Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-12
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Madame Schwimmer, are not in svmnayAv
with the war on Servia, and If they had thef
way they would permit the secession OF any
Slays in the empire who want to leaye
Madame Schwimmer cited fact after fact IA
snow what women of the belligerent nations
are doing to stem the tide of war. The women
OIL Germany in particular, said she, are DO.
coming increasingly obdurate. An exampA
OF this temper is the following excerpt from
q recent proclamation by the president OF ths
Woman Suffrage party in Germany:
snail this war Of determination go on?
Women of Europe, where ia your voice?
Are you great only in patience and sui.
ferlng2
The earth reeking in human blood, the mil.
hons of wrecked bodies and souls of your
husbands, sweethearts and sons the ont.
RACES inflicted on your sex. Can these things
not raise you to blazing protest?
In the south and north of Europe men have
come together to exchange words Of peace
Come together in the north or south OF Eu.
rope, protest with all your might against this
war, which is numbering the nations, and
make preparations for peace; return to your
own country and perform your duty as wives
and mothers, as protectors Of civilization and
humanity.
huge mass-meeting Of protest against
the continuance of the legalized slaughter Of
humsn beings will be held in Holland on
April 49, 30 and 80. These women of all
races, when they meet in Holland, may make
history.
While neither to be classified as pro nor
anti-suffrage, there Is charming contribu-
ton in the Atlantic Monthly (4) this month.
which, in that it discusses the status Of
woman in the home and the instability per-
haps of man, seems very pertinent in this
connections:
There persists much of the harem in every
well-reSulated home. In every house ar
ranged to make a real man really happy, the
man remains always a visitor, welcomed,
honored, but perpetually q guest He steps
in from the great outside for rest and re-
freshment, but he never belongs. For him
the click and hum of the harem machinery
stops, giving way to love and laughter, but
there is always feminine relief when the
master departs and the household hum goes
on again.
Keep a man at home during the working
hours of the day and there Is a blight on
that house, not obvious, but subtle, touching
the mood and the manner of maid-servani
and man-servant, cat, dog and mistress, and
affecting even the behavior of inanimate
objects, so that there is a constraint about
the sewing machine palsy on the vacuum
cleaner, and gaucherie in the stoVe-ha
over the whole household spreads tee.
Ing of the unnaturalness and n resultant
sense of ineffectuality.
The most devoted wives are often thoss
frankest in their adherence of man In tne
house. IT Is because they do not ike 70
keep their hearts working at high pressure
too long at time; they prefer the heallny
relief OF glorious day of sorting or shop.
ping between the masters breakfast and ane
his dinner.
A woman whose males have their place o.
business neither on the great waters nor u
the great streets but in their own house =
of all women the most perpetually pitied oy
other women and the most pathetically pa.
tient. She never looks quite like otnsl
women this doctors, minister's, professors
writer's wife. Her eyes have harassed pa
tience and her lips a protesting sweetness
for she does not belong to her house, ana %
she does not belong to herself.