The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-10-04
SHE CHANGED
HER VIEWS
The Case Of Miss Eupheuaia scllox

pHeIlld SGllOA.
You may not remember the name,
but 1t is quite probable that your wife
will, If she belongs to a womans club
or society Of any sort, or even if she
years ago. The Woman is publica.
ton devoted to fashions, fiction, house
hold science, upliA and problems of
social etiquette, and Miss Sellox,
strangely enough, contributed to the
upllft department. Strangely, because
her articles mainly threw the hooks"
to use figurative 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, frivolity and slavish-
ness of the other sex. She also lee
tured and her ioonoclastic aoquence
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
She was a good woman, undoubted-
ly, but hardly good-looking one, ac-
cording to common standards of
beauty. She was tall, but not divinely
so; fair, but with the fairness asso-
ciated with freckles. Her eyes were
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 it.
Lords of creation!" she would OBJ
serve, with bitter sarcasm. Let us
examine this lordly creature, ladies.
So far as our limited minds will en-
able us, let us analyze him and find a
reason If we can for his supremacy.
1t Is treason, of course, but suppose
we be little reasonable, for a
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
To certain extent that is true, but
they are numerous enough to demon
strate what a woman can achieve
when she bursts through the trammels
with which the selishness 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 eoeducational 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,
chivalrous man, we must be kept in
AFFECT 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.
1--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 has dinners, rear his children,
make your own dresses, wear your
hats and be happy and
contented. Why on earth do you do
It? Is it an unreasonable question ?"
A misogamist by conviction, man
later, 1t seemed by instinct, Miss
5ellox never missed an opportunity of
expressing herself either by tongue or
pen on the subject of woman's servi-
,ude.
She had hard time Of it, naturally
The profession of emancipator is not
/ paying one from a .pecuniary point
" view She went here and there
,ver the land, attending conventions,
occurring, organizing and what not, rid
ng in stuffy day coaches, staying at
hird-rate hotels, patronized, ridiculed,
Lbused, applauded in turn, and with
10 prospect of anything else before
Ter In life. Not that she would have
.sked for anything more.
Then rich relative happened to
lie and left her a pretty good thump-
ng legacy.
Within month after that her viaws |