The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-13

BY ALICE HUBBARD.

For the beautiful women whose
only bank balance Is beauty we must
have compassion. Their attractive
ness is their sole legal tender, and
they often cultivate II at the expense
of the development OF brain and
body.
The tabled Syrens OF old were rep
resented as women who lured men
upon the rocks of death. And these
women spent their time, when no
sail was in sight, in efforts to enhance
their beauty, to cultivate charms and
In planning campaigns.
This legend is founded on very
stern fact--women of power who do
no useful work, who are made exempt
from honest effort, either by choice or
circumstance, must and will find
some way to give expression to their
energy, and they use the means at
hand. They use the only ones they
have been taught to use, or, in de-
gree, allowed to become familiar
with. So, instead of helping to build
industries, to bless the world, to help
guide the ship of state, many beauti-
full women are composing syren songs
and playing at life on the fatal rocks,
singing their Lorelei where the waves
toss at their feet the bones of their
victimed dead.
Beauty as business is bad habit.
More than a century ago Mary
Wollstonecraft lifted up her voice in
a cry of agony for such sacrifice of
women and men to cease, and she
herself died martyr to this cause.
The remedy she pointed out. And
the only remedy known was to make
women economically independent, to
give them work, side by side with
men, make them equal burden-bear-
ers with them-politically, physical
ly, morally, spiritually free.
1t was the voice of one heard in
the wilderness and her Rights OF
Women" shows a world yet untried
| but one of which we are dreaming
dreams.
Our own Susan B. Anthony died
with the goal of her life's efforts still
in the distance, and the cry upon heI
lips was the regret that she must &c
out from this life without seeing the
political freedom of her sex. "Let nc
part for the enfranchisement OF
women, were her dying words.
Across the sea Mrs. Cobden-San'
derson, true daughter of a great
man who gave his life to freedom
with score of other women, has re
Gently spent four weeks in jail. AND
the crime charged against these WON
en- was that they had asked to have
recorded their wishes on certain sub
jects in which they were personally
interested, matters that affected then
individually. They simply made the
request as men do, ard for the same
reason-they asked for franchise
rights.
And these are noble women whC
sing no syren songs, whose hearts ant
lives are consecrated to the cause o
the development of the highest ant
best in humanity.
A principal of a large norma
school was once speaking of youni
and very promising girl. We wer
adding to her work responsibility
upon responsibility because she hat
power, and we knew it needed eX
preston. The principal agreed wit
us that the girl was extraordinary
but, he said, ut is of no use; sh
will never accomplish anything, 70
she is endowered with Sle fatal gil
of beauty"
But beauty, like ancestry, become
fatal only when 1t is considered c
value by itself.
Nothing IS OF worth over nigh
Our efforts, our energies. our love
our hope, our JOY, must be new ever
morning and fresh every evening @
we die. Tomorrow never comes.
] The now is our only possession.
Beauty of face and form are acc
dents for which we have no credit
the bank of immortality. No chec
of ours will be honored except tn
voucher of ability and capability fo
! useful effort, of right intent-th
, beauty of soul and strength of min
which we ourselves, in large degree
can create and control.-From tn
Philistine.