Arizona republican., 1910-05-10
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Ia necessary home-body Not that home has lost its charms, or that n VIII ever cease to be the place which she mose loves and where she reigns supreme. but choice or necessity has driven her into varied ursuits. many of them call ing for familiarity with public affairs and | executive abilry.
 You see them not only doing cier,cal work m of,ces, but acting as shop girls n | stores or laborers in factory. Many have charge of large administrations. are presidents of colleges, heads of cofpora- tions. and, indeed, engaging In almost every avocation of their brothers, and doing SO with success. 1 have been told that the large apartment houses in Lon don are mainly in charge of women, vho surpass men in the collection of rer.s, in the supervision of the buildings, en- forcing cleanliness and preserving or ! der.
 Many a business man in this country has as his secretary woman with whom he oonsults m his business transactions and on whose judgment he relies There IS a host of female doctors Women have invaded the pulpit and are pastors of many churches. They
 
 few are efficient and successful pracr- tioners. Indeed, if may truly bc affirmed that they have fully entered into the active life of the world And now, what of the future, Female suffrage will come Not fully al once b-t by varying steps Woman's broader education, her increasing familiarity with business and public affairs, will lead tc L the home God forbid that II should b. jeopardized, for upon it in all it's fuiness depends the best social life. h fac,, i, is the basis upon which growing human ity depends And in 1t woman mus, ever be the great factor, the unehallensed queen. But female suffrage will no. debase the home or lessen its power and influence. On the other hand, # will in- troduee refining and uplifting power into our political life IL will not stop marriage, neither will higher education The great natural laws of our being will always assert themselves Speaking q, a Vassar commencement a fev years since, overheard one of the gradr,atc. say to two others, "I am simply dis gusted three-fourths of the girls are en- gagged already" Evidently she was not one of the happy ones It is to De hoped that afterwards she fared better. B-. 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 the home will not be in the number. but in the quality of the offspring. Race suicide is not the worse ofense- There is wisdom in the fable of the hare and the lioness. The former. boasting Of her litter, sneered at the latter for her single offspring. Yes" va. the rep'y. but he is lion" To load home zitn SO many children that the mother cannot give to each the full blessing of a moth er'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 mutual sin. were, according to the ale gory in Genesis, driven out of Eden tha, garden. which gave man all things to live with and nothing to live for. Oar great epic poet closes his immortal poem with these words: The world was all before them. where
 to choose -s
 Their place of rest and providence their
 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 ort of the thorn growing earth by the united labors of man and woman. and mo which have entered. and shall enter. all of human toil and struggle. seif-denia. and sacrifice. hopes and aspirations. fai.h and worship.