Show WOMAN QUESTION = NO III SALT LAKE CITY Jan 25 BO Editors Herald Seeing an article in your paper headed Ihe Woman Question my attention was attracted it being a subject in which we as women are deeply interested I have never been able to see why the question of sex should limit the full and free usa of intelligence While your able correspondent corres-pondent Ben Lomond admits this there is a thread of lightness running through his arguments which savors of patronizing I think we should be entitled to all privileges privi-leges that our capabilities can insure in-sure for UP as a matter of right if not of might Accorded to us in this way tho effect is ennobling to woman and becoming in man The writer ol letter No2 upon this question paints a very pretty picture of the domestic home wife whom all men must admire Some men however would carry the subject sub-ject a little farther and argue that in no way would woman be deprived of her domestic attributED by extending her domain of thought Wnere the immediate cares of a household and the rearing of children devolve upon the wife and mother her lines for the time at least are cast and in pleasant places too But while tho bands ale busy with babvtsndintr and stocking mending the mind over reaching and never satisfied I might be exercising some thought regarding the future career of tho baby boy and while under the immediate im-mediate influence of his mother imperceptibly is his life being moulded for future usefulness or its opposite Time passes the boy is a man the mother relieved from responsibility re-sponsibility yet not from her anxiety Now she may Imo more time to exercise those thoughts that then found place in her mind and heart She neglects no duty at home by extending ex-tending her sphere of usefulness and should she even enter the list l of candidates for office and be elected Governor of Utah abo certainly could not be guilty of greater errors in experimenting than some of her predecessors have been The stronger a man is in his own individuality the more manly he is So says ccmmon I verdict Then why is the rule cot good in womans case as well Anything approaching the masculine character in woman is not becoming and on the other hand anything approaching the feminine in man is unbecoming But to say that weakness is any more an attribute ot woman as a rule than of man as a rule is not trur The more fully a woman Is strong in mind and clear in intcllectua ability the more is she truly womanly And aa man would ecorn to ape any of her feminine attributes to also would she soar above appropriating appro-priating any of his Gail Hamilton i baa coined the word to meet the situation which is neither the man depending upon the woman nor the woman depending upon the man entirely en-tirely The relation is one of inter dependance each mutually looking to tho other for that which they have not I can conceive of men being so limited in metal calibre that they would guard with jealous care a wifes superior qualities fearing that their own might suffer by public contract con-tract This is narrow and short aighted They far befer glory in their wonderful powers of per uation that committed this intelligent life to their own making the twain one oul with but a single thought two J hearts that beat aa one In too I many instances this soul ia i the mans and retains its identity while the wifos is lost in the fall Let women be financially independent of their husbands and then they will begin to dare to think for themselves and in reality be more real helpmeets help-meets to men while they are in tie bondage of financial slavery A man of noble instincts would prefer pre-fer that his wife should be bound by affection alone and as for money if be have it let her share it and use ber own intelligence in Hi uee In many instances it was the wife who helped to gain it if not directly indirectly by economy econ-omy and thrift I am a full believer in the rights of men to hold any office for which they are qualified and as women are to be tried by the came judgment why ebould they not be permitted to have a hearing nt least I quite agree with the writer of No 2 when he says he would not vote for an antiquated spinster But would be vote for a man whose three score and tan had weakened his ability to fill any office suitably Borne men retain their mental vigor even at that advanced age eo do tome women It depends upon the kind of stuff they are made of whether the intellectual outlast the physical and now after wishing a hearty Godspeed to any woman and all women who may enter the field of honorable intellectual intel-lectual ttrife I am with reaped A MORMON WIFB |