Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-08
Feminine
Snapshots
Increasing Political Actiy.
ity of Women.

II mat person WOuIu De very Dllnu
i old fogy indeed who failed to recognize
\ that full political rights for all women
I in America are not far off. Never since
4 1 can remember have women been so
( actively engaged in political work as
; during the campaign this autumn in
nearly every state in the Union. In the
large cities feminine politics has been
/ red hot, usually on the side of clean
! government, it is only just TO say. In
Philadelphia there was actually a wom-
ans official committee attached TO one
/ of the parties. The women of this com
mittee and their representatives made
house TO house canvass among
doubtful and illiterate" voters and
| eloquently impressed their principles
Oh these. The ladies displayed the par
! ~ flag from the windows of their
! homes, and they held parlor meetings 10
! which speakers and voters were invit-
ed. In New York not only the organ
lied feminine political workers were
busy as bees, but there We're morgan
lied ones who did something for their
candidates on their own account Mrs.
Nelma SwanstOn Howard, refined.
cultured woman of Swedish birth, went
around among the voters of that ma
tionahty giving information. persuad-
ing and distributing literature. with the
result that she gained not only votes
for her candidate, but money for his
campaign fund. which last she had not
at all asked for. Each year more and
more women campaign speakers are
employed by political parties, and some
of them are we'll paid for their elo
quence. Women may collect campaign
funds, distribute literature, hold meet
ings, gain thousands of votes for the
men candidates and yet-the doubled
and twisted. crisscrossed incongruity
of it.-nOt one of these influential woIn-
en- herself has vote, When since the
world began was there ever such
situation before?
If every woman were brought up to
trade or profession. no matter how
rich she might he prOspectively: if ev-
cry woman We're taught that il is II dis
grace to hang dependent on man rel
ative by marriage or otherwise. there
would not be so many old women
slumping down for support ON their
daughters generally grudging hus-
bands; there would not be SO many
RraDdmOthers shaving for their thank
less grandchildren i'll nurseries and
back kitchens: there would not be one
quarter so many useless and unwel-
come women seeking refuge III old
women's homes-that last resort for
feminine improvidence and ineffciency.
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Men universally cOmplain-poor in
nocent things-how the women chase
them up, determined TO marry them
whether they will or not. Well, the
way to stop this ferOcious and terrible
man hunt is for men themselves to en-
courage by all means in their power
the entering of woman into trades and
professions in which she may earn her
own living independently. Then well
see,
An English woman writer says that
the ordinary mother love for "a WON
ans own offspring instead OF being
sacred and holy is in reality a mar
row, selfish, morbid animal instinct.
Mother love takes i'll all Gods children,
else ii is no true mother love at all,
only the animal instinct abnormally
developed.
At Moscow, Russia. during one of :
the fiercest encounters between Cos
sacks and strikers. the strikers. on
whom the soldiers were in the act OF
charging showed signs of breaking and
Tetreating. At that moment n young
girl with loose. flying hair ran in front
of them just where the COssack horses
would trample her and fell upon her
knees, face toward the strikers. She
cried out passiOnately to them not II
flee, but 10 stand and fight for human
liberty in Russia. Immediately the
wavering ranks reformed, and the de-
voted strikers stood solid, waiting the
onslaught OF the Cossacks with their
sabers and whips. Seeing this the
commanding officer OF the troops, I'M
willing to be responsible for so much
slaughter, withdrew his men. Then the
strikers raised the heroic girl upon
their shoulders and went through the
streets singing the "Marseillaise."
Is there any such creature as a fe-
male angel? Ecclesiastical authorities
say no; the human heart and soul eX-
claim yes a thousand times. In NOR
tai life. the only one we know positive
" about. which sex possesses the more
angelic qualities?
Miss Annie Davis. a college settle
ment worker. who is TO Philadelphia
of what Jane Adams is TO
Chicago. was in charge of the Phila-
delphia Women's City party during the
campaign which resulted in victory for
their side.
OF love and lovers and marriage
Mona Card says, 1t is clear that ali
trace and vestige OF the master and