The Washington bee., 1912-01-27

/ cess to em ali-long may they
| Wave! As for marriage, that is the
| one human institution before which
| the writer stands in silence and awe,
/ 50 profound. indeed, is his respect for
It, 1t should be remembered how
/ ever, THAI matrimOhy Is only one
Phase or tins question which, in these
| DAYS, IS as broad as civilization itself.
Commando Miss Booth saws:
Gambling, smoking drinking. woeful
! neglect OF home and children are
chdTaCteristcs of the modern woman.
/ ana bridge whist fIeuds are as bad
| as drunkardS. Too much desire for
| independence Is the worst sign of the
! times, tor no human being Is compe-
/ tent TO live without restraint" Com
lmander Booths voice rings out III
jclar1on tones, the echo answering
back, Mark me, she'll paw Disre-
/ garding Natures scheme and Houtinp
| all human custom, like LADY Macbeth
| crying Heaven unSeX meT. woman
seems to be following madIv some
| Jezebels plan to effect, not merely
her own elevation, but the final de
basement of man, remembering not
the while that Jazebel was eaten bv
the dogs
Maybe there are those who will
view these words as pereerinations
of an over-wrought mentality If So
| I say to them that they need only TO
| take a cursory glance about them to
| see that a species OF moral necrosis
| has already set IN. Upon the stage.
| The New York Idea The Easiest
/ Way and other plays, present telling
| eXpositions of patholOgic conditions
actually existing, while The Price
Is additional evidence that the woman
does pay. In literature wouan Is
constantly being presented rs shat
! tered idol or made the butt OF ridi-
/ Cule. Has not Robert Chambers
| shown utter contempt for the whole
/ sex by his libel called The Common
| Law What of the woman in Man
and Superman: Pooh, pooh, say
! the writers. What do we care for
the women; Wen not only insult
! them as often as we like. bat we'll
serve up our insults tn half morocco
| and gilt and let the skirts buy em at
$3.50 per- For example
What are you going to do| asked
| Farwell.
Il am going to live with this man.
said Victoria IN a frozen voice FL
neither love nor hate him. / am 60
ing to exploit him, to eNtort from
him as much Of the JOY OF life as
can, but above all, [ am going to draw
from him, from others, too, if | can,
as much wealth as l can | will store
it, hive it. bcc-like and when my
treasure Is great enough, [ will con-
/ sumo it.......'
Farwell remained silent for a min
ute.
You are right" he said You
can still be free. SO do not shrink
! from the means. You are a woman.
your body Is your fortune, your only
fortune, SO transmutc 1t into gold"
The flush of shame and Indignation
will mount every Woman's cheek as
she reads these lines just quoted but
who cares Thus has woman been
presented again between the covers of
a book, and the man who wrote it ac-
| tually rakeS i'm q harvest of gold. gar
| nered for him by the very woman ne
! defames
From real life comes Nat Good
! win saying he was SO afraid his wife
1 would not win her divorce suit against
J him that he got busy all over again
making evidence for her. Women,
/ claiming TO be casting out their hus-
! bands because they Just won't
stand for thi, and that sort of con
/ duct ON the part of the men. are
! clOggiug the divorce mills Mean
while. the men, Indifferent, are -nig-
CLING up their sleeves and muttcrlug
10 themselves, Huh. good riddauCc.'
/ Pceriug. as it were. into the future,
! try 10 catch glimpse of the
! scenes attending thc-pay day Udv-
ING triumphed only too well, J seem to
/ see her whom we have always re-
spected. coming like the woman iu
/ Balzac', story with the expectation
of being wife. and being told that
she must be mistress or nothing. and
/ like that other wumau---Hc stays
/ Robbed of the fellowship and sweet
communion OF kindred spirits without
/ which life Is not worth living. denied
/ the privilege Of yrtuOus W1fchOOd
/ and the right of honorcd motherhood,
/ dc-piScd and dcspisiug. she is living
ont the damnatjDu oi Faust though
still in the flesh
DR. Chalmers DaCOsta. the insau-
/ ity eNcprt Mrs Ellen hey. Robert
! iichens, Sir Gilbert Parker and
many others of the worlds deepest
j thinkers have sounded notes of
warning and advice 90 rhr women in
vain They seem to have gone mad
with the exhilardtiou of their wild
! chase after independence
ind myself wishing al times that
some power wad the giitie glc' the
woman to see the grandeur ct that
/ higher and noblcr life OF which Car
dinal Gibbons speaks. and which
seems 90 me to have been summed
up by Dryden when he said
He raised mortal to the sky
She brought an angel down.
JAMES C. WATERS. JR