Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1906 — ARE WE BEING EFFEMINIZED? [ARTICLE]

ARE WE BEING EFFEMINIZED?

United State? Has a' Million Mori Women than-Men. In tilt United States there are at least l/iOO.tkX) inure women than, men, and only one-tenth of the women are at work outside of their'own homes, says the World s Work, Yet the stump “of the feminine mind is upon everything American, and in many of the higher plmtiou -of culture women take the initiative. This rule of women ,in the United Stdtes begins in our public -kcliobls, where boys and girls are educated together, and where the teacher Is always, in the lower grades at least, | woman- In the great cities the feminine influence goes into, every hook and cranny of social development. Women compose very largely the reading public, and no current novel can succeed without their patronage. Some of the most successful magazines are devoted to their interests exclusively, and those given to scientific and philosophic discussions Seldom exist long, or they become the organs of small and detached organizations of men. Art exhibits are conducted by ’•omen, and women hold executive offices in world’s-fair committees. They serve as chairmen of school boards and they torment, through their principal leagues, the party leaders. They are notable as charity workers, and they Lave made reputations as doctors, lawyers, magazine editors, newspaper reporters, preachers, political speakers, end labor organizers and agitators. Indeed, where In the United States do we not find the woman, with her influence, battering at all doors?