Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-05

woman a fortunate being. l land III ne"
d York, and am amazed.
Woman is elevated to a position OF lncred'
ible power and honor in America. Fortunate
is the woman who is born in America. She
should think every day OF her good luck and
thank her stars for it, She should not accept
it too much as a matter of course.
believe now that the three happiest fates
in the world are to be a man in France, horse
in England and woman in America
The evidences of woman's good fortune and
favored position are everywhere. All money is
spent on her. All work is undertaken for her.
All amusements exist for her. | have made
some sketches for you to illustrate these truths
go to walk in Riverside Drive. splendid
park A fine spectacle Innumerabe women
in brilliant costumes, with tall colored feathers
in their hats fill the eye. Men dressed in SOM
bre black and gray walk humbly beside them
or behind them.
| enter the tomb of General Grant. mag
nificent monument. imposing in its simple
solidity monument destined to last for
ages: well worthy of great national hero!
| learn that General Grant was the soldier
who saved the United States from being dis
membered. The monument Of course, is for
that.
But there, beside him in the interior. is the
tomb of Madame Grant, occupying the same
space as her husband | ask facetiousy II she
are puzzled at first They explain to me that
Madame Grant is there simply because she is
his wife 1t would be unthinkabe in America
not to pay the wife at least as much honor as
her husband.
| do not believe that in France in any me.
mortal to a great man we have ever mentioned
his wife. In Paris we have a great building
once church, the Fundamentally devoted
to memorials of famous men. In not one case
is the wife mentioned. In fact, there are no
women there
We have devoted to Napoleon the greatest
mausoleum ever set apart for a human being.
There would be room for a hundred wives
around him, but he lies there alone. There are
special reasons why it might have been map
propriate to put a wife beside him but in anv
cannot imagine it. ! say to myself:
Madame Napoleon occupying half the dome
of the nvalIdes' That would be droll"
Our Partisan women are charming because
OF their desire to captivate men. Your New
ork women are charming because of their
evident consciousness that they own the earth.
The American woman is the spoiled child of
civilization. | do not think she realizes how
much is done for her. Is it really wise that
such exceptional favor should be shown to one
sex? The question is certainly worth consider.
ing.
In France you will notice we have no trouble
with the suffragettes such as they have in
England; lot even the suffrage agitation which
in a less shocking form shows itself in America.
Why is this? Because in France woman is
entirely occupied in making herself pleasing to
man. She regards that her one pleasure.
She lives in and for man This, according to
most of the older philosophers, is the natural
relation of man and woman.
The result of this condition is that the
French woman is busy and contented while
the man finds his pathway through life made
smooth and pleasant for him. 1t is the duty
of the French gentleman TO be gallant and
gracious to woman but not To turn himself into
AT aDJect save TO her. The devotion of a hope
less slave is not that which is best for a woman.
is not that which contributes most to her hap
pness.
An English doctor has cleverly explained
that the English suffragettes are behaving so
peculiarly because they have not been able to
find individual men on whom they could lavish