Eureka Reporter | 1906-06-08 | Page 5 | The Woman Orator Here to Stay

L looks to me ast the woman critor oritor a product of our most recent evolution were to here to stay it is growing each day less and less unseemly for a by MRS FREDERICK NATHAN woman to do aught but sit by her fire and spin and far from being one of the unconventional of feminine practices public speaking has come to be accepted as quite a matter of course the woman s club showed her that she possessed the germs of oratory she grew used to addressing her fellows and when she realized that her message deserved a greater audience she did not hesitate to venture out in the world to spread it abroad or maybe she did hesitate because woman has a great inheritance thousands of generations of timidity indecision and a lamentable lack of self reliance so she hesitated no doubt but got bravely over her timid ity and putting her other oratorical faults behind her climbed to the platform mans most tenaciously guarded monopoly and as usual a beat her masculine rivals at their own game for some of the cleverest public speakers I 1 hae ever heard have been women time and time again I 1 have been to dinners and mass meetings where the only talks worth listening to were those of women it looks as if the woman orator had come to stay