Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-04-07
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| necessary j'ome-body. Not that HON.
has lost Its c'..s-s, or that it Will ever
cease to be the pace which she most
loves and wherS She reigns supreme,
| but choice or Necessity has driven her
into varied pursuits. many OF tl.am call
ing for familiarity win Sublic a.fairs Md
executive ability.
You see them not only doing clerical
work in Offices, but acting as shop girls in
! stores or laborers in a factory. Many
have charge OF large administrations. are
presidents OF colleges, heads Of corpora
tons, and indeed, engaging in almost
every avocation OF their brothers, and
doing 50 with success. | have been told
that the large apartment house 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
Many business man in this country
has as his secretary woman with whom
he consults in his business trausactions
and on whose judgment he relies.
There is host OF female Doctors
Women have invaded the pulpit and
are pastors Of many churches. They
are found in the court roonl and not a
few are efficient and suc-e- it'll practi-
TONERS. Indeed, it may truly Ire aiiirmed
that they have fully entered into the
active life of the world.
And now. what OF the future? Female
suffrage will come. Not fuir at once,
but by varying steps Noma15 broader
education, her increasing iam rity with
business and public affairs, Will cad to
it. And why not? The chief reply is
the home. God forbid that it should be
ljcopardized, for upon It in all it. iu'ness
! depends the best social life. In TACT, it
is the basis upon which growing human
ity depends. And in It woman must ever
be the great factor, the unchalenged
queen. But female suffrage will not
dobase the home or lessen lis power and
| influence. On the other hand, it will in
troduce a refining and uplifting power
into Our political lie. It will not stop
marriage neither will higher education.
| The great natural laws of Our being will
always assert themselves. Speaking at
a Vassar commencement a few years
say to two others. Il am simply dis
glistcd three fOurths of the girls are en-
gagged already" Evidently She was not
one Of the happy ones. 1t is to be hoped
that afterwards she Jared better But
woman, conscious of her independence
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 Race
suicide is not the worse offense. There
is wisdom in the fable OF the hare and
the honess. The former, Boosting of
her litter, sncered at the latter for her
| single offspring Yes" was the reply,
but he is a lion" To load a home with
so many children that the mother cannot
give to each the full blessing OF a 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
CORY in Genesis, driven out OF Eden, that
garden which gave man all things to
great epic poet closes his immortal poem
with these words
"Thc world was all before them, where
to choose
Their place OF rest, and providence their
guide.
The, 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, prander and nobler than the
pristine Eden, because wrought ont OF
the thorn growing earth BY the unite
laborS OF man and woman, and into
which have entered, and shall enter. all
OF human toll and struggle, selt-denial
and sacrifice, hopes and aspirations, faith
and worship.
|PTGINAT.