Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1910 — FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN

, Should Eliminate Drudgery. Especially la the woman of to-day changing in the scope of her mental development, states Judge Willard McEwen, 1 of Chicago. She has a much better understanding of what is going on in the world and her interest is more vital in the things outside her own particular sphere than it formerly was. Woman is waking up to a desire for individuality, which is just as natural an impulse as the desire for immortality. It is in a consciousness of individuality that people get their real happiness. Under past conditions man has been the individual and woman an impressionable creature, whose religion, training and sex instincts made her satisfied with children, and home, and working for a man, who is most of the time a false ideal. She is modifying that condition. In my judgment the real question of woman’s Independence as a factor in the partnershop is a question of sex. Taxation without representation, improvement in government through woman’s participation are idle arguments so far as being of any effect is concerned. Woman has been long in a condition of subserviency and is coming to realize it. Man might as well recognize this and figure that it is going to cost him something that he ought to pay. An economic question must be considered with reference to present conditions. If tested by the days of our grandfathers, woman’s present attitude and manner of looking at life is to be deplored, but tested by our times woman's situation and change in her relationship to man have injected a new element into the conditions which should be charged up to the account as legitimate expense. The drudgery in a woman's life should be eliminated as far as is consistent with the family purse. It is not incumbent on a woman to get tired out and overheated baking bread when a few nickels invested at the corner bak-

ery will provide the table with bread that no doubt will prove much more palatable. The day of the woman drudge is fast nearing its close, and we are not going to turn back to the good old days of the thatched roof and the dirt floor. Dainty Claaa Day Frock.

undeniable that there are splendid opportunities for women lawyers, and the 20,000 of to-day promises to be largely increased in the coming years, one of the most authoritative legal publications declaring that women are needed to analyze, digest and classify the quarter million decisions of Federal and State courts handed down in the ten years ending with 1910. The fact that out of 20,000 admitted lawyers only 40 appear before the gowned justices at Washington does not imply that the remainder are engaged In housekeeping or other pursuits. These women lawyer? are representing clients and appearing before the courts in their own states, doing valuable and remunerative legal work.