The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-01
wOMAN's GRAND POWER.

The power for good by woman or
in woman that can be utilized by men,
from the strictly practical viewpoint,
Is but little understood by men as a
class. Even the women, In the ma
jority of instances, do not take in the
full sccDe Of their own possibilities,
and in saying that no reflection Is put
upon woman.
Rather is it a reflection upon mans
blindness.
That Is because men. as q class, do
not see possibilities.
They do not know how to direct
woman's attention to their own aid.
Business affairs are here alluded
to. Men, not having woman's power
of insight. do not see or understand
1t. That Is. most men.
Therefore, in consulting their wives,
aaughters, sisters, mothers or aunts,
they think themselves knowing it all,
and the women. comparative ignor-
amuses, in practical matters, SO do
nothing to direct woman's attention
into the field which nest occupies
their attention.
is the case of the man and wife who
qualities Of radium.
In this case the wife. by the French
government. is classed as an equal
of her distinguished husband in the
greatest scientific discovery of the
day.
So can it be with every man, If h.
has the comprehension to see it.
He can, if he SO Wills, direct wo-
mans attention to any practical or
business field and ask her knowledge
of what he is unable to see for him.
SELL.
In so doing, in nine times out of
ten. and in the tenth, too. if such wo-
man has not been oppressed or sup
pressed by previous acts of men. him.
self or others, she will quickly show
him and give him to understand things
in the line he directs her attention to
which before then he had no knowl-
edge of.
The point is this: Women are diff
ferently constituted from men, but
have a power within themselves to
do, to see, to comprehend, or to ex-
plain things man in his constitutional
makeup does not. and in the nature
of things. cannot understand until
woman enlightens him.
Nor for expert uses, or professional
uses, or for collegiate practices, is a
woman required to be a mastership
of learning, so called, in order to pro-
duce such results in the best prac-
teal form.
All man has to do is to take a
strictly uneducated girl, marry her,
to gain her complete confidence, then
ask her gently and lovingly to look
with him into any business problem
he has in mind for their mutual bene-
fit.
Give her little time to think, and
collect her undeveloped talents, and
insight or instinct, call 1t what you
like. Don't hurry her, give her days,
or weeks, if necessary, and she may,
and under favorable conditions will,
startle you with her practical thought
and knowledge.
knowledge which she will tell you,
if You are honest with her, that she
does not fully or clearly understand,
but which you instantly see is of the
utmost cash value to you.
Men-we address all men-few
among you have any idea of the mint
within your reach If you rightly and
honestly use the power of woman, by
directing her attention into practical
fields. patiently, and gently, with no
thought of hurrying her or neglecting
her after she has fulfilled your re-
quirement.
Try it! Try it, gentlemen. Don't
attempt it in any other light. You will
be astonished at the undreamed-of re.
sources within your reach.
Woman has a mountain of insight
into things, and without any school
or college education or training to
incite 1t. If you but know how to treat
her kindly and protectingly.
Don't for the life of you think that
woman's power is confined to the rails
ing of family.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Alec Jones' Waist Measure.