Sacred Heart College - Gradatim Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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CJjc ©raDatim WOMEN! THEN WHAT? Women do about all the reading and play-going that is done in America. At least they are responsible for most of the play-going, since men mostly ' go along- under their influence. They keep up most of our music, they maintain most of our painting and sculpture, they are the mainstay of our churches, our educational, cultural and social institutions. They are the arbiters of taste and style for both sexes, and in all particulars. Women are the books, the arts, the academies, that show, contain, and nourish all the world. To the scientific reader, even if he or she be one who knows the sources for the foregoing quotations, it is only natural that the question will present it- self—of what value are arbitrary notions.? We would say, even at the com- mencement of this brief consideration, that opinions are of no value in the way of proof. Still, they are always indicative of conditions when they come from reliable sources. However, it will be the nature of this essay to consider the position of women, not as to what men thmk of them, but rather what the facts indicate that position to be. We are in a large field and it would be best if we would confine our in- quiry to finding just where women stand in America today—that is, women like we are. Going still further, let us limit that search to the position woman holds in the home, and in the social and political world. Such a limitation does away with the necessity of describing woman ' s place in the Church— we could hardly surpass the Scriptures. First of all, let it be said that women today occupy a place equal to that of men— if not in theory surely in point of fact. After all. what privileges do men enjoy today, especially in America, that cannot be attained too, by the opposite sex. Of course, man does make use of privileges which woman hesitates to employ— not because she is hampered by law, rather because her actions, ambitions and achievements are largely determined by rules of pro- priety. In the home, however, her role is fullest. Mother is surely the guid- ing spirit, the boss. She may, in her feminine way, let the ever-ready-to-be- flattered man think that he is an incarnation of a stately pharaoh, still, most of us know from our own experience, that Mother takes the lead. Whether it is true that the husband is designed to rule, the point is, that man fails often in this respect and woman must be ready to supplant him. In other words, when the wife is not in actual possession of the family reins, she must be ever prepared to grasp them. For in reality The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. Page Twenty- two