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Show I MAN A VILLAIN? NO, A HEROI As the returns from the various counties come In, wo gather somo very Interesting data about tho meeting of tlio Federation of Women's clubs at St. Paul. It appears that tho blue-stockinged element got a set-back at tho session of Juno 7. Ono Rev. Mary G. Andrews of Omaha started the ball rolling by making an Impassioned appeal ap-peal for women to demand their rights at tho ballot box, assorting tho solo and only reason for their not having It was tho sordid selfishness of tho malo element who wanted to keep everything every-thing for themselves. Incidentally It may bo stated that Mary O. Andrews, ID. D., gave us poor wearers of trousers trous-ers an elocutionary walloping that would doubtless have held us for a while, had wo not nn unexpected champion In tho person of Mrs. Robert Hall Wiles, who, being a married woman, wo-man, knows something about tho malo sox. Mrs. Wiles was omphatlc In her assertions and statements. "Tho American man," she said, "Is tho most unselfish man in the world. Ho Is more unselfish than the American Amer-ican woman. Property rights aro just as fair toward women as toward men, and tho delegate from Nebraska Is wrong when she says tho men want to keep tho ballot to themselves through selfish motives, or becauso thoy do not want tho women to have property rights. Women can got as much favorable legislation now as they could woro they able to vote. Wo cannot can-not havo It go-out from hero that wo bollovo men aro solfish." Tho vigorous "trimming" Mrs. Wiles gave her antagonist caused the female minister to "take it back." In order to "square herself," sho Indulged in tho following: "I love all men," shouted Mrs. Andrews, An-drews, springing to her feet and turning turn-ing upon Mrs. Wiles. "I Idolize man; ho Is an adorable creature. I wouldn't havo that Impression go out from hero for anything. I'm not talking about tho good men wo all love; I referred only to tho politician." Mrs. Rev. Mary G. Edwards having mado that statement, wo accept her apology. Wo might state, for her edification, edi-fication, however, there aro men who do not believe In women having tho bnllot for purely sentimental reasons. 'i hero are men who lovo their wives, their daughters and their sisters so dearly that they cannot conceive of their entering politics without losing somo of tho womanly sweetness that attaches to tho uncrowned queens of tho home. Thero aro men whoso lovo for tho family clrclo Is such that they do not want women to enter tho field of polltIcslbe"iuso somewhere on earth thoy deslro thero shall bo ono placo sacred from tho entrance of tho baso doas of life. That wthln tho holy clrclo of tho flrcsldo nothing shall bo permitted save that which is good and pure and beautiful. Thero are men I who beliovo that the mission of a woman Is to mould tho early llfo of tho child In such a way that It shall attain tho years of maturity with high and noble purposes In vlow, and the men who so think aro sincere. Such men aro not politicians at all; ! far from it. They are the ones who ' sot women upon a pedestal of affec tion and worship her all their days. They are tho sort who bollevo tho woman wo-man contains all tho best elements ot llfo. If women like this female minis-tor minis-tor would study men as somo men study women sho would get now lights on a subject which Is as yet to her as darkness is to midday. Tho men of whom wo speak do not caro much for women who "lovo all men." Indiscriminate scattering of affection af-fection does not appeal to tho man with lovo in his heart. Ho wants a woman all to himself just as a good woman wants a man all to herself, t. Candidly speaking, we do not believe In wothert's clubs as conducted by the so-called, leaders of thought. Llko a. writer In tho Donvor News, wo havo noticed that too many of the delegates to mothers' congresses "wear dresses that button up tho back. Wo havo known old maids In our day who knew how to tako caro of a baby, but they woro tho exceptions, not tho rule. Although Al-though these congresses aro called together to-gether for high and noble purposes, and endeavor to mould public sentiment, senti-ment, our observation Is that tho hand that moulds tho doughnut Is tho hand that rules tho world, and that tho good woman who makes tho training of her family tho object of her life Is the one who cuts tho most Ice. C. M. Jackson Jack-son In Stato 'Journal. |