Life — July 20, 1911 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Wirt Mow WE GOT IT LF Some Wise Gentlemen N the June Bulletin of the A. S. P. C. A. we see Mr. Seligman’s name has disappeared from the Board of Mana- gers. From the point of view of the present managers they were wise in ac- cepting Mr. Seligman’s resignation. A society of this kind requires harmony, and now there is perfect harmony be- tween Colonel Wagstaff, the president, and the gentlemen who compose the tLIPE: Would You Say Woman 103 Was a Novelty? Hardly, Yet We Never Tire of Discussing Her— Olive Schreiner Should Come to This Country- creased Supply of Female Leisure Now Let Loose HY is there such endless discus- sion of women, their job, their prospects, their education, their eco- nic position, the remedy for them, their right to vote, how many children they ought to have, how many husbands dal that? It isn’t as though women were a com- plete novelty. They have been around quite a. spell. Do you believe what they tell us, that women have not been the same since families ceased to make their own soft soap, and that the least we can do to make up to them for the loss of control of that industry and others is to give them the vote and the offices? Olive Schreiner has just published a hook on Women and Labor, the gist of which is that cloth is now made in fac- tories, Life is so extended that fewer children need to be born, and women have few important old-time employ- ments left and are in danger of degen- erating into parasites Men do most of the work now, Miss Schreiner says, but half the work be longs to women to do and they must have it and do it or go down hill to the bow wows, and civilization with them. If their old employments have board, These gentlemen are more than pleased with Colonel Wagstaff, and Colonel Wagstaff is delighted with his office. He attends to the business of the society when the spirit moves him. And the spirit is a gentle spirit, with no in- tent to bring anxiety or fatigue to so amiable a Colonel. Mr. Seligman, on the contrary, was more interested in preventing cruelty to animals than promoting comfort to Colo- nel Wagstaff. He even desired the re- In- kone, never to return, as appears, then they must have half of the employments that are left, such as they are. All that is reasonable, except, perhaps, that women still do a little some It is true that they are entitled to the work of the world. They are en- titled to a fair half of what there is here, and the wiser civilization grows the more disposition there is to sce that they get it. And the work of the world is the most valuable thing there is in the world, since it is that that makes strength and virtue, power and charac ter, Women are entitled to all the work they can find and do, and to all the knowledge they can get and to all the power and glory that result from knowl- edge and work. But is there any considerable drance nowadays to their attainment all these valuables? We don’t sec much, There seems to be a pressure of women all along the line of employment and streams of them breaking through at all the points of least resistance. Business offices are full of them; fac tories are full of them. No sort of edu- cation is denied them or any longer made difficult for them to attain. Even the domestic industries have not en- moval of the Colonel, that a more active president might take his place. The re- sult of such a move, in that Board of Managers, can be imagined. They were shocked. Mr. Seligman resigned. Hope also resigned from the bosoms of un- counted animals who expected res: But far more important than animals is the state of mind of Colonel Wag- staff. Now, presumably, he is happy; and at the Board of Management there is peace and perfect harmony. comicbooks.com