The Bottineau courant., 1922-02-09

against marriage. It is short-sighted view, for
you cannot mend things by looking on, any more
than you can stop dog fight by waving an um-
brella on the pavement. But the great majority
of younger women are realizing today that, If a
change is to be made, II we are to get nearer a
single moral standard 1t lis for to bring this
about.
"Women have, on the whole, been. OF 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. .~.t%@@
"The girl of today is a splendid creature" she
asserts. "Her cigarette smoking and bobbed hair
are just outward signs of that fapper stage
through which she Is passing.
"Grls 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 un-
dertaking They are 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 un-
derstand even their pettest problems.
"Woman'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-
en-, by living more systematic and orderly lives,
are doing what twenty years ago they would have
regarded as impossible"
Mrs. Oliver 81. p Belmont has been elected pres.
ident of the National Womans party. following her
gift of $4,000 with which to complete the pur-
chase of the entire block composing the "old CAP
ftol" at Washington. She announces that q 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
woman's 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: "Man
has got things into a pretty mess. The women
must clean up the NESS"
Mrs. Belmont has money and social position.
The National Woman's party ID the militant wing
Of the women sufragists. It's members have the
courage of their convictions as was shown by the
White House picketing the jail terms and the hum
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 a plan to give to mankind a
"New Worlds History" 1t Will give the "truth Of
history" and set woman straight In the eyes Of the
world, like this: Woman was created before man !:
the rib story is man-made. Cleopatra was not a
vamp, but 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 a candle to
their mothers
Mrs. Elizabeth Murray Shepherd will edit the
New Worlds History" And she says:
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
selfishness and war came upon the earth We
must admit that mans ambition has made the
world progress In many ways, but II we weigh
the murders. woes, vices and other oppression
against this benefit, none OF us can help being
agreed that woman's era was tile better. This
bi-sexual state In which we now are will soon
grow into Golden Age with ali sex warning over
with Neither will ruia the other but both viii
contribute to the development OF humanity"