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Friday, February 9, 1917.
THE PALATKA NEWS, PALATKA, FLA.,
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In Southern Woman's Magazine
ne of Feniraore Cooper's stories
w,Lo youthful-memory a thrilling
A t:r contained this paragraph:
'J :j captain approached, accom-
tvs" by two females."
nrii "females" were not cows or
8 might be imagined; they were
aw ;otain's wife and daughter,
.fery iiany old-fashioned novels wo
ler t;re always referred to as females,
w c:ater period the word denoting
wo-ntiation of sex as applied to the
niroi. kingdom was dropped, and the
0 cc-. woman" came into general use.
wring to. the other extreme, some
n ir.-. persons eschewed "woman"
now ;trpetrated the verbal atrocities
ane. friend and gentleman friend,"
ner.t me of their friends were naith-aw.i.-es
nor gentlemen. But there
resd the notion that it is neces-j-
t all times to be specific in rc-
sex; hence such woivls as ai
oo!j,;i, poetess, editress, schoolmis
er; team tress, and so on.
ort;;ho field of .woman's activities
ra' ?d, however, these distinctions
livt, burdensome and awkward.
, 5(V lieJesa, the idea t'.iat women are
,e'; "r beh.gs factors in the world's
4 .'-has not yet percolated into
rv lusness.
. fr now that Jtfiss Rankin of Mon-
ins been elected to Congress,
,cre;Vs of editors and newspaper
' i.".i ore perplexed and worried
u',..ie alleged difficulties that are
"0 arise. In the first place,
p o call her. A Western paper
. " 'Somehow, we are jarred when
' . ,.n of her 89 Congrcsswoman
. ; and it is quite apparent that
" man wil not do at all."
, not call her Representative
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? She was not elected as a
, but as a suitable person for
the place an individual competent to
discharge the duties of the office.
Another puzzled editor remarks:
"Suppose it should be deemed wise
to plfcce Miss Rankin at the head of
one of the committees. We should
be compelled, by the poverty of our
language, to call her the chairman
at any rate, chairwoman ' has to the
unaccustomed ear a harsh 'and un
pleasant sound."
This poor man, of course, is away
behind the times. No clubwoman
says "Madam Chairwoman" or "Mad
am Presidentress."
A bewildered newspaper man in Illi
nois predicts trouble ahead for the
Speaker of the House when Miss Ran
kin takes her seat. "Let us," he
says, "try to imagine Champ Clark
or Jim Mann in the situation of rec
ognizing an interrupter when the lady
has the floor. The form now em
ployed is something like this: 'Does
the gentleman from Montana yield
to the gentleman from Illinois?'
There must be found a working 'sub
stitute for 'gentleman.' "
Well, it is easy to say, "The mem
ber from Montana." With a little
practice, no doubt, the speaker can
manage this. Let him stand before
aVnirror in the privacy of his apart
ment, take a deep breath and concen
trate his thoughts.
Perhaps the time will come when
people will no longer think in terms
of sex. Already some changes have
come in respect to this. A woman in
a newspaper office is not called a re
portress; we do not speak of a writer
ess; if a woman is fond of walking,
we do not say that she is a good
walkeress. Such words as "author
ess" and "potess" are being thrown
into the scrap heap as people realize
slowly and painfully that women are
human.
The old idea was that women are
merely female, and that any form of
endeavor in which they may engage is
female too.' In the days when this
belief prevailed a certain woman, wri
ting on historical subjects, apologized
for describing a battle, saying that
she knew such subjects "ill beseem a
f emale pen."
Last September, when in order to
avoid a national calamity in the form
of a general railroad strike the
Adamson law was enacted, Congress,
by a large majority, committed itself
to the doctrine that eight hours at a
stretch is long enough for a railroad
man to work. A great many states
already limit the day's work to eight
hours for all men in public employ.
