Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-09-19
A Woman's View.


too chrivalous and gallant to do such
thing. In the second place, it would |
not be safe for us to do it. This con-
sideration is incidental, but by no |
means to be disregarded. In the third |
place, is is not necessary; for women |
can always be depended upon to say of |
one another and of their sex generally |
all that needs to be said
Mrs. Anna A. Rogers in the Septem-
Der Atlantic discusses the question,
"Why American Marriages FAIL" and
boldly charges her own sex with large
share of responsibility for the growing
prevalence of the divorce evil. Mrs.
Rogers, it may be said in passing, re-
fuses to take the view that divorce is
not an evil, but only an attempt to
remedy an evil. Divorce is an evil,
just astoo ready resort to the surgeons
knife and saw is an evil. "Gentler
remedies" says Mrs. Rogers, dietary
measures, the daily regime of more in
telligent living, have been known to
spare more than one patient the hor-
rors of the operating table. In fact is
not prevention the only genuine mod
| ern miracle?'
In the bill of charges, which Mrs.
Rogers brings against her own sex she
specifies: "G) Woman's failure to
realize that marriage is her work in the
world. (2) Her growing individual
ism. (3) Her lost art of giving, re-
placed by highly developed receptive
faculty."
First: Marriage it woman's work
in the world-not mans. From what
ever point it is viewed, physical or
spiritual, as a question of civic polity
or a question of individual ethics, it is
her specific share in the worlds work
first, last, and always; allotted to her
by laws far stronger than she is. And
the woman who fails to recognize it
has the germ of divorce in her veins at
the outset. Why should she
not be taught the plain fact that no
other work really important to the
world has ever been done by a woman
since "the morning of the world?"
Only as a woman, with all that that en-
tails upon her, is she alone, pre-emin-
ent, unapproachable. And yet appar-
entity her whole energy is to-day bent
upon dethroning herself"
Mrs. Rogers sees in the growing in
dividualism of the American woman
only another name for the worship of
Self "She has not merged her fate
with her husbands if married, nor
with her fathers, if not; she does not
properly supplement their lives, she
is striving for detached profitless in
/ dividuality."
, We shall quote but one pore para
: graph.from this thoughtful and timely
article. Upon her third point Mrs.
: Rogers says: 'Tn India an affection
which asks for an equal, return so many
heart.beats for like number, is called
'shop-keeping" Among us Wertern
t ers this Eastern exalted faculty of Civ
$ ing affection, and not looking for ar
9 equal exchange of commodities, has
degeneratedi into a soft of passion fol
sentimental bargains! Unfortunately
3. there are no genuine psychic bargains
g thrown out on life's counter. Th'
8 really good spiritual things cost the
: most do, as the material things. Success
d in any undertaking, even marriage, il
g always both shy and obstinate, ant
/ hides behind quite thorny hedge o
persistence, hard work, unseishness
y and above all, patience, quality nov
y gone out of fashion, which made ou
y grandmothers civilizing centers O
y peace and harmony; for they were con
y tent to use slow curative measures tt
y mend their matrimonial ailments, ant
y the "knife" was looked upon wit
y horror. One finds so often in tn
women of that generation strang
It quiet as of wisdom long digested;
deep abiding strength, an aloofness O
e personality that makes for dignity
e sweet old faces that bear the marks O
h 'rlove's grandeur" What is there to
N day in all this fret and fuss and fury @
8, feminine living, that compares will
u the power for good of those wonderful
a old women, fast disappearing"
d To check cold quickly, get fror
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