The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-13

that they want a single standard of
morality just as they did that they
| wanted to go into business, they will
| have it.
| If girls will decide that they want
husbands with as clean records as they
| themselves have, just as they decided
that they wanted college educations,
| they will get them.
The only reason we are not nearer
the attainment of this ideal is that
! women have been content with condi-
lions as they are in this respect, and
haven't made UP their minds to de-
mand better things.
In British East India, it is the Gus
| tom that woman will not marry
| man until he goes to some neighboring
| tribe and brings back three heads as
| proof of his proves. The men are
| not bloodthirsty lot. They don't kill
| for the love of killing. They simply
get those three heads because that is
what the women have decided they
1 want.
The editor of a we'll known woman's
magazine comments on this custom:
ut is gruesome, yet; but all the
| same it is a universal human fact.
| In a thousand ways-most of them
| more pleasant than that-this sort of
thing goes on the world over; what
| women decide becomes custom and
| law
The moral of this to Mr.. Box is
that since this is so, since woman has
1
| content and not ask the right to help
make laws.
With all due respect to Mr. Box I
am going to make bold to read diff
ferent lesson, and that Is that since
woman has so great an influence and
can have whatever she wants. this
single standard of morality is not an
impossibility if only women will want
1t enough.
1 admit that they don't want it
enough TO-DAY.
But the success of a play like ga
Mans World" proves that they have
at least begun to think on this sub
ject.
And with that step taken I think
the rest is sure to come.
Not soon, by any means. I don't
mean that.
But maybe when old Halley's comet
comes on his next trip he will see
as great a change in this respect as he
has seen in some others since his visit
of three-quarters of century ago.
Who knows?
4 "
In the little. town of Clifton Hill.
Australia,-you see this is a far away
story, but none the less 1 assure you
a true one-lives a woman who has a
history of suffering, such, that If it
were chronicled in the pages of fc-
we should call it impossible
Forty years ago this woman had
erysipelas in her right arm and was
obliged to have it amputated to the
socket.
A few years later the disease at
tackled her again and her left leg was
cut off.
No sooner had she lost her right
arm than she had learned to write
with her left hand, but before long
to be taken off at the elbow. She
learned to use the stump, and then
modification set in and that arm also
was amputated to the socket.
She has now one leg and no arms.
Six years ago she lost her voice.
You say, such a creatures life can
not possibly be of any use to her or
anyone else. It would be better for
her to die"
Please suspend your Judgment a
little.
THAT creature" even since the last
of her misfortunes-the loss of her
voice-befell her, has written a book.
CLOUD and Sunshine. This book has
country.
And not only that, but she has
helped to support herself by acting as
secretary for a busy doctor.
How? Oh, by an ingenious arrange
ment of a pen fixed in the right arm
socket and controlled by part of a
compass, which lends it the curves
needed for the formation of written
| letters.
| But how is not the point.
| That's comparatively unimportant.
/ That she has DONE it, is what
| counts
That's why I have been telling you
| this story.
| Despite the gruesomeness of its de-
tails, I think it ought to be printed
| in every newspaper and periodical in
/ the land.
| After reading it, do you feel that
you have any right ever to plead any
handicap of disposition or physique
or circumstance that you may chance
to labor under, as an excuse for fail
| ure?
| After reading it. do you feel that
you have any right ever to say, 81
| can't?
In. the United States senate today
there is man who has been blind