El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-11-03

The human teetotumS twirl fever
ishly in towns and cities during foul
or five days out of the seven, and ther
fly off to hotels or country cottage:
for the other two or three. Vitality
is wasted in all this useless exertion
and discomfort comes Of feeling ex-
hausted without any accruing benefit
or profit. Serenity vanishes in the
hubbub. Breakdown follows and theI
comes the doctor and the rest cure.
often undertaken too late
An Infectious Quality.
Can one Of the reasons of this rest
lessness in women be owing to their
having entered so much into COM
radship with men in their amusement
and their occupations? Few things are
more infectious than this quality. See
ing other people perpetually on the
move, like a swarm of gnats on a
summer evening, makes others IN
settled. But restlessness is an in
tegral part of man. Nature gave il
him as part of equipment for doing the
pioneering, the exploring, the discover
ing of the world.
1t is restlessness that makes the ad-
venturer, in the true and worthy sense
Of that perverted word. 1t was res
lessness that sent Columbus across the
seas to find the great continent OF
which he had dreamed The world
could not get on without this inherent
restlessness of man.
Women have not always realized
that it is part of the masculine charac-
ter. Many wives and mothers have
made the mistake Of supposing it to be
eradicable, of thinking it something
amiss. faulty, that needs setting to
rights. They have tried various meth
DDS. Some try coaxing, some coercion
By falling to understand that rest
lessness is proper to the male, many
thousand women have missed married
happiness. and millions of mothers
have made home a place of discomfort
for their boys
Better HOme-Keepers Once.
In the days before society became
the huge agglomeration of. mixed
classes it now is, there was less in
citement for girls and women to be
perpetually in evidence. They were
not only more at home, but were bet
ter home-keepers. Restless women
canot give time and attention to do
mesticity. They must dress and be in
the public eye; seeing and being seen.
Any pretext is seized upon for this
Though thousands of earnest women
have become suffragists through con-
viction, whether mistaken or other
wise, Of the excellence of the cause
restlessness has swelled their ranks
with many thousands more. Numeri-
cally. any party they join becomes su-
perior, but it is doubtful If they make
IT intrinsically stronger. On the con-
trary, the restless element is usually
a source Of weakness in any COM
munity.
Could but this tremendous mass of
energy be directed to some worthy
aim, the world would be immeasurably
richer. Fortunately, there are many
undertakings in which. the abilities of
women of leisure can be utilized, and
some Of these promise we'll for the
benefit OF the state.
The day will come, though not just
yet, when women will be associates
with men, not only IN their sports and
amusements, but in the real work of
the world. and all this commotion of
vague restlessness will have settled
down to a force as powerful as that
which directs the turbulence of the
tides of that great emblem of restless
ness-the sea.