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Woman Has Been Kept Back as
Slave to Bigotry Declares
Suffrage Writer,
Ry CLOA A. PARKER
FULLER.
Of Macon, Ga.
President of Macon Woman's Suf
frage Association.
There is a phase of the great
feminist movement—of which the
enfranchisement of women is but &
small part—that Is almost wholly
overlooked, but which s one of the
strongest arguments for woman suf
frage, and that is the extravagant,
improvident and altogether useless
waste of one-half of the human race
-—otherwise, women
tle the women of the world are util
tle the women of the world are do
ized in the really vital things of
life, aside from allowing them to be
good wives and mothers?
Have you ever considered the fact
that men are not only hugbands and
fathers, hut that they accomplish
many other worth-while things besides
—things which really take precedence
over husband and fatherhood, as, for
instance, money -making; iand poli
tica, and are not criticised therefor?
What would we think of a man,
who when he married should with
draw from all of the outside-of-the
home affairs in order that he might
fill creditably his new role of hus
band and father?
To Develop Executive Ability.
Why should women not develop
their executive ability, and learn to
be competent heads of households, ap
portioning the several tasks of skilled
help, as do their husbands in their
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The Strongest Aids to Woman’s Suffrage—Gas and Electricity
They Make Housework Easy—They Keep Houses Clean—They Make It Possible for Women to Have Time to
Interest Themselves in Other Matters Besides Household Duties—They Are Essential to All Future Progress
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Suffragist Pleads
For More Freedom
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CLOA A. PARKER FULLER. |
offices, factories, stores and other
places of business? Why not? Is
there any sound, logical reason why
women can not become good vxm-u-'
tives? None whatever, except the op
portunity for making the effort.
Are all men competent executives?
No! One has but to touch business
with the finger tips to make that dis
covery —vet men have been in busi
ness always. Then why expect per
fection of women in the very first
stages of their business and political
experience?
Many women, however, become
succesaful with their very first en-
trance into the business or political
world, and many men remain a life
time in them, only to end as complete
failures, and often hasten death by
sulcide,
Pre-Natal Influences Strong.
. Did you ever consider how much
the uneducated or incompetent wo
men who mothered those men miuhli
be to blame for their unfitness for
business—unconsciously, of course,‘
but directly so—because of pre
in.:ml influence and inherited ten
dences”?
| What is to hinder sons from in
|h--rning business or any other ten-
Im-m-iw from their mothers; and
daughtars, business capacity, or oth
er latent ability from thelr fathers,
and vice versa? Nothing at all, The
restimony of physicians bear me out
| in this.
‘ 1s it not then perfectly logical to
| conclude that in stiding or hinder
| ing the development of natural ten
;m-nvios in women, by attempting to
train them all to fit the one mold
| of wifehood and motherhood, that the
children, husbandg, society and the
Ivmrlcl at large lose incalculably by
| this foolish and wasteful practice?
“Foolish Customs” Blamed.
Mind you, 1 am not blaming the
women of the past for what they
[h:ave tailed to accompiish, because
of insurmountable difficulties that
foolish customs have placed in the
path of their development; instead,
i I commend them for the accomplish
ment of so much in spite of these
stumbling-blocks,
However., we must congider the
average woman as our example, not
the exceptional one,
The teachings of the Bible and of
(‘hrist ere all against waste, whera
l,\nt'w'l' it may be found. Wasted
lives, wasted talents, wasted creative
powers, all are included in this great
waste of the feminine part of the hu
man race which has continued for
i centuries,
A Christian civilization should con
gerve every instinet for good, for up
lift, for helpfulness, which are evident
in the lives of the women in the
home, the church and the world.
Men Called “Beasts.”
Instead of that, women—untole
| millions of them-—are compelled by
| cruel custom to waste their iives as
| wives of profligate and cruel men who
lack the first instinets of decency,
They are compelled in numerous
instances by meaningless vows to
sacrifice their noble womanhood to
men who are more degenerate than
brute beasts, and allow their pure
and beautiful ideals to perish and
hecome as haunting phantoms of a
cherished but dead past.
Unwelcome and unloved children
are thus brought to an unhappy exist
ence and never know the best and
sweetest jovs of life, because of hav- ‘
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l N the whole realm of woman's ;\'m*k, from the car
liest dawn of civilization to the present cen
tury, there has been no uplifting influence greater
than that contributed by Electricity and Gas.
Electricity has literally eliminated Drudgery
from the domestice life of the woman of to-day. A
casual glance at the illustrations on this page will
show some of the phases of this transformation
from Drudgery to Domestic Science—all directly
due to the wonderful uplift in Electricity. Where
woman once wore her life out pedaling a sewing
machine, she now merely presses a button and
oives the Labor over to Electricity to perform. In
the same manner she has risen from the old red-hot
flatiron, the back-breaking broom and the smoking
oil-lamp by means of this modern blessing.
The Time thug saved enables womankind to
devote herself to the ecultivation of those higher
aims which are making life everywhere better and
brighter.
Again, every necessity of life costs more to-day
than it did ten vears ago—everyvthing but l*)lc('tyic\
ity and Gas. Eleetricity in this section not only
costs less itself, but to-day we get practically twice
as much light and other service for every unit of
electrical energy as we got ten years ago.
The grocer and butcher do not help the house
keeper to buy labor-saving and waste-preventing
kitchen utensils, but the electric company Does
Help Select the Most Satisfactory and Economical
Lamps, Appliances, Motors and Wiring.
The huusvl;vv]wr payvs the electric company for
lolectricity, but what she uses is Light, Heat and
Power, and the eleetrie company is doing evervthing
it can to see that she gets the greatest value in
licht, heat and power from the Electricity she buys,
ing been brought up midst the in-|
harmonies of a “house divided against
itself.”
