| Show WOMANS WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS As for iSle Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death With the proverbial shrewdness of his race Solomon chose wisdom as the best gift he could ask for perfectly well aware the sly old Hebrew that if he only had wisdom he would know enough to obtain everything else in this life that he wanted It was his long headedness quite as much as his true piety that prompted him to make that choice bat since we cannot all have wisdom then the next most precious gift to man and woman too liberty the right to do exactly ex-actly as you please so long as you do not interfere with anybody else That is the Bole restriction that should be put on human hu-man beings The right to think your own honest thoughts to proclaim them openly and bravely fearless of all the world knowing that no old monster of a Mrs Grundy will crush you under her juggernaut wheel for telling the truth to dress in comfortable and convenient clothing without being hooted to associate asso-ciate freely with people whom you like and with no others to have no nasty minded social spies on your track no Miss Nancys of either sex to claw you to write and print the truth as yon feel it and know it without hedging and trimming trim-ming and trembling to live daily without with-out a pack of bigots critics and hypocrites hypo-crites in cry after you to follow no conventionalities con-ventionalities of fashion society or belief be-lief that did not suit you to wander out alone in the beautiful wilds of freedom free-dom to climb the cliffs and breathe the sweet strong air of liberty upon the mountain topto gain such life I would die a thousand deaths The other day I was going up Fulton street in Brooklyn in an elevated train A young lady sat beside me reading attentively at-tentively In cars I always look to see whether girls are reading novels or newspapers and I accordingly inspected this young Indys book It was a religious re-ligious volume and I am bound to say she seemed profoundly interested By and by she laid it down and I saw that its name was The One Thing Needful In her lap beside the boot were five packages pack-ages of chewing gum and she was manipulating man-ipulating the sixth as fast as her jaws could work Chewing gum was the one thing needful If after all the fogy element in the Methodist church manage to keep women wom-en out of being delegates to the quarterly quarter-ly and general conferences it will not be strange if a large proportion of the ablest ladies in that denomination leave it in a body and connect themselves with other Christian organizations that have more Christian views on the woman question It will be strange in fact if they do not United States Senator Joseph M Carey of Wyoming made an eloquent address at the late meeting of the National Na-tional American Woman Suffrage association asso-ciation in Washington The voting at the first election in the now state was done under the Australian ballot system sys-tem and Senator Carey said What ever objection a mart could have raised before to a womans going to the polls and voting was entirely removed by this system No we dont want men to take a backseat back-seat just because they are men but we intend women shall have their share of the front seats from this time on It is not the entering on this or that occupation occupa-tion or even following this or that line or conduct that is insisted on in behalf of our sex We would force nobody into any trade or profession It is that we want the liberty to choose our own occupations occu-pations > and do as we please without be ng forced either this way or that Under Un-der the system of liberty for all each will quickly find his or her own level Lady Florence Dixie tells in a manner hat is altogether delicious how she evaded the words love honor and obey in the church marriage ceremony She says For myself I am not ashamed to confess it I did not pronounce them I merely substituted er er er in a low voice Girls dont forget Lady Flor ences er er er Years ago when a beloved be-loved girl chum of mine was about to be married by the Methodist service before the ceremony I saw the minister at her request and asked ln to omit from the pledge the word dfcey It was surprisingly sur-prisingly refreshing to me to hear this good Methodist clergyman answer Oh I never put that word ia No preacher that has any sense ever does any more a4lfM |
