Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-08-18

TO protest against mea and things.
against the gods and against the world.
For the optimist, ON the contrary. this
pl2iIt is always the germ of the coming
progress it is hope, it is faith that to-
morrow viii be better than today. For
myself, having been born and lived an
optlmlst, l am with the latter.
Plato, who judged men and women as
equals, thanked the gods for favors re-
ceiyed. The first was that he had been
born free and rot a slave. the second
was that he had been born man and
not woman. To-day still. after so many
centuries nave passed. after cycle of
civilization in the howell as well as the
palace, from the hearts Of unhappy
creatures comes the cry of despair:
" ny was | born a woman
How attain the ideal of the happy
woman: Certainly not by sarcasm nor
by cynlcism nor by pertaining the chains
when Tor centuries have made slaves Of
our gentle companions. Mira beau. with
ms cold and cruel irony, affirmed that
IL Is we who make women what they
are, and that it is why they are worth
nothing. We ought to interpret the
problem OF woman, with a full acuuaint
ahGe OF its cause, by a calm and Impair
llal study OF its nature. All counsel. all
reform, based upon adulation of this
III the division of the worlds evils
ana DEMENT'S man has left TO the woman
zoo many Ills and conceded her too few
advantages. The greatest Intelligence
Oh the world oftenest loved beautiful
women rather than those who were hon
est and cultivated. One of the PRINCIPAL
reasons for this injustice of genius to-
ware Womanlike has come from the fact
Ihat their virility gave them love of
power ana the more powerful he was
me more weakness in Intelligence and
muscle he wanted in a woman. An
olher reason was that superior men have
TOO often had too little time for a close
acquaintance with the finest types of
women and knew only domestics and in
Terror characters. How MANY great
men after having fought TO flee mar
rage as slavery aud an obstacle to
Their work, have fallen into vulgar
Wed'9ck where their wife was only
female.
The woman Of the future. in order to
attain perfection, should improve physi-
caly, morally, and intellectually. These
are the three advcrbS which represent
the great human trinity, three gods of
the soul, the god of felicity. which is it
self the result of the perfect equilibrium
OF all our energies. Woman has always
been and always will be powerful, even
dH-poNerIul, ny Hef beauty, ana we can
not dethr0ne her nor make her walk in
new ways, only we ought to develop her
beauty by adding to her corporal beau
ties those of the heart and thought.
Physically the woman of the future
should be neither feeble nor neurotic. 4
wise, hygiene regime should render her
graceful without enfeebling her. should
give her agility without transforming
her into sportswoman. Morally the
woman of the future should surpass the
woman of today. as she now SURPRISES
the slave or savage. She should choose
her spouse with science and conscience
because she will not approach the altar
with eyes bandaged by ignorance and
hypocrisy. In marriage she should have
equality of rights, equality of duties.
The character of woman will he bet
tered not in making it virile, hut in max
ing it more esthetically feminine. Her
inclination to do good will not take the
form of an innocent compassion for the
griets Of others, but it will transform
itself into an ardent wise philanthropy.
intellectually she will be able to cry
with Just pride, 81 am sufficient unto
myself. She will not be the equal of
man: She will be more feminine than
ever. because she will have reinforced
her femininity.-Prof. Paolo Mantle
c;lzza, in The Pilgrim.