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Woman Has Been Kept Back as
Slave to Bigotry Declares
Suffrage Writer.
By CLOA A. PARKER
FULLER.
Of Macon, Ga.
President of Macon Woman's Suf
frage Association.
There is a phas of the great
feminist movement—of which the
enfranchisement of women & bul a
small part—that ls almost wholly
overlooked, but which is one of the
ptrongest arguments for woman suf
frage, and that is the exlravagant,
improvident and altogether useless
waste of one-half of the human race
~—otherwise, women
tle the women of-the world are uti
tle the women of the world are do
jzed in the really vital things of
lite, as'de from allowing them to be
good wives and mothers?
Have you ever consideied the fact
that men are not only husbands and
fathers, but that they accomplish
many other worth-while things besides
~things which really take precedence
over husband and fatherhood, as, for
instance, money -making; and poli
tics, and are not criticised therefor?
What would we think of a man
who when ke married should with
draw from all of ihe outside-of-the
home affairs in order that he might
fill creditably his new role of hu
band and father?
To Develop Executive Ability. |
Why should women not de \<'ln;'i
their executive ability, and learn to |
be competent heads of households, ap- :
|n~]‘lmlm!;z the several tasks of ‘-“Ul!vtli
help, as do their husbands in '“Hrl
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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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f:r-!H wes, factories, stores and other
:ln.vh of business? Why not? lls
| there any ound, logical reason why
women can not b ome good execu
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fection of women in the very first
100 fu with their vel first 'l:-!
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'
suicide, |
Pre-Natai infiuences Strong. |
Did ybu ever consider how much
the uneducated or incompetent wo
men who mothered those men might
be to blame for their unfitness for
business—unconsciously, of course,
but directly so—because of pre
natal influence and inherited ten
dences?
What is to hinder sons from in
heriting business or any other ten
dencies from their mothers; and
daughters, business capacity, or oth
er latent ability from their fathers,
and vice versa? Nothing at all. The
testimony of physicians bear me out
in this.
l¢ it not then perfectly logical to
conclude that in stifling or hinder
ing the development of natural ten
dencies in women, by attempting to
train them al!l to fit the one mold
of wifehood and motherhood, that the
children. husbands, society and the
world at large lose incalculably by
this foolish and wasteful practice?!
“Foolish Customs” Blamed.
Mind vou, 1 am not blaming the
women of the past for what they
Lave falled to accomplish, because
of insurmountable difficudties that
foolish customs have placed in the
paith of ithelr development; instead,
1 commend them for the accomplish
ment of so much in spite of these
stumbling-blocks,
However, we must consider the
average woman as our example, not
the exceptional one.
The teachings of the Bible and of
Christ are all against waste, wher:-
gsoever it may he found. Wasted
lives, wagsted talents, wasted creative
powers, all are included in this great
waste of the feminine part of the hu
man race which has continued for
centuries,
A Christian civiiization should con
serve every instinct for good, for up
lift, for helpfulnees, which are evident
in the lives of the women in the
home, the church and the world,
Men Called “Beasts.”
Instead of that, women-—untols
millions of them-—are compelled by
cruel custom to waste their lives as
wives of proiligate and cruel men who
lack the first instincts of decency. \
They are compelied in Humerous
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
become as haunting phantoms of a
cherighed but dead past.
Unwelcome and unloved children
are thus brought to an unhappy exist- i
ence and never know the hest and
sweetest joys of life, because of hav-,
l N the whole realm of woman's work, from the ear
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 Drudgeyy
from the domestie 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
gives 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 thus saved enables womankind to
devote herself to the eultivation ol those higher
aims which are making life evervwhere better and
brighter. :
Again, every necessity of life costs more to-day
than it did ten vears ago—evervthing but Eleetrie
ity and Gas. FEleetricity 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
clectrical energy as we got ten vears ago.
The grocer and butceher do not help the house-
Kkeeper 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 housekeeper pavs the electrie company for
Ilectrieity, but what she uses is Light, Heat and
Power, and the electric company is doing everyvthing
it can to see that she gets the greatest value in
light, heat and power from the Electrieity she buys,
Georgia Railway and Power Co.
Atlanta Gas Light Co.
THEY ATLANTA GEUORGIAN AND NEWS.
