The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-10
We EAT TOO MUCH, SAYS STEVENSON
Fresh Air Needed in Sleeping Rooms-Economcal Condi
ton of Women will Never be Improved Until They
Vote--Women Their Own Worst Enemies

pays IduSuiu 6dMc VI UIlO6c,
spends half of her time making and
unmaking toilet. nibbles sweetmeats,
teeters down street in a pair of French
heels which later send her to the
hospital, never reads, never thinks,
never does anything but contribute to
her own poor little material existence,
who jeers at the "suffragettes." who
says nothing could induce her to
vote, who sneers delicately at women
who work for their living" who is
in short, the parasite Of society, is
and much to her surprise if she were
tobias directly responsible for the
economic conditions among women as
the employers of labor.
And for this reason that, by her in
difference to her individual RESPONSE
bility toward the social scheme
Of things, and her refusal to
unite with all women in the rectifica-
she prevents a social evolution which
would have for it's result the econom-
ic emancipation of women.
Women are the worst enemies of
women.
In a purely social aspect this is a
psychological fact that can never be
refuted.
1t will continue when women
achieve the franchise.
1t will be no different when they
vote.
But from theeconomic standpoint
women can help each other. If all
women would unite in demanding
| their rights as citizens they would
get them. But women won't do this
save in isolated groups.
And, on this issue, they will find
men united solidly against them. The
exception is an isolated masculine in
dividual.
Men have retreated to their last
stronghold. Because when all women
! can vote there will be, not class but
sex legislation. And this is the DOGGY
| men flee from.
| 1t is all very we'll for an elderly man
in the seclusion of his editorial sane
tum, from which he may issue to eat
pancakes and beefsteak and lobster
! and pate de foie gras, for all anybody
| knows although it's ten to one he pat
ronizes the dairy lunch, to write scath-
| ing editorials about the weakness of
character shown by girls who clerk
| in department stores who sometimes
go wrong because they are mashed up
against the wall and don't want to
commit suicide-for life is beautiful
even to girl who lives in hall bed
P<>r,
willow plumes as just common Or
binary clothes to protect her from the
climate.
| When the fires of life burn low,
when you are old and respectable, we'll
clothed and we'll fed, even if you are
not rich and have to write editorials
for living-its easy enough to say
"be good and you'll be happy
When you're young and the blood
riots in your veins and you can't do
anything, no matter how hard you try,
but keep body and soul together, your
moorings slip sometimes.
Ugly things lure with the fascina-
! ton of beauty. Its because life is
seen out of focus.
''Have strength of character and
leave drink alone,' an editor writes.
And he jeers with fine contempt at
the person who blames the drink EN-
poriums for his bad habits.
Mother" once said a young man,
who was cursed with hereditary
taste for liquor, Il never pass saloon
l don't have to fight with myself"
| There are lot of miserable weak
lings in the world. But there are 9th.
er beings who battle and Struggle but
who are swallowed in the flood be-
cause it's too strong for human endur.
ance..
Let women get together and cor
rect these economic wrongs. Depart
ment store magnates and all other EN-
ployers of women's labor will. contin
ue the present economic regime just
as long as women will permit them to
do so.
Men are cruel to women in business
no mater what attitude they sustain
toward them in other social phases.
An example before the finale.
A girl, by hard work and the self