The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-02

s srans is composed Of homes-con
homes
II the mother has instilled good prin-
Gipies therc, no woman need feel that
~ Is her fionscientlous duty TO teach
home! He knows what is right. but,
aias u is woman who oftentmes
Ieaches country delegate what is
J. w9s reading ,ns other day that
instead OF suffrage meaning ''progrcss
II really meant going backward be
aneliorate conditions. etc. FIFTY wears
ago people believed that but now they
knSw better. Did it help the negro
Gated it, Has it helped disease. tubCI-
| culosls, strikes. etc? No men and No
men nave learned that they must or
plsh this.
As civilization advances the respec
i've Iunctona OF men and women are
differences OF temperament or nature
more pronounced The great law al
EVOLUTION teaches that the DEVELOPMENT
oi Ime race has been "a continuous
must conform 10 Natural laws, and wo-
man taking the functions OF man is al
variance with this" This is true i'm
very. lowest Therefore. the more wo1
manly u woman becomes. the more per
feet the specie
Savages let their women work. and
tho early settlers did also. With one il
Was Ignorance: with tho other, ncces
SHY But as civilization advanced men
realized that women were TOO dciicatc-
~ made 10 lift and carry heavy bur
aens: Il injured them, and oftentimc IS
10 so back and labor like savaecs. for
the family or the nation.
All clever people believe In conserva-
llon- conservation OF the forests. fish
va
Ton OF woman? Why should she frit-
Ter away her strength and energy upon
strength should be conserved TO do the
work that nature intended her to do
rearing her offspring?
Diffusion means deterioration ami
we want the coming man To lie as
strong as the FIRST born. III mothers are
not strong. the future man viii be
very feeble minded. possibly the wo-
men may rule. but l don't believe il
VIII ever happen until then.
Mrs. Belmont says that women will
some day emerge from the mere physi-
cal sex facts that now hinder them"
Ar. Martin replies that women have
n n,.,il women long time, ana their
nihysical sen facts are not an inven-
10 expire"
AS an old lady exclaimed at sur
i iEdg meeting Your quarrel amt with
the law; it's with the Lord
:. Tho Rev. Samuel Schulman. of New
lork. says that the trouble to-day is
lhdiViduaiism gone mad, and contempt
Tor moral authority" "Civilization
was built upon scif-deniaI. not self.
indulgence. To-day women are talk
ing about their rights and forgetting
iheir duties. They believe in such
license OF thought and action that they
nave become slaves of their own
egotism. He continues: IF tho present
VIII effect the overthrow of our civil
ization." Harbarous nations give full
reign to their animal natures. We used
10 try to conceal ours. but now the
cry is, Back to nature" Some women
believe i'm dressing as near the nude
as inc law allows. in mating like the
birds; that love should be licensed. no
matter where it is found. and also be-
lieve that nature is the only God.
1t seems to me that this is n most In
opDortune time to ask for the vote
when women arc more immodest, law
Tess ana indecent than ever before in
the history of this country cannot
see that the ballot Will improve them.
when the mere idea OF ii has gone TO
their heads like wine. The poor mon
are so ashamed OF our dress, dancing
ana immodesty that they are trying to
llegislate against 1t. But woman Is n
law unto herself At our Country Club
! was ashamed to sec the negro walters
looking on at the dance. II was more
like the Bowery: more like the Mid
way, than decent society. The music
was like that Mt n feast OF Bacchus-if
grew raster and faster. and one sclcc9
ton ended with n dcrisive long drawn
"Amcnv'
After it was over. as usual. the young