Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-11-01
Man and Woman Jointly Govern
the Home

the Home
Together. men and women have
made a mighty success Of the home
where equality exists. and . near
success of the school and the church
where equality is less perfect, but
still extant. Why not in govern
ment?
Lawmakers. political officials high
and low, hire women to assist them
in the work of the government as
stenographers, as clerks, yes, as con-
fidential Secretaries almost said
advisors They turn over to
these women all the intricacies of
their office routine. But they will
not trust them with the ballot. They
make the women custodians Of office
secrets. But they are not brave
enough to admit openly the office
equality which exists in secret. They
are not strong enough to acknow-
ledge the existence CT sex depend
ence, the great motive power ofsso-
81 ty
We are rAssln., through a curious
evolution in esnon4ic relations he
tween men and women. through the
invention OF machinery, man drove
woman out Of the home into the in
dustrial world. When he discovered
how efficient she was, he became
afraid of her. He said to himself:
Look at this creature to whom /
gave the chance to become seltsHp-
porting. Her Independents Is going
to her head. She thinks she Is as
smart as am, with machine, with
figures, with bus less roctine, She
Is becoming aggressive. II / don't
curb her, she will be running my
business and ME-"
We are suffering from a regular
sex panic. It is disconcerting to the
man and nerve-racking to the wo-
man, in business or in the home, In
politics or in the church, does not
really want to run things. She waits
a man to help her run them. The
aggressive woman Is the exception,
not the rule. She is abnormal, not
normal. And almost always she is
secretly unhappy. The true woman
demands interdependencel She knows
that she needs male companionship,
spiritual male support, as much in
success as in failure.
Maroon a hundred modern men
alone on an island and they will
soon be cutting each Others threats.
Maroon the same number OF women
and they will soon be cutting their
own. Maroon the two hundred to-
gether and what happens? After
running up a flag of distress, they
will calmly set about organizing a
form of government, establishing a
church, marrying, building homes, and
establishing civilization of their
own.
Man deprived of the compani0nship,
physical and mental, of woman be-
comes brute. Woman deprived of
all comradship with men becomes
either inane or aggressively mascu-
line and coarse. Neither is truly
happy without the other. They may
not admit this, but in their secret
hearts they knoow it.
And yet we are afraid that given
the ballot, woman will defy man and
learn to get along very nicely with
out him. How little we understand
her! She may shout for the right
to govern, but directly she gets 1t
she will demand that mac help her
at the task and then she will make
sure that he helps her In the most
effective way.''-Pictoria Review for
November.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. F.. L. Willis
suffered greatly from asthma and
bronchitis. He writes: Il got no re-
lief until l took Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound. 1t entirely removed
those choking sensations, and never
failed to produce an easy and COM
Portable condition OF the throat and
lungs .-Keener Drug Store Adv.