Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-07-03

US, +Siiotduce CT Ihe inmates. and the
Jealousies which are inevitable usuag;v
| prevent love between them.
As we come westward the atmosphare
changes. A hundred years ago it Was n
proVerb in France and England thar
women hated each other: but il is sell
aom that such a saying is heard today
~ western Europe or America. In Eag-
iand especially there are charming ex-
hlbltlons of love and loyalty between
women. lie Ladies of Llangolien are
| only TWO instances among a host of
similar ones whose devotion to each 9th
er has equaled that of David To Jong-
IMAM or Damon To Pythias. The rise Of
h women eI clubs within the last fifty years
mas strengthened this sentiment. They
haFe made women acquainted with each
other IN way far deeper and more illn-
lmlIlhatlng than the merely social way.
me result has been a comradeship be-
tween them such as the world has never
seen A series of noble and unselfish
friendships has been developed in these
ctu1s which has done far more than any
study or mere intellectual exercise to
broaden and uplift their members.
ana yet, with all the encoura cement
when we see on every side, there is
sun much room for Improvement With
III The last week highly educated wom-
an has been heard 10 say. Il don't he
lleye that any woman can do anything
as wei as man can"
10 those of us who have seen the
spiendld work of our women doctors,
women teachers, women painters. such
a. remark comes like the lash of a whip.
1hefs are plenty of women workers who
are deficient. heaven knows. Possibly
some of our honored and reyered hreth-
rem are somewhat deficient also. But
70 make the sweeping statement that
al women do everything imperfectly is
SO BADLY untrue that it is cruel and
shoeking-and, above all, it is treacher-
Gus to our sisters.
When you reflect that women, as
sex. nave scarcely, as it We're, learned
TO read; and that they have not been
generally encouraged to become learned
ana expert IN anything outside of house
nold uutles; you are simply amazed at
the progress which has been made by
not few of them. The heart of every
true woman must swell with pride when
she sees what women have done and
are DONG IN literature, journalism, paint
ing, sculpture, music, medicine, law, the
ology; Look at our colleges for women,
crowded to their capacity with eager.
happy, ambitious girls And think of
the years, the centuries, during which
10 be woman meant to be ignorant,
and, after her youth had passed, OPP
pressed and unhappy, with the minor
strain IN her voice, and the spiritless
bearing of the immemorially wretched.
II is TO our American men-clean, up
right, honorable-that the American
woman owes her magnificent freedom.
The best types of that American man
hood are Theodore Roosevelt and Charles
b. Hughes. There may not be a great
army OF their peers intellectually, but
there are thousands upon thousands of
American men who revere womanhood
as much, and want women to be just as
free and happy as they are themselves.
The American man is the grandest pro-
duct of the race. and every true woman
among us admires and respects him. As
rule he knows more and is more keen
ly intelligent than the woman of the
same social status. But there are many
noble and exceptional women-every day
becoming less and less rare-who excel
IN certain departments of study and prac
tice. 1t isn't because anybody is wom-
an or man that she or he fails in any
line. 1t is because proper training has
been lacking. Authorities are increas-
ingly deciding that there is no sex in
mind. As one great man has put it.
There is no more a female brain than
there is a female liver"
1t is wrong, it is distressing, to have
one sex arrayed against the other We
all, men and women, must rise or fall
together Our interests are identical.
And let us never prove treacherous to
homes the sayings, Silly as a girl"
Weak as a woman" and their like.
The women have been down lo these
many years. Now they are climbing.
Generous men are helping them God
forbid that any woman should give to
another a single blow or push back
ward.-Kate Epson Clark, in Exchange.
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Mrs. Taft on Woman's Sphere.
Mrs. Taft is reported in the Boston
Globe as saying:
Il have always believed that women
should vote. | favor bestowing on them
every civic right, but | should like to
put in a prohibitory clause deb&rring
them from running for public office
with women running for office, |
think the natural scheme would be dis
iointed and the end and aim of the home
destroyed. Their voice is nearly always
the voice of wisdom, and | see nothing
unwomanly in their casting the ballot
and exercising every right of the free
citizen. but it seems that for the pres
ent it is impossible to associate the right
to vote from the right to hold office
$50 the women who would never
think of any other vocation than that
of being good wives and mothers are
prevented from taking their rightfuI
share in governing the community
through the fear which men have of
women stepping down from their ped
estal. Except in rare instances, the
influence of women on politics is for
their elevation.
ut is truly said that communities
where women lack civic pride are in
worse shape than those where man neg
leets his pcerogative. Women should
be versed in every phase of politics, and
should know what everything means
which has a direct bearing on the home
environment That is my idea of puri-
flying politics. and | think it the only
practical one"
-O-.-o~
A Clever Man Needs a Clever Wife.
1t seems to me that a clever man may
or may not need a clever woman, accord
ing to the nature of the cIeyerness of
each, and according to the characters of
each, quite aside from the fact of clever
ness. says Mary E. wilkins Freeman
in The Delineator. II is probable that
a clever business man, all things eonsid-
cred. does need a wife with a clever
business head. although he may not re.
alize the fact, and may be ready to break
his heart for the sake of a woman who
innocently believes that as long as she
has blank checks in her checkbook her