The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-23

stage She is in fact the villain OF the piece
and apparently is found to be the most interest
ing topic OF discussion in all parts OF the world
But while a vertable babel of tongues wag at
her. and by turns tell her that she is thrftless,
neurotic the destroyer OF home lie, Indifferent
to the joys of maternity, the mother of degene-
rate offspring, pleasure loving, indispensable to
mans happiness, and few other things, there
has come to her the great that she is
slowly but surely supplanting Man, and that
time is not far distant when she will reign alone.
Man, like the Boojum, is softly, il not silent
", fading away. One hesitates to say that he
may one day be as extinct the Dodo, but at
all events we are told that he viii be literally no.
where as compared with the woman of the fu-
ture And now, one asks oneself, ought women
to feel eatcd or depressed at the news? The
prospect over which they first glance is GER
tainly pleasing. Woman herself II majestic
figure, ruling in all fields OF labor, while man,
hitherto her master and alleged superior, is
forced to do her bidding. He will be an in
significant creature both physically and mentally;
he may not even be needed, ii radiobes and other
scientific experiments now in progress come to
anything in the scheme of creation.
In point of fact it seems more than likely
that he will be altogether superflous But, of
course, there is another side to the picture Will
woman be content to rule by herselfg Where
will her triumph in? Ii there is no man
10 reduce to subjection, what will be the use
of her having it all her own way? 1t is very
clear that if all the sociologists' and biolorists'
predictions come true the whole plan OF social
existence will have to be altered IN the coming
by and by
Men will no longer have a marketable value.
They will do as they arc told, they will ~
course have no choice in the selection of wives.
they will be no longer indispensable to the suc.
cess OF dances, nobody, in short, will botbsr
about them. At least the socioogists Tell
us. We are inclined to think otherwise. The
world has been going for great number
of centuries now, and far as can be ascer-
tanned there is not very much difference after
all between the men and women of today and
those, let us say, OF the time OF Antony and
Cleopatra.
II NAV be true that unwcd women preponderato
in the suburbs, that seven per cent more girl
babies than boy babies born every year that
more women earning their Hving-that is
getting separate incomes-than heretofore, but
oll the same, somehow or other. we fancy man
will hold his ground, even if we have to resort
TO the Chinese method Of dealing with the super.
huous girl,
Woman would never be happy alone, She
needs man 10 grumbe at, she wants him as a
competitor, she must have him to conquer, and
she will not suffer him to become extinct, She
NAV, if she deserves to, get moro concessions as
time goes on. She may stand as his ooual but
she could no more triumph alone than a single
girl could flock together Lord Dundreary
pointed out. If she is TO reign she will want
a good supply of male subjects and when, il
ever, man is no longer available, then woman
will cease to want power,