlE or everything else OF course they must
.t naVe performed these special tasks much better
nan the women, burdened with their rnuttfarious
uuHes' nad ever thought of performing them and
ilo oouot they said, Just as they say TODAY See
no" superior am And no doubt the women
Deneved them just as they do TODAY
as 1Inne went on. this process of specialization
.O'tinueo. The men found some particular thing
TO do. and the women picked up all the Ioosa go,
7'auss there was one else to do II And the
Se ehds' moreover. kept on multiplying with
Iess OF civilization, so that the women
stantly any less to do Although men were con
Isj .ji,lCn lad formerly been vomenis snhare +beir
as hopelessly beyond their power OF nerfor ry ana
AZ ..1t ne times OF the cave dwellers
~ Ne are supposed to have advanced il, these ds,-s
women, but the conditions under yhfcb we are
Eiseu 70 ave are not very different from Thosa
na-Ee oeen indicating. A man stu does one +bi1g
--t must sun dc million. \ man chooses ms
,no. or exercises soma degree of Choice a u,o-
49, -, AZ the majority OF cases, thrust uDou her
<aHu even II We do succeed in taking ths ro,1rsa
loose ENDS People expect US to do scores OF things
80, NeCduse We are women, from which our Dro-
tt'Ssluha4 duties would excuse US II We were men
iiLaLIe[ saIaTles are paid to than TO men
ga US because they ara believed be able 10 do
a Wnote lot or things for themselves that men
nsES 70 nave done for them, and society demands
W them an insane mode OF dress. which makas II
PaLucu4arIy necessary that things should be done
tSI them. Besides the Inconvenience OF wearin 2
LIS oress II requires constant care and attention
acunS mas this necessity become that girls are
nov oelug taught in the schools how to make and
ca[e Ior tne pertshaols and muItfarious accoutrs-
ments OF the sex.
with all these advantages. their simpler scttvi-
usS ana MODE or dress and their greater command
OF money. one would think that men ouKht 70 ne
doie 70 get through this earthly pilgrimage with
U4I Delng waited upon by women. but most OF
tAeIn nave a wife or q mother a sister who
seWs on their buttons sends their collars to the
wearing and time consuming cares. Furthermore
II a man wants TO devote himself or liter
azure or science he can, in about nine cases out
ten, ma some woman TO relieve him altogether
@ LIon Ihe necessity or occupying himself with ordi-
nary mundane affairs 10 rewrite his illegble manu-
scripts or save his properr- from destruction. as
IN the case of Count and Countess Tostoy; but only
ABOUT twice IN century does a woman find a
George Henry Lewes a Robert Browning 10
protect her genius from the intrusion OF alien IN
ter?'