Presbyterian College - Pac Sac Yearbook (Clinton, SC)

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20 THE COLLEGIAN awake to the real importance of this question. It was one of little interest so long as it hung a -little cloud upon the western horizon, but now it is gradually extending its bulk and roll- ing peaks across the nothern sky, and already its rumblings are falling upon the unheeding ears of the Sout-h. Indeed the time has come when we should appreciate the importance of this growing scheme to change a relation which has existed since the foundation of th-e earth. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, the beast of the fields and the iish of the sea-s. These 'fish grow in size and equal in power the great monsters of the field, but their sphere is in the waters, not upon the land. Lastly, as the crown of His creation, God made man and his 'help-meet. She is made equal to him, yea his glory, but her sphere is in the home and its relations are not in politics. Nature made it so. Man is the creature of ambition that leads him forth into the struggle and the bustle of the world. He seeks for for- tune, for a place in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellow-men, while Woman's whole life is a history of af- fection. Her heart is her world, and i-t is there her ambition seeks its empire. This does not make woman inferior to man, but simply gives to her a different sphere. These spheres are plainly seen in actual warfare. Here it is the men who go to battle and endure hardships and privation. It is the wives, mothers, and the maids bethrothed who form an army of woman's constancy and love which makes men brave and patriotic. Just so should these differences be maintained in politics. Let ac-tua-l strife and battle be kept in the hands of men and let woman exert her influence by her natural powers of love, mercy, and persuading sympathy, which in- spire men to lofty aims and purposes. Sane intelligence, drawn from the daily observations of our lives, teaches us that there are separate and distinct duties and responsibilities for man and for woman. These have been so finely adjusted, by a power not human, until the

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THE COLLEGIAN 19 was questioning her. Father, she said when she had recovered strength enough to speak, the mystery is revealed. As I have been telling you, Frank is not guilty of the theft. Ellis Padon took that money. How clear it all is now! The day before Frank left, he happened to show me a bill of small denomi- nation with the number 44444, which impressed me at the time. Yesterday, while I was down street I met him. He was anxious to know whether I had lost conidence in him. He had learned somehow that he was suspected. When I assured him that I couldn't ever believe he was dis-honest, he told me this: 'Rowena, you remember the odd bill Which we were looking at the other day. I placed that bill with some other money of mine with that late deposit the other night, expecting to enter it on the books the following morn- ing. I am waiting for the appearance of that bill, so that I may clear myself of the guilt.' Whereupon I told him I would certainly witness for the truth of this statement. And now I have been the detective. Mr. Rosenwall, for a second time in his life, was dumb- founded. When he had collected himself, he said, But Row- ena, Padon may have gotten the bill from another and after all may not be guilty. However, if he thought this, he didn't rely on his belief, for he was determined to find out the truth more conclusive- ly. On reaching the hotel Where Padon boarded, he asked for him, but was told by the porter that Padon had left on the midnight train, Without stating Where he W-as going. Ridley and Rowena-but that 's another story. Anderson '13. Q Q Q The Qtrntnn of Qtrzatinn. There is a tendency of the South to look upon the ques- tion of equal suffrage for women as being a little old and not of much importance. This is an evidence th-at We are not

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