In the debates on this topic in Con
gress and in the Legislature, many
eloquent speeches were made on the
right of every human being to a cer
tain amount of leisure.
In other words, this principle is rec
ognized by lawmakers: Leisure, in
reasonable measure, is a good thing,
especially for men.
Only a few states have an eight
hour day for women.
And all those are states where wo
men vote. "Where one woman
iworker is protected by an eight-hour
law, a thousand men are so protected."
This is a statement made by the
president of the National Women's
Trade Union League.
But are not women naturally
stronger than men, less easily affect
ed by weather and fatigue? Did not
the women march in a suffrage parade
in Chicago last June in a heavy down
pour of rain?
Everybody knows that no man could
wear a low-necked dress in winter
time nor furs up to his ears in the
dog days. No man could wear high
heeled shoes without breaking both
ankles; very few men could sit up
every night for a week with a sick
baby without feeling down-and-out.
Not a great many men would be
willing to walk in the rain to the
polls; some of them won't go even in
good weather, unless a ward heeler
or something comes along with a car
riage to haul them free of charge.
Undoubtedly women are stronger
thain men. But what of that if
leisure is a "human right"?
The right food is a human right
regardless of the fact that a woman
can go down town' and shop all day
on the strength imparted by a cup
of tea and a cracker or two, whereas
a man in order to endure such an or
deal would require a large steak and
a hard drink.
Nobody would argue that women
are to be debarred from bread and
meat. Then why is one human right
different from another human right?
"Food" i3 not masculine; neither is
"leisure" nor "suffrage."
With the single exception of Cali
fornia, all the states having'an eight
hour law for women passed it after
the womeni got the right to vote. In
California it was passed by the same
legislature which voted for the wo
man suffrage amendment to the state
constitution.
In the state of Washington the
eight hour law for women was passed
before women had actually cast their
ballots but after they had been given
the right to vote. The legislators,
of course, knew that women, as well
as men, would have a vote on their
re-election, and so tlieir chivalry in
creased rapidly.' For eight years
the advocates of the eight-hour law
had been trying to secure its pas
sage but without success.
The subject of labor is a big one,
and the regulation of the hours of la
bor, with a view to doing justice to
the toiler, is a work that has pro
ceeded very slowly. Only last fall
was a federal child-labor law put
throue-h at Washington and signed by
President Wilson after being fought
tooth and nail for years.
The history of factory life in Eng
land shows that it took forty years to
restrict a child of nine to seventy
hours of labor a week an average
of more than eleven hours a day.
In 1825 a man was sent to jail for
advocating only twelve hours' work
a day for a child under sixteen. In
Georgia the law has permitted chil
dren to work in the mills at the age
of nine. In Alabama the minimum
age was thirteen.
Child labor is ehean labor. And
greed is a human quality.
Women workers are cheaper than
men particularly if a woman's work
day is several hours longer than a
man's.
The Massachusetts Legislature last
spring voted down the eight-hour law
for women workers. There are lots
of factories in Massachusetts.
In the state of Maine a bill to limit
women's labor to fifty-four hours a
week was submitted by the legislature
to a referendum vote of the men and
was defeated. In Colorado the eight
hour law for women was submitted to
a referendum of men and women to
gether, and carried. This seems to
indicate that it makes a difference
whether the voter is on the outside
looking in or on the inside looking
out.
Lousiana has refused to allow wo
men to serve on public boards of edu
cational and charitable institutions.
The amendment to that effect was
defeated at the last election.
School boards sometimes are fear
fully and wonderfully made. I knew
a member once who was a butcher
and could barely read and write; but
women, no matter how capable and
highly educated, were debarred in
that state from membership on the
board.
The Brewers' Journal, seeing the
handwriting on the wall, urges sepa
ration of the beer and whiskey in
terests, giving reasons as follows:
"The franchise wiil be extended to
all women in this country. There is
little doubt about that. And where
will the brewing industry be then if
it is still considered to be in alliance
with the distillers and whiskey-selling
saloons?"
