The Globe-republican., 1904-01-28

the lines OF my predecessors would,
to my mind, have been to prove my
own weakness, for we cannot change
q woman's nature any more than we
can mans, and, therefore, to attack
women because they are tickle or
vain-glorious 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 it Is as natural to me
to be fond Of women as 1t 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
1t 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 breadwinners 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 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, 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, just
as servants put everything on the cat
I 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 evil
dence for the defense, Isl
who engages the seryants?"
i. The answer is 81 do" The witness
be 1t understood is speaking on be-
, half of women generally The next
{ question is:
9 "Who directs the servants?"
[ The answer is the same, II do
A Pursuing this line, ask the mistress
{ From whom do your servants learr
their business"
a "From mel"
|
r "And anything they don't know,
a may take it, is due to the fact tina
q former mistresses have not taught
6 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 b,
: women, and if the proportion of won
u en- over men servants is very large
u the entire blame for the unsatisfat
~, H. tory state Of the servant question mus
be due to women?'
The witness does not answer, ant
10 on being pressed. bursts into tears
u and finally says;
lie at is all the fault of the men,
IL Men, as a rule, have nothing to d
" with servants, the larger proportlo
Is of servants are women, and, ther'
n fore the faults of servants is onl
lie another proof that women are incap'
If ble of managing another very lars
OF section of a necessity which Shout
H. 60 to make comfort and economy
he tho home. But perhaps 1t is not ia
of to Judge entirely by majorities. Ii
10. us look at the exception, which agal
proves the rule. Bachelors keep the
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