The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-08-11
BOSTON TRAVELLER ANSWERED
An Aberdeen Lady Tells Why
Women Frequent Murder
Trials

duy WOIllIu lOE IllOTS
onah nVe minutes at a time" and
we humbly confess ourselves unable
10 comprehend why many apparently
respectable women haunt the conrt
rooms during sensational murder
trials.
we must give it up; speculation is
worse than idle. We are perplexed
before the profound mystery. will
hoC some clever interpretive woman
ne good enough to enlighten us?-Bos-
ton Traveller.
Inc average respectable woman of
today who is found in the court room
curing a SENSATIONAL murder trial is
drawn there by the demands of life
ah absolute necessity to possess prac-
C'cal knowledge on all subjects. Is
not that the mascot, rather than NOR
old curiosity, that brings all right.
thinking and right feeling men into
such places?
we have the woman-journalist. the
woman-lawyer, the woman-doctor.
Ihe woman-politiclan, and if need be.
o'ie Woman-Warrior. OF course, not
so many as today, but history proves
that we have always had them.
The Boston Traveller" no doubt
ciasslfles such as new women" but
we read in the early history of tile
christian church that Anna prophesi-
ed (preached) in the temple. If we
turn to the history of Greece, we find
that some of her most skillful physi-
clans were women. No one questions
the story of Joan dare, and if neces-
silly required it today. there might
be many women who could prove to
the world their ability to master mill
tary tactics.
1t is almost too absurd for comment
to classify idlers as ''new women"
From time immemorial, the slattern,
the shrew, and the destroyer of mems
happiness have been the product of
no one epoch. If it were not the
case, would the doughty and wise old
King Solomon have recorded his in
structions for posterity? 1.-THE Bos-
ton Traveller" might become enlight-
ened on the woman question by read
ing the Book of Proverbs. 1t is the
graphical portrayal of humanity that
gives to the Bible it's greatest value.
The married woman ''emancipated
from household duties and babies"
simply belongs to that unfortunately
too numerous class who marry to es-
cape being ''old maids" They gen.
orally possess the brains of a jack
rabbit which they use only to dodge
the responsibilities of life. Such wo-
men always have been, and no doubt
always will be. Their chief mission
seems to be to hOodwink a man into
the belief that he is honored, when
they bear his name and spend his
money.
But after all is said, we know that
it is only the exceptional woman who
elects ''to go down into the market
place." There are male birds that
cit on the nest, while the female flies
forth to provide for the young, but
that is not the natural order of life
among birds.
There are women whom nature
seems to have qualified to enter the
arena with men. They delight in a
public career; to restrict their oppor-
tunties for development would be to
cripple their usefulness, and deprive
the world of their talents.
In the natural order of things, how
ever, woman does not seek to do
mans work. She has proven that she
"a do it, but she is willing to con-
cede that the elements of force-the
pillow and the anvil; the professions
the pulpit and the rostrum-are en-
inently mans %preogatives and do
main, and when she invadeS them, it
is because she has been dashed to it,
by necessfty's goad.
AS to social standards, are they not,
in the MAN,, as they affect the ques-
tion at stake, what they always have
been? Do not all truly refined, de-
cent people brand as more or less de-
PRAYED anyOne-man or woman-who
delights in the repulsive? Was there
ever an age when intelligent mothers
and teachers more thoroughly value
the Importance of appealing to the
child's imagination by means of the
highest and most chaste ideals?
mink of all the books that are writ
ten on kindness to animals, the efforts
that are exerted everywhere-and
largely by women-to develop cor
rect thinking among the young n
who a say or imply that the great
latitude given women Of the present
age has resulted in degeneration?
"There is a prurience in the minds OF
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