Help courage them to
aspire to a common plane with woman in the matters of purity and
cleanliness. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but no more so in the
case of woman than of man. It is time for equality to be recognized in
this matter as in all others." Carrie.
It is funny how many women squirm when reminded that it is they who set
the pace in the home! We are always longing for power and a field of
effort, and then when a 20th century prophetess arises and tells us we
_are_ all but almighty, and shows us how to direct our almightiness to
accomplish results, we--well, we squirm. One would think some of us are
a little bit ashamed of the pace we have been setting, of the things we
have been accomplishing with our almightiness! You know, our first
impulse when we see an error in our own selves is to sound the trumpet
and charge upon the error in the other fellow. Is this why Carrie wants
the men scolded?
Well, _don't_ they get scolded? What are their wives and daughters and
sweethearts for but to scold 'em or coax 'em into cleaner ways of
living? No use to talk to men as a class, about anything but politics.
Don't you know that Adam couldn't even taste an apple until Eve coaxed
him? Adam is a great theorizer; he will gaze at an apple and tell you
that he ought not to eat it, and _why_ not; he will even amble long and
wishfully about that apple; but it takes _Eve_ to wake in him the
_living impulse_ to take it.
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