The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-28


has dawned for woman in America
within the last fifteen years She has
come to the front, and she has come TO
stay. 1t has taken thousands of years
to do II, but she has at last been recog-
nlzed as n reasoning, thinking human
being. 1t Is an era that we should all
be proud of. We should all be glad TO
acclaim her as mans equal, and vet
dangers Turk In the path There Is a
rear that woman may go too far and
WELD her influence in the wrong dlrec-
tlon.
To the wives present I wish 10 recall
the name of Christopher Columbus.
We all know what he did, but very
few of MS know that he would have ac-
compllshed the same thing at least If
teen years before but for his wife. He
had got 1t into his head that there
were other countries TO discover, and
he was thinking and planning. When
he told his thoughts and plans to his
wife she put her foot on them. She
wanted him to stay home and milk the
den, and she raised such q row about
II that he remained and did not get
away until after her death. Had she
lived on thirty years more where would
this country have been? Who would
have heard the name of columbus to
remember It an hour? He would nev.
er have got farther than the city hall,
and he would never have been heard
of outside of his own ward.
Columbus came at last and dscov-
cred us, and now You find us a nation
Of S00O0,000 people, but suppose his
wife had let him come fifteen years be-
fore? We'd have had at least 300 more
trusts by this time, and the present
financial strngcncy would have been
u thing Of the past. We'd have also
known whether Mr.. Roosevelt was go-
ing to run again or not.
And call your attention to the case
of Benjamin Franklin. Mrs. Franklin
was good soul, and no doubt she
made the best pumpkin pies in Phila-
delphia but she didn't understand am
bitions In man. Just when Benja-
min was forging to the front she want
ed him TO turn In his tracks and open
n shoe store. She not only wanted 1t,
girl says they had a regular row. Sup
pose she had carried her point. Sup
pose the great and wise Franklin had
foregone his ambitions and become n
boot and shoe man and squeezed No.
shoes on to No. 8 feet. We stand APP
palled at the idea of it.
When George Got Married.
When George Washington got mar
rled he had his future pretty well map
ped out. He knew what he wanted
and was going for 1t.
1t wasn't Il week before his wife be-
gan to butt in. She wanted him TO
become farmer and go around In his
shirt sleeves and with patches on his
trousers. She wanted to see him milk
Ing cows ana pounding oxen and start
ing Off TO market with a roll of butter
and a dozen of eggs. That was the
measure OF her ambition, and when
George couldn't see things that way
there was coldness lasting fort
night.
Great Scott. hut suppose that Wash
lngton had given I'M Suppose he had
been man without an iron jaw Sup
pose he had laid aside his aims and
ambitions and gone to raising squashes
and pumpkins and gathered a family
supply of catnlp in the fall! | see the
most of you are pale faced and trem-
bling ut the thought. Had he done so
this country would have had no father,
1t might have had no liberties.
What name stands out on the Dec
laratlon of Independence like that Of