The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07
WOMEN'S COLUMN,
A Ballad of The True Woman.


Atone she faces death i'll fight
That life may he upon the earth,
Sole priestess of the ancient rite,
The primal mystery OF Dlrth.
Her hand. our cropping lips that guides
To find their nurture at her breast.
Through all the years SustalnS, decides,
Prevents. and holds us to our best.
Her smile. Madonna-like and pure,
She on her sleeping babe doth bend,
Is StiU the steadfast lamp and sure
That lights our lives from end TO emu.
Her tears. dear pearls of price. that fan
For pity Of our childish pam:
In manhood are the balm for all
Our wounds. and make us whole again
Let her. the fever and the FUSS
ForSaking, bear her part again,
To mother us and marry US
And, first and last, to make US men!
Francis Medhurst, in Harper's Weekly.
$3.50
The Contention Is Women's.
Woman's protest against woman's lib
Grafton from the trammels of the past is
n highly interesting thing. 1t is worthy
in every way to be regarded, and 1T is
perfectly sure to be regarded, by men,
for the h~earthstone" theory of womans
sphere is in harmony with most mems
desires. The man likes to think of a
cherished woman always in his home,
and keeping a welcome for him when
ever he wants to return to it, no matter
how little he may choose to be there
himself. His ideal of the woman's con-
tent is his own content. He likes to
think of his comfort as q woman'S one
thought. to which she is willing to sac
rifice all other thoughts. The woman
who wrote a recent pretty "Song OF Con-
tent" and made it end with the follow
-. N--uo--o1 4hn -r1nnSC ideal
of what the woman's ideal should be:
A wholesome smell of bread, new baked;
The spinning wheels low hum;
These, with a hundred omely tasks,
Make of her day the sum.
Yet search the whole world thro' and thro
Her happiness to match
Her drowsy babe upon her breast,
His hand upon the latch!
Beyond question the ideal of most
women is the ideal which has thus been
projected into their minds from the de-
sires of men. They are content to be
what men want them to be- The ques-
ton which is now being agitated by "ad-
vanced'' women is not at all the question
whether women who have this ideal
should abandon it-they do not expect
or ask them to abandon it-but as to
what should be the position of women
who are not waiting for the mans hand
on the latch.
There is nothing more certain than
that our industrial development has
thrown a large proportion OF our Wom-
en- into the market place with the men.
There is nothing more certain than that
custom and circumstance have endowed
the average American woman with a
higher degree of cultivation than her
husbands and given ber more time to
think about the problems OF society.
There is nothing surer than the plnnlng
--IozI o-I +l<, -rhOlacoyoa -noollinu home
baked bread have become obsolete IN
American life. We may go a step
further, and say that there are now ex-
tremely few American men who main
tain that women should not be exactly
as free as men to do what they want to
do. or that constraint IN any form
should be put upon their ideals.
So it is really a question that women
haye to answer themselves. The quar-
rel between the h~earthSt0ne and the
market place, or between the hearth
stone and the ballot box, must be fought
out among the women. We have fire.
Ouently noticed that mems denunclatlons
of the new ideal for women usually
work in the opposite way from the way
intended. making converts for the new
ideal among women by the hundreds.
1t is probably much better for men to
keep silent and let the battle go on,
trusting rather to the operation of prime
VII IlSLluClS IndA " IllC III 49,
action arguments.-New York Mail. 2
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"Let the Women Do It."
And now comes trouble-making man
with the suggestion that Uncle Sam en-
pIoy women to take the census. The
man says that capable workers of mas
culine persuasion can not be employed
for the salary that the government will
nav its enumerators-S2 a DAY or there
= hO,,+ on1 fhat fhn lind of mon who will
apply for positions as census takers are
elders who are not seeking good jobs"
Therefore, says the man, let the women
do the work. You see, they are accuS-
toned to accepting small compensation
for their services. and if they a the
Jobs offered by the census bureau the
work will be better done thar could
be expected from a lot of $2-a-day float
ers." Moreover. adds a contemporary
which falls in line OIL this idea, most
of them (women, OF cOurSe) have bet
ter educations than $2-a-day men, and
their work in every branch OF human
endeavor is more painstaking and ac-
curate." II.
Now. there is not the slightest doubt
that if the next census were taken by
women it would be as well taken as was
ever a point of order raised by an ad-
ministration man against an "Insurgent
IN the House of Representatives-and
I1dI. We hlOhN 10 80 NN0C-'
But this isn't the point. If capable
men can not be obtained as census emu
merators at a salary Of S2 a day., what
reason is there for assuming that women
would be particularly delighted to. do
the arduous work at that price? If 81
is not enough money to rent masculine
brains. it certainly is unjust to expect
women of equal mental ability to rent
their brains for that price. 1t is on
this unjust principle that school boards
pay male teachers materially larger sal
aries than they pay woman teachers who
do exactly the same work that man
teachers perform. The fact that the
women have heretofore been willing to
do the work that men have rejected and
TO do it for less than men are paid is not
justification for presuming that women
will never rub the sleep out OF their
eyes. They may be accustomed to
accepting small compensation" but then,
you know, one may become accustomed
to a great many abuses in this life that
he or she does not intend always to sub
nit to m~eekly.-Woman's National Daily.
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Physical Culture for Young Girls.
In some recent remarks about exercise
for girls / recommended walking as the
very best thing they could do. A candld
friend with perhaps too keen a sense OF
humor and of her DrowesS at basket ball.,
rowing. ETC., honored me with q patron
izing smile and said: Really, you don't
call walking exercise. do you? Poor
girl! If she only knew the great phys
zeal and mental benefits to be obtained by
hard. brisk, energetic walking she would
have saved her sarcasm for a better sub
ject. Yet her query was not altogether
in vain. For if she, an athlete, was lg-
norant of the value OF a good walk,
how much darker ignorance may one eX-