Show UVAEC VO3injf IJT WASIUXGTOJr The Utah delegates to the National Womans Council in Washington D C have received more than common attention Ample opportunity was afforded af-forded those ladies to present their views to the assembly and the press have given them very favorable notices no-tices with comments that show very plainly the effects upon the papers of the changed conditions In this territory i terri-tory Instead of those slurs and in uendos that once were a matter of course only complimentary and respectful re-spectful is made There was a very noticeable demonstration I demon-stration of ability in the addresses delivered I de-livered by the Utah ladies All of them I had something original to present and i they presented it well Their reception f was all that could be desired They are all representative women and fully competent to interest a cultured audience audi-ence We have others of equal talent rand capability at home Utah is not t a whit behind the other part of the Union in her galaxy of feminine luminaries i lumi-naries Indeed we are of the opinion I that according to population she far I outshines most of the states and territories terri-tories in this respect This knocks out one more of the misconceptions of the public in reference to Utah and her people peo-ple It is now beginning to be seen that even her women supposed to be ignorant common place and downtrodden down-trodden number among them such bright and thoughtful and progressive minds as are able to form an attraction attrac-tion in a national gathering of the foremost of their sex In affairs that relate re-late to the public welfare Among the press comments concernIng concern-Ing them we find the following which shows that the kind of progress believed be-lIeved In by the women of Utah is somewhat different to that advocated by some of the lady reformers of the IJ r t f I < age It Is from an editorial in the Cleveland Plaindealer At the Womens Council in Washing ton yesterday Louisa Green Eicharda took square issue with the advanced women who sing the praise of single lIfe and Independence of man She baldly maintained that however good nay ha the single condition In excep ional cases as a rule the married states state-s much better Man by himself cannot can-not get along satisfactorily womans htssion is not fulfilled until She has secured se-cured a husbands cooperation In her life work The woman who preaches reform re-form should make it practical In the family and the idea of a family presupposes pre-supposes a husband She who devotes her life to teaching the young Becomes Be-comes better qualified when she has children of her own to teachat least that Is the inference from the telegraphed tele-graphed synopsis of the addressand the condemnation was unsparing of boards that make marriage a bar to further connection with the schools Marry marry marry That was the lesson of the appeal although nom naRy addressed to women was mainly Intended for men who ought to marry and dont Women she said would narry with proper opportunities and the young men should be made to understand un-derstand that it is their duty to furnish fur-nish the opportunities They should be taught that unmarried life if not wasted is worthless In comparison with what it might be if more judicIoUsly judi-ciously managed She grudgingly admitted ad-mitted that there may be honorable exceptions of bachelorhood but severely severe-ly added that the position of such an exception is not an enviable one |