The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-07

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PUT WOMAN IN THE HUMAN
BEING CLASS.

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1T don't know but you are right.
Margie," Dick answered me.
"Women that pose az martyrs are
d nuisance to everybody including
themselves"
at did not know why I had
Host my job this time the girl
continued her story to me, said
Jim, 4 did not know that the wife
was telling everyone of my dis
grace, and, being young and pretty.
/ got another almost Immediately
and did not worry much. In the
meantime the man after months
of drunkenness came to himself
and decided to let liquor alone.
| He worked himself back with
agony to reformation. / had the
agony but was not allowed to re-
turn. He had not seen me since
the catastrophe. indeed I think
like all men he rather blamed me.
In his mind was always that old
excuse that Adam gave in the
garden. "The woman tempted
me-" :
81 did not know what tempta-
ton meant was only young and
l loved devotedly.
ct kept losing my jobs with
alarming rapidity. l was getting
discouraged. wondered what
was the matter with me. l was
sure I was doing my work just az
we'll as the other. but after about
two weeks would get the fateful
notice. At last one of the girls
came to me and asked me II the
stories that were being circulated
about me were true.
" Then I knew.
I was being made to pay. Oh,
am not finding fault with that. l
know now that as surely as night
follows day, consequences follow
acts. But what l want to know
perhaps you who have been SO
kind to me can explain this part of
it-why my punishment must be
as eternal as they say are the fires
of hell, while the man after a
while was taken back into his
home. He is now very prosperous
and both he and his wife, so I've
been told, are as happy as most
married people.
And III kept working and
trying to keep my position and do
honest work. But the awful story
would not down. There came a
time when I was hungry-just as
hungry as was tonight when you
came to my rescue started for
the lake, but | was coward and
l-and-well, here I am, a very
graphic description of "the sins
that We do two by two, We must
pay for one by one."'".
What did you do for the girl,
Jim?" asked softly when he had
finished.
Bought her a ticket to San
Francisco, gave her 500 and a
letter to woman friend of mine
who, I know, will give her a job"
Il guess men do have a shade
the best Of 1t in this world" ejac-
ulated Dick.
"Of course you do, my friend"
said I, at is a man-made world
and has been ever since the first
man determined to place his sin
on the shoulders of the first wom-
an"
Hear, hear the feminist TALK"
said Jim, with smile.
"Oh, Margie is no feminist.
JIM" said Dick.
''Oh, isn't she? Or is 1t barely
possible that you don't know your
own wife,"
Are you a feminist, Margie?"
asked Dick, suddenly.
IF being a feminist means TAX
ing my sex out of the mother, sis
ter, sweetheart, wife, daughter
category and putting it in the hui
man being class, I am.
II am in favor of giving woman
the same chance as a man and no
more. If she breaks the law I am
in favor of having her punished
by the laws decree. but I am not
in favor Of having her banished
and prescribed for sins In which
her co-sinner is allowed to go
free"
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