The Red Cloud chief., 1904-01-29

the lines of my predecessors would,
10 my mind, have been To prove my
W weakness, for we cannot change
a woman's nature any more than we
can mans, and. therefore, To attack
women because they are tickle or
vain.elorious seems 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 ii is as natural to me
to be fond OF women as IL is for chill.
dren to be fond of toys. My real idea
10 to give women ar opportunity for
defense, n TO prove their strength.
II is for this reason that | attack them
wnere 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,
n that, therefore. they should not be
expected, In the first years of their
emancipation, to be up to competing
with men as bread.wlnners. That is
quite reasonable, and, therefore. I do
no 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 nut
the blame on some n 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 low of paradox, to champion
servants. A French writer has said.
so many servants, SO 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. lust
as servants put everything on the cat.
| accept the gage. For the purpose
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 t. ask the
woman in the box, who is giving evi.
dence for the defense, is:
Who engages the servants?"
hi answer is Il do" The witness,
be 1t understood, is speaking on be-
half OF women generally. The next
question is:
Who directs the servants?"
The answer Is the same, IL do"
Pursuing this line, l ask the mistress:
From whom do your servants learn
their business?"
From mel"
"And anything they don't know, I
may take it, is due to the fact that
former mistresses have not taught,
or have failed to teach, them?"
That is So"
Then, II the entire education, en-.
gaging, paying. managing and dis.
charging Of servants Is carried On by
women, and II the proportion of wom-
en- over men servants is very large,
the entire blame for the unsatisfac-
tory state of the servant question must
be due TO Women?'
The witness does not answer, and.
on being pressed, bursts into tears,
and finally says:
1T is all the fault of the men!"
Men, as a rule, have nothing to do
with servants, the larger proportion
OF servants are women, and, there
fore the faults of servants is only
another proof that women are incapa-
bic of managing another very large
section Of a necessity which should
go to make comfort and economy in
the home. But perhaps It Is not fair
to Judge entirely by majorities. Let
us look at the exception, which again
proves the rule. Bachelors keep their