River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-02-02

against marriage 1t is short-sghted view, fof
you cannot mend things by looking on, any more
than you can stop dog fight by waving an UNI
brella on the pavement. But the great majority
of younger women are realizing today that, II a
change is to be made, If We are to get nearer
single moral standard 1T is for women to bring this
about.
women have, the whole, been, or tried TO
be, what men expected them to be. If women ex-
pected more of men they, too would do the same"
Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister OF The
odore Roosevelt, believes the girls of today are
superior to their sisters of yesterday. Notwith-
standing their bobbed hair and their abbreviated
skirts and even their cigarette smoking, they are
more capable more interesting and think oftener
and clearer than the types of their mothers gen
Grafton
1.-THE girl of today is splendid creature" she
asserts. Her cigarette smoking and bobbed hair
are just outward signs of that f1apper stage
through which she is passing.
"Girs today are developing remarkable execu-
tive ability and leadership This naturally makes
them more independent. They are doing things
their mothers never would have dreamed of I'M
dertaking. They succeeding in every field OF
business and industry they enter.
"But more than that-they are becoming better
wives and mothers The franchise has widened
their point of view. With their greater under
standing men are discovering them better COM
rades, and children are finding them able TO I'M
derstand even their pettiest problems.
sWoman's place is still within the home. The
very highest type of woman today is that one who
can add civic responsibilities to her domestic du-
ties without sighting the latter in any way. Wom
on nv living more systematic and orderly lives,
are doing what twenty years ago they would hare
regarded as impossible"
Mrs Oliver Fl. p. Belmont has been elected pres
dent of the National Woman's party, following her
gift of $4,000 with which to complete the pur-
chase of the entire block composing the "old cap
ito" at Washington She announces that new
"Petticoat party" will be in the field, with women
voters organized in every state to carry on"
against the old political parties. There is to be
a womanls platform and woman candidate for
president. The first issue, however, is a proposed
amendment to the Constitution to abolish all legal
determinations against women. The slogan of
the .Petticoat party is practically this: "Mar
has got things into pretty mess. The women
must clean up the mess
Mrs. Belmont has money and social position.
The National Womans party is the militant wing
of the women suffragists. It's members have the
courage of their convictions, shown by the
White House picketing, the Jail terms and the hun
ger strikes still fresh in the public memory
Miss Jeanette Rankin, Miss Anne Morgan, Prin-
cess Catacuzene, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and
others are back of plan to give to mankind a
'NeW NOflQS hlSlOTy. IL viii give tie ITuIn OF
history" and set straight in the eyes of the
world like this: Woman was created before man
the rib story is man-made. Cleopatra not
vamp, but a political and military genius. Joan
of Arc never heard voices; she was a military
maid who joyed in the clash of battle. Henry of
Navarro and Napoleon did not hold candle to
their mothers.
Mrs Elizabeth Murray Shepherd will edit the
New Worlds History" And she says:
s'The greatest tragedy of the race was when
men wrested control from women. Since the power
of selection was taken from woman mans era of
selishness and war came upon the EARTH We
must admit that mans ambition has made the
world progress in many ways, but If we weigh
the murders, woes. vices and other oppression
against this benefit, none of us can help being
agreed that woman's era was the better This
bi-sexual state in which we now are will soon
grow into Golden Age with all sex warning over
with. Neither will rule the other but both Will
contribute to the development Of humanity"