Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1909 — Race Imperiled by Vanity of Women. [ARTICLE]

Race Imperiled by Vanity of Women.

By Rev. J. J. SULLIVAN.

Former Dean of Theology at St. Louis University.

f OMEN do not want higher education or culture, if we are X® I to judge from the energy and ambition of that body of them who have wealth and leisure to enable them to get it. They do not EXERT THEMSELVES OTHER THAN TO ACQUIRE A FEW CHARMING SUPERLATIVES, varied by an appropriate giggle, which equipment is sufficient to get them along in polite society. THE MORAL CONDITION OF THE RACE DEPENDS FAR MORE UPON WOMAN THAN MAN. BY KEEPING UP THE STANDARD SHE HAS EVERYTHING TO GAIN AND BY LOWERING IT EVERYTHING TO LOSE. I'he inordinate trivialities of modern feminity do ijot point to desire for mental development, and in losing thpir reverence for older responsibilities in an attempt to overstep their limitations these women have been thrown upon a sea of vapidity and discontent. They like to be and are admired, NOT FOR WHAT IS IN THEM, BUT RA I HER TOR WHAT IS ON THEM. As woman is neither the mental nor physical equal of man, she will be compelled to suffer when she shall have taken from her her only prop, masculine chivalrv.