Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-04

While the Womnn's Revolution In
this country has not seen It's Yorktown
and many martyrs and heroes have
died in the weary years of discourage
ment and contest, still VIC are now well
over the great decisive battles. Mono
but the Ignorant prate of the possible
CANCERS of the vote in womans hands.
For over quarter of a century women
have had the full vote In a number OF
our states. Their governors their leg
islatorS and their editors continually
call upon the people of the other states
to observe the great good results and
to give the ballot to the mothers. the
teachers. the wives who must needs use
1t to the advantage of thalr families.
their homes and themselves. Colorado
with Its great educational system or
ganiZed by a woman State Superin-
tendent, Mrs. Grensfels. leads the edu-
cational statistics of the nation.
Wyoming points to empty jails and
better and more humane laws In many
states they have gained the municipal
vote, in nearly all the states the school
vote. Two states will vote on the ques-
tlon OF full suffrage this year.
Among the women who are doing
most for this great cause now are Mrs,
Carrie Chapman Gait, Mrs. Sarah Platt
Decker, the president OF the National
Federation OF Women's Clubs. Jane
Adams. Mrs. Ellen Henrotin. Mrs.
Emmons Blaine, Mrs. florence Kelley.
Alice Stone Blackwell, Mrs. Clarence
Mackay, Harriet May Mills. the bril-
liant Gordon sisters OF New Orleans,
Mrs. Ella Seass Stewart president of
the State Association of Illinois. Mrs
Ella Hawlcy Crossett. president OF the
New York State Association. Mrs. Har
riet Taylor Upton and Mrs. Rachel
Foster Avery. national officers, Mrs.
o. II. p. Belmont. Mrs. johnson OF
Minnesota, Mary Garrett Hay and Lii
lie DeyereuX of New York, always An
ma Shaw and always that greatest of
living American women, Julia Ward
Howe.-From "Dreadnaughts of the |
Woman's Battle" by Ada Davenport |
Kendall. in Norman T.. Macks Ma !
tional Monthly for November.
Miss Ida NJ. Tarbells new historical |
serial begins in the November Ameri- |
can Magazine, 1t is devoted to the his
tory of The American Woman" Miss |
written By Mrs. Mercy OTIS Warren |
To one OF these discontenued young
ladies of revolutionary dayS:
The deficiency lies not so much in
the inferior conjecture OF female in
tellects as in the different educational
cultivation Of the mind Is neglected in
either. we see ignorance. stupidity and
GUS in both.
1T is my opinion that that part of
the human species who think nature |
Gas we'll as the infinitely wise and su-
preme author thereoO has given them
the superiority over the other mis-
take thoir own happiness when they
neglect the culture of reason in their
daughters while they take all possible
methods OF improving 1t in their sons.
The pride you feel on hearing re-
Elections indiscrimlnately cast on the |
seN. is laudable II any is SOL take IL,
Is is a kind of conscious dignity that |
ought rather to be cherished. for while
VIC own the appointed subordinatlon
(perhaps for the sake of order in fam
ineS) let US by no means acknowledge |
such an inferiority as would check the
ArGour OF our endeavors to equal IN all
accomplishments the most masculine
heights. that when these temporary
distinctions subside we may be equal
ly qualified to taste the full draughts
OF knowledge and happiness prepare
for the upright of every nation and /
sex, when virtue alone will be the
test of rank and the grand economy
for an eternal duration Will be properly |
adjusted
Which stately paragraph Alice
Brown, Mrs Warren's biographer. who
publishes the above letter, interprets
charmingly
There speaks the feminine wisdom
of the ages: MY dear. it may be neces-
snry for You TO seem inferior; but you
need not be so. Let them have their
little game, since it may have been 10
willed. 1t won't hurt you; II will
nmuse them,"'"
Women of vast wealth are always
subjects of absorbing interest In these
days The December number OF
Human Life gives q most entertaining
account of Mrs. II. II. Rogers, widow
OF the late Standard OIL magnatc
Mrs. Rogers owns no rare Jewels or :
famous gems, although a world would
have brought her the best. When she
appears In public she is richly and
painstakingly gowncd, but with never
touch of the bizarre. When sho enter
tains It is with elegance, but TO small
and selected parties.
She Is particularly Interested In
wage-earning women. When the plan
was launched to build City Federation