| Show l ANOTHER WAY lAMERICA AMERICA LEADS ALL THE WORLD United States Almost Alone in Freedom Free-dom and Opportunity That Is I Afforded to Gentler Sex M4 VJA I ifA i m t I 1 m M 1 1I I = InimoPlca Women Are ths Arowe4R 1s oJ Jocietr T IS in the United States that women revel In beds f of clover and walk on vel U j vet and roses an ample reason no doubt for their celebrated wit charm and I I beauty For they are free to develop I their mental faculties free to enjoy social life and free to work In America women who wantlearn tag and Latin have fewest restrictions n placed upon their place and manner oft of-t j education In America and in Amer 1 lea alone they are the avowed leaders I of society And in America they have I the largest liberty in choosing a pro fesslon Although in Russia clubs are only I beginning to be lawful and In France and Germany conditions are little better bet-ter In America 4000000 wives mothers 1 moth-ers and spinsters are organized into clubs and societies and of the 300 occupations I oc-cupations recognized by the United States census women are represented I In all but nine Carroll D Wright commissioner of j labor declares that it is plain that oman Is In open rebellion agaInst the traditional curse against the doctrine doc-trine of the Paull estimate of womens sphere that she has determined to I assert her equality in many directions and that she has entered and occupied I the great field of remunerative employment em-ployment American Women Not Humble The woman of America is charac rI I terlzed as independent forceful capable capa-ble and far from humble Obedience Is furthest from her thoughts CIvil marriages rarely contain the word obey some of the churches have dropped it when it Is uttered It Is i either regarded as a jokt or explaIned as a desire to please prompted by love something which would be equally applicable to the husband Self sacrifice formerly a cardinal I womanly virtue is no longer in high I lavor Selfdevelopment Is rapidly I Wing Its place The American worn I I to has Imbibed a new doctrine that I of freedom and happiness She does not believe that she should be submissive I sub-missive that her life should be hedged I with limitations or that she is foredoomed I fore-doomed to suffer for the sins of others I foreigners coming to this country I never are known to comment upon I the American woman as clinging I mid humble dependent submissive I I sacrificing without confidence in I her abilities or Inclination to protect I her rights and convinced of the su I Priority of man I On the contrary as Mrs Lydia B Kngsmlll Commander testifies In her dentine study of American woman ibe Is always remarked for her self C reliance force freedom intelligence tad capacity She is Intent upon be kg herself not the pale reflection of some one else and upon developing the possibilities of life to the utmost She has great respect and she com Ii tands the respect of others n Sexes Stand on an Equality Naturally women sustaining such al I tered relations to society and so r Changed in character hold a different a relation to men The sexes aro more ° o a parity says Mrs Commander Their lives are more closely nssocl tied they have more in common and they lerstand one another as never I before ore Tho women aro not something Ii apart from the national life a sort u ot l d naex to the race kept entirely for domestic rneath c 60rvlco ih I and reproduction a II er are becoming people half the nn en antl growIng to bo considered tad respected as such Their opinions H Public libations are not Ignored TheIr Ideas in business law medicine I or education aro not despised for their share of the national activities and esponslbllltlcs claims recognition and respect A natural accompaniment of worn ns Inferior share in tho Industrial I and social Institutions of a nation is her subordinate position In the home She Is not living in a world where her wishes are accorded much consldora Ion Religion education politics and business are In the hands of men who give to the other sex such quantity and quality of each as seem to them fitting Old Idea of Ownership Gone In America however as Is outlined by Mrs Commander and Is observed by all observers the old relationship of owner and owned Is giving place to ono of equality and comradeship Man docs not marry with the Idea of secur tug a patient chattel with enough in elllgenco to work for him wait on hint and minister to his physical desires de-sIres Ho seeks a friend a companion compan-ion a comrade a woman of Independent Independ-ent personality who will be congenial In her tastes and habits but who will live a life of her own not be absorbed In and lost by his American husbands are proud of wives who succeed In the business professional artistic literary or dra UUUUhhhh drat 4jr ItsIn the Vmted < 5iatea that Women Walk In8ecb Cloven matlc world who attain positions of prominence In philanthropic educational educa-tional or reform organization or who are possessed of any special ability or knowledge In the conservative countries marriage mar-riage is all Important to a woman and of secondary Interest to a man The stories end with the wedding of the heroine for It settles her career She