The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-09-26

AFTERNOON reception I know Of one w
man who wears = new hat every time "a.
tries q case: another Of onuI-n, ~hsr~'
sho used to wear summer and winter a
naerant4y openwork blouse. there uss
mnch more 10 the open than there was 10
the work She was ruled dovf. severely
by even the most Don Juan Of our fud-~-
Ana when decisions against her cam. as
last as hailstones. ] believe she releGaied
the nieagTe covering 70 her boudoI-. II
We take the stand that there Is no sex IN
IhteliectuaI work. We should not Haunt IL
and 50 s~tulttfy ourselves"
How soon will We address The ladies'
OF the jury"
Very soon ] hope. Aud trained wo.,sa
VIII make up q jury as well a. trained
men; II You put a woman 81 forty today
n the jury beside a man Of the same ace
criticism OF her would be unfair. for he has
been trained for jury service since he was
Il, and Is therefore an adult 81 IT, and
she but an infant-in-arms. You would
not expect an ignorant Italian immigrant
10 render Intelligent jury service; he
would he excused for his lack. but ! wo-
man would be blamed through sex pre-
JUDGE. Ii resolves itself in the end into
Il difference between the trained and the
unframed mind. There is no such thing
as the woman mind or the man mind.
Women do possess over men the CIR ~
intuition that incommunicable lightning
or the mind, but that * only seeing
the result in a fash and skippiu. The stems
mat iead to H. Ii is simply instantaneous
reasoning.
~ Wv a I n Ns
could tell whether Il man or 4 woman
wrote the brief handed TO him: il il the
same IN arguing or handling A case. Do
men ana women solve problems In algebra
differently Would Il man dare say she
ADDS four and two together aud gets. six
Just IKE a woman how feminine is her
subtraction; how absurdly illogical is the
way she divides nine by three and gets
three for a result You know the isno-
rant and the trained mathematician there
is correct or Incorrect arithmetic: there
IN lies the only difference.
Several years ago in a Western law
Schooi there was one woman student To
five hundred men. one graduation i prize
was offered for the best thesis on the dry
as-duSt subject of Contracts Assumed
names were 5 gned. There was one thesis
that the committee-an leading men OF
the bar-exciaimed over, for its masculine
logic, its mans point OF view and stark
strength. When they discovered the one
woman whom they had tried to freeze out
was the author, al were COMPOUNDED. some
even maintaining that for the honor OF
the profession they ought TO revoke their
decision. All were heartily ashamed OF
themselves and brokenly admitted that
they were Inadequate 70 serve as Judges
in such contests. Beaten by a woman
is Of course a humiIiating confession for
any man to make; for as far as women
VIII progress. we must remember that the
vanity Of man is his unalienab1e right
from which he departs with the most
poignant regret. Dean Ashley says that
women lead men in the Law school. There
Is no DOUBT JnaC IN academic WORK OF all
kinds women excel: they may eventually
in the professions. 1t Will be long how
ever, before there is 4 feminine John Mar
shall or Webster or Rufus Choate. But
look at the long gaps between men. Wo-
men in England We're writing two hun
dred years before they evolved a George
Eliot. Sovereignty among women was an
old story before it eliminated in an Eliza
beth or a Catharine. Only today we have
produced a Madame Curie in science.
This woman movement in all its phases,
the desire for the ballot-the demand FOR
economic equaIity-the increasing number
of women lawyers, doctors, architects.
ministers and engineers will not only be
of advantage to our sex, bat to the whole
race. 1t is the greatest movement since
the French Revolution and is not sporadic
or temporary but world wide and perma-
nent.
"The desire for women to work in new
fields is the result of our old employ
ments being taken from us by modern
machinery and modern industrialism. Our
spinning wheels lie broken IT our feet
we no longer weave the clothing for the
household, Il task not disdained by the
most aristocratic women in the old days.
The lady is no more as her name indi-
Gates the loaf giver TO the retainers; for
none are now retained. We have ceased
to work in the fields or brew the great
watts. Naturally we turn from the worn
out, to the new. The creation Of physical
tence. We did much beside that In the
past. we will do much with il too In the
future.
When women get the suffrage, not only
will a few professional women be hene-
flied. but all women Will be uplifted. The
one thousand three hundred and eighty
five women shaving in the mines viii he
led up to enjoy the Light Of day; the
chains of the little sweat-shoD slave Will
be broken forever; no poor mite OF n shop
girl will stand ten hours a day for s2.E
a week; no children viii be devoured by
Mammon in the mills of South Carolina.
''Fhp 6pppeS- social thinkers today be-
I;eve a Social Revolution is inevitable.
Tolstov said ii would break out first in
America. Even the Idle Rich thems-
selves are being alarmed at the doom II
not If themselves at least Of their de-
scendants. Women's work has always been
humanitarian. never tyrannical. Who
knows what she may accomplish In social
reimbursement: whether sodden riches and
abiect want will face each other 40 glow
eringly as they do today. II may be 4
long time before we produce a great turist