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ing been brought up midst the in-{
harmonies of a “house divided against
iteelt” y
Vast numbers of women, because, |
perforce, they sinned against society |
nyv loving “not wisely, but too \\eil."l
are branded as untit for decent so
clety forever after, and forced to a
}rpstri(-trd vice district as the only‘
plice where tood and shelter are cer
tain, 1
Society Excuses Men.
Why? Because men want them in
a 4 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 thelr con
venience, from - their homes or their
pure and innocent daughters.
Then these daughters 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 the 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 requires all of a woman's
time, strength, beauty and talent to
' be the wife of a man—who spendas
but a very small portion of his time
qualifying as her husband—and In
mothering her children, which re
:qum«s so little of his time to father.
l Mothers Put on Shelf.
. There are millions of another class
of woinen Who aie Taiely imentioned
in this connection, and they are the
|\\’umen who hLave served their time
' as wives and mothers, and whose
| children have grown and left the pa
lrvnm! roof-tree—women of 40 vears
and upward—who have nothing lefl
l'o fill their starved lives, because
' their children no longer need them to
anv great degree.
Otherg, again, become widows, after
many vears of devotion to the whims
and foibles of their husbands; and
they, 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 to be
come adjustad to their changed lives,
Good Word for Old Maids,
Then there are the women who
never marry, and who seem so utter
1y forgotten or ignored when consid
ering this great woman question.
What of them? More often than
‘not these women have developed far
beyvond 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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able passport to a new and unex-|
plored country of womankind.
Why should man prescribe tihe
lengtl, breadth, height or scope of a
woman’'s experience and education?
t\\'hu made man the dictator of a
woman's life? lln his ignorance and
|arrogance he has usurped the place
|ur the Creator of men and women.
According to the progressiveness of
*th« 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
‘\\'an'd to the past, and at the best can
become nothing more than a cold,
iunr«-spun:he monument—a pillar of
| salt—erected to the memory of death
jand decay.
a 1 A SN T B W RIS
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Try the Favorite Recipe of Old,
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Folks—Buchu and Juniper. l
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Kveryvone knows that Buchu mnl{
Juniper properly compounded is the
best medicine for weak Kkidneys or
bladder. When the urine becomes
cloudy, the bladder irritated; \\'hen‘
vou have an unusual flow of urine,|
' scalding, dribbling, straining or tuo!
frequent passage trom the bladdm'w‘
)\mlr head and back aches—your an
liles or eyelids are swollen, spots be-{
fore the eyes, leg cramps, shortness
of hreath sleeplessness and dPsnnn(l-‘
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 pienty
of water. Drop the use of sugar and
sweets, In a dayv or so yvour kidneys
will act fine and natural. Stuart's
Buchu mixed with Juniper has l)eeni
used for years to clean out impurities
from the kidneys and bladder, also lo‘
neutralize the uric acids in the bkm.‘.i
and urine so it no longer irritatgg,
thus ending all kidney and bladder
weakness and curing Diabetes, Stu
art’s Buchu and Juniper is a fine kid
ney and bladder regulator and has
helped thousands of sufferers when
most every other medicine failed to
help or cure. Be sure you get Stu
art’s Buchu and Juniper, as it is espe- :
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 partieu
lar field performs the same service in a similarly ef
feetive manned.
- Woman as the housekeeper no longer must bend
over the wood and coal 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 sinee 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
erandmothers.
Here, too, ave some practical illustrations of the
changes that have come with the introduction of
cas-piping in the modern home. We see woman re
lieved of the burdens of cooking, heating water
and other domestie 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 direet from the huge storage tauks to tips
ready at every woman's hand, Gas has been found
useful in a constantly increasing ratio. There is a
booklet now being cirenlated showing over 1,000
uses for Gas, '
As in the case of the clectrie company, the
cas company is persistently engaged in enlarging
the field of usefulness and reducing the cost of its
produet.
Diamonds
I HAVE maintained, for years, the
enviable reputation of being the
“Diamond Store of Atlanta.” Only..
through constant good faith in our
dealings with the public and the
strictest regard for the high standard
of our merchandise could this fact be
possible.
This week opens our new DIAMOND
STORE at 19 PEACHTREE STREET
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