Is now merged In her husband and no u more Is expected or nearu 01 her Meanwhile the man pursues the even tenor of his way his marriage being but a more or less Important Incident But the American womans growth of Interests outside of marriage has Increased the Importance of marriage to men The more developed woman of the United States touches her husbands hus-bands nature at many points and fills a larger place in his life He discusses public affairs with her confides Inher the details of his business asks her opinion and frequently follows her advice In matters of common Inter estter wishes carry equal weight wltu his In brief the American wife holds n position in the respect as well as the affection of her husband that makes the American man a proverbial matrimonial prize Of course all American women are not free respected and happy There are wives In the United States who are bullied and bossed treated with contempt beaten and even murdered But In these also aro many Instances where BO far from the wife obeying the opposite extreme almost holds true There are many American husbands hus-bands who Instead of exacting self sacrifice of their wives yield It to the fullest measure men who make a fetich of their wives wishes and work unceasingly and uncomplainingly uncomplain-ingly to gratify even their whims And the every day American husband hus-band recognizes his wife as a person with tastes desires ambl dons and Interests of her own and acknowledges her right to their development de-velopment and gratification He considers con-siders her as a human being analogous to himself Women for Clubs and Societies Even the most conservative of American Ameri-can husbands allow their women to Join a W C T U a missionary so club Nor Is clety or a womans there objection to the wife turning an honest penny In her spare time She dressmaking or give music do may intervals ° f housework tho lessons It is even In generally conceded that she under stress of necessity enter may industrial world without prejudice tho The most domestic femininity of her If haY housewife incurs no disgrace ing a sick husband or being left n widow she work for bread In a recent editorial of a conservn tlvo newspaper It was argued that Marriage does not rob a woman of the right still to be a wage earner un der approved conditions Many wives are justly proud of the ability to main lain their own resources and even con tribute to the household fund The wellworn maxim has It that the treatment of women Is an Index to a nations rank In civilization And un deniably true this adage proves to the traveler who tours tho world and finds in the most primitive states the most debased and injured womankind and In the most advanced states the loftiest lofti-est and freest women Herbert Spencer wrote mournful and great ordn when ho observed that In the history of humanity as written the saddest part concerns the treatment of women And If we had beforo us Its unwritten history we should find this part still sadder I say the saddest because though there have been many things moro conspicuously dreadful cannibalism the torturing of prisoners the Bacrlficlngs of victims to ghosts and godsthese have been but occasional occa-sional whereas the brutal treatment of women has been universal and constant con-stant If looking first at their state of subjection during tho scmlclvlllzed we pass to the uncivilized and observe the lives of hardship borne by nearly all of them If we then think what must have gone on among those Btlll under peoples who for so many thousands thou-sands of years roamed over the uncultured uncul-tured earth we shall Infer that the amount of suffering which has been and Is borne by women Is utterly beyond be-yond imagination Utter absence of sympathy made It Inevitable that women should suffer from the egoism of men without any limit as to their ability to bear the entailed en-tailed hardships Passing this limit the Illtreatment by rendering the women incapable of rearing a due number ot children brought about disappearance dis-appearance of the tribe and we may safely assume that multitudes of tribes disappeared from this cause leaving behind those In which the 111 treatment was less extreme Australian Does Not Love Wife In Australia Sir John Lubbock found little real affection exists between be-tween husbands and wives and young men value a wife principally for her service as a slave in fact when asked why they are anxious to obtain wives their usual reply Is that they may get wood water and food for them and carry whatever property they may possess The Australian women are treated with the utmost brutality beaten and speared In the limbs on the most trivial provocation Few women will be found upon examination ex-amination to bo free from frightful scars upon the head or the marks of spear wounds about the body saya he I have seen a young woman who from the number of these marks i u 0 0 In the United Stated flan Bows Down to 4omarij I L3 ta I appeared to have been almost riddled with spear wounds If at all good looking their position Is If possible even worse than otherwise Paul du Challlu during his adventures adven-tures in central Africa found two distressing dis-tressing