Willmar tribune., 1913-02-12
SOCIOL LOGICAL STUDIES or THE.
FAMILY AND HOME. -

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/ let my hat. stick to my Uranium.
But I uncover my head when meet
q woman, for she is in potentia the
glorious Future Human Race. She
is the Superman. ...
The psychic as well as the physi-
cal build Of a woman is distinctly
specialized for her work as home-
builder and child raiser She under
stands children intuitively as man
may never hope to do. Hence modern
society has placed the schools for
children almost exclusively in her
hands, At teachers Of children, wo-
men are decidedly the superiors Of
men. @s.S:.. ..:.s. IN. .- H. s..
But for the same reason it does
not come natural for woman to treat
any question, social, moral, or re-
igious in an impersonal fashion.
She is not naturally a Judge, she
thinks as a mother and wife. She
does not approach an ethical question
from a philosophic but from family
point Of view. Not: "Bribing in what
ever form is clearly contrary to pub
lc policy and the best interests of
society. Now, if you find that John
Doe intends, etc.; but: "Now I just
know that John Doe is a mean selfish
schemer, and if I had my way he
would get the limit Of the law or,
John is my cousin, yes, he is my
favorite cousin, and I know he
wouldn't harm fly. It's just wicked
Of that prosecuting attorney to say
those mean things about him, and to
hunt up all those no-account people
to testify against him." ,..
Oh, well, it's best so. We would
not have it otherwise. We want the
mother and the wife to stand by her
boy and believe in him even when all
the world deserts him. Every family
ought to be mutual admiration So
ciety. Papa Brown-Jones may be a
bald, blear-eyed little fellow, common
place incarnate, whom no one would
care to look at twice, but when he
is in the bosom Of his family he is
vel, he is PAPA, he is the fairest
Of ten thousands, the Lord Protect
or Of Paradise.
We men have this domestic atti-
tude in scarcely less degree than wo-
men, but with us it is usually limit
ed to the home circle; but the nor
NAL woman keeps this attitude in all
her thinking and feeling. This atti-
tude, which makes woman a bitter
and bigoted partisan, also makes he1
loyal and true to the cause she has
espoused. No, strictly speaking, not
to the cause she has espoused, fol
primarily she does not espouse caus.
es but persons. She is loyal and true
unto death to her loved ones. But il
she has been denied husband or chill:
dren, she may espouse cause as she
would have espoused man; then she
will transfer her maternal love tc
this propaganda. @s-
In all problems involving ethica
and clinical questions, social, moral
and religious, woman is much more
conservative than man. And it's vel
tits so. She who has such immedi.
ate and intimate control over the
most delicate stage Of the evolution
Of coming generations, she who is
the custodian of the Future Of tht
Race ought not to love experimenting
too well. The race cannot afford t<
have her take chances on the future
The "safe and sane" policy for her
Women do not make good agitators
innovators, or reformers. When sh'
essays this role she is spiritually un
sexed; but her outraged femininit,
revenges itself. She becomes hys
terical and ridiculous, as the "mili
tant suffragette" movement testi6es
It should be noticed here, however
that much that goes under the nam
Of reform is not at all Of a radica
or innovating nature. Thus wome1
are our greatest temperance reform
ers but temperance is not a new
heretical doctrine, but the long ag
accepted creed Of a most conserva
tive, law abiding, and religious sec
ton Of the community. Nor is it il
our day "wild and woolly' to belev
in women's suffrage or even socia
ism; but wild and woolly advocacy o
tho channnionshi,, Of these or an: