Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1911-12-15


full and excellent remarks were:
You each recall the now famous
toast of Jas. Choate. the great law
yer and after dinner speaker given
at a woman's suffrage banquet.
Woman Once Our Superior, Now
Our Equal"
A bit of slur systematically
put. A delusion, if we may criti-
else, handed down from the days
when knighthood was in flower.
when femininity was placed on a
pedestal Of idealistic romance, while
womanhood was spurned as was the
minor and idiot. This age of Chi
valry cast a halo ineffable around
femininity making a bauble, an OBJ
ject of worship, while consigning
woman to complete servitude in the
home, a negligible and inert force
in the community and state; the OBJ
ject of perverthed rhapsody in the
pre-nuptial period and to be only
the burden and fruit bearer there.
after.
This attitude toward woman was
as spurious as the age of which she
was the victim.
Do we recognize. wonder. the
tremendous import of the change?
The change of which she, whose pres
ence it is for US to honor, is the visi-
bic embodiment? The living sym.
Dol? Our Equal Standing in the
fullness of womanhood, proving that
the attributes of the soul and the
character are not dependent upon
the equality of sexl Our Equal
She will shortly assume the guild
ance (which no other age would
permit of hundreds, yes, thousands
of future citizens and home-makers,
some of whom from foreign lands
and sunny climes, shall look back to
her guidance as milestones in their
unfolding careers.
And she shall gain womanliness,
losing nothing of the thrill of true
romance, of attractiveness, or gen.
tleness. What she gains in head,
thru graver responsibilities, shall
not be at expense of heart, and we,
who know Miss Grace Goebel, realize
that the community shall be better
and broader through her assumption
of the duties imposed upon her by
an appreciative people.
Miss Grace Goebe then respond
ed with a few words If appreciation
which were in part:
When think of your hospitality
of this feast fit for a king, of the
cultured quotations, the refined
music, the bright readings, the
gracious and intellectual toasts. /
must exclaim, And this is New
Mexico New. Mexico, where it
can truthfnlly be said that those
who return north or east disappoint.
ed are those who make exceedingly
short visits, and rare indeed is he
who having lived here two or three
years ever returns to his native
home to remain there. have met
many who have told that they came
for visit of few weeks or months
who now have intentions of retain
ing a life interest in New Mexico.
1t will be great countryl Every
one may not agree with me now but
when the poetry of agriculture is
developed in all kinds of fruits and
grains, plants and vegetables, as II
will be. where the vegetation of the
semi-tropical sections Of the earth.
is just as much at nome as that of
the temperate zone, our State will
be recognized as the land Of almost
perpetual sunshine, of flowers the
most beautiful. Of fruits the most
of products of the great
est commercial values; inhabited by
a courageous and intelligent people. |
And It requires courage and intelli-
gence TO establish such conditions
in what has been FAMED a desert