The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-07-13

that she begins 70 think that when
she was sent into the world, 70 WORK
was to be her highest occupation.
II is not true. There Is not noer
in her body nor an impulse IN ner
nature which does not show ina. Inc
real primary business In me - " ~
a home-maker, the comrade Oh ma"
and the mother of his children.
God in His wisdom may have oeniea
her that highest and best WORK. ou.
whatever else she may DO she
in her heart that it Is the higness snu
the best.
.soutbern woman" the other Cay
rated her sisters Of the south sharp,
because they took 1t Tor grantso 'na.
No woman is a wage-earner except
from necessity and that when the ne
| cessity is removed she would giaoiy
return to her old vocation-tnat VI
the lily Of the field"
And why not?
The vocation of the lily Of the held
lis to be fair and sweet. to make ono
little place on Gods earth orisnee'
and filter for His sight and 10 repro
duce its kind to do tho same WORK
when it is dead.
The woman who makes her nome .
center of help and inteliigence anu
high endeavor, who brings forth cnif
dren and fits them in that home ior
their future life, has done enousn'
She does not need to earn sineie
dollar in any way to justify her right
to live.
As for the woman who voluntarily
gives up her birthright-to keep
house and be a joyful mother OF chill
ren''-in order that she may busy ner-
self with public work, she Is preciseiy
;. in the position of that mad English
!, peer of whom we all read rev yea,
= apo who turned his back on his pirtn-
= rieht-castles, title and revenues-in
= order that he might tramp on tne
high road grinding a hand-organ loi
= dancing monkey. =
= She is choosing the meaner part II
= her ambition to exploit herself Dc
~ fore the public. No club work Is al
8 honorable or helpful as gentiewom
ans MANAGEMENT Of her home ana Fam
su ;lv. nothing that her talents enaoi
w her TO give to the world-wnetne
hook mr. statue or lecture-wili eve
be as important or powerful an innu
Ter euce in it as a living child
q This is not a pleasant subject o.
he when we read that the births OF chi
M dren OF. native American parents nay
he fallen OF one-half In certain mortimer
an. states in the last two decades, II sur
Id. w ia worth our consideration. AS mt
90 the native American 10 wnoi
My some good bit of that human SUI
She which makes up humanity. The wol
y. seems to need him just now.
nen ia not to be born into It, ! dou
les whether the books or charitable wo
ave given to 1t by childless American Wo
less en- will All his place.
de- There is one pleasant fact, howev
of which cheers and comforts us IN :
ndi- these doubts and dangers That
nus that the large majority of Amerie
women have kept their footing q
that ing all the struggles OF their sex sil
as the close of the civil war. They III
This earned money when 1t was necess'
, Of to do it. but they have not RAJ
ner- money-earning to the highest pl
ON among the achievements OF life. II
,low have been shrewd, amused listeners
,ade the feminine wrangles IN CLUBS
in newsnapers. but are themselves uss
" silent and unpublished. occasi
too. ally they have exerted the power
nent dumb resistance with most salut
fec erect. as when for several deca
ex- they have silently refused to claim
men right of suffrage.
> as They are best known by what
do not do. They prefer to i've
homes. not in boarding houses and
th,s tells They are not childless mott
dern nor divorced wives .ta,-
not higher code OF truth to teach tneir
mot tie ones than that which Jesus bro'
one, tn the world. They do not replac
that bv the sharp worldly wisdom OF
,oted fucius or the vague year1fngs
ruh- buddhism. They answer all
ments by the question: who has
n,cw man sosfar upward as Christi an
out: on quietly teacnlne 'ne"
Not Sermon on the Mount.
male You call them oiu -
commonplace, perhaps. But they
lat. eminentIy sane. One of the stror
!, the -oofs of their sanity is that the,
~ on content to be women and not
! HE tators OF men and that they still
IN their lives that charm OF mo-
2 the and aloofness which the noisy m
Cd TO ity of our women have 30 fool
and thrown aside.
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