Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1915-05-21
Woman Is Ruler Over All.

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ter of childfen's feet.
Woman Is Ruler Over All.
Why does woman chafe under re-
straint of sex? Why revile the hand
of nature? Why discard the skirts
that civilization has chung to since
the beginning of time? Why lay aside
this hallowed garment that has wiped
the tears of sorrow from the face of
childhood? In it's sacred embrace
every generation has hidden its face
in shame; clinging to its motherly
folds, lettering children have learned
TO play hide and seek and from it
youth learned to reverence and re-
spect womanhood. Can man think OF
his mother without this consecrated
garment?
Why this inordinate thirst for pow.
err? Is not woman all powerful? Man
cannot enter this world without her
consent, he cannot remain in peace
without her blessing and unless she
sheds tears of regret over his depar
ture, he has lived in vain. Why this
longing for civic power when God has
made her ruler over all? Why crave
authority when man bows down and
worships her? Man has given woman
his heart, his name and his money.
What more does she want?
Can man find it in his heart to look
with pride upon the statement that hia
honorable mother-inlaw was one oil
the most powerful political bosses in
the country, that his distinguished
grandmother was one of the ablesi
filibusters in the Genate or that his
mother was a noted warrior and hel
name terror to the enemy? Whittier
are we drifting and where will we
land?
God Save Us From a Hen-Pecked
Nation.
I follow the pillow for living and
my views may have In them the smell
Of the soil; my hair is turning white
under the frost of many winters anG
perhaps am little old-fashioned
but l believe there is more moral in
fuence in the dress of woman than il
all the statute books of the land. AS
an agency for morality, / wouldn'i
give my good old mothers home
made gowns for all the suffragette's
constitutions and bylaws in the world
AS power for purifying society,
wouldn't give one prayer of my sanity
/ mother for all the women's votes ir
( Christendom. AS an agency for good
government, wouldn't give the plea
of a mothers heart for righteousness
for all the oaths of office in the land
There is more power in the smile
of woman than in an act of congress
There are greater possibilities fol
good government in her family OF
| laughing children than in the cab
met of the president of the United
States.
The destiny of this nation lies in
the home and not in the Legislative
halls The hearthstone and the fara
lily Bible will ever remain the source
1 of our inspiration and the Acts Of the
4 Apostles will ever shine brighter thar
the acts of Congress.
i This country is law-mad. Why ado
to a statute book, already grooming
under it's own weight, the hysterical
cry of woman? If we never had q
chance to vote again in lifetime and
did not pass another law in twenty
five years, we could survive the or
deal, but without home, civilization
would wither and die.
God save these United States
from becoming a hen-pecked nation;
help us keep sissies out of Congress
and forbid that women become step
fathers to government, Is the prayer
of the farmers of this country.