Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — WOMAN’S PRINCIPLES. [ARTICLE]

WOMAN’S PRINCIPLES.

Most Suitable aud Satisfactory Thing She Cun Acquire. After all that has been done- for American women by legislators and educators, and college builders and reformers, It still remains true that the most valuable possessions a normal woman can acquire rs a suitable and satyhictory man. Nothing else is quite so serviceable iu promoting the fulfillment of her destiny and her comfort while It is in the process of fulfillment. Nothing else If she Is normal—and here are very few women who are nrft considerably normal—quite takes a man’s place with her, says Harper’s Weekly. One of her most valuable privileges is that of selecting her man, of picking and choosing and taking her time about it, and possibly even of changing her mind after she had begun to think she knew it. It is observed that women who are good, and have the luck to be charming also, have great advantages In carrying this important process of selection to al successful issue. More men are available for such girls to choose from, and once the choice is made the resulting contentment is more apt to endure and to wax, instead of diminishing., The most that legislatures can do for married women is to protect them from bad husbands. Choosing good ones is a matter of personal enterprise which laws can do little to promote. But, of course, a woman who has few rights and is in complete possession of a satisfactory and competent husband is better off than if she had more rights amd no satisfactory means of realizing her destiny. If the American girl ever has to choose between her rights and her privileges —-Including the privilege of being charming, and this Invaluable privilege of selecting a man that Buits her —she will undoubtedly do well, as Miss Daskam advises, to hold on to her privileges and let her rights go. Bat she will hardly have to make such a choice. She will retain her privileges, anyway, and all the rights she can make up her mind to. want, besides. When a man doesn’t use tobacco In any form, we wonder bow It happened.