The Washington herald., 1912-02-10
WOMAN'S SPHERE
FURTHER THAN HOME
Business Woman Not Only One
Who Pays.

The ed tors notes Of The Herald of
January 80, 1911, leads me from my place
Of seclusion. The home and school l
wish to uphold. Suffrage has its draw
backs. but it has come to stay simply
because men have neglected the home"
and have trified with its sacred institu-
tons The club inaugurated by men has
been adopted by women in self-defense.
What wife can be happy alone while her
husband goes out to meet a friend on
business at his club, perhaps, and she
is not told what thet business is often
because the business is 4 myth Suf-
frage is development for woman. She
is no longer a quiet, unthinking. truthful
child, tied to her children and home du-
ties-happy in drudgery even for the
sacred love she bears her husband. She
has found him out. He deceived her; his
life's a double one in which pure, in
nocent woman cannot enter.
And ye two shall be one flesh" was
not meant for many Of the men of to-
day. else the women would need TO be
magnitied into various personalities.
Not n sunraEette.
I am not a suffragette. but can i'm
agine what outrages some of them suf-
fered in their own lives or through the
lives Of sisters or friends dear to them.
Men have not lived the noble. self
sacrificing life they like women TO live.
They have had two laws. one for them
selves and another for their wives, sis
ters. and daughters, and the suffragette
exploits it, and the poor fellows are
ashamed.
Mothers, wives, and sisters have hidden
mems faults for centuries; first, because
OF the love they bore them: second. as
mother used to say, Treat your brothers
well; in a few years they will be men
and hold positions of honor in the world
perhaps make money, while you are only
woman. They are the powers in the
world
We not only loved, but were proud OF
their business or culture; We shone in
their reflected luster until We learned that
like sham diamond we stood in front
of a piece Of worthless gilt We were
shams, we had covered their faults brave
ly and felt debased. The marriage tie
was too sacred to break. We cried over
drunken sons, fathers, and husbands. un-
til the great need Of temperance led to
Gods Inspiration of Frances Willard. and
changed mans viewpoint. At first all
manner of ridIcule and even abuse was
experienced by her followers but that
fault in men is in great part over
come Not. however, before their dRugh-
ltTS. III SOInt HlSLduGtst lOliONeu LuelT
lead, or inherited their tendencies.
Let us pray as We have done before
that universal suffrage may come before
women are lost to all sense Of virtue,
honor and honesty.
Let us not live to the flesh, and of the
flesh seek corruption. Let our desires be
for spiritual greatness. Let US divorce
evil and live for good works and forget
the difference in sex in our reverence for
the Creator. HELENA n. CADY. N. D.
Another Opinion.
understand Mr.. James c. Waters, jr.,
according to letter to your department
OF The Herald, believes that woman's
place IS in the home.
II seems to me have heard the idea
advanced before. Briefly stated, every
woman should marry-no man may ask
her. she may meet no man she could even
think Of taking for better" no man she
would countenance as the father OF her
children.
Price Mothers Pay.
After Mr.. Waters puts her in the home
notwithstanding all this, she must, of
course, keep house bear, and rear chill
dren, cook, wash and iron, or cajole
some more or less unwilling woman,
whose husband has, perhaps, deserted
her and her children, to cook, wash. and
iron for her.
1 judge Mr.. Waters has never heard of
the deserted woman and children. He
fails to provide home in which they
are to stay. / need not elaborate fur
ther. Mr.. Waters conception of home
and mother in it-has been with US for
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