The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-21
AUTHORS AND THEIR WORK-LATE NEWS OF BOOK-ANI

with malice aforethousht for that purpose.
They are defective laws because they
are men and did not know how to make
them alone and unattended by us at the
polls and In the senate chambers. I
doubt II we should have been ~ faithful
and considerable Of their heipieesness ~
they have been Of ours II the situation
had been reversed.
Men Are The Poems 81 Thesr Female
The thing to do 10 to use the same
dnesse and patience In winning the man
over to the feminist movement that we
have employed to get his wealth and
his wages for these thousands Of years.
At bottom he ID . generous creature. only
a trifie set In his ways. which ID natural,
seeing how set his mother was In her
ways. He will Join the movement. He
will be obliged to do 80 In time. When
the women get into the wagon with all
their things and their Intentions the home
IL deserted, In spirit at least. He cannot
stand that. He Is obliged to have some
place TO rest. He will get In therefore
and trek to the land OF her desire. X for
nothing else but 20 have peace from her
everlasting opportunities. There is much
to be said on his side. II II Astonishing
how many men are the poems Of their
female families. which 10 Just as bad a.
what In told OF women who are the slaves
OF theirs. though we hear much less from
the poems than we do from the slaves.
still they are beginning to talk, they
are beginning to tell on us little There
's a short story in the December McClWre's
entitled Reincarnation: the Story Of q
Private He'll which contains one OF the
most terrific arraiGnments ] ever saw
Of tho useless. virtuous. vicious wife.
There are literally millions OF women like
her. whose husbands never expose them.
But they will. Before this year II
ended some man who can write with his
forked tongue will produce a novel In
which the mean. little. whimperins use.
less wife will play the star role Instead
Of the commonplace serpenfine, VINO
merely tempts him. When women begin
10 fght men they will get what Is coming
TO them. And Il will be a plenty, And
much Of II Is about as long overdue as
suffrage for women.
II venture to return for a moment TO
the women Of the valley Mt home. They
do move They rise before dawn. gentle
souls who find peace In the labor OF their
hands and In their astonishing faith.
They are the silent companions OF their
husbands People do not talk much In
the valley because there Is not much 10
say. They know the weather. few
psalms. few golden texts and few
hymns by heart. They also know each
other the same way. which is . good deal
more than husbands and wives can always
claim IN this place. I do not know .
single lazy woman In the valley nor. one
, who is unhappiy married. They worry
some over the bees when they swarm inop-
portunely, and over the chickens when
they take the roup. and over the childr-"
when they have a bad cold or do not learn
their Sunday school lessons. but they do
not worry over their husbands. They are
not apgry with mankind. As near ms can
make out they want better schools ana
they long for a closer walk with God
But never knew one to want a Limousine
or n servant 10 do her work or nurse
, for her baby.
Aati-split skirts, Evtlnindedness OF
Modrsty.
And you could not put one Of these
fashionable split corkscrew skirts upon
any Of them. Call Il what you please
eviirnindedness or modesty. but they are
a. far removed from the fashionable
clothes one sees upon women here a.
these women would appear to them re-
moved from decency and thrift. DO
not know how long such a state OF sweet
ness and homely goodness win last there
The feet Of youth take hold upon the
ways Of the world When I return next
spring I may see some girl At the singing
school on Sunday afternoon wearing
tight skirt But I am thankful ] have
seen what have OF the simple. direct
living OF these men and women In the
valley. whose only problem is to perform
the days work well. to love one another
and to believe in God and His nercies"