Not all the high cost of living is
due to the war. Some of it is the
result of manipulating the market.
Recently two cargoes of bananas ar
rived in New York City at the same
time. Thereupon the owners towed
one load of them out to sea and
threw them overboard in order to
keep up the price of the others.
In California, since the housewives
got the ballot, it has been made ille
gal to destroy any kind of foodstuffs
for the purpose of keeping up prices.
None of the women voters who cast
their ballots' in the recent presiden
tial election were "insulted at the
polls," as was freely predicted a few
years ago. The. men turned out to
be more civilized than the anti-sunra-
gists had picture them.
The great English essayist, Charles
Lamb, said, along about 1780: "A wo
man who lets1 herself be known as an
author invites disrespect."
Men have improved greatly since
then!
"Japan has grown so rich by war
trade that she has made a loan to
Great Britain of fifty million dollars.
We shall be hearing soon, no doubt,
that Europe despises Japan as well as
the United States. No belligerent
loves a rich noncombatant.
If properly encouraged to read,
schoolboys and schoolgirls certainly
would enjoy reading current events
these days. News items and ancient
history are closely intertwined now,
and press despatches run right along
with classic lore. Saloniki, one of
the centers of interest in the news
of today, makes ancient Thessaly and
Thessalomca seem very real. Caesar
does' not seem so far away when his
armies and his battlefields are com
pared with those of the present.
At one time during the present war
there was hard fighting between the
British and the Turks at the delta of
the Tigris River, in Asiatic Turkey.
This spot, according to ancient au-
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ne couia not taice it. 1 decided to try
Vinol and With BnlpruIM raaiiUn T4.
seemed to agree with him so that now ho
is a Btrong neaithy boy." Mrs. Thomas
Fitzgerald, 1090 Park Ave., N. Y. City.
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thorities, is the exact site of the Gar
den of Edent
The Garden of Eden is the exact
place where trouble began. The
sword soon appeared a flaming sword
at that, which "turned every way. A
revolving blaze is no peaceful spectacle.
It would be a great achievement if
man could end trouble at the same
place where he found it. The con
flict between Turkish and British
troops, however, did not settle any
thing.
At the moment of writing Germa
ny's offer for peace is an item of very
recent news. Before these lines are
in print, the Allies either will have
rejected the offer or agreed to a dis
cussion of terms. On the spur of the
moment I should say that theTe is
nothing in it. Indeed, if war were not
so grim and terrible the first thought
expressed would1 be that 'Germany "
has added to the gaity of nations.
The pompous strain in which the pro
posal is set forth provokes a smile.
Of Germany's remark that it is not
known whether the terms "will be ac
cepted," an American humorist says:
"Perhaps the Kaiser contributed
them to Punch."
Germanv asserts that she i "seized
with pity." and therefore will make
peace if her terms are accepted.
The word "seize" implies a some
what sudden action. It is late in the
day to be seized with pity.
A Welshman is now at the head of
the British government, in the person
of Mr. Lloyd-George, the new prin e
minister.
England has had rather good luck
i in the matter of entrusting affn'rs to
men not English. She fixed Napo
leon by starting an Irishman the
Duke of Wellington in pursuit of
him. She won the Boer war by the
aid of another Irishman', Lord Rob
erts'. The Irish, Scotch and Welsh nre all
close akin and of the Celtic race.
An American cartoonist has made a
picture showing Mr. Lloyd-OeoT"e as
the "new lion tamer on the jib in
England."
As n matter nf fact, it is the same
old lion tamer. It was Lloyd-George
who several years ago toln the lords
and Hukes that thev would have to
pav their taxes. He was active in
taking away the absolute veto power
of the House of Lords. Tt was he
vhn nrpsentpd to John Bull the un-
wplcnmn invitation to mount the
water wneron in order to do better
work in the munition factories.
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