The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-09

E8AB ter q life, !, ). n. !, 4, ,,..,,
E@&&0h Civilization stands at the top in direct
~ contrast to barbarism below @
Ignorance and savagery make the cold that
drives life to barbarsm. Ia, tgs.
Altruism and intelligence are the heat that
sends, it up to civilization. 1tx .ss-i sra
Had you lived in India a hundred years ago
you would have witnessed mercury at zero. 5.s
Some English travellers with pack oxen were
asked If the beasts were their women. ,e
The native men were accustomed to make the
wives carry the burdens, while they lived in lazy
idleness a.Jg
In Turkey you might see the women pale, with
little red in the lips or gums and MUCH GREEN
in the complexion. The Turks have notion that
women are fitted ONLY for sensual life, and that
fresh air is as poison to them. s3sL.tj.s
Green sickness, or Chlorosis, is as COMMON
IN TURKEY as misery is in drunkard 8 home.
You would find the savages of South America
slothfully retiring to hammock when the wife
gives birth to an infant. You would note that the
woman keeps on with her work of sewing, hunting
cooking-that the other females of the tribe wait
tenderly upon the man Va Ill,
AS you lOOR HlELcI III tllC sSdio VI ''A~ ~"
notice different treatment toward the women Oc-.
casio, ally you find the man providing the home
and food, the woman caring for the young THAT
rs THE FIRST STEP toward civilization.
Possibly You believe that civilization and . mer-
curry are close friends in our country. Untortu-
nately they are close but not friends.
BRUTALITY, CRUELTY, STUPIDITY, Gu
P1DITY are still part Of our lives, and keep us
from reaching civilization.
Women are still slaves, work-animals burden
carriers-mep are yet masters BLIND TO THE
HAPPINESS THAT LIES IN EQUALITY.
Veal have our moments of imagining our
selves perfect-we look at the steel, electricity and
air which we have conquered, and find it difficult
to believe men can be better in years to come-but
women are still subjugated and men continue to
be brutes, as you will perceive by kindly observing
HOW LITTLE some mothers, wives and daugh.
tiers and sisters HAVE TO SAY and HOW MUCH
power, the husband or father CONTROLS.
Women have feeling, memory, nerves-much
more than cats. No man would be so cruel as to
rob cat Of her litter of one day-old Kittens He
would further be wise enough to know that the.
kittens would suffer and possibly die; but in many
states HUMAN MOTHERS MAY
LOSE CONTROL over the CHILL
DREN if the father dies and wills
them to guardian, while in others
he can will the UNBORN INFANT
BEYOND THE MOTHER s CARE.
When the Barons of the Middle
Ages stole the profits Of the trav-
elers as they passed the castle, or
from the serfs who labored in the
fields, men called it TYRANNY.
When woman marries in Florida
and the husband, BY LEGAL VlR1E
RIGHT, assumes control Of her per. Ih
sonal property and takes the profits, 4
we call it-WHATf ~
Five centuries past no man .NSEz
could call his mind his own-to iAEWk, y
THINK OUT LOUD was to IWJ
CHANGE ones RESIDENCE from M
q HUT to GRAVE woman of W.,
Texas who owns anything, whether II
purchased before or after marriage, ba,,
must first secure the consent Of her
lord and master before she may sell