Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
MARY MAGDALENE DEFENDS
STAND ON EQUAL RIGHTS

LOS ANGELES, July 29-IEditor
Herald: 1t seems that my modest
letter of last week has called down
the vlrtuous wrath of Helen Standish
and A. H. d. Replying to the charge
that l give rights" 60 to men that
are not accorded women, l would draw
their acute vision to the symbol
that followed my use of the word
right" 1t is not necessary to give
man rights, CD for he takes them.
Helen Standish says Train our boys
and girls both to be moral VIII the
good woman kindly tell an interested
public how she would do IL III handing
boys? The writer knows of no intal-
Hble method to insure morality among
men except that practiced on degen-
crates in the state of Kansas.
In New England a good mother mad
two sons. She had her own ideas
about morality that would lt Helen
Standish. She always made the boys
wear bathing pants and long ones at
that (she would nave put pantles on
a Erisky little pet lamb, only the hlred
girl wouldn't stand for it on account
Of tho laundry work.. The boys were
taught equal rights 60 to the sexes,
and when they followed their natural
bent and went astray they made use
of the doctrine of equal rights % on
weak women who listened 10 thelf
soft words. one young man was prop
erly killed by an indignant husband.
The other reptile was more discreet
and selected as his "altlnlty' the uh-
married daughter of a neishbor-Mary
Magdalene; he is now prosperous
lawyer who still believes in equal
rights" C0-aWay from home.
Now, | don't want to check the en-
thusiasu of Helen Standish and \. Il.
d. in their work, which has the same
aim as this letter-the cause of NOR
alitv the original Mary Magdalene
was not denied work in the vineyard.
They mean well, but are DONG more
harm than good. In the name OF
common sense, let them take conditions
as they find them and not work on out
of date theories.
You cannot make the young male
sex moral by metaphOrically clothing
them in bathing suits. Let t1em enter
the water of life naked as God made
them and seek clean water Let them
see that life is wholesome, but don't
make mllksops of the young idea so
that Little Willie goes astray as soon
as he leaves mammals apron strings.
Let the boy be taught TO respect a
good woman. That Is his greatest
safeguard.
Woman does not need equal rights"
(2), and a woman who is wise as We'll
as good does not ask for it. She has
her own standard of virtue and the
fact that men are immoral has no di-
rect bearing on her life. Poison a
Young girls mind with the fool idea
of equal rights" (?) and YOU prepare
the way for the first scoundrel who
crosses her path
Answering A. II. D, who also
charges that Mary Magdalene would
"unblushingly give rights to men
which she would withhold to women,
the writer makes denial of any such
sentiment. She merely accepts condi-
tions as she finds them and is no
Billikens. However if A. H. d. is a
married woman it might be dangerous
to her moral poise to take the same
viewpoint with her IDEAS for if she
should find out that her husband had
been 'indiscreet" in his lifetime her
equal rights" CD standard might lead
to peculiar complications.
[ lack the command of rhetoric to
match A. H. D. in the use of many
words to say a very little so find it
difficult to analyze the ideas she Cor
he) seeks to convey A. Fl. d. doubts
that Mary Magdalene is woman. If
A. II. =. is woman l would be
pleased to call at her home and satisfy
her as to my sex if she desires me to
do so and will favor me with her ad-
dress. If A. H. d. is man | would
have nothing to do with the gentle
man. as | am through with the sex
except in matters of business.
MARY MAGTlALENE.