Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-28

Miss ONeill says zssss1
Man taught woman ---=-'sh -
that chastity was
uoran's greatest virtue. Even now only
one thine can ruin woman That woro
should he nonresident, for IT represents
false ideals. He taught her that prudence
and obedience and all the gentler at
tributes were fine and womanly. This was
convenient for the husband and 1t was
convenient for the father before the nus
band. And women have believed the
silly things
Then Miss C'Neill proceeds and says;
IF the world were only shock PROOF TO
everything but ugliness we would have
been far more advanced than we are
now. Things should be considered for
their intrinsic virtue and pracueanihy'
Moral shocks are absurd. nave
thrilling hope that women are going 10
do something glorious in the arts" She
saws: 'T am always indignant when
women are denied creative power in art
"a g. st,pid to expect free things from
a race of slaves.
Man has damned as intuition woman
greatest virtue. knowledge What che
I,,ovs man must figure out laboriously
through logic Men have been the spe-
Wonen nave been the carpenters, the
doctors. the nurses, the cooks, the dip
lonats. the educators. Just think what
she will do now when she gains her
freedom"
The Great trouble with woman Is that
she does not do well any one Of the
thinqs which she has attempted to do in
anv Of these lines i'm past centuries
4.
else tSday the world would not be- sunk
an wars. Mothers have given their child
ren Atrguns. toy pistols and. toy soldiers
as pahy.ningsa 4,S s,.,,,t
Mdsherk have 4nstiIled into their clfld-
ron lat the IDEAL that they were to make
the best possible use of the time in school
that they might become noble men and
noble women, but that they might SUR
nass their fellow students. Always this
idea Of competition and struggling Tor
supremacy has been the slogan breathing
through the words OF mothers, who ureed
their children toward attainment
Motbers have not taught their children
lsindness: they have allowed them TO
misuse and mAltreat dogs and cats as
nIavthIngs. and II the cat scratches or
the log bites in retaliation the children
receive no instructions In the causes
that lead TO this result but are permitted
To believe 4he animal vicious and deserv-
ing of further abuse or death as pun
ishment.
Not one child in one thousand has
been taught by it's mother to be SYM
pathetic. kind and friendly to the untor-
tunate classes and to show a special con-
sideration TO poor children when they are
encountered in school or in play The
suirit of universal motherhood is almost
an unknown quantity in the hearts OF
mothers. It is the she-wolf instinct OF
fighting Cor and protecting her own. not
the divine stirit OF motherhood which
would protect and help all children.
Mothers have not succeeded as COOKS
they have not properly fed their children
or thelt men folk or themselves; they
have not applied themselves to study oil
whit means nutritious food. well pre-
pared. and inexpensively provided The
hest cooks in the world have always been
men.
Women have not included order in their
religious ideals yet. Arder is heaven
first law The vast preponderance OIL
untidy disorderly and badly managed
homes is appalling. There is no possible
excuse for woman who allows her nus
land and her children 10 enter dlsof'
derby and chaotic home. The most beau
tiful occupation in life, the most interest
ing, and uplifting is the creating Of
homo where neatness, order, system
comfort and beauty make themselves
apparent TO even the casual eye.
There are ten disorderiy and uncom
Portable homes to one disorderly business
office. II women want the world 10 b'
shock proof. as Miss O'Neill says, q
everything but ugliness, why do they no
begin TO illustrate their ideas in thei
homes? Ancient Greece carried out Mis-
O'Ne,Ts beauty theory in this respect
but we have vet TO learn that II lifted
the status of woman to a high altitude,
rho writer OF this article believes
woman should have equal franchise. sh
believes in woman's freedom from finan
ctal dependence upon man; she believes
I'm liberty and usefulness for woman: bu
she does not believe woman has provei
herself 10 be mans superior nor tina
the removal of all moral restrictions-th
absence OF all moral shocks-would hell
10 produce greater race.
There mas been altogether too mucl
talk of that kind during the last TEL
years There have been too many womei
parading through the world, talking abou
the necessity for woman 10 "develol
herself along the lines OF least resist
ance. and TO express her own Individual
ity." no mattor If it necessitated he
\ ninging to the winds all domestic, sooia
and moral obligations.
But the world and the race Il nevel
10 be bettered by the type Of woman VIII
displays ner ideals with a perpetua
cigarette and an annual divorce.
Woman will never do anything gloriou
In art until she illustrates I'm her own lif
he art Of glorious womanhood. She vii
never show herself mans superior b!
adopting his vices and his licenses an'
calling them liberty and emancipation
from moral shocks"