The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
W0MANS SUFFRAGE PART OF WORLDS EVOLUTION
Star of Garden of Allah
Says Women Are Emerging
from Bonds of the Ego.
Ry JULIA CHANDLER MANY.

Emerging from the narrow ego o
old-fashioned femininism into a wider
sphere of usefulness, of capabilities
and promise, the women of today are
according to Miss Dorothy Donnelly
the star of "The Garden of Allah,
reaching forward toward the grea
goal of mighty sis.erhood-a sister.
hood of mutual work, mutual ambi
tons and mutual striving that viii
carry them not only up beside men ir
national affairs, but beyond them.
Women" says Miss Donnelly, shave
been for years and for generations alb.
sorbed in their own ego and some
man. 1t has been his ambition, his
needs, his political activity, and wha,
he wanted that she has been interest
ed in. The circle of her life ran
about him and in most instances their
home. but home in such cases simply
meant their house where they had their
lares and penates.
Now All This Has Changed.
Nowadays all this has changed
Women are forging ahead mentally
morally. and physically. They are
beginning to count home not merely
a house, but the city they live in, the
State where the city is, and the whole
great country. They are learning real
patriotism, and. what is more, are
banding in sisterhood for the good
of humanity.
Men, you know, are great in their
way and are fine friends, but when
trouble comes or the need of heroism
in little things is demanded it is al
ways the woman who comes to the
front, 1t is the woman who clings to
those who sin or shame or suffering
has dragged down into the mud, and
women who have the wider under
standing of the human failings and
the greater knowledge of life in its
biggest sense.
Know Nothing About II All.
yet men deny us the right to vote"
she continued. They deny us politi-
cal activity, because, they say, we
know nothing of it. How can We?
We are like mighty muscle in the
vast body of humanity that has always
been bound, bandaged, and useless.
The power is there, wonderful power
for good, but it has never been used.
How, then, can we be politically wise
when We have had no chance to learn?
The only way is to let women vote
and let them learn by experience, or,
to go back to my metaphor, take off
the bandages, and give woman her
rightful work in the great daily labor
which men call life.
Women have hearts to love and
suffer with; they have souls to save;
they have bodies which bring new gem
erations into the world; they have
minds, for some of the greatest art
and literature and music comes from
the brains of women-yet we cannot
share in the making of the laws.
According to Man-made Law.
I'VE must govern the home. but we
must govern 1t according 10 man-rnade
law. That, however, is all bound to
change. | think that modern women
are fast realizing that and are forget
ting the pettiness of feminine nature
due to years of narrow-mindednes
and repression, and the sisterhood of
all women is coming closer every day.
Miss Donnelly has done but little
active suffrage work, her profession
denying her many opportunities; but
she is heart and soul with the move
nent, and declares it is not a mere
fad of women, but part of the evo-
luton of the world. a step in the path
Of progress that will have to be made,
for the turning of the hand of time