Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
SAD-EYE TAKERS
SONG OF DECAY
IS NOW USELESS
Woman Has Escaped from
Darkness and Slavery, Says
Miss Haines.
BY MABEL r. HAINEs.
Librarian Free Public Library, Summit,

Librarian Free Public Library, Summit,
N. j.
Do You remember that delightful
story of Mr. Fl. G. Wells's, in which
the visionary scholar is forever
puzzling his brains trying to discover
the fourth dimension?
We suffragists believe that the
bogies against woman suffrage are
going to share the fate of that Ger
man professor, and that they, being
hypothetical, will soon be banished
forever into a dim Limbo of the
fourth dimension.
"Sad-eyed fakirs
Swiftly say
Endless dlrges
To decay.
But Saadl sat in the sun"
Emerson expressed the impotenoy
of false and dreary prophecy when he
penned that verse. In spite of the
fakirs Saadi did sit in the sun. In
the healthy sunlight of optimism and
progress. enfranchlsed woman stands
like a modern goddess offering with
outstretched hands splendid promises
to posterity.
Just as educational evolution, by
the extension of higher education to
woman, has enriched personally,
deepened morality, stimulated achieve
ment and contributed to race develop
ment; so will political evolution, by
the extension of suffrage to woman,
develop civic conscience vitalizing
with feminine energy many waste
places in philanthropic and social or
ganization.
Who can afford to cling longer to
the outworn theory that woman must
have. a paddock and chain about herr
THUS far and no further shall you
CO." has never been the watchword
for pioneer spirits.
1t is to the mind that aspires, that
hungers and thirsts after new
spiritual kingdoms that the treasure
house is opened No force is strong
enough to bar the gates.
Woman stood once in darkness,
feeble, enslaved, shackled. Slowly
her soul came to birth. She grew
from mental and moral infancy to
adolescence Love, faith. motherhood,
each came to her; whispered to her:
wooed her; conceived in her newer
and fairer visions. The new life
stirred within her and she brought
forth her children, self-sacrifice, re5ig-
nation, consistency, idealism, qualities
that through history have stood for
ideal womanhood.
Then in her rich maturity again she
heard voices and dreamed dreams. A
new vision came to her. She con-
ceived again, and her children were
this time self-fulfillmenu for self
sacrifice, accomplishment for resigna-
tlon, realization for idealism
She has stepped into the world OF
realities to carry into it all the
spiritual powers that long experiences
in sacrifice have taught her. That
she brings significant contribution
is self-evident. A brilliant galaxy OF
men and women have been slowly
in elf-expresslon, her debut from
paving the way for womans final act
private into public responsibility.
Sad eyed fakirs" with their futile
fears that the bloom will be rubbed
from womanhood, we can only bid
turn to the fourth dimension where
they may seek her vanished bloom in
vain.
Faith, tenderness, beauty must
bloom. In enfranchising woman we
destroy nothing; we but open ono
more channel through which her ao-
tivitits may play.
Women are homemakers, peace
makers, lovers by nature. There was
never ballot cast yet that was suf-
iiciently strong to vote down nature
But the ballot box is substantial
enough to assist in a sane and effec-
tive direction of those simple human
forces which make for practical legis-
lation fit for progressive and OPP
timistic citizens, who like Saadi, live
lin the sun"