Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-06-07
r HE new WOMAN
She Is Moving the World

~ NE of the fashionable women's
clubs in New York city lately
Y had this proposition as topic
for discussion: "All Progress
Is by Sacrifice and Suffering" l use
the capital letters because the club re-
port uses them. The ladies' remarked
on the proposition with such unanimity
that we may consider it as almost
their club motto. "All Progress Is by
Sacrifice and Suffering" The organ
ization has the name of being the most
fashionably gowned woman's club in
New York city, and that is saying
much. The ladies have their luncheons
In one of the SWEETEST and highest pric-
ed restaurants. Good gracious, the furs
the women wear, and the laces and
diamonds! How they step out of their
carriages, arrayed like Solomon in all
his glory. Yet these ladies are abso-
lutely certain all progress is only made
through sacrifice and suffering-they,
who probably know the least Of what
they are talking about of any women in
America. What do they know of the
agony of life beyond what they man.
age to manufacture for themselves in u
sentimental way? Their pronuncia.
mentO Is wOmanish sentimentalism run
to seed. WOmanish sentimental lism is
the sckest, most mawkish manifesto.
ton OF artificial feelings that ever
shallow, empty mind invented. We do
not go ON to higher planes because of
our sacrifice and suffering. We go on
in spite Of them. But the notion of sal.
walton by giving up and suffering has
tinged the whole feminine sex with
this false sentimentalism. It has
caused woman to make a merit even of
toe ache and to pose as a martyr and
victim till she ought to be ashamed
OF herself. 1t has caused her to submit
to injustice and imposition, whining
and martyring herself all the while,
when she ought to have stood up like q
man and kicked--yes, kicked vigorous.
~ and persistently till the oppression
was removed. It's all humbug, this
female martyr business. The woman
who makes the least Of her suffer.
ings" is the right sort.
The stole teachings give us a noble
philosophy Of life. They are brave,
robust and cheerful. They bid US
make the most of all that is bright,
happifying and comforting and the
least of the CHASTITY, the burdensome
and the unpleasant. Even in the midst
OF severe physical suffering the dictum
or Marcus Aurelius Is, ''Say to your
self, 1T is nothing; it will soon pass"
In this country there ought to be q
woman's daily newspaper, conducted
by women.
The secretary Of the Woman's Ma
donal Council Of Australia ia Mrs.
Watson Lister, who recently came to
the United States to investigate the
status of woman here. In all Australia
women now have full suffrage. OF the
effect of this on manhood's chivalry
Mrs. Lister says: "A woman has to en-.
dure more jostling in one street car
ride In New York or Chicago than she
would In q score Of political meetings
In Australia. In Australia I have
never seen a woman standing up In a
street car" Think Of that last!
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Are you acquainted with the young
lady who quotes ''mommerY' II 90,
you have probably observed that the
"mommer'' habit grows and that the
older the young lady is the more in
fantilishly she quotes "mommer."
Z Z
Countess Ann de Montaigu of the st.
Louis exposition press department,
though an American, has lived in
Paris so many years that she knows
the French language well enough to
speak and write it fiuently. She sends
contributions concerning the fair to
French magazine, La Vie Heureuse"
(The Happy Life. That is an uncom-
monty good title for magazine.
Last year the national declarations of
labor. of miners. typesetters and gar.
ment workers all passed resolutions in
dorsing woman suffrage.
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There is a Smith college for girls.
and good one. But now comes another
Smith, 4 millionaire, whose front name,
let Us say, Is John, and declares he is
going to found and endow a seat OF
the higher culture for females and call
1t the John Smith College For Won
en-" Then we shall have not only
the female Smith college, but the
John Smith College For Females run
ming opposition to Il, sending the name
Of John Smith ringing down the cor
rtdors Of time. 1t viii then rest with
the girls whether they win get learn
ing under the college colors Of Smith
- John Smith. Who would think q
smith could have % much vanity over