El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-02-08
I'll. wlo.,o- MIL On the Liberties OF
AAIQ - w 1AOUA American Women

petites and the passions; what they
shall eat, what they shall wear.
They are a combination of dwarfed
childhood and domestic animals
The high class Mohammedan woman
never leaves her harem save to go out
yelled to a wedding or funeral in a
closed carriage. Only the middle and
lower classes walk on the street
"a woman is made disconnected if
she gads about" the men say. .If she
is at home she knows nothing about
the world outside her home: she is
contented. She is a better woman and
a better mother If She is kept at
home" But these eastern women are
not good mothers. They do not keep
their children clean; they bring into
the world a large percentage of sickly
and half blind children through their
ignorance, and lack OF knowledge.
However contented they are, they
should be reused to HEALTHFUL dis
tented unless she feels that she is
making some progress with the pass
ing of years toward better woman
hood: that she is learning some of the
great lessons of life; that She is be-
coming better fitted to do her work,
that she is greater souled and larger
hearted and clearer sighted as time
goes by.
Whether woman is in the harem
Of the east, or in the home Of idle
wealth, or in the ranks of the daily
toilers, she is not filing the sphere for
which she is meant by the maker un
less she has an awakened intelligence,
a mind which thinks on the prob
lens of life and heart which feels
for others.
In the Orient.
And when she feels and so thinks
the desire will come to her to help
other women to. realize their. import
ant place in the universe. There are
no greater achievements in any line
of endeavor today among the men OF
the Orient, among the Mohammedans-
Great men with great minds cannot
be born of women who are kept in
such absolute ignorance.
It is seldom that among the idle and
unemployed rich in Christian lands a
great man or woman is born. Women
who are slaves to self Indulgence and
who live only to dress and dine and
drive and sleep, do not produce great
sons. So until both in the east and
the west among rich and poor, the
freedom of woman Is established and
the conventions and letters to her OBJ
tanning the advantages WHICH men SA-
10Y in education are removed, there is
need for our suffragettes and for our
active workers along the lines OF equal
franchise.
1t is not merely the obtaining Of
the vote which will help humanity to
higher standards: it is the awakening
of the feminine intelligence, the rous-
ing up of womanhood, to conscious
ness of it's real purpose, itsereal pos
sibilities in life.
An ignorant woman, self-centered
woman. woman satisfied with the
qualification of her appetites and vani-
ties is a hindrance TO the progress OF
the race toward higher planes.
She misrepresents Motherhood
The woman who is bound, hand and
voice. from. doing any of the worlds
work is yet helping the world by help
ing her own development If she
THINKS and LONGS to be useful, II
she forms mental ideals of usefulness.
But the woman who is stupidity con-
tented with uselessness is q block in
the path of progress
Woman, awakei
Copyright. 1910, by New York Even
ipC Journal Co.