The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-17

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power of Good Womanhood. .
Progress, they tell us. makes a ma
ton great. Now in order to pro-
gress we must first become civil
lied, and as civilization is brought
about thru good women we must,
in all fair play, in all jus, ice, give
woman the right of voice in the
affairs of our nation.
Away back in the stone age, .
when Brutus went forth in search
of a mate. he carried club instead
of an engagement ring; for in that
day women were slaves and from
that day up to the latter part of the
last century woman had been little
better than a slave. 1t has only
been in the last fifty years that
woman has found out that she is
born to be-not slave-a con-
queror. She belongs to the master
sex-not. the inferior. A great
light has dawned on her path and
that light is The New Thought"
Woman belongs to the master sex
because she has the will and disci-
pine to live the puresi life, the full
est life; and it's this New Thought
that is sending her to the front
to claim voice in all that pertains
to nations welfare.
The eighteenth century was one
of war, pillage and murder to es-
tablish the Rights of Man. This
present century boasts of revolu-
tion-a peaceful like affair its
end will see woman established in
her rights.
What are woman's rights? |
would answer: Equality of oppor-
tunity; right to enter any pro-
fession for which she shows fitness"
"All careers should be open to all
talents" but they are not. The
legal and medical professions have
closed their doors to women; they
will not raise cry against women
doing the nursing but they say she
is not fit to administer the entire
cure of any i'll.
The world allows a. woman to
cure ignorance in our boys and
girls thru the medium of a school
house, but when she insists that she
can heal or cure some of the sores
the ignorances of our modern life
then the hide. bound cry is sent out
that she is not fit, that she is try
ing to get out of her sphere.
The next question In order is:
What good will be brought about
by the Woman of Tomorrow?
Through her study she will try to
bring to perfection condition that
will place our government at the
service of the people. as whole.
One of her great aims is to establish
laws that will protect and shield
women and children in their fight
for existence-in their coping with
the great industrial processes. SAM
tary laws, pure food laws and laws
determining conditions of labor are
some of the things women will in
sist upon when they get the vote %
Woman's very inconsistency will
be our blessing, for when a slave
driving system congratulates itself
that the woman inspector went
away pleased at their version of
affairs they will be due for shock,
for she will return on the morrow
and she will probe beneath the sur
face. Woe be to mill owners and
factory owners if she finds the least
bit of fault-for she will insist on
rectification at once, she will stand
upon her dignity; and when wom-
an stands upon her dignity, then
to use the vernacular-it's time for
mere man to beat it for the
timber.
In every department of human
activity the world wants, az fun,
damental requirement., efficiency
which means, | take it. that per-
son has to be fit. Your emigran,
from Southern Europe arrives in
one of our cities. ignorant of oul
laws, our institutions and our socia
obligations. Ii not moral leper, 9
physical one. After years time
he becomes a citizen, God save
the mark) he can vote, has voice
in shaping conditions. Place So
cial welfare worker, out of the HUI
House, in Chicago, alongside O.
your emigrant,-a woman of stain
less character, blameless life. almos
nerfect nhvSicallV and intellectual