Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-24

ton, OF immortality. of sex servitude. |
Life has important issues which de-
mand of t. girls time, too valuable (.
to be frittered away upon the forego-
ing frivolties. There ar5 decisive
moments when success or failure, VIC
tory or defeat must hinge upon the
reserve power stored up. Girls need
this reserve as much as Grant or Ma
poleon needed it. Who will cultivate
it in them?
The girls who need the attention
in this world are not so much the fal-
len girls, as lose who have not fallen,
yet who are weak and struggling be-
cause of lack of right sustenance, lack
of pleasures of any kind. A Chicago
girl, living at the \. w. G. A. on
Michigan Boulevard in Chicago, said
to me last summer: 'Oh if only the
women who are looking for fallen
girls would do something for us who
have not fallen there might be some-
thing for us to live for. If they would
take us into the country on 81 auto
trip among the green fields OF iinois,
if they would take us over to the
Michigan shore to which we watch
the boats depart each day, if they
would satisfy in our hearts that little
desire for rest from mono5ony the
race might sooner be redeemed"
"As early as revolutionary times
there was distinct change in the
status of woman. Men then rec
ognized and sanctioned this change.
If there were to be real Ameri-
cans instead of English or other
foreigners, they must begin
with the child, and if they began
with the child they must begin with
the mother. The child must learn
by example and precept the great
principles of democracy, liberty, equal
ity, and fraternity. In the minds Of
many the whole success of the
Declaration of independence and the
Constitution of the United States
depended upon no other than the
woman. So the woman must have
education and liberty and these she
got in those early days" Right here
began her first emancipation in
America, but this emancipation was
all for the one purpose of training
the growing American. In a large
number of cases she forgot her duty,
turned over the child to teachers
tutors, and preachers that she might
crafty her personal ambition, get in
to business fields, or simply enjoy
herself. This made man suspicious
in the dawning of the goth century
and he is unwilling to believe that
her demand tor many things, includ-
ing the ballot will further the pro-
gress of the still growing American.
Certainly if it socialize the home
God forbid that it should be denied
her, for here the woman should be
able to train the boy and the girl, to
talk to the husband, and before the
children of matters which concern
the welfare of the state and the ma
ton. She cannot be ignorant of these
things and retain the respect of her
sons and daughters. If woman were
deeply imbued with the idea that her
emancipation and progress were not
foreign to but co-eXiStenU with and
necessary to the raising of family
she might enjoy her freedom the
more. If woman could dignity and
make somewhat useful the pastime
to which she gives her afternoons
and evenings, much help might be
given in the social and even physical
development of girls. If one will but
think of it seriously the vast army Of
women, not in Wisconsin alone but
from coast to coast are enjoying a
pastime which contributes to no de-
partment of society nor does it con-
tribute to their own physical, econo-
mic, social or religious development.
| refer to card playing, which in it.
self seems inoffensiVe enough when
INDUCED in by few or for only a
short time, yet when considered as
the pastime of great majority OF
the women of a great nation on the
one hand while on the other, large
fields of usefulness lie waiting for
further cultivation, cultivation which
could easily be made pleasure and
pastime because of its being the
Masters work, it is to be deplored
If these women could analyze care
fully the golden rule which consists
of three distinct propositions ''Do
unto others, as you would, that others
should do unto you," they might see
with clearer vision. / think some
times that all we need is an awaken
ing, a perfect and solemn apprecia-
ton of those three propositions.
They would reveal to us fields of
suffering which we might alleviate,
fields of longing which we might sat
isfy, fields of barren thought which
might be turned into gardens of
beauty and usefulness.
Woman's emancipation, revived at
different times through the worlds
history first became possible through
the life of Jesus Christ. He made no
distinctions in sex or age as he went
about doing good to all, finding no
need of any pastime except service, a
character which should commend it
self to woman especially since all that
she has come into possession of and
enjoyment of, is due to Him, an ex-
ample which must forever command
the admiration, devotion and final
imitation of the developing girl and
woman. Chas. Dickens, the great
human portrait painter, has pictured
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