The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-01-26
Albuquerque. New Mexico, Saturday, January 70, 1918

banks of the world and iu hall q dugcn
railroads, not allowed to cast o ballot
for the men who made aud administered
the laws under which hes more than
nifty million dollars worth vt property
was taxed aud regulated. At the same
time We have seen ten Thousand
wharf rats of New York CITY vote
on election day for two dollars upic,c'
'lt used ~ lc said that girls we're
not mentally cited tH follow the same
studies IN college that were prescribed
for the boys. But the rncduntioual
schools have shown that the average
girl as 70 better student than the average
hoy, even in higher mathematics. But
] am not going 60 admit hat the girl rs
mentally the boy 5 superior. | nm going
Co excuse the hoy FOR his poor show ing
ia textbooks on the ground that he
found the girl a far more interesting
study than the book and probably TAR
more difficult 10 understand.
Gwen the average girl ha, shown
herself 90 boz a better student of tho
Greek language. Greek literature aud
Greek art thun the average boy. But ]
most pu, ~ nm cxcus -pt the boy.
Why should he devote his time TO
Greek nrt--that pnllid statuary from q
long dead past, that has como down
tc ms With broken arms and missing
ears when there was "a full hlnodcd.
rosy checked, bright eyed American girl,
with two perfectly good arms, near him
The natural state of the college hoy Il,
Co bc IN loyc-and chiSclcd marble, cvcd
though wrought by the genius of Phi
Gius. dorsn't interest him when near his
side is the most perfect work that over
came from the hand of God Only o.
erusiy old bachelor. whose life has been
Il failure, could have wished that Adam
had died with all ot his ribs In hts
body.
Compared with the wisdom of a
woman the wisdom ct q man is foolish
ness. At the rncc track near Washing
ton ] saw that illustrated perfectly. \
man and his wife were sitting near me
in the %grandstuud pcrusing an entry
list. All az once hts wife said, Bet a
hundred dollars On Dorothy i; that
horse will win Bui her stupid hus
baud protested that the horse didn' Z
have a chance as the odds were Ave TO
one against H. Bet q hundred dollars
on Dorothy j, calmly replied the wife;
That ~ the name of baby, aud that
horse will win Her husband, dutiful
and submissive, did rs he was ordered.
and won FIVE hundred dollars. But net.
ther ! nor the husband could figure out
by what process the woman knew Dot.
othy y. would win. Sometimes I have
wondered II it WASH Z an instance of
where the woman's instinct 20 gamble
they are the greatest and the hravest
gamblers IN the world OF none ~ ms
would hc here tonight happened TO
meet luck. on a desperate chance.
'Now and then We see u husband pit
his Judgment against that Of his wife
who has raised q halt dozen children and
ruled the home, uS well as him, for q
quartor Of q century Foolish mani lie
has learned something OF banking or
of Law or of merchandise or nf ncw spu
prrs, n may be. but she has learned the
book of life and death by heart. back
ward and forward, index and p|tcturr.
II the husband has wisely given up try.
ing 20 understand her. h. may learn
much from her, and generally comes 20
know that II is not safe 10 do an-thtur
Of importance in this world without lrst
consulting her wisdom.
And in wars red glare the last ar
gumont against woman suffrage has been
snow 20 I've . shadow. Formerly il was
said that ability 10 tight in defense Of
the government should be- one of the
requisites OF the franchise. But We now
know that the work of the woman In
war Is quite as essential ms that at the
soldier in the trenches. Also II is pref
Ity safe to sny, from six thousand years
OF experience, that II there were no
women there would be no soldiers 10
man the trenches.
But IL remained for tho women Of
Russia, when the men turned coward,
10 organize the 'hattalions OF death,
80 called because each wumLn carried
q deadly cyanide capsule 10 be- taken AZ
a certain alternative against capture by
the Huns. These women, with rifle and
machine gun, aud even with bnyunot,
broke the German lines, over aud over
again, aud held the Russian lime.
against oVerw helming attacks at tho
best troops IN Europe, until the COW
army Russian men shot their officers
uHl made good their escape.
And IL We, the me-. of America,
should show tho white feather before
the world 10 made snte for democracy.
the women would take up the task We
bad abandoned and see 10 through, for
the safety aud honor of the nation.
''Fu7 the female of the specics il
more deadly than the male
90 Also she iS iruer 10 convictions of
right and duty, aud, thanks 10 the war,
Wumuu's greatest curse ugd, ~ history
has shown, also her great pm%hncipntor,
women Will soon speak through the bal
Lot 20 pOIuIpse and tho admtniatrutiou