The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-10-16

the originator Of the disorder
~ element in the suffrage
movement, interest in the wo-
man herself will be no less
keen because it is tinged large
ly with curiosity as to the man
ner of woman she is. 1t would seem
there is also a Mr.. Pankhurst in q
dim background of the lady's lie,
but it must have been quite a while
since he was given any of the wifely
attentions, sucn as warming his Slip
pers or seeing that the tea was on
the table when he arrived from work
or office; the lady Of his bosom has
been too busy warming up the atmos-
phere about Great Britain, and brew
ing other draughts for the members
OF Parliament, to worry about. any
ones tea.
If Mr.. Pankhurst had been walk
ing delegate, and had cut up the
didoes that Mrs. Pankhurst has, he
would be in Jail now, and the SYM
pathy of the country would have been
with the wife, and the papers would
have been taking up subscriptions
for her, and so on and so on.
Which is simply another way of
proving that Woman, bless her, will
always insist on there being two
standards for judgment of herself,
and of man. From the ages of which
we know little, it has been the Gus
tom of woman to condone, to forgive,
and to sym 4,athize with the frailties
of man, and now, in these latter days
she is beginning to initiate them.
One of the favored and favorite
arguments of the suffragettes is, that
she will do all these things, because
man has done them for ages, and
still kept his place in society and
among the elect. And the only ans
Wer to that is: man has kept all Of
that, by the grace and the favor of
WOman-but what she has made
woman suffer as the partner in all of
mans doWnfaIls, is another and more
tragic story. Custom is the hardest
thing to break; we may class under
that head number of sub-heads
which will serve as sops to con-
science, and one of these sops is
pride. To the woman who knows q
man from the viewpoint of wife or
mother, the first impulse is to shield
from the worlds judgment, the
AuSUduu VI CAS SUI W III Ids OlAnSu
In the old days, when man went out
to battle with stone axe for the
things he wanted, it was the woman
who nursed and ministered to him,
until he could get back the courage
and the physical strength to do
further battle. It was might against
everything then, and it isn't hard to
suppose that the woman of that age
began to tell the lies which have
been so popular since, about her par
ticular Johns prowess with the club
and the flint, and to make all allow
ances in her own mind if John didn't
come up to her estimate and expecta-
ton; but it is a safe bet that the
other women and their husbands
didn't know how far short John fell
of these estimates and expectations.
When the husband of the early
days began to fall from grace, while
living under the stricter moral re-
gime which came with civilization, it
was again the woman who forgave,
and made allowances and excuses, if
the husband looked after the wife
and the children which he was ex-
pected to provide for. From this be-
ginning was the double standard"
which we have wasted so much ink,
paper and breath trying to explain
and justify.
Women have been the sufferers
for this double standard of morals,
and they have been to blame for it.
It began when the first wife told the
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