The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-23
WHAT EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW Remarkable Letter OR the Profession of Wo- mankind Written by Cultured Mem-
 Der of the GentIer Sex

CLetter to Editor of New York Sum- s. C. Hazard. the Montclair lady, and other elect persons who seem to shar', my 'old woman unprogressive views2 Especially Alice M. Mallonee, who says what I feel much better than I myself could do it,with a,taste, temper and cogency truly admirable. l am glad indeed to find that not withstanding the shouting and the tu- mutt there is a saving remnant hold ing fast to the view that the profes- sion of woman is worth while Of It. self, even when it includes further the position of working woman. have been one these many years, and have wrought in such various fields as school teaching, running a planta- ton buying and breeding cattle, spec ulating in tobacco, logging, editing. dressmaking. and freelancing, if that last characterization is allowable. As a writer person I have done pretty much every sort, kind and condition of work. Almost invariably l have worked for men or with them. And in all the course of my experience have never yet come to a pass beyond my strength that there was not mans hand held out to help me.
 This is not saying that men are all plenty of them abuse the permission any human being has to be hateful. But taken by little and by large the good in them far outweighs the bad. No man is f1awless-God be praised The most uncomfortable person in the world is one constantly simmering in a consciousness of his own virtues But some havings of chivalry turk in the toughest; chivalry which is in es- sence of strength for weakness.
 The suffragists make much Of the betterment in woman's legal and fin-- ancial status Who but men did the bettering-men who were clear eyed to see and ready to remedy the lnJus- tice of statutes outworn? If they had not been thus quick to see, ready to remedy, how would the statutes have been changed? Certainly fran chi: agitation could never have done it. Left to himself, unmarried. un- provoked. every manly mans intuitive impulse toward womanhood is that If protection. of making things brighter and easier. To brawling and con- tention he stops his ears and shuts his heart, even though convinced there is a grain of justice below the crawling. This in minor matters. In major ones I have faith to believe that men, my brothers, will do justice to wom- enkind, even in spite of womenkind's self
 If could but think of the soft answer which turns away wrath l would write it in capitals to the lady II have mislaid her communication who wants to endow me with five hundred odd pages of club do1ngs. thousand Besides, I shouldn't get really any benefit I should read through a. haze of regrets for the waste of good print and paper, just as | do over Government bulletins, Pat ant Office reports and best sellers. The man who invented wood pulp has much to answer for to this day and generation. Think of cutting down trees that grow and beautify the earth. purify the air and shelter the wild things. to no better end than that they may help to debauch of print er's ink; butchering to make a Rom an holiday was mild in comparison with such a crime. I am not "agin'' clubs of any sort; they are, no doubt. in country phrase, mighty choice God forbid I should undertake to set up standards for anybody, least of all the capital letter folk. If they like to make themselves unedifying spectacles for the rest of us, l can look at them as joyously as the next one But from the surface of scant experience I must say that had the club craze hit us thirty years earlier the phrase peanut politics. would not have needed to be invented.
 Mrs. Yonkers- -McI'ike finds me ''in- coherent" Maybe so. As we'll that as anything when one is under neces- sity of bursting into print, with or without occasion. Also. if memory serves, she questions what I mean by the profession of woman, unless it be an emphasizing of sex. I hardly thought Advanced Womanhood had to have its "ts' crossed, its ''i's'' dotted tegorically-indeed I regarded it as capable of drawing differences. A nat ural inference, it seems to me, from the statement that the cave womans s loss of tribal headship was the begin ming of civilization is that evolution had taught the cave dwelling folk it was better the mothers should be ar tisans than amazons. A primal inn pulse of fair play may have had something to do with it. Chiefess Strong Jaw may have had a cheerful habit of declaring war on Chiefess Big Foot just when that lady was most nearly incapacitated for battle Even cave men may not have liked to stand for such gosngs on-and out Therefore gradually they took to themselves the job.a of fighting and plundering, thereby losing their or namental character of drone fathers Constant sight of bloodshed affects the character; witness the law, man made to be sure. which bars butchers from sitting as jurors in murder trials When women ceased to lead the fo- ray. the chase, to Eloat over the kill