The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-21
WOMEN SHOULD MARRY.

Olga Nethersole believes that wo-
men should marry and that their great
influence for good should be in be-
coming mothers of families, rather
careers, and she is right, says the
Tonopah Sun.
The greatest sphereis that for which
God created her. OF her creation for
an object there is not a question nor
room for one. Her calling is the most
mother. to sape the heart, themiDd
sacred and her responsibility the most
delicate of any creature made by the
Creator of the Universe. To be a
and the heart of the child-the con
Meeting line with posterity--is the
ahund9nt and worthy purpose for
which she is here. Others have their
offices and their duties to perform,
but that of Q mother comes when the
embryo woman's or man's safety and
very life ale so vitality in her Keeping
~ If she were a robin, and the nome
nest was in a tree leaning ovtsr d
river
After a ripe experience Miss Meth
sole declares that life on the stage
or other branches of art are not what
women were created for. She says
there is no exceptions. She delivered
an address last Sunday on the sub
iect last Sunday in New York, and
when frankly asked that if she did
not believe that her life was a great
Influence for good than the dink #
life she described, she candidly and
emphatically answered, "No."
In this age there is too much crowd
ing of women into mems work. ft
has been a demoralizing effect on the
home life of the nationf. 1t insults
women for future wives and mothers,
and has a tendenck to rear a whole
race of women who are not suitable
for hime life. 1t tends to reduce VA
Res, preventing ma1y youn. men fr u.
lbtainiLg employment so that hey
may not marry and furnish homes for
the yourg women wbC are now taking
their positions in BUSINESS.
One has but 70 let the im~aginatien
revert back to tle 'rle when his or
her mother was young to ask the ques-
ton whether or not he believed her
home life would have been the same
and, Judging from others. by himself,
whether that of the whole nation
would have beer the same. had his
mother been a worker been ,.:;DU
mother been a worker in a factory,
or in any occupation really man.
work from which so many women have
crowded out the men-men who
were thus deprived of the means OF
saving up for a home and marrying
the ones who kept them from employ
ment.
There are some occupations peeu-
liarly intended for young women. One
OF them is teaching Another-until
automatic telephones We're generally
adopted-is that of telephone opera
tors. Then certain ones in stenogra-
phy. with salesladies where women are
the customers. That almost comprises
the list.
OF course there win ALWAYS to ac-
~tresses and women going contrary 70
Miss Nethersole's advice, but they
are forteiting the greater for the les
ser sphere Of usefulness and throwing
their own happiness to the four winds.
But whether teachers, sa~lesladies, ste
n~ographers, telephone operators, ar
lists, actresses, or what not their train
ing their hopes, their minds. should
be led and shaped to the end of low
ing their homes and most of all be
coming future wives and mothers, re-
garding their occupations as but tenn
porary. The nation needs them and
upon them our happiness depends. We
cannot always be young and we should
trim our sales accordingly.