Part 37 (1/2)
Cannot Mr. Wells, as one acquainted with zoology, see that both male and female of a species are alike in the special qualities of that species, although differing in s.e.x? Can he not see that the area of human life, the social development of humanity, is one quite common to both men and women; and that a woman, however amply occupied in wife and mother-hood, suffers from lack of human relation, if denied it, even as a man would, whose activities were absolutely limited to husband- and father-hood?
If you are a believer in women's voting why don't you take the best equal suffrage paper in the country? Not the Forerunner--which is only a suffrage paper because of its interest in women, and only a woman's paper because of its interest in humanity, but this one:
Vol. XL.
The Woman's Journal
FOUNDED BY LUCY STONE AND HENRY B. BLACKWELL
A weekly newspaper published every Sat.u.r.day in Boston, devoted to the interests of women--to their educational, industrial, legal and political equality, and especially to their right of suffrage
Entered at the Post Office, Boston, Ma.s.s., as second-cla.s.s mail matter
EDITOR: ALICE STONE BLACKWELL
a.s.sOCIATE EDITORS: FLORENCE M. ADKINSON, CATHARINE WILDE
OFFICE: NO. 6 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, Ma.s.s.
ROOM 1018
The love and faith, the hope and courage, the steady unflinching devotion of forty years of solid work, and the quality of brain power, which have fed this lamp of liberty, make a Iight that is worth following.
Two n.o.ble lives have been given to it, and the daughter of one of those two is carrying it on superbly. It is a paper that will broaden, live and grow, and carry on its larger work long after this one political question is rightly settled.
It carries news--the kind of news progressive women want. It is broad and bright, and interesting; full of short and memorable bits that p.r.i.c.k the mind to understanding.
I have read this paper, myself, many years, and know its merits well.
Try it.
The Sea of Matrimony. By Jessie H. Childs. Broadway Pub. Co., New York and Baltimore.
Here is quite another kind of a novel. Earnest, thoughtful, sincere, lacking in humor and in technical finish, yet holding one's attention by the complete preoccupation of the author in her theme, and by the common interests of the discussion.
It reminds one vaguely of ”Together,” giving pair after pair of ill-mated persons, but one happy marriage in the lot, and that a childless one, and offering no solution to the problem raised save in that searching philosophy we seek to cover by the term New Thought.
There is much keen observation in this book; and so intimate an a.n.a.lysis of character that one wonders who this person and that may be; and the courage shown in giving spades their names is worthy of respect
The author shows a power of keen appreciation of the daily problems of life. The description of the woman who tried to change even her husband's cigars to the brand her father used to smoke is particularly good.
Many men and women may see their troubles reflected in this study of the intricate difficulties of married life; and some will find strength and hope in its conclusions.