The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-07-26
sciences viii be women.
The New Woman Has . Clear Vision
and o Warm Heart.

sciences VIII be women.
The New Woman Has . Clear Vision
and Warm Heart.
To the education OF the new woman
we must now add her clear vision and
her warm heart. OF old philosophers
used to say that man has an intellect
first and incidentally a heart, but that
woman has heart first and incidental
ly a mind. The statement is meaning
less because 1T is untrue. When fully
unfolded the intellect means the whole
soul In the act of knowing, and the
heart means the whole man or wo-
man in the act Of feeling; but, CIV
en- great sorrow, woman is strange
ly gifted with sympathy. From a
woman's heart Is born the movement
Of brave Mary Ware in the time Of the
plague in London; the struggle for SOL
diers on the battlefield by Florence
Nightingale aud Lady Augusta Stan
Icy, Drawing every form OF death In the
Crimea; the plans Of the Christian
commission women in our civil war,
working with the ambulance force in
the very midst Of battle; the Red Cross
movement at the battle front Of Eu-
rope. And think Of Mary Slcssor, be-
ginning as missionary in Africa aud
little by little achieving an influence
so unique that the members Of the cab
inet In England sought her advice.
that the native tribes appealed to her
decision, that feuds between states and
warning hosts might be settled!
Influence Of Women In American So
ciety.
No words can describe the influence
Of the mcdcrn woman in American So
ciety. Who can tell the achievements
Of these women who have organized
tho movement for the higher education
in Wellesley, Vassar, Smith and Bryn
Mawr! Women like Frances Willard
and Jane Adams and DR.. Anna Shaw
and host OF others have changed the
very atmosphere Of this land.
Women without financial ability?
Hartman and Russell Sage and the
man who founded the Bon Marche in
Paris all left their millions to their
wives. When that Frcnchwoman lost
her husband she carried the sales of
the Bon Marche from 5O.OOO,OOO Of
francs up to 10O,OO0,OOO and 200, ,OOO,-
600, because she was free through
death to work out her own ideas.
When the bees that are the female
workers and collect all the sweets in
the hive have gotten through with
their lords they sting the males to
death, and the females spend the win
ter eating the honey that their own
skill gathered.
Pre- -eminenco Of Women Through Skill
and DeIicaoy.
An OK cart demands q mans muscle;
steam locomotives depend upon
mans brute strength; the next age will
be an age OF electricity and chemistry.
An electric machine is best handled by
a delicate finger. Once the giant forces
are controlled by electricity, n womans
sensitive hand may handle them bet
ter than mans. An era may come
therefore, in which women will have
the same prominence In society and
the creation Of wealth as the female
! workers have In the beehive.
Most OF the charges brought against
woman as to her inferiority represent
the verdict Of Il male jury and a male
judge, who for purposes OF self defense
brought in n verdict against woman In
general and pronounced her guilty Of
inferiority. The time may come when
women will constitute the jury and In
dict the man for inferiority, and then
heaven help us nll I'm the hour OF the
jury's verdict. for IT remains for us to
confess that IN no country have women
tried so successfully to put ethics into
industry, Justice into law, gentleness
into government, sympathy into reform
and purity and tenderness and love
, into the household. No land can boa st
wOmanhood more glorious.
Great Is the power OF trade and COM
merce. Wonderful the strength OF man
to ill the granary and the storehouse
Marvellous the achievements OF the sol
dicr and the sailor. but man is not n
body. His soul uses the body, and the
chief influences that shape character,
create Institutions and rcgenernte laws
are the Influences of heart and CON
science and social sympathy, that are
the pre-emincnt gifts Of women. AS
children we all wake to conscious life
lying upon woman's lap, in youth it
was womun's hand that pointed to
tho paths Of prosperity and peace, and
when the end comes, happy IS the old
man upon whose fcvered brow in the
last hour womnn's hand falls, and
the first face beyond into which the
weary and worn man shall look will be
the face OF a woman. his mother, who
fingers about the gate OF heaven until
her son comes home