The National tribune., 1909-09-30
PEOPLE.


Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont is certainly "out |
for blood" as they say. Unless women |
are given the ballot they will do dread |
full things. They will not go inside a |
hospital or aid it in any way, they will |!
have nothing to do with the churches, |
possible bloodshed is darkly limited at, |
and, worse than all, they will refuse to |
marry the best man living" Mrs. Bel
mont says that women can get along |
much better without men than men
can without women, and she believes |
if the fight is conducted on these heroic |
lines it will not last long. She thinks |
all women with an occupation should |
continue it after marriage, and says she |
has been the means of inducing some |
35 or 40 women to consent to marry |
only with that stipulation. Who is to |
look after the home and bring up the |
babies under such an arrangement Mrs. |
Belmont does not say, but probably she |
has some excellent plan which will do
away with the Old-fashioned idea of the
duties of wife and mother altogether.
1t may be she has read that terrible |
tale of II. G. Wells. "A Story of the Days
to Come" and favors the creche idea.
At all events Mrs. Belmont warns us
that the present calm cannot last long, |
! that women will soon band themselves
| together and desert the homes,
churches and hospitals, and that men
shall be for them as if they did not
exist unless they give them the ballot.
1t would be rather interesting to know
| how many women in the country agree
with Mrs. Belmont.
| Apropos of woman's rights it is said
| that Colorado is very likely to have a
woman Representative in Congress as
n member of the House when there is
a vacancy. Several women are already
spoken of as the successor of Congress
man Rucker, among whom is Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Leavitt, William Jennings Bry-
ans brilliant and ambitious daughter
The other aspirants for the position are
all women of unusual brains, especially
q Mrs. Decker, who, as far as her men,
tai makeup is concerned, seems to be
unusually well fitted to take her place
beside the lawmakers of the Nation.
She is so "up" on parliamentary law,
they say, that it makes your head spin
to hear her talk. can't be caught on a
political or economic question, and is,
besides, most agreeable and effective
speaker, with a good voice and all that.
1t would indeed be a change to have q
woman in Congress. Wouldn't the gall
leries be packed when she was billed to
speak, and wouldn't the suffragists in
the other States make things lively?
A strange scene took place in a Mas
sachusetts court room the other day,
the principal actors being two men and
their wives Man No. /. who was an
architect, got up and said he loved the
Wife of man No. 2, doctor. The doc
tor said he saw nothing wrong in his
wife being the soul mate" of the archi-
tect, and that altho he had been happily
married to his wife for IL years, he ad-
mired and respected the architect for
loving her. didn't blame him for it, and
would trust him with everything he
had in the world. The architect said
his love for the doctors wife went be-
vnpi aIca i,, he hut
he loved his wife none the less. The
architects wife, who seemed to be the
only one to disturb this beautiful love
feast, who struck the only discordant
note in this perfect harmony, said her
home had been entirely happy until
the doctors wife came to break it up,
and that if she would only drop her
influence over her husband and go
away she knew he would be all right
and return to her. The doctors wife
maintained a discreet silence. When a
man presumably loving his wife of his
own free will and with God bless
lyou" hands her over to another man be-
cause the two love each other or think
they do, then, indeed, have we entered
upon a rev era. 1t may be the begin
ming of the millennium. but in old
fashioned eyes it looks like degeneracy.
The 900 faithful of the Holy Roll
ers" who had assembled in their little
wooden chapel at Ashdod, on the main
turnpike between Boston and Plymouth
to wait for the top crust of the earth to
peel off, carrying the wicked to de-
struction, were again doomed to dis
appointment. All day the little band
waited, with the curtains of their
church closely drawn to keep out the
gaze of the crowd of curious people
who had gathered around them. Some
one cid slip in, and reported that the
men and women acted as If they were
crazy, making strange, incoherent
sounds. many of them with eyes closed
and bodies trembling from excitement
One woman would start up every little
while as il in trance, and, passing out
of the church. apparently unconscious
, of what she was doing, would wave her
arms for the people outside to disperse
When no one paid any attention to her
she came to" at once and got very
mad. AS the hours went on and MOTH
ing happened, the faithful did no. ap-
pear to be very much disappointed. and
were quite willing to adjourn their
meeting to go and get something to
? eat. The owners of the Is houses near
the chapel did quite a thriving business
renting rooms and feeding the multi
tude, who. whether the world was about
to come to an end or not, had to have
. food.
In the August Mcclure is an article,
|, Sldl lllIS III
which is one of the most powerful tenn
lperance sermons preached in years. 1t
should make all young men who in-
dulse in the occasional glass of wine or
beer stop and take counsel with their
, common sense and better Judgment. 1t
is the story of man whose life was
/, wrecked by drink, who threw away as
recklessly as did the Indian the pearl
, richer than all his tribe" one golden
/, opportunity after another for the de-
basing and fleeting qualification of in
toXication. This is, of course, the old,
sad, usual story which we have all
heard so many times, but in the article
referred to the writer does not dwell
upon the moral side of the question,
? but presents his case more from the
practical, financial side, stating what in
cold dollars and cents, aside from every
r thing else, the experience cost him. He
was strong. active minded boy, of
pleasant, social disposition, which made
the winning of friends easy, with a
home training that had given him a
horror of saloons and pity and fear
for drunkards. He had better educa-
ton than great many boys. going
thru all the grades of the public
schools. His parents being in quite mod
crate circumstances. however, he began
at nine years of age to sell papers out
of school hours and. darting in and out
|, of saloons dispOsing of these, he began
after awhile to lose his horror of the