Newark post., 1913-03-19

limit i lrSt YOU Know they would
be- abolishimg athletic contests. ac-
c0mpanled by song and other vaud-
ovilte stunts and similar popular
diversions on jir streets. for which
Newark has lately been justly eel
ebratci. 1t is absurd. Every prac-
teal politician knows nom imprHc-
teal Il woman would be in fixing i;
little job for the good of the party
and Of party patriots. No sooner
would Il nice lIttl" sewer job or
something OF that kind come along
than the woman member would BE-
making everything public and AS
likely as not getting good, honest,
Woodworking political philanthropy
isis into Jail. The thing won t do !.
And II : lmmOdest. any one can
See that. Women con go to church
with men. they can scrub floors
while they are present. they can
teach school with them. work il
laundrips with them. work in fac
tories with them. and even 90 into
hospitals and care for them when
they are dying. and it modest.
but il 5 immOdcst for them to sit
down in IA public place with board
and help decide whether the peo-
pie 5 money should be grated from
them or not. or whether little Jane
and John shall study one course or
another.
"Questioner' asks what man
would want his wife to push into
man 5 place in that way. Not
|. The members Of such boards. as
every one knows. are often quite
unfit for the company of Il good
wife. The very fact that it would
sometimes be necessary TO elect Il
different class of men on boards of
town government shows how I'M
practical is the scheme Of having
women members. New members
should not be women. Indeed. ii
requires Il man with strong. coarse
fibre TO match up to our political
leaders these days mel with strong
breaths. men with strong con
sciences.
But | fear "Questioner has
sounded the warning too late. The
first mistake was when the eccles-
iastical authorities decided that
woman has soul. Granting they
have one. women are apt TO think
it as good as anybody S. The Turks
manage better-they never admit
if. The next mistake was i'll letting
women learn 10 read. That WAS an
outrage. 1t was this learning to
read. with a consequent interest III
education that set Susan Is. An
thony and Frances Willard to stir
ring up people the way they did.
interfering with the sacred political
combinations and making 1t hard
el. for honest liquor dealers to make
il living. And from reading they
went to writing. and from writing
to speaking i'll public and from that
to wanting to vote and from want
ing to vote TO wanting to hold of
flee in connection with schools and
household interests. I'm the good
old days public sentiment allowed
"A husband to beat his wife at pleas
ure with stick no thicker than
his thumb" and | fear that until
that good old law is revived there
will be no stopping the women III
their continual planning TO escape
from the delightful and enobling
ideals Of zovine tranquility. into
the immodcst activities of trying to
have the town clean. healthy and
intelligent. | suppose some OF the
more inpudent ones, brazen crea-
lures, would answer Question
er s. inquiry as to why they don t /
attend to their homes and let
their husbands attend to the town
by saying that as long as their
homes are part of the town and the
town is part of their homes that 1t
is impossible 10 have both well at .
tended to unless both sexes share I
i'm the task. and that at present and .
for "A time so long ago that the !
memory of woman runneth not to !
the contrary, the husbands have not .
properly attended TO the town,
though they have done finely in at
to certain private inter
ests. But then, the women always
are getting back at the men. The
only way to stop it is to have them
again understand they have no
souls, forbid them to learn to read,
and then use the good old method
of past days." the stick no thick