Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1911-09-21
WOmen's Suffrage For Men.

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Women's Suffrage For Men.
Where do men come in in all this talk
about suffrage? OF course you can't
ignore them; at least, if you do you will
get into trouble!
We hear a great deal concerning the
benefit of suffrage to women, but there
is hardly murmur in regard to their in
direct gain through the effect of equal
suffrage on men.
OF course, there can be no great move
ment of any kind, having vital effect
on one sex without concomitant result
on the other. Women Of past ages have
proved rather Intellectual along all lines
save only that of sex. This has made
them highly evolved on this line to the
exclusion of all others. While this fact
is widely acknowledged as highly detri-
mental to women, there has been very
little concern on the part of either men
or women as to its retograde effect on
men, the evil effect being interactive.
The reason is obvious; men have been too
busy in the past and present with their
own affairs to consider women other than
as "wives and mother" women, today,
are too much concerned with their own
affa irs to consider men at all!
Now let us look at mems chief com
plants against women, what has dissat-
satisfied them, and made them really I'M
comfortable. Women being economically
dependent, have obtained their all by
means of wheedling and cajoling men
into producing the goods" This has
made women shrewd and underhand. No
man likes to use trickery in order to gain
his ends with other men, nor does he
particularly appreciate the fact that
woman has smoothed him down with one
hand while she takes his purse with the
other. This underhand business quality
Qet US call it) has cultivated in women
either smallness and stinginess, or else
lavish extravaganza, according to her
nature, neither of which is satisfactory
to men. 1t does not seem to enter his
head that contact with the world of
affairs may change all this petty mean
ness or extravaganza into his own more
or less balanced attitude of mind, derived
not through any God-given or inherent
gift, but through years of self-earning
in class engaged in the same way.
Then there is jealousy. Men have al
ways noticed and rather joked about the
jealousy and recrimination of women to-
ward each other, and with reason. AS
marriage has been woman's one job, she
has hung to it tenaciously, hating any
person or thing interfering with it, be it
a woman, art or business. MenNhave suf-
fered grossly through this absorption of
of women by-one idea. Let her direct
her attention into the broader, more hui
man interests of life, and men will be
the first to benefit by the dispersion of
her vitality. although the majority of
men fear this lack of attention chin
ward" more than any other effect of
suffrage. He can only see what he will
lose; let him think on what he will gain
in freedom.
The narrowness of women's views,
their lack of perspective, their concen-
tration on the purely personal issues of
life, is another source of dissatisfaction
to men. don't say that men know this
to be the cause of their troubles, but
they recognize the effect, taking for
granted that there is no cure. Can things
be otherwise as long as women handle
only the petty affairs of life?
The men do not realize the benefit to
themselves of this great IN 'vement of
women toward broadening their fields of
action the majority of women even less.
There is great cry of alarm by both
sexes as to the masculining effect OF SUI
frage, but very little said rs TO the effect
Of broadening the sympathy and under
between men and women, and
the mutual benefit to both Emily Will
kins Pentecost in The NeW Voter.
Running up and down stairs, sweeping
and bending over making beds will not
make a woman healthy or beautiful She
must get out Of doors, walk mile or
,wo every day and take Chamberlain's
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