The Nome daily nugget., 1910-09-21
INFLUENCE OF WOMEN
 ON HOME AND MANKIND

This Is ~umctirps resented hv tHr new woman today. as though Il vrra putting too much upon th, woman. but in the older days il uas aerarf.d q as great honor And. in spite 8f all cftorts to rcrudiatc the responsibilities and avoid tho opportunities. 1t stm remains true#that thc world is largely what woman makes il. Woman is boss. after all. iH some way or other Woman has been given in Christian civilization. at least. kingdom that Is all her own. The statesman th. soldier. the lawyer. the merchant and every man. when he mfugIcs in th, world where woman reigus. becomes her subject In that world. woman k supreme. She makes the laws. shr. practically makes standards of right and wrong. and sets the gauge of thought and feeling IT she k frfFa- l"us. society is false. if she k hish- minded and gentle and truc-hcartcd. fl she k pure and devout and Wise. she can make society all these. More than statesman or prophet or king. sh, has t in her power to clerate=er de grade. to lead men to God or to turn them away from Him. In order ta exercise her power she need not preach ur reason or exhort. she has anlE to be what she will, and what she is she will uncousciausIy make society. Now and aeain thry do a-- eomrlish great things hy words 1H season. Gtly spoken. ar by WcIl-plan- ned schemes ar usefulness. hut. after all the hest and nobIe@l power of Na- man lies. moi in what she dncs. but jn what she is
 We often hear the complaint tand it is truo) that the men of this genera ton are hard and grasring. that they seem tn care for little else than ma terial gain and external show. but how much of this is due to the sordfd tone of the fashionable world and the ostcntatious cxactions of society," Wherever woman sets her affections chiefly on the things that wealth can purchase. and so long as she is rather q devotee of fashion than the servant and handmafd of those high and holy duties that are nothing less than Df- vine. we may be perfectly sure that men will think more of the world than of heaven. and will love money better than their Maker
 There is another sphere of woman's influence where she is even more su- prcme-the domestic circle. the quiet sanctuary of the home There. too. the whether wife. mother or| daughter-is ar ought to be supreme It is there that the souls of those she loves are given into her hands. it is there that the husband. or father. or son, or brother. strong and rugged though he be in the outer world comes in his weakness and wearincss: it is there that they are all plastic to her touch and responsive to her loving and gentle service; there, if she will. she may he the mightiest of mission aries and the most potent of rulers There are. of course exceptions It does happen that a husband or a graceless son q. ecs the gracious in- fuenee of wife or mother tanl all the wards for him. and the wor'G} bus rule runs not SO The rule is that into the hands of woman is given the very souls of the men of her house. hold. To win those souls she has but to stand in her home as the priestess of an immortal faith. reconciling hu- man love with the Divine, folding the hands of infancy in prayer joining the hands of all in fellowship. opening them in love. and with her own point ing the way to heaven.
 Who can estimate the power which such a woman can wied over the souls of those she loves? Who can tell what she may not do for society by sending into it fresh streams of sweetening influence from the foun- tain of her family devotion? Men will listen to her when they will not hear the preacher, preach he ever so wise ly. Such a woman may be a destroy CT of faIsehood and a guardian of in- nocence; she can make pity sacred. beneyolence honorable, charity sub lime and sordid cynicism odious; she can make life worth living
 And all this she may do if she will only realize the magnitude and the responsibility of her opportunities as the queen of society and hea ,ens ap- pointed minister in the home. Man may be the king. but woman is the queen. and the power behi.I1 the throne.