The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05
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necessary home-body. Not that homo 1 has lost its charms, or that 1t will ever cease to be the place which she most loves and where she reigns supremes put choice or necessity has driven heE
 into varied pursuits, many of them call4
 ing for familiarity with public affairs and
 executive ability.
 You see them not only doing clerical work m offices, but acting as shop girls in
 stores or laborets in a factory. Many have charge of large administrations ara 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.
 l Many a business man in this country 1 has as his secretary a woman with whom
 he consults in his business transactions
 and on whose judgment he relies. There is a host of female doctors, Women have invaded the pulpit and l are pastors of many churches. They l are found in the court room, and not a l few are efficient and successful practi- tloners- Indeed, it may truly be, affirmed 1 that they have fully entered into tha
 active life of the world.
 And now, what of the future? Female ! suffrage will come. Not fully at onces but by varying steps. Woman's broader education, her increasing familiarity with t@usiness and public afairss will lead to 1t. And why not? The chief reply is the home. God forbid that it should ba jeopardized, for upon 1t in all its fulness depends the best social life. In fact, is is the basis upon which growing human ity depends. And in it woman must evef be the great factor, the uncha1lenged queen, But female suffrage will not debase the home or lessen its power and 17A7 N troduce a refining and uplifting power into our political life. It will not stop marriage, neither will higher education. | he great natural laws of 0ur ebeEug will f always assert themselves. Speaking ae | a Vassar commencement few years since, 1 overheard one of the graduates | say to two others "I am simply dis gusted; three-fourths of the girls are en- one of the happy ones. 1t is to be hoped l that afterwards she fared better. Rue . woman, conscious of her indepSndencG l 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. Raea suicide is not the worse oHense- There is wisdom in the fable of the hare and I the lioness. The former, boasting of her litter, sneered at the latter for her single offspring "Yes" was the reDlW ''but he is a lion" To load home With so many children that the mother canaoG give to each the full blessing of 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 a mutual sin, were. according to the ale gory in Genesis, driven out of Eden, that garden which gave man all things ta live with and nothing to live for. Our great epic poet closes his immortal poem with these words:
 HThe world was all before them. whers
 to choose
 Their, place of rest, and providence theiE
 They, hand in hand with wand'rina
 steps and slow,
 Hand in hand they went out of Edens hand in hand they must enter the new paradise, grander and nobler than thq pristine Eden, because wrought out o& the thorn growing earth by the united 1abors of man and woman and into which have entered, and shall enter, aH of human toll and struggle, seGf-denlal and sacrifice, hopes and aspirations, faita and worship.