The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-08
"VOMAES WORK" SYMPOSIUM
MISS REPPLTER STARTs IT AND
SUFFRAGE CREEPS ~.


nRsanass waSe--D saBss On victims.
sufragisas and antI-suRragiats fioclSsd
eagerly % thD Hudson Theatre yesterday
Aftsrnooa 10 hear Mo Agnes RepPlisr
talk about -womans WORK She spoke
undsr the auspices Of the Manhattan
Trade School for 0trls. an institution
cOnoornsd exclusively with things IN
dustriAl. hut they were SURF that she
oouldnt steer clear OF the cause.
Ma Repplier didn't She tried her
best. for she knew that the Rev. Anna
Shaw. Who eat Just behind her on the
stage. was to hAvc ten minutes In which
10 cay what abe thought Of her speech
and that q similar privilege was 20 be
accorded 20 william Force scott. husband
Of. one Of the best known ants in the
STATE. But this wasn't all. When Mise
Repplisr faced her audience she met on
the len he earnest gAse OF Mrs. Clarence
Mackay and on the right the compelling
glance Of Mrs. Gilbert Jones.
Miss Repplisr fenced and dallied and
threw now q crumb 60 tho sufragists and
uOw Q sop 60 their opponents. Both
parties had . suffsciently strong repre-
ssntation TO give her . gsoeroes amount
Of applauss whenever she made a point
for either side. She confessed finally
however. that she really had no opinion
% all upon the subject. because she had
been too busy with other things to form
ons.
My position 10 q peaceful one, she
added. but u doesn't make for brilliant
oraeoEy.'
Miss Repplisr has coolies 81 opinions
about women, though. and some Of them
would have made her hearers angry u
they had been voiced nv man. Others
wouldn't.
All women. she said. might be divided
into tive classes-the rabbit class and the
ferret cia.s. 10 rabbit il tied up IN q
bag Il stays there. n the ferret has a
similar experiences IL gnAwr a way out.
But IL must he remembered she ex-
planned. that when the ferret g-ts out
IL proceeds az once to the business 81 the
day. Il doesn't do anything to celebrate
ia emancipation Neither does u 10
and read q lecture co the rabbit because
IL n unproRrcssive enough 60 stay IN the
hnR. I do hope the time will come when
women will take life more a. mon do
when they will Just go ahead ana do the
next thing without seif-consciousnssa
when q successful woman doctor OF bust
ne-- woman will be accepted N matter
Of course and not regarded A. chimpan-
70 eating out Of a spoon.
Some women have Recently teen
discovering the seven deadly SINS, Man.
on the other hand. has learned through
centuries Of transgreSsion TO decently
cover mp his tracks.
Two great obstacles. she continued.
stand in the way Of womens succees IN
the business world. One Va the general
n. - ha Nfh faF 10
termed the almost incurable tendency
90 demand CONCESSIONS on the basis u
asx. A minor cause Of many failures.
she said. was the preJudtce on the part
Of many women against going INTO
industry occupations which they did
not consider 'gentsel' Teachers,
clerks. stenographers, companions and
Rov~rnaanea Were poorly paid in coTnpari-
son 20 workers in some OF the de~pisrd
branches Of industry. but their ranks we're
ne FrsncS woman . Miss Repplier's
special admiration. Her knOw'edgr of
Affairs. her ability TO cooperate with her
husband in business and at the same time
run her household caIEAbly sOd hiring up
her children properly might wei serve;
abe thinks. a. q model 10 the women OF
other COUNTRIES.
A for the women 81 thu leisure class
in America. Miss Repplier says their
education is just az Inadequate a. that
OF their poorer SISTERS saAhy " ueth
know nothing whatever snp'N tne Ihah-
agement o. their Own Ahalr-. Ihey o.
not Know uhe dinerenos 49, s.,-s . -,
and oonos. tney n ~ a "a III oh,',,,.,.
mortgage -. and 30 NOV SlloN nh ~ i''
per cent. OF - reasotnen,e Ia.' W III
terest 10 expect on an lhVe-.7t.
when ! vas young. ns s.
single trustee took cnaI 90 Ot tne I'lope.y
OF Sioow or A7 ~ 49,.
much The same ~ay Una, "oi, IooAs
after lamD AZ supP-I . ~
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women cnus - ~ -. .. 80
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