The Pensacola journal., 1914-11-04

about IL when / was a little younger
than I am now-that 10 was a mans
place to go out and work, and make
living for his family, and runs the
affairs of government, ana that 1t was
wonan's business TO stay at home
and run home, rear the children. and
kept 1t a. place sacred from the world
and which the evil Of the world could
not touch and hurt. Perhaps that idea
was strengthened by my interpreta-
ton of an English writer's discussion
OF the different work of men and wo1n-
en- the world, that the work or duty
OF each there is simply the expansion
Of private work or duty. Ruskin
has said that whereas the mans duty
to the home is that Of maintenance,
protection and progress, and wom-
ans that Of order, comfort and lowell
ness, in the State 1t is mans duty to
assist in the maintenance. the advance
and the defense of institutions, while
the woman is to contribute toward the
ordering and beautiful adorning of the
State and In extending comfort
through general and public charity to
those that need 1t. This statement of
the difference between the work of
men and women in the world seemed
to me to mean that men must always
be the ones to do and that women
could only stay at home and plead TO
have things done, and acquiesce COM
even though mems ears were
deaf But Ruskin went on to say that
what woman is to be within her gates.
as the center OF order, the balm Of
the mirror of beauty, that she
is also to be without her gates, where
order is more difficult, distress more
imminent, and 1oveIiness more rara.
And for a long time l did not see t.iat
logically to be this woman must have
the voice to bring these things into
being outside her gates, everywhere
where they weer needed, the power to
do while men stood by careless and |
Indifferent.
There is another difference today IN |
the sphere OF women, that women to- |
day have SO often had to take part of |
what is supposed to be mans work for |
the home, its support and mainten- |
ance. Women are in industry with the |
same interests as men, and if before
they came into it, they did not need
he vote, now that they are in of
necessity. the ballot cannot justly be
1enied them. Since she must often
4OW COhA1AO0bO W IAG H1OSA SSo e1a4O
of the home, as the man
s supposed to do, why should she not
extend the same duty to life outside ef
he home, if mans duty otside of The
lome is simply the extension of his
private duties to public life?
''The greatest need for the cause Of
outrage is to arouse the women
It is wonderful, amazing.
low they can sit supinely by and see
,oing on about them the things they
ell us strike at the foundations of
lome life and at the foundation OF our
utilization and not interest themselves
n removing these menaces--how they
an turn aside with II can't help it,
With Politics is too Dad for me TO
AXE part in; things will have to stay
s they are even if my vote would help
hange them" If this is the way they
eel now, we may be sure that they
fin not be aroused TO take any part
4 changing them unless they are made /
D act by being given the ballot and
earn to use it by trying to use it,
ntil they can put their hands on
ne lever that moves public affairs
nd see just what power lies in the :
,uch of their hands. Men have learned IL