The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-23

could be reasonably sure OF iinu.ns
a wife or daughter or an aui'. 80 ~
cousin or some woman In the iu ~,
when one came back from the ONCE
when was Young, and nothing unset
ties a man like getting into an eM'p.y
house, with his wife gone, MS aau ,n
tiers somewhere In space, ana as IN.
as not an urtidy hearth ana ,h,sH.s
poor dinner, with a rod IN piekio ~ ~, ~
opens his mouth on the sub1ee1 I'VE
got s3.o0o,O00 of city properly PIG.
ture gallery that stands hisn among
connoisseurs. small army OF poly.
Elot servants, II fine library ana 40.
OF autos and carriages. but nang ~.
i want home. want one IKE the
one remember--not grand. put SO
comfortable; family prayers. WelI-
swept hearth, an easy chair tue wv
ming lamp, and all the family presen.
and accounted for. sewing, reaains,
dancing sometimes. singing hymns
Sunday cvenings---united. happy. II !
knew where could find such an one
Id go and board there for the resi- OF
my life II they would have me-. nave
got an old cousin in Maryland VINO Is
half-blind. stonedcaf and all crippled
up with rheumatism SO she can't sot
out. I am thinking of asking her 10
come and live with me, so can have
look at to rest me little. she was
over here two years ago, and 1t was
worth money to me to see her sitting
down quietly In her corner, knitting
socks for the poor or reading her
Bible. DO you know anybody that
darns stockings or reads the Blble
every day nowadays? What Is the
matter with the women anyway? They
arc always trying to thread sixteen
needles at a time. as st. Francis de
Sales says, and the man who spent
nine years learning to chain flea by
the leg for his show purposes couldn't
hold on to them
This was laughable enough to hear.
but are there no wrongs to the men
that it suggests? Do the advanced
women. who laugh at sentiment in mar
rlage, look at the relation from even
| a practical, business-ike point of
view-Jorcs & Co., Limited, say-and
| in return for the house, fuel, food, SER
wants. lights, taxes, water rates, fur
niture bills, doctors bills. clothing
bills amusemcnts and travelling or
penses provided by Jones's labors, does
Mrs. Jones give even honest, won't
say kind. return by fulfilling faith
! fully her share of business contract?
Just suppose that men neglected to plow
and SOW and build and buy and sell
|
and pen as often as some women In
termittently. carelessly, grumblingly
perform or leave undone their domes-
tic duties where should we be? II we
are to have grand readjustment OF
| the sexes to the duties of life, let US
hope that the women. God bless 'em,
| will shine In ten hours bridge build
ing or ship scrubbing or train dispatch
ing or coal mining per diem. But l
i 49, ,f,,1.
could be trusted to have good fire.
easy chairs. something to eat, perhaps
something to drink, and plenty of to-
bacco, with q right hearty welcome for
old friends and pretty girls. For
where Is the honest man whose heart
does not warm to pretty girl, good
dinner. his favorite hound? God made
em SO, and where's the harm? o, the
marriages that have gone to smash
crime that their husbands should love
peace and comfort--women who make
| war on a favorite old dressing gown
and are never done lecturing on the
shabby old slippers that fit so delight
fully: women who abuse 1.-THE villain
Gus smell of cherished pipe, forget
ting that 1t is better to fume than
10 fret, and that pipe "opens the
4 lips of philosopher, but shuts the
Il
otina, the kind; women who are per-
petual smoking chimney themselves
and a long, long rainy day in fault
finding, dogmatism and dullness.
The colossal conccit, though. of
the women who think that they can
form politics better than any Of the
able statesmen who have given their
lives to 1t, but never be politicians. and
not being able to rule their own spir-
its, be sure to govern the country to
perfection, Is really pathetic, and re-
minds one irreslstibly of the little boy
who looks up and says: II can jump
over this house." Only little boys
don't try, and so don't get hurt.
Politics, like peddler's pack, will
make any man stoop in the long rum
says Sam Slick, but there have been
plenty of good men creating and over
ruling the affairs of every great ma
ton In Christendom in every age. We
can reasonably hope to see such as
long as they are needed. But the de-
mand for Aleddlesome Matties Is small.
> and 1t is by no means convincingly
; proved that there is any real need OF
; them at all, where the budget and the
: Constitution and the Supreme Court
. and the army and the navy and tho
!, chambers Of commerce and the church
5 really seem to be getting along nicely
I without one OF them in maintaining a
s great country and ruling It CATER the
: feeble tntuitions, the unframed intel
u lects, dim lights and inexperienced
q methods of mere men are considered
$ and allowed for) really very. creditably
y indeed very. At least that seems to DC
t the general verdict at home and abroad
til We all remember a period in which
e the women of Virginia shone. There
:, was no talk of conventions then, never
o a talk of a caucus; committees. outside
J, Of church work, were unheard or
r Opinions on subjects with which they
= were necessarily unfamiliar We're giver
% with modesty and humility. No woman
10 ever spoke of my work.; not ono o.
n them had "a mission" or was known a.
& an agitator or a reformer OF anything
I least of all the men whom they loved
It honored and obeyed. Her HUSBAND
m her children, her servants. her friends
IT her neighbors, the stranger the SICK
}" the poor the church, knew her. IN
world only saw tho beautiful. well.or
It. dered home, the men who have mad "a
"a this State honored all over It, and ina
hera6iction Sa ~ f1nf.S EenClc