El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-01

a FANATICAL nd sensational
~ preacher and millionaire
= = bachelor have been following
in the footsteps of the father Adam
and blaming everything that is wrong
in the world on women.
Let me tell you," shrieks the cler-
gyman. who are responsible for the
wrecked homes, the scandals, divorces
and decentralization of American So
ciety. The women of this country"
1T would seem that women have no
idea of the real meaning of marriage"
declares the rich old bachelor. They
marry for a home to live out of; they
marry a man to be away from him;
they marry, in fact. only to get d.
vorced, SO they can choose a new hus-
band or live on the alimony paid by
the first one None of them knows
how to cook or sew, and, horrors, they
would deny that their good. old, home
~ grandmcthers knew how to wash
Clothes"
These are two terrific phillippics
against women and would be worth
very serious consideration-if they
were true. Which they aren't, and be-
fore women put on their sackcloth and
ashes, and begin beating upon their
breasts and crying out, .Mea culpa,"
it would be well to consider the
sources OF these attacks upon the
womanhood of the land.
First-The Preacher.
The first critic is a preacher, and 1t
is a matter of common knowledge that
when a preacher wants to denounce
someone in scathing terms the news
papers will notice that he always
chooses somebody that can't hit back.
He doesn't thunder against drunken
ness, or immortality, or stock gambling.
or any other of the vices of men. In
stead. he breaches against the follies
of women, and declares that the length
of willow plumes or peekaboo shirt
waists are sending the country to per-
dition.
The reason for this is plain. Men
won't come to church to hear them
selves abused and vilified. but, women
are such meek sheep that they trot
perfectly safe for a preacher to call
them all the names he wants to. They
will be back in their pews next Sun
day. Therefore, when clergyman
lays all the sins of society at woman's
door he should be regarded as speak
ing in merely Pickwickian sense
Nor should this rich bachelors dia-
tribe against women be taken too Sc.
riously, for, If popular report does not
women Of the chorus than he is with
the modest, quiet, domestic girls who
make up the bulk of American young
womanhood- That may possibly ex-
plain why he is of the opinion that
women now do not know how to cook
and sew. and are more interested in
a mans pocketbook than they are in
his heart.
But are the charges thus brought
o{,1c% he xrvrr of ~
I answer no-a thousand times no
and every honest minded person will
agree with me.
To begin with. there is nothing the
matter with the American home. It
is not tottering to it's fall. 1t is as
safe and stable as the Rock Of Gibral-
tar. home in which there is dissen-
sion and warfare, a home that is ILL
kept and neglected, is the exception
and not the rule.
A Few Foolish Ones.
In every community there are a few
foolish dress mad, fashion mad, bridge
mad, automobile mad women, but these
are in a small minority compared to
the number of devoted wives and
mothers who work every day beyond
their strength to make their families
comfortable and happy, who deny
themselves everything they can pos
sibly do without to help their hus-
bands and children, and whose lives
are one perpetual sacrifice upon the
altar of home.
Show me one neglectful wife and
mother and I Will show you a hun
dred who have no thought but for
their families, no aspiration except
that which is conferred in those dearer
than life to them.
Nor are there any other homes in
the world better or more intelligently
managed than American homes and
the proof of this is to be found in the
fact that the American woman does
not permit herself to become the
drudge that foreign women do.1S She
does not degenerate into merely an
upper servant. She gets her work