Vasgt numbers of women, because,
perforce, they sinned against society
ny loving “not wisely, but too weil,”
are branded as unfit for decent so
ciety forever after, and forced to a
restricted vice district as the only
place where food and shelter are cer
tain,
Society Exdiuses Men.
Why? Because men want them in
a convenient and near-by place, to
cater to their base desires. Men and
women bar these women from their
homes, but fail to bar the men who
set such women aside for their con
venience. from their homes or their
pure and innocent daughters.
Then these daughlers in their turn
are wasted—sacrificed to men who
have already wasted these other
helpless outcasts of society.
Fven the women who marry men who
are not included in this class, because
of tine unjust customs and laws of
the so-called civilized® world are
obliged to waste time, strength,
beauty and talent. These are all|
wasted because of the false notion
that it reqmires all of a woman's
time, strength, beauty and talent to
be the wife of a man—who spends
but a very small portion of his time
qualifying as her husband—and in
mothering her children, which re
iq-eirw &0 little of his time to father.
i Mothers Put on Shelf,
There are millions of another class
of women who are rarely mentioned
in this connection, and they are the
women who have served their time
as wives and mothers, and whosei
children have grown and left the pa
rental roof-tree—women of 40 years
and upward—who have nothing lefl
to fill their starved lives, because
their children no longer need them to
anv great degree.
Others, again heoome widows after
many yvears of devotion to the whims
and foibles of their husbands; and
t.Jwy, of all respectable women, are
the most pathetic and helpless, for,
having been so entirely dependent
upon others for so many years, it is
a very difficult task for them tg be
come adjustad to thelr changed lives.
Good Word for Old Maids.
Then there are the women who
never marry, and who seem so utter-
Iy forgotten or ignored when consid
ering this great woman guestion.
What of them? More often than
not these women have developed far
beyond their married sisters, because
of the fact that they have had more
free and uninterrupted opportunities
for so doing. Their creative energy
has had to find an outlet somewhere,
and more often than not it has been
in books, music, art, business, church
or sociological work.
Men are cheating themselves when.
ever and wherever they deny the vote
to their women, for the ballot—though
apparently slight in itself—is a valu
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Atlanta Gas Light Co.
ITHE ATLANTA (inUl{(iJA;\' AND NEWS.
able passport to a new and unex
plored country of womankind.
& Why should man prescribe the
length, breadth, height or scope of a
woman's experience and education?
Who made man the dictator of a
woman's life? In his ignorance and
arrozance he has usurped the place
~of the Creator of men and women.
| According to the progressiveness of
' the individual States of this coun
’try, have they granted the enfran
chisement of women.
The face of progress is directed to
the future and is vibrant with life,
but the face of conservatism, like
that of Lot's wife, is turned back
ward to the past, and at the best can
become nothing more than a cold,
unresponsive monument—a pillar of
salt—erected to the memory of death
and decay.
Try the Favorite Recipe of Old
|
Folks—Buchu and Juniper.
FEvervone knows that Buchu and
Juniper properly compounded is the
| best medicine for weak kidneys or
bladder. When the urine becomes
cloudy, the bladder irritated; when
you have an unusual flow of urine,
scalding, dribbling, straining or too
{h'e-vmvn: passage from the bladder—
vour head and back aches—your an
kles or eyelids are swollen, spots be
fore the eves, leg cramps, shortness
of breath, sleeplessness and despond
ency, dizzy spells, and if weather is
bad you have rheumatism, try the
following: Get from any reliable
druggist a fair sized bottle of Stuart =
Buchu and Juniper Compound. Take
a spoonful after meals. Drink plenty
of water. Drop tiie use of sugar and
sweets. In a day or so your Kidneys
| will act fine and natural. Stuart’s
' Buchn mived with Juniper has been
!'m-d for years to clean out impurities
from the kidneys and bladder, also to
neutralize the uric acids in the blood
and urine so it yo longer irritates,
thus ending all kidney and bladder
weakness and curing Diabetes. Stu
art’s Buchu and Juniper is a fine kid
nev and bladder regulator and has
helped thousands of sufferers when
most every other medicine failed lu‘
help or cure. Be sure you get Stu
art’s Buchu and Juniper, as it is (-sfi'rr-,’
cially compounded for kidney troubie, |
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GAS and Electricity hold identical elements of
uplift for womankind. Where Eleetricity
strikes off the shackles of Drudgery- that for cen
turies have bound womankind, Gas in its particu
lar field performs the same service in a similarly ef
fective manned.
Woman as the house keeper no longer must bend
over the wood and eoal burning stove in the kitchen
or living rooms of her home. The heat, smoke and
dirt that in olden days kept her soul harassed and
her hands tied to Drudgery have gone into the dis
card since Gas made its e ntrance into her life. Time,
trouble and expense are saved in enormous quanti
ties in comparison with the household work of our
grandmothers.
Here, too, are some practical illustrations of the
changes that have come with the introduction of
gas-piping in the modern home. We see woman re
lieved of the burdens of cooking, heating water
and other domestic duties. She finds Gas a ready
servant, an economical servant and a trustworthy
assistant in every department of her home.
It is really an interesting study to follow the
development of Gas as woman's aid. From the time
the first English producer secured light and heat
from the invisible agent issuing from a ‘teakettle
full of heated coal, up to the present moment, when
it is sent direct from the huge storage tanks to tips
ready at every woman's hand, Gas has been found
nseful in a constantly inecreasing ratio. There is a
booklet now being cireulated showing over 1,000
uses for Gas. '
As in the case of the electric company, the
ras company is persistently engaged in enlarging
the field of usefulness and reducing the cost of its
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