Show WOMANS SPHERE an article in he san francisco examiner under the foregoing title is well worthy of consideration A few paragraphs are as follows the facts of life dont fit tho conventional masculine theory that the woman who leaves the borne circle to battle as a competitor of roan is to be reprobated as one who beeks to herself hard necessity compels a thousand women to work for money where ambition or vanity prompts one to throw herself into tho struggle for distinction the spectacle of millions of female wage eners in the united states proves the exact value of that chivalry of which much is beard that chivalry that Is as edmed to throw protection around the queen of the home and shield her from contact with the world our modern industrial civilization shows no more chivalry toward woman than the indian does toward hie drudging squaw the factory is tho counterpart of the wigwam it ia a fine thing to be a of the home aurely and any woman who would exchange that lot in life for any other is not wise but only thy few comparatively can liepe for nich in the bense implied by m letoi who gird at women for demanding an equal chance with men in the race for money and celebrity it takes a rich husband to support the the queen of controversy the average woman like the average man is obliged to work for a living it is alie womans right therefore to demand that no privilege not dented to her by nature shall be retained ayabe men with whom ehe competes in the labor market so far the women who mount the platform and argue tor equality of the texel have and justice on thair side no matter if they be shrill or otherwise unpleasant they are still champions of the weak and honorable since men have consented that the harden ol 01 support shall be removed from mens shoulders to of the women themselves it ii a queer chivalry that would artificially increase the unnatural load profound social and moral and political changes must accompany thia readjustment of the industrial relation of tho the invasion of mans field by women and by children old ideal bold their place stubbornly but sooner or later as the alter eo must the ideala the sturdy oak and clinging vine theory doea not fit modern life where men and women toil on cwb earne footing in the factory the store and in the the question at lebue ia really not Is home lito womans limit but why should the woman forced out of her borne to work for a living be hand capped by laws or customs or theories born of other agee that dont fit her cabo |