Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-12

against which she fought. Sex equality
was the supreme good to be desired in
her scheme of right relationships be-
tween the individual and the universe.
While she rebelled against her sex,
yet she rejoiced in it. Glad was she
sometimes on that very account that
to her was given the opportunity to
prove her superiority to the limita-
tons, disabilities and man-made tram
mels of womankind.
Born of two fanatics on the same
subject, whose insanity was modified
and Modified by brilliancy of intellect
in every other field of investigation
and experiment, katherine Brenton
had been trained to the hour for her
profession, for the exploitation of her
principles. The greatest Of u%niversi-
ties pointed to her with peculiar pride
as one of the children of the free;
free from everything in thought and
determined to be free from everything
Ill dCliOu. muSn Wdo SApONtOu Nun
her and the world was not disap-
pointed at the first result of her men,
tai labor. There were certain old
fashioned people who deplored the
perversion of so much talent and even
genius to the defense of error, but
these did not count. The world bought
her book in thousands, read it avidly
and regarded it as the last word of
the last woman of the end of the age
on the sex problem. Cleverly DISCUS.
ing her philosophy in the form of fc.
ton, with one bound she had leaped
to the fore front of all the writers
| struggling for recognition. Publishers
sought her. Magazines pursued her
Another book took shape in her mind
Singularly enough her education
and the erratic bent of her mind hat
left her primarily quite unspoiled. She
was the product not merely of her age
her environment, her parents, but O
a long generation of people to whom
her thoughts would have been as alb
horrent as her person was agreeable
The unconscious Christianity whicl
surrounds the world and especial,
the world Of woman kept her pur
and sweet and lovable-these in spit
of, not because of, her perverse an,
perverted philosophy. Though sh
defed convention in its spirit, she wa
naturally subject to it in its exercise
For instance, to her the marriage bon
was, indeed, a bond, the marriage vo'
a confession Of weakness-on the PAL
of the woman, at least-and the ma
rage relation an acknowledgement
acknowledgement on the part of tn
woman. She would have none of thes
things in her life. Yet, as she though
she had given her heart to a man
alas, the submission to the eterni
l law!-and although their RELATIONSHIP
was sanctioned by nothing but the
affection, it was to her as pure an
: as holy a thing as if the contract ha
! been witnessed and blest by a tho
I sand priests. What was it to him? ST
counted without the other sex. Mar
other women unfortunately have dol
= the same.
. Not content with the writing
. books, her intense devotion to h
cause coupled with her unfiaggil
energy, had found vent upon the IL
I ture platform. The curious crowd
9 to her feet at once, so bold, so radios
y so beautiful and so innocent. One
: her first converts had been the on
L son of a multi-millionaire, bygone /
u nanza king of the Pacific slope. Il
conversion was not SO much an effc
I of pure reason as Of primal passic
" although that fact was in no wise
y parent to her. She would find tn
y out later. This modern Hypat
y skilled in the learning Of the schoo
g burning with exhaustless zeal, p
y meated with fiery energy, was yet
~ innocent in some ways as any of /
&c humber sisters. AS that good Bo
which she disdained in the newer II
" limitations which had come to b
might have said Of her, she was in
!, world but not of 1t.
- Unconsciously she fulfilled many
functions of him who had she |
known it was the greatest Of philo
piers. Naturally she kept hers
unspotted from the world. Yet WI
the young man who had engaged
\. affections proposed to her that tt
= should put her theories in practi