Show WOMANS SPHERE F We often hear much in regard to womens proper sphere from those who deprecate female ambition to engage in certain U cer-tain professions that men regard as peculiarly pecu-liarly their own Lady physicians were oncd ridiculed they are fast becoming popular if not indispensable Female teachers are now a necessity Female r clerks accountants secretaries are coming more and more into favor Lady lawyers cause some to raise their hands in holy horror hor-ror but sensible people will say Let women try the profession of law if they want to and if they are not fitted for practice prac-tice at the bar they will retire and only the fittest will survive hero as elsewhere Men would consider it an intolerable condition con-dition law custom were to forbid them from engaging in certain occupations that might be thought more suita119 for women Woman suffrage Is condemned by those who boast of negro suffrage Indian suffrage suf-frage and universal manhood suffrage irrespective irre-spective ot the illiteracy of the subjects No one can affirm in advance what particular par-ticular professions or ocoupations are not suitable for and should therefore be denied to women Apart from the duties incident to a successful rearing of her children if she has any there is no one wise enouirh to deny to women participation in any of the professions or occupations she may choose Q to enter The differences between male and female ability are largely accidental imaginary Women achieve success in what they undertake as often as men do The i i ericinoL and wS may add barbaric < ISo IS-o r t straint of woman was simply an expression of mans superior brute force aud strength of body just as the original human raco was once cowed down and kept within the friendly secrets of hidden caves and inaccessible in-accessible retreals by the superior brute strength of contemporaneous wild beasts I As mans intellcc enabled him to rise above I the restraint of the animal subjugation in which ho once dwelt there is no reason why woman shall not triumph over any of the lingering effects pL the ancient savage superiority of her male partner Let the women as well as the men make their own choice of occupation and workout I work-out their own temporal salvation or failure I They are the ones principally conc rned in their own choice of lifes opportunities and I we need not fear that on the whole they I will make choices that will prove detrimental I detri-mental either to themselves or to society at large I |