St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-07-06
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.l

(Miss Susa Young Gates, daughter of
Brigham Young. is one of the leading
women of the west and is widely known
as writer and lecturer. She has had
prominent part in the work of the inter-
national Council of Women. For years
she was the editor and publisher of the
Young Womens Journal of Salt Lake
City She is a trustee of Brigham Young
university, and for a long period was a
member of it's faculty. She is also
member of the board of the Utah State
Agricultural college. Her fiftieth birth
day was recently celebrated by great
gathering of leading citizens of Utah)
It is impossible that any intelligent
person should be ignorant of the fact
that women of all classes and in every
civilized country have become force
in the history of nations.
The most progressive are wide
awake to the tremendous possibilities
for themselves as sex and as indi-
viduals. But this is not all. Women
of every class and color are rubbing
the sleep out of their eyes and try
ing to catch a hint of the glorious
color scheme which paints the dawn
of this new era for womanhood.
To know how the cultured women
of the world are interesting them
selves in humanitarian development,
one must ask each country of Eu
rope the separate question, while the
United States has an answer peculiar
to itself and it's conditions
In the United States the intellectual
rI11n
among the professional classes than
among the wealthy and social SETS
For the strong and intellectual found
ers of this nation left to their de-
scendants little besides the rich in
heritance of energy. integrity, and a
love for the beautiful. The daugh-
tiers and the granddaughters of
these great parents have reached out
into professional life with the pur-
| pose not only of getting money with
which to cultivate their native gifts,
but as well to make their lives of serv-
ice to humanity. True, many of these
energetic mental pioneers have mar
ried into wealth, and their daughters
are now certain Of the ultracuitured
minority.
When so years ago the American
woman discovered herself, she first
came out so strongly on political and
other unpopular questions that she an
tagonized almost everybody. Then,
as she advanced in her methods of
| preparing the fruit of the tree of
knowledge appetizingly, the more
courageous among her sex advanced
to meet her and dared the terrible op-
probrium of "ceruiean hose" and
strong minds" At length even the
society woman felt the thrill of life
pulsating deliciously along her blase
nerves, and she said: 81 will awake
and arise and put on some mental
garments of my own; not the bloom.
ers nor waistless sacking of my sis.
tiers in the reform movement, but q
dashing, purple lined eiderdown
trimmed royal robe of knowledge
which shall emanate culture as san
dalwood perfumes closed box
All this was to be achieved by the
society lady with the greatest expend
iture of money and the least outlay
of mental effort. Hence arose cir
cles, societies and clubs, which ven
tured out upon the sea of knowledge
in silken barges, touching at every
known port between Egyptian prehis
toric culture and the folk songs Of
the negro. The result for the glaG
voyageurs was delightfully."- incon
gruous collection of mental curios
from every nation and cult
On the other hand, the professional