The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-07
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has lost its charms, or that it will ever
cease to be the place which she mossS
loves and where she reigns supreme,y
but choice or necessity has driven her I
into varied pursuits, many of them CALI
ing for familiarity with public affairs and
executive ability.
You see them not only doing clerical
work in Offices, but acting as shop glrlsin
stores or laborers in factory. Many
have charge of large administrations, are
presidents of colleges, heads Of corpora
tions, and, indeed, engaging in almost
every avocation of their brothers, and
doing so with success. have been told
that the large apartment houses in Lon
don are mainly in charge of women, who
surpass men in the collection Of rents,
| in the supervision of the buildings, en-
forcing cleanliness and preserving or
der.
Many business man in this country
has as bis secretary woman with whom
| lie consiilts in his business transactions
and on whose judgment he relics.
There is a host of female doctors.
Women have invaded the pulpit and
are pastors of many churches. They
are found in the court room,, and not q
few are efficient and successful practi..
TONERS. Indeed, it may truly beNafirned
that they have fully entered into the
active life of the world. 4
| And now, what of the future? Female
suffrage will come. Not fully at ONE,
but by varying steps. Woman's broadA
education, her increasing familiarity wt}sl
business and public affairs, will lead to- J
it. And why not3 The chief reply is
the home. God forbid that it should be
jeopardized, for upon it in all its fulness
depends the best social life. In fact, it +
is the basis upon which growing human
! ity depends. And in It woman must ever
be the great factor, the unchallengec
queen But female suffrage will not
debase the home or lessen its power and
influence. On the other hand, it will in
troduce refining and uplifting power
into our political life. It will not stop
marriage neither will higher education.
The great natural laws OF our being will
always assert themselves. Speaking at
Vassar commencement a few years
since, ! overheard one of the graduates
say to two others, Il am simply dis
gusted; three fourths of the girls are en-
gagged already" Evidently she was not
one Of the happy ones II is to be hoped
that afterwards she Jared better But
woman. conscious Of her independence
and capacity TO support herself will de
mand true manhood in her husband.
Children will come However, the glory
Of tie home will not be in the number,
but in the quality OF the offspring. Race
suicide is not the worse offcnse There
is wisdom III the fable OF the hare and
the ioness. The former, boasting OF
her litter, sneered at the latter for her
single offspring. Yes" was the reply,
but he is lion" To load home with
50 many children that the mother cannot
give to each the full blessing OF moth
cr's care and attention is far worse than
race suicide. Not crime, but mutual self
denial, should and will, place reasonable
limits on the number OF the family group.
Union in effort is the growing lesson
of the times. Our first parents, guilty OF
4 mutual sin, were. according to the allc-
CORY in Genesis, driven out OF Eden, that
garden which gave man all things to
live with and nothing to live for. Our
great epic poet closes his immortal poem
with these words
"Thc world was all before them, where
to choose =
Their place OF rest and providence thc;r
guide.
They, hand in hand with wand'ring
, steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way"
Hand in hand they went out OF Eden (;
. hand in hand they must enter the new
. paradise, grander and nobler than the
pristine Eden, because wrought out of
5 the thorn-growing earth by the united
r labors OF man and woman, and into
E which have entered, and shalt enter. all
: of human toll and struggle, self-denial
/ and sacrifice, hopes and aspirations, faith
and worship.