The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-08
Three Vielus of Woman

Rev. DR.. Frank Crane in the New
York independent: There is good
! deal of clamor for womans rights.
! But the trouble is that she is shame
4 fully neglecting to use the rights she
already has.
There is a good old custom of com
plimenting woman on the noble and
beautiful influence she exerts. AS a
matter CT fact, she is g tremendous
moral coward ana needs to be told
so.
Woman is to blame for almost all
the evils that afflict society. 1t is
time to stop paying her pretty COM
plimcnts and to give her a good allo-
pathic dose of truth.
OF course, they will resent ir-some
of them-for there are heady, terma-
CANT women as well as egotistical
men, who cannot suffer the faithful
wounding words CT friend. But
then there are also wise and sincere
women, who are glad to get an hon
est criticism; and it is for their
sakes write.
There are three ways of treating
woman.
First, there is the Byronic way,
which is to set her up on pedestal
and address her as queen, faultless,
made only to be worshiped and serv-
/, ed. She is told that her mission in
life is to sit on a cushion and sew
I G,,a he chol hox ctr q W.
i berries, sugar and cream. She is TO
do nothing with her lily white hands
but to have them manicured. She is
to clothe her fair body in the silks
and furs we buy, hang round her
neck the pearls we give her and ride
? in our automobile. All of which senti-
: ment is we'll meant enough, on our
part, while the fit is on and the fever
unslacked but all of which is also I'M
true, unreal, hollow, dangerous and
consequently can be turned in mill
ute into contempt and loathing
: should the mans vanity and egotism
4 from which it springs, receive a jolt.
r A woman is a fool to want such
i alteration, for it puts her on an utter
\ ly impossible throne, an elevation
from which she is certain some day
E to tumble. This mad deification is
' a quite usual prelude to divorce.
Y Second, there is the oriental way
which consists in regarding woman
as a beautiful animal created fol
mans pleasure, "a little better than
!. his horse She is considered frail, to
!. be guarded, never exposed to tempta
J. ton She is to be kept in subsection
l. either locked up in harem, as
i. among the Turks or browbeat back
4 to her knitting and her children as
6 among the English. She is distinctly
e an inferior person, not to be reckon
q ed with in the serious business O
O life. In the east those who hold t
$ this creed regard ner as created fo
g mans amusement; in the west, al
r destined to bear children, run th'
house and see that the socks are
darned. She is never TO be talked u
> about your business affairs You arr
: Lord and Master, with big and
IF big M.
Some women like this sort of thing
:, to be bossed, babied and bullied, Il
:. look I'M with fawnlike eyes to broa
: shouldered master, to speak OF hin
:. admiringly as Real Man, also pre-
:. nounced with a capital R and M.
Now. there is third way for
{ man to deal with a woman. 1t is I
:, treat her. not as Getty and not
:, an inferior, rut as an equal. Just
good as you, and no better than yo
ought to be. Just as bad as you, an
no worse than you may be. Not to D
70 looked up to, nor down on, but TO D
= looked at level in the eye.
IS Women of class one man adore'
le Women of class two man crave
~ Women of class hrea man like
~ Take your choice.
- Woman is mans equal, no more,
ne less. But while she is only equal, sh
sc has a certain peculiar advantage
u leverage with the world which ma
has not. Putting forth moral fore
es eoual to mans. she can affect tW1c
~ as much with it, She sits on the Ion
ue end of the teeter board.
And having this superiority ST
'e- cannot evade the blame for using
an cowardly and selfishly.
ne To explain. The worlds curse
ue money madness. And why. pray, do
So the man sap every ounce OF h
M strength to get money, II not II
! her to shine with? He is strainir
~ every nerve to get on so that 81
~ ~ may have her servants and ride
- her motor. He does not so to churc
us he has not time to read informir
a books, ne is kept ignorant OF art al
's music he is deliberately pluckil
~ his own soul clean of every adornil
grace, and turning himself into
=. money making machine that on
;ts plays golf enough to Keep Itself fro
,on breaking down.
~, ~ There is nothing more appalling
49, me than the ignorant, sap-headed, ST