The Cairo bulletin., 1907-04-03
SHE CHANGED
HER VIEWS
Tic c..e o NM. Euphemia sellox.

l
| but 1t Is quite probable that your wife
will. IL she belongs to a womans club
or society of any sort, or even II she
was reader of the Woman five or six
years ago The Woman Is a publlca-
| ton devoted to fashions, fiction. house
hold science, uplift and problems Of
social etiquette. and Miss Sellox.
strangely enough, contributed TO the
uplift department Strangely, because
| her articles mainly threw the hooks,
TO use flguratiye expression, into the
tyrant man and dragged him from the
| pedestal upon which he had been per-
| mitted to pose for ages by reason of
the blindness. friyolity and slavish-
ness of the other sex. She also lee
tured and her iconoclastic eloquence
is said to have been largely instru-
mental in securing the suffrage for the
women OF Wyoming. From which You
will gather that Miss Sellox was not
any spring chicken. She was not,
That is, she had not been for some
time
" but hardly good-looking one, ac-
cordlng to common standards Of
beauty, She was tall, but not divinely
Sc fair, but with the fairness asso-
ciated with freckles. Her eyes We're
blue and her hair golden. but the blue
ness had steely quality, emphasized
by eyeglasses, and the gold was pale
and lusterless and there wasn't any
too much of 1t.
Lords of creation" she would OBJ
serve. with bitter sarcasm. let lis
examine this lordly creature, ladies'
So far as our limited minds will on
able us, let us analyze him and find
reason If we can for his supremacy
1t is treason, of course, but suppose
we be little reasonable, for
change. Do we find the reasons in his
superiority Of intellect? Let the
names of women illustrious in science
in the arts, in all fields of intellectual
endeavor, answer that question We
are told that these are exceptional
70 certain extent that is true, but
they are numerous enough 10 demon
stfate what a woman can achieve
when she bursts through the trammels
with which the selfshness of man has
bound her, and as our liberty is ex-
tended, as We emancipate ourselves
from our thraldom, more and more we
gain eminence in the professions We
have adopted Examine the statistics
OF cocducational institutions.
If We are not inferior Intellectual
~, are we SO morally? With all his
pretension, man has not dared to as
sert this. Then We are physically in
ferior That is TO say, we have less of
mere brute strength, of muscle and
sinew. Therefore, says generous,
abiect subsection. caressed or abused
according TO his Withstand general
ly abused. Dolls, toys, creatures with
out souls almost. Wives, obey your
husbands Why? Because they are
able to knock you down with blow OF
their fist if you don't.
we are vain. but is our vanity to
be compared with the vanity Of man?
DO we not all of us know that weak
ness of his, my sisters. and in our
weakness take advantage of that
knowledge? We are vain and we love
to talk Merciful goodness! If our
loquacity approached that of these
lords of creation we should indeed
have cause to blush with shame
"Marriage slavery-that is what
marriage means TO woman. Affect
slavery. You married women toll day
and night, year after year, drudging at
mental tasks till your limbs will hardly
support you and your nerves are worn
to a thread with the trivial cases OF
the household. Yes, your sphere is
the home. Darn your husbands socks.
cook his dinners, rear his children,
make your own dresses, wear your
year-before-last hats and be happy and
contented. Why on earth do you do
it? Is it an unreasonable question:
A misogamist by conviction. a man
hater, it seemed by instinct, Miss
Sellox never missed an opportunity OF
expressing herself either by tongue or
pen on the subject of womans serT-
tude.
She had a hard time Of 1t, naturally.
The profession of emancipation is not
a paying one from a pecuniary point
OF view. She went here and there
over the land. attending conventions.
lecturing, organizing and what not, rid
ing in stuffy day coaches. staying at
third-rate hotels, patronized, ridiculed.
abused. applauded in turn, and with
no prospect of anything else before
her in life. Not that she would have
asked for anything more.
Then a rich relative happened to
die and left her a pretty good thump-
ing legacy.
Within a month after that her views
became radically changed. She grew
tolerant Of the monster man. A month
later she married him.
II you ask for the reason, can only
| reply that il was a very good and sui
fcient one. l don't know what the
mans motives were. He may not have
been mercenary. AS l have said. Miss
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