The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-17
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a necessary homc-body Not that home
mas lost Its charms, or that il will ever
cease TO be the place which she most
loves and where She rcigns supreme,
out cholce or necessity has driven her
INTO varied pursuits. many OF them call
ing ior. familiarity with public affairs and
executive ability.
You see them not only dong clerical
work In olhccS, but acting as shop girls in
stores or laborcrs in factory. Many
have charge of large administrations, arc
presidents of colleges, heads OF corpora
tons and. indeed, engaging in almost
every ayocation of their brothers, and
dong so with success. | have been told
that the large apartment houses IN Lon
don arc 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 his secretary woman with whom
he consults in his business transactions
and on whose Judgment he relics.
There IS host of female doctors.
Women have invaded the pulpit and
are pastors of many churches. They
arc found in the court room, and not a
few arc efficient and successful practi-
TONERS. Indeed. it may truly be affirmed
that they have fully entered into the
active life OF the world.
And now, what of the futurc2 Female
suffrage will come Not fully at once,
but b. varying steps. Woman's broader
education, her increasing familiarity with
business and public affairs, will lead to
1t And why not2 The chief reply is
the home. God forbid that il should be
Jeopardized, for upon it in all its fulncss
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 unohallenged
queen. But female suffrage will not
dcbasc the home or lessen its power and
influence. On the other hand. it will in
troduce refining and uplifting power
into our political life. 1t will not stop
marriage, neither will higher education
The great natural laws of our being will
always assert themselves Speaking ut
a Vassar commencement a fcw; years
since, | overheard one Of the graduates
say to two others. II am simply dis
guStcd; three e-fourths OF the girls arc 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, viii de-
mand true manhood in her husband
Children viii conc However. the glory
OF the home will not be III tic number,
but in the quality OF the offspring Race
suicide is not the worse ohcHSc There
is wisdom in the fable of the hare and
the lioncss. The former, boastilg OF
her litter. snecrcd at the latter for her
single offspring "Ycs," was the reply,
'but he IS lion" To load a home with
so many children that the mother cannot
give to each the full blessing OF moth
er's care and attention is far worse shan
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
CORY in Genesis, driven out Of Eden. tbli
garden which gave man all things 10
live with and nothing to live for Our
great epic poet closes his immortal poem
with these words:
"The world was all before them where
to choose
Iheli place Oh ioS', anu pio'iueh0c tneiF
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, gTander and noblcr than the
pristine Eden, because wrought out of
the thorn-growing earth by the united
labors of man and woman, and into
which have entered. and shall enter. all
OF human toll and struggle, self-dcnial
and sacrifice. hopes and aspirations, faith
and worship.