Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-02-02
WOMAN AS QUEEN IN
THE HOME.

tlkul In all the wOrlO imam WOmaus
presiding ia her home as queen.
In regards to Forestry or home
improvement, / think it is one OF
the grandest and noblest of all work
il brings our ladies' under so great
obligation Of beautifying their homes
which helps to make the city or
town in which she lives more beauti-
ful and attractive, which can be
done in few spare moments each
day will complete the cheerfulness
of the home. am glad to see so
great change for the better, and
that our wopcan has awakened to
realize the need of woman oppor-
tunity and influence among our
homes, hundred of things woman
can do for the improvement of our
homes, towns or cities, if we would
look back at what tai; world would
have been had not woman had the
power aud influence.
Our FIRST teacher of Divine ar
rapgement vas woman. Our first
Physician having graduated after a
regular Course of study from fe-
male college and our 6rst preachers
of the gospel was woman as they
have a pathes and power in her
religious utterance that woman can
reach. If more of our woman
realize the need of a queen in the
home, how much faster We would
rise as a nation and if our woman
would only awake to see the the
need of more homes, oar gentleman
would love and honor them mere as
queens.
1t is not the pretty face nor the
pretty form, fine clothes, nor wealth
that makes a queen, Its her power
and influence, woman learn to do
the work that the world must have
as long as the world stands, they
viii always want things to ware and
to eat shelter and knowledge for
the mind, religion for the soul and
this a woman can do.
Justice will come to woman, not
because of the weaker vessel, but
for her natural taste and grace of
manner and more of educated
adornment, give the woman chance
In her queenly position, it is no
small honor to be queen in such
realm as this, the home.
When you see woman with stout
faith in God, putting her foot on all
meaness and selfshness and cody
display going right forward to serve
Christ and uplifting the race by a
grand and glorius service, l say
that woman is a queen whether she
comes from the shanty or from the
mansion, greet her as queen.
The queens whom We should
honor to-day are the females of the
homes. O, the opportunity every
woman has of being queen, the
older grow the more l admire good
womanhood, and the interest she
has in lifting others as she climbs.
Think of the words that Tom
Hood wrote to his living wife when
he said l never was anything, till l
knew you, in the image of God
created male and female, man to
move in his sphere and woman in
hers, England and Scotland is no
more throughly marked than man
and woman SO enterly dis-similar
are the fields to which they was
called. ....-.
Albany and Washington might as
we'll decree by legislation how high
a brown thrasher should fly or how
deep trout should plunge, as to
try to seek out the heighth and
depth of a woman's duty, the ques-
tion of capacity will settle finally
the whole question, but shall show
you that the best rights that woman
can own she already has in her po-
session, t: at her position in this
country at this time is not one of
commemeration, but one of con-
graduation, that the grandeur and
power of her realm have never yet
been appreciated. She sits to day
on throne SO high, that all the
thrones Of earth piled on top of
each other would not make for her
q footstool.
One grand and all absorbing
right that every woman has and
that is to make home beautiful and
eheerful. It is within her power