Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-01-06
IAN APPEAL TO WOMEN. "
Her Importance is Growing,
and Newspapers as Well as
Other Businesses Must Look
to Her Likes and Dislikes.

Other Businesses Must Look
to Her Likes and Dislikes.
'An appeal to Cesar" has long
been an axiom, but the phrase in
these modern days needs revision.
"An appeal to women" would be
more directly in keeping with the
topic in hand. "The necessity of an
appeal to women" shows itself in so
many ways, that it is difficult to get
at the strongest aud most direct
method of emphasizing this state
ment as truth. Since the days of
Adam woman has been at the helm
of the worlds affairs, and at this
day of its history there appears to
be no sign of her Withdrawing in
favor of anybody else.
From the beginning woman has
done everything that man can do,
and whole lot he cannot do, thus
indicating plus amount of useful.
ness as general proposition. There
is not the slightest doubt of this. In
the Garden of Eden we find woman
taking the initiative by eating the
apple when Adam stood by wonder
ing what it all meant. He soon
found out, because from that mo.
ment began to live a word which up
to that time had not been known
competition. Eve then and there
became the worlds greatest factor
in making hustling necessity. But
for this incident there would have
been no cause for mixing things. A
Garden of Eden world would have
been a nondescript institution and
progress would have gone way back
to sit down. There would have
been Lo railroads, and advertising
would never have been born.
Brother George H. Daniels, of the
New York Central. would have had
no use for the Four Track News,
and the up-to-date grocer would have
been of little import. "Force" and
Quaker Oats" would have been un.
known quantities, and while sSunny
Jim" might have been a possible
product of the "Garden," "the
smile that won't come Off might as
we'll have been an idle dream"
And so woman, lovely woman, has
been at the head of the procession
for all time, and she is still setting
the pace in the time of Roosevelt
and Parker. She rules the house.
hould no less than she rules business
for what successful man of toda,
can lay claim to much importanc,
without being able to lay it all a
the door of some woman! Battles
are fought and wars waged in hel
name and for her sake. Joan Of
Arc led the armies of France to ,
mighty conquest, and Semiramis
astride the back of an elephant, lee
her armies to victory. Here W,
have two female Napoleons, Will,
American history has crowded int
its chapters the deeds of many
would-be female Washington. Th,
whole world is replete with example,
of woman's conquest. AS leader
of man, therefore, she stands with
out a peer-and most of the tim,
without a fear. In her presenc
man quails and stands from under
No man has ever equalled the in
genuity of woman. Place one O
her sex with a man alone in tn
Desert of Sahara, without wood an,
water, and while the man is still
looking around to get the sand on
of his eyes the woman. will hav
found the long sought Oasis an,
will have had the frying pan goin
while lazy man is still looking for
way out of his muddle. Using
popular quotation, the position VIC
man occupies is like this:
"Oh, woman, in our hours of ease.
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please;
When pain and anguish wiring the brow
We first endure, then pity-then en-
brace"
| And 80 all through the chapter O
mans checkered career.
Nothing gets nearer a woman
heart than cleanness. One may pic
out the lowest type of the sex, an,
she is moved by cleanness, no matte
under what form she encounters il
Her nature is against dirt as a whole
and she shrinks before it as ripene,
grain before the wind storm. Nothin,
illumines her soul and lifts her on
of the slough of despond as much a
cleanness. But for woman ther