cases of apparently wanton torture of women Among the Kaffirs relates Herbert Spencer besides her domestic duties the woman has to perform per-form all the hard work she Is her husbands hus-bands ox a Kaffir remarked to a traveler she had been bought he argued and must therefore labor t Chieftains Wife a Complete Slave Prof Ward observes that the complete com-plete slavery of woman to man is shown by the account of a Malagary chief who had scarcely seated himself at his door when his wife came out crawling on her hands and knees till she came to him and then licked his feet All the women In the town saluted sa-luted their husbands in the same manner man-ner Almost everywhere in Africa reports re-ports Letourneau woman is the property prop-erty of her husband who has the right and to use her as a beast of burden almost always makes her work as he does his oxen In certain Himalayan regions the women are a veritable merchandise the time which Is bought and sold At of Frasers visit a woman among the > peasants cost from five to six dollars a sum which It was pleasant to receive I re-ceive but painful to expend Tho daughters also and freely sold and the brothers of each family bought a common wife whom they rented without hesitation to strangers In New Zealand according to Moorenhnul and Ward n father or brother In givIng giv-Ing his daughter or his sister to her future husband would say It you arc not satisfied with her sell her kill her eat her you are absolute master of her Women of Tahiti Half Starved Almost at the origin of society writes Lctourncau woman was subjugated sub-jugated by her companion wo have seen her become In succession beast of burden slave minor subject held aloof from a free active life often maltreated oppressed punished with fury for acts that hor male owner would commit with Impunity before her oyes In the Soudan where the removal of clothes Is a sign of obeisance women may only conic unclothed Into the presence of the sultan of Melll and even tho sultans daughters must conform con-form to this custom At the court of Uganda stark naked full grown women wom-en are the valets Indeed throughout the primitive world women are beasts of burden servants slaves Not only tho wife of the negro the Hindu and the Kclghts but also tho wife of the present slav of the Balkan peninsula and of Russia Is the misused mis-used slave of her husband and as tbo result of the effort to escape labor we see the unwholesome Interchange of wlfo and child labor in the factories which would make greater gains from the laborer at the expense of wife and child Indeed In Its origin the family Is hold to have been simply an institution I institu-tion for the more complete subjugation and enslavement of women and children chil-dren for the subversion of natures I method In which the mother is the queen dictates who shall be father and guards her offspring by the instinct in-stinct of maternal affection planted in her for that purpose Japanese Widows Blacken Teeth In India tho subjection of women has had Its headquarters The suttee or the burning of widows on tho funeral pyres of their husbands Is not yet wholly extinct although forbidden by law and tho remarriage of wIdows Is only beginning to bo permitted The widow at best leads an Isolated exIstence ex-Istence cut oft from her natural nsso elates condemned to base foods and a life of practical servitude In Japan the widow must blacken her teeth and shave her eyebrows Throughout the orient women are taught to address their husbands as master or lord whereas the men speak to their wives as slaves and servants The oriental proverbs declare de-clare that woman Is like a slipper made to order wear It if It fits you throw It away If It docs not Woman Is like a snake charming as well as venomous Woman should always be In good humor and revere her husband even though unfaithful as a god When Nerves Are Jangled Diseased nerves play queer pranks said the specialist I had a patient who once spent five months In a hospital taking a rest cure Ho suffered suf-fered from Insomnia constantly Tc reach his home It was necessary tc spend n night on the cars and he looked forward to this with great dread Even when well he had always slept poorly on a train and ho looked forward to an absolutely wideawake night So he supplied himself with a powder in tho hope that It might help a little Ho didnt need the drug however He slept eight solid hours far bottom than In the quiet of the hospital Now a little coffee or smoking or any excitement ex-citement In the evening will gIve him Insomnia Yet when he once gets tc sleep he Is the hardest person In the house to awaken The firecrackers ot the nights of July 3 and 4 he novel hears A big fire on the block with all the noIse of the engines dldnl 1 arouse him Then there was a woman who had nervous prostration so badly that sh was confined to bed and had to have t n t1H j I In India Man Reigns Supreme i I I trained nurse Early one evening her j I family were startled by an awful commotion I com-motion and shrieking In her room I They rushed up to find her In a corner killing a mouse with the back of a hairbrush hair-brush while the nurse stood In the center of the bed screaming n |
