The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-10-02

they led her. This week we are 60
ing to take some of the arguments
which the Pankhurstites have been
using to such great length, and see
where we will all "be at" if they are
adopted here in this country
One Of the loudest walls of the sis
ters who are tired Of housekeeping
and baby-raising is-the fact that
woman's sphere" has been limited
to home-making and collaborating
Granted; is there anything nobler,
or more to be used as an argument
of Woman's supremacy, than that
these two all-important functions
should have been given her from the
creation of the world?
To bring into the world those who
are to shape the destinies of the
world, and so to comfort, advise and
help them as to make them all they
afterWard become seems a large
enough task, and it would seem that
some of the axioms of the scientists,
male and female would be worth
something to the suffragettes when
they are looking for material to
bolster up their arguments with.
Horticulturists have for a number
of years, been trying to beat Nature
at some of her games. To this end
they have budded and grated, MAX
ing the trunk of pear tree bear
apricots, and the trunk of one tree
bear the variety Of another of the
same family. Dame Nature permits
these things, for time, but after a
while, they will all throw back to
type" and the tree will have become
not what it was 'budded" to, but
what it was in the beginning, and
the fruit will be, not that which was
budded, but that which the tree first
bore, unless the experiments are kept
up and science acts as a wet-nurse
In breeding all of the animals
which man has become accustomed
to in his work, there is the same
throw-back to type; the same full
filling Of the types which were origi-
nally the stock.
In the female of every line of ami
NAL with which we are sufficiently
acquainted to know intimately of it's
habits, the homemaker and the child
raiser is the female. Is it only in
stinct or is it mother love that makes
the female duck, swan and other
feathered fowls pluck the down
from it's own breast to line the nest
for the little ones that are to be
Matched by the tedious process Ma
ture enjOined on the mother?
What makes the mother bird line
the nest for her young, with the soft
scraps she picks up at such trouble?
The female squirrel rObs her coat
OF some Of it's fur to make soft the
home of her young-and are we to
presume that these creatures belong
to a higher development than the
women whom God made, after they
had been putting into practise the
traits which were given them for the
care and the continuance of the
things He had created?
If the suffrage question ever hits
the birds and the beasts, we will be
III trouble, sure enough.
Not very long ago, the Northern
papers were filled with the query
which had been raised in some of
the school boards, as to whether
teachers who had been married,
should be permitted to continue in
the profession, as teachers, in the
public schools. There was a great
deal Of data and it would seem the
married women carried their point,
great stress being laid on the fact
that one married woman had retired
until after she mad had her child"
and we were further enlightened,
that she returned to her job as