The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-27

FQfher--KedlUlUuS
And now let is turn our attention to father! Mother has had her
inning yes, inmings-and it is time that father wa allowed to make
a splash. We all take III hats off to mother-that goes without saying
But for many moons poor old dad has been sadly neglected, with
a complaint from him. Cincinnati has an organization of womer
that has objected to the institution of Fathers day. Mrs. Dora Easton
president of this angelic club, says of the old man: Fathers, taken as
class, do moi stand on the same level as mothers. Fathers are very
defective
Father has always been willing to admit the first charge; in fact
he has always been willing and ready to fight to maintain the SUI
premacy of mother. But he is not willing to be called defective
That is a strong indictment. 1t presupposes that father is outclassed in
mental processes and general utility. 1t cannot be substantaed. A
valued exchange holds the same view as the Tribune on this subject
1t says:
Father is the old pelican who gets up early in the morning
and after a hurried breakfast hurries to shop or office and humps
himself until dewy evening acquiring simoleons with which to keep
the mill going. 1t is father who holds the wheel of the ship as she
crosses the ocean, guiding the vessel on her course and it is father
who is down below in the stoke hole feeding the hungry boilers
the coal. 1t is father who is in the crows nest watching out
that accidents do not occur, and it is father who rigs the tackle
that unloads the material for Julietes silk dress on the dock and
haus tit to the factory and thence to the store.
Father is a good old scout, everything considered, these chcka-
biddies to the contrary notwithstanding. He is here and there and
everywhere and always around when he is wanted, and you bet,
he is wanted every once in a while. Why shouldn't he have a
day when mother claims several? And if father does obtain a
special time at which he gets a hearing, you can gamble that no
old bachelor will be permitted to mix up in the business, and by
the same token that's more than mother can say, for we notice
on reading reports of mothers gatherings that a whole lot of f-
males head the program who never were mothers and never will
The only reasonable deduction we can draw from the action of the
Cincinnati club is that MOTHER is not very generally represented il
its membership. When all is said and done, mother has a real sense Of
justice and she knows fathers good points as well as his bad ones bet
ter than anybody on earth. Father is willing to rest his case with
mother, but the constant interference of the New Woman is liable t
nulify anything that either father or mother can do. There are indica
tons, however, that a few sensible women have seen the light and are
ready to give the devil Cbeg pardon, father) his due. Helen Ware
writing recently in the San Francisco Chronicle, said:
When the menfolks are s. willing, so eager, to retain their
illusions about women-so reluctant to be undeceived-it seems
extraordinarily wasteful of a valuable asset, as well as suicidal,
for the women themselves to be SO insStent upon revealing them
selves in their rawest, nakedest, disenchanting naturalness. 1t is
cruel as it is dangerous, for the men not only prefer to retain their
ideal of femininity (having been at such pains to create it), but
much of womans special privilege depends upon the preservation
of it. Anyhow, it is going to take a lot of hard work and reckless
persistence on the part of woman wholly to break it down; for
here we have even a modern novelist, who specialzes in the
psychology of the New Woman in her bewildenng and not al
ways pleasing variety, still insisting on the innocence and ingenu-
BUSINESS of the contemporary female when she is playing with fire;
chvalrously says she doesn't know it's fire o r. she'd shrink from
hcr natural deicacy, etc.
The novelist alluded to in the above quotation IS off his base abou,
the habits of the New Woman. She may do almost anything else but
she never shrinks. On the other hand, she blunders in where angels
fear to tread. She has thrown the cinging vine stuff into the dis
card. Shrink -the very idea! Just the same, father still has IN ace
buried. Somehow, in some way, a: the proper time, he will work out his
own salvation.
Ono live fatherl