Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-05-17
Cleveland on womsn's clubs.

Va eh0 ~ hAcoo oeoSOos hoo OIL akeioAo
on "Woman's Mission and Woman's
Clubs" in the ourrant number of the
Ladies' Home Journal. He says, in
part:
zone who can remember a mothers
love and mothers care in child
hood, or who has known in later days
the joys devoted wife brings to the
life of man, ought to be able to cal
culate upon general experience SO
largely tallying with his own that he
need not fear protest or dissent in
treating of the scope and character
of woman's mission. 1t is melan-
choly fact, however, that our subject
is actually one of difficult approach
and it is more melancholy fact that
this approach is made difficult by a
dislocation of ideas and by false per-
spectives on the part of women them
selves. To those of us who suffer
periods of social pessimism, but who,
in the midst of it all, cling to our
faith in the saving grace of simple
and unadulterated womanhood, any
discomfort on the part of wo-
man with her ordained lot, or a
restless desire on her part to be and
to do something not within the sphere
of erappointed ministrations, cannot
appear otherwise than as perversions
of gift of God to the human race.
"The restlessness and discomfort to
which have referred is most strong
ly manifested in movement which
has for e long time been on foot for
securing to women the right to vote
and otherwise participate in public
affairs. Let it here be distinctly
understood that no sensible man has
fears of injury to the country on
account of such participate, i. 1t is
its dangerous, undermining effect on
the characters of the wives and
mothers of our land that we fear.
This particular movement is 80 ag-
gressive, and so extreme in its in
sistence, that those whom it has fully
enlisted mey well be considered as
incorrigible. AT a very recent meet
ting of these radicals high
priestess of the faith declared mo
matter how bad the crime woman
commits, if she can't vote, and is
classed with idiots and criminals and
lunatics, she should not be punished
by be same laws as those who vote
obey This was said when advo-
eating united action on the part of
the assembled body to prevent the
execution of a woman proved guilty
of the deliberate and aggravated mur-
der of her husband. The speaker is
reported to have further announced
as apparently the keynote of her
address If we could vote we'd be
willing to be hanged 1t is thou
sand pities that all the wives found
in such company cannot sufficiently
open ther minds to see the complete
fitness of the homely definition which
describes good wife as "a woman
who loves her husband and her coun-
try, with no desire to run either; and
every mother, and every woman,
whether mother, wife, spinster or
maid, who either violently demands
or wildly desires for women greater
share in the direction of public
affairs, could realize the everlasting
truth that the hand that rocks the
cradle is the hand that rules the
world
"There is comfort in the reflection
that even though these extremists
may not be amenable to reformation,
there is fair prospect that their
manifest radicalism and their blunt
avowal of subverting purposes will
effectively warn against dangerous
ly wide acceptance of their theories.
"The real difficulty and delicacy of
our topic become most apparent when
we come to speak of the less virulent
and differently directed club move
ments that have crossed the even
tenor of the way of womanhood. l
do not include those movements
which amount to nothing more than