El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-06

earn . GU nave q pecull'tF reason 70
4 be thankful that you are an Amer
! lean woman
We are not wholly free from snob-
bishueSS and the spirit OF caste on z
] in all the world around there is no land
] where honest work carries less Of a
stigma. where men and women are
taken at their own intrinsic value. tnah
I i'm this uuapproached and unappfoacil-
able American republic
! The time was when kings and queens
] set their subjects the example by Ia
/ boring with their own hands.
I ovid advises maidens III they would
have the favor Of Minerva. TO learn 70
| use the distaff to- card and TO spin
Alexander the Great is said to have
/ shown TO the Persian Processes his
! garments made by his mother English
| records and German customs Of female
] royalty furnish similar proofs OF hand
I industry.
Tapestry Made by n Queen.
The magnificent far-famed tapestry
( OF BayeuX was the woYk Of the queen
/ OF William the firs--
] The messengers Of Henry TO Rath-
| crime OF Arragon. announcing her di-
! vorce. found her with a skein Of red
= silk around her neck, being at work
with her maids.
All honor to the women who make
z their own way i'm the world rather than
{ be q burden upon hands already too
4 heavily laden, OF accept at the hands
OF relatives or strangers the bread
and dress Of senteelly disguised char
it is to your credit that YOU are not
passing down the stream Of life az the
expense OF your passengers.
Some women regard work as a dis
agreeable necessity. never giving con-
sideration 20 its dignity and nobility,
never realizing that i'm toll alone is To
be found the only real happiness.
Richard Jeffries. in one OF his sketch
es. tells OF meeting three women field
workers whom he envied for their
health. There was that in their
cheeks" says he. which all the wealth
health i'm their carriage prinCesses
could not obtain" Jeffries envied these
women. but they envied him more:
hatred flashed in their eyes and in their
hearts, they cursed him because they
had TO work while he seemed to be idle
Womans occupation makes her
hardens her muscles. strengthens her
BODY. QulckeuS her blood. SharpenS her
wits, corrects her Judgment. wakeus up
her inventive genius, arOuses her am
bition and makes her feel that she is
q woman by taking woman's part in
one hundred and twenty pounds.
more or less. Of bone and muscle do
not make a woman The body, muscle
and brain must act a woman's part, do
a woman's work, think woman'S
thoughts. bear a WOman's weight OF
character and duty before they con-
stitute a woman.
il appears 70 be a woman, but to be a
woman and appear TO be are two very
different things Human beings, like
Topsy grow. women are made
we have women loafers around
gas bags, air bubbles which burst and
are gone butterflies, good enough TO
dance and dine with masculine grass
hoppers, things that grow and die like
autumnal insects. despised and for
gotten
Idleness Destructive.
Idleness from choice is both destruct-
I've and disEraceful- Idleness never /
made its way in the world and never I
The world does not owe woman a |
living. u owes her nothing. but every /
woman owes the world work.
Nathaniel Hawthorne says: ''It is my I
creed that man has no claim upon I
his 1ellow-creatures beyond bread and Z
water and grave unless he can win q
lt by his strength and skill" and this 1
is as true Of o woman as Of a man.
Luck waits for something TO turn up 7
Pluck turns up something. Good luck /
is woman with her sleeves rolled up.
luck is 2 woman with her arms akimbo I
set looking for man 10 take care OF Z
her.
The disparity between mems and
women wages is not always an arbi-
Lfary dlscrlm nation against woman be-
cause she is q woman. IL is very often
due 10 difference in the grade OF work. I
porary make-shlft until some man viii I
make q home for YOU. Be as deter
mined rs the man TO succeed. have the i
same ambition to reach the top and /
me disparity in the wages viii likely ]
disappear