Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-01-26 | Page 4 | How Women Are Broadening

r t r J How flOW ow Women omen Are re Broadening roa I- I i It is a woman woman iris Mrs Havelock who Ellis Ellis who says that Hwo women en 1 are are re harder than men meaning severer in their judgments less tolerant harder hearted 1 II If the world were ruled by women I fear she adds th that at we should have a hardened world Women have got to be educated edu- edu i hated to to loyalty to each other ri A world ruled b by y r women would of course b be as as' badly managed managed man- man aged ged a as a world ruled by men Providence wiser than any group j t or pr class has made men and women complements of each other It tak takes S two to strike a balance 1 Hence Rence it is that the movement for a greater activity by jj women in government isn't for their sake alone but for the comI com com- 1 I 1 mon men good They will bring bling into the equation factors which men menI I 1 cannot bring because the nature of men does not contain them j Slowly however as a result of their reaching e ching forth into the j circle of great affairs they are learning tolerance loyalty poise l' l j In no way is this so obvious as in the changing attitude of respectable re- re 1 women toward women who have sinned 1 You remember Du Maurier's nov novel l Trilby and the s sensation sensa- sensa h tion it m made de Tribly the warm wann hearted generous loyal chum of j 1 bohemian artists in the Latin Quartier who had eves every virtue but buti the one e essential virtue the lack of wh which ch damned her forever i I in the sight of her sex 1 J j Convention feminine tradition the stern moral code of shelI shel- shel j I j womanhood everywhere was shocked into bitter protest protes i when this author dared to portray as likable and lovable a young I t t 1 j woman who ho in an environment of easy living had not guarded to toj tor ta r a j deaths death's point tl the e citadel of her chastity 4 1 Women who exacted from the men of their circle no such 1 j rigid standard of sex morality were instantly in arms to frown i j down the he tolerance of this writer of fiction who drew life as it was I Today though no less eager to uphold and safeguard the I standards of feminine honor the leaders among women view very t I differently the fallen woman 1 They no longer confine the blame and the penalty of their re reS relentless re- re S condemnation t on to the individual woman who has sinned but are b beginning ginning to perceive how false relationships in society 1 f unfair economic pressure the sins of the male are contributory 4 and how simple ostracism isn't enough hoW enough how to pity to forgive to I help upward and to prevent are the larger and nobler calls I t Oh yes women are broadening Arc Are men