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Show One Emancipation Few Are in Hurry to Meet The emancipation of women, according ac-cording to one Dr. Olga Stnstny, can be attained simply by lilting back in their chairs and putting their feet on the desk just like a man. It is an easy way to achieve emancipation, eman-cipation, and there is no doubt some kinds of work can be done in this position. A business woman could read her mail with her feet higher than her head; could dictate letters; might even take dictation if the boss were not reduced to speechlessness by the novel spectacle. But for such jobs as cooking, minding the baby, doing the family wash, and so forth, the feet-on-the-table stance would violate all efficiency rules. As for emancipation, we can only ask : "Emancipation from what?" Probably the doctor never thought of that. Ask anybody, man or woman, if he wants to be emancipated, and It is dollars to doughnuts he will say yes. Ask him what he wants to be emancipated from, and it is a $100 to $1 shot he won't answer. Work? Not a chance. Man, who has been putting his feet on the desk since desks were invented, never worked harder. He is still bound to the wheel. Why should women, by imitating him in this respect, hope to achieve what he obviously has not achieved? They could not do It even by standing on their heads. Emancipation? Vain word. There is no such thing. It is a will-o'-the-wisp which it is folly to pursue. Work, worries, cures, responsibilities, responsibil-ities, sorrow and adversity there is no escaping them. Some stand them better than others, but only by grace of superior spiritual and moral resources re-sources certainly not by being emancipated from them. Only one "thing can do that and, while It Is often spoken of as turning up one's toes, it is ni.t putting one's feet on the desk. New Bedford Standard. |