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Georgia Hay.
One of the most cheering tendencies in Georgia
agriculture is that which looks to the home pro
duction of foodstuffs and farm necessities. Plant
ers are fast awakening to the folly of spending large
sum? in distant markets for supplies that can be
raised easily .and cheaply on their own soil. So
interwoven are the divers interests of the farm, not
only with -pne another, but also with the entire
Economic life of the State, that the native produc
tion'of a single it;m of food enriches agriculture
and business as a whole.
Particularly is this true of the growth of grains
and grasses, which are now claiming special atten
tion. When Georgia produces its cattle food, In
stead of importipg it, a great impetus, will be given
to the livestock and dairying industry; for, thus
the cost of conducting such enterprises will he re
duced to a minimum and more people will bri
induced to undertake them. In this connection, the
Dalton Citizen well says;
"Our native hays must be so improved, that
they will be used in the State instead of western
products. Wc find that the growers of hay in
the west ploiv up their meadows every three or
four years alia -re-seed them. They also ust
their best land for growing hay.- We believe
'that if our native product is made the equal of
‘western hays, own people- wiU,-/use
of dollars go out of Georgia every year tomhuy.j
This same hay earnbe raised in Georgia
these- millions kept at home, but it cannot be
done ’ unless the native hays (ire made the eqital
of those that are shipped from the iccst."
Agricultural experts agree that Georgia soil is
peculiarly well adapted to the growth of nutritious
grasses; indeed, it was this very fact which led
former Secretary of Agriculture Wilson to predict
that Georgia, with other Southern States, would be
come a center of meat supply for the nation. The
climate of this section is admirably adapted to cat
tle raising, its mildness making the expense of
winter housing almost negligible; and there are
great areas of land, now utilized, which would be
turned to profitable account as pasture. It is es
sential, however, before any considerable progress
along this line can be made, that the State produce
its own hay, instead of importing it at compara
tively high prices.
The importance of this one item to agriculture,
and also to commerce and industry at large, can
scarcely be overgauged. If Georgia produced enough
beef to supply the home demand, its people would
be saved millions of dollars annually, and a great
reduction in the high cost of living would he ef
fected. The average farm would he placed on an
independent basis and the proceeds from the chief
money could he saved instead of, as is now often
the case, being spent for supplies.
There is marked tendency, as we have said,
toward the home production of food necessaries.
Year after year more corn is planted. Truck garden
ing appeals to a continually increasing number of
farmers. Poultry culture and the raising of live
stock are being recognized in their true importance.
Every such field of enterprise deserves hearty en
couragement; for, as Georgians learn to rely upon
their own fertile and varied resources, :he State
will progress as never before and the welfare of all
its interests and all its people will be assured.
Soil Surveys.
The publication of a soil survey of Ben Hill
county, made by the Georgia State College of Agri
culture with the co-operation of the federal bureau of
soils, has bestirred widespread and merited interest.
The map accompanying the report shows the extent
and location of the different soil areas, the crops to
which they are best adapted and, what is particu
larly worth while, it shows just where they are sit
uated with reference to towns, schools, churches, high
ways and railroads.
It is thus possible for a prospective settler or in
vestor to realize at a glance the resources and oppor
tunities to be foum. in Ben Hill county. What more
useful advertisement could a district secure than a
thoroughgoing- survey of its soils, conducted and
given to the world under the authority of the
State and fetleral governments? An enter
prise of this character benefits not only
the individual farmer and rural interests, in
general, but also the towns and, indeed, every sphere
of commercial and industrial endeavor. It is well
for the people of Georgia to bear this fact in mind
whenever they think of their State College of Agri
culture. This institution, intended primarily for the
promotion of scientific and profitable farming, ex
erts a quickening and enriching influence upon the
business of the entire commonwealth. ■
Such soil surveys are, of course, invaluable to
progressive agriculture. They show the farmer how
he can use his soil t the best advantage. They en
able him to proceed with foresight and assurance in
stead of trusting to a guess or caprice of nature.
They settle with ease and precision problems which
would otherwise require long years of laborious ex
periment and, perhaps, the sacrifice of much money.
Georgians Will Not Tolerate
This Barbarous Suggestion.
It is inconceivable that the enlightened people
of Georgia will ever tolerate the revival of so bar
barous a practice as the flogging of women pris
oners in the state’s convict camps. Indeed, it is
amazing that any suggestion to this effect should
come even rrom persons whose sense of humanity
is overcrusted by Ion. contact with the lowest crim
inal elements. No such proposal should receive a
moment’s consideration from the legislature or the
State? Prison Board; and we feel sure that it will
not. -
It has been nearly a decade since the General
Assembly, in response to an awakened public- con
science, abolished the custom of permitting guards
to whip refractory women prisoners. Since that
time Georgia has traveled far in penal reforms, al
though she still has abundant and pressing cause
for improvement. Since then, the private leasing
of convicts lias been discontinued and divers move
ments for a wise and humanitarian treatment of
offenders against the law have been put under way.
What a commentary it would be upon the state’s
intelligence and progress to revert at this day to
methods which no longer obtain save in the darkest
corners of the earth and among people who are as
cruel as they are benighted!
The women prisoners undoubtedly give rise to
many perplexing problems. But such issues must
be met, if they are to he met successfully, not
through brutality but through intelligence.
Far from improving the discipline of prison camps,
it would still further debase and demoralize them to
allow guards to apply the lash to helpless women.
And more than that, it would debase the entire
commonwealth. Other and better means for bring
ing stubborn women prisoners to order can he
found. The flogging plan is too savage to he con
sidered.
An Achievement in Sanitation.
“Why has the United States succeeded in build
ing a canal where France failed?”
Colonel William Gorgas, chief of the Government’s
sanitary forces in the Panama zone, answers that
the French died so fast they could make no substan
tial progress. Their engineering plans were well cal
culated; their insight into the great task was ad
mirable, but they neglected the homely yet vital
work of making the scene of their labors healthful.
Hence, their brilliant adventure ended in failure.
The United States, on the contrary, saw to it, first,
that the canal zone was cleansed of infectious and,
then, that it was Kept sanitary in every detail. As a
result its army of workmen have pressed steadily
forward in vigor and health.
In this connection Colonel Gorgas cites an inter
esting group of figures. During the period of their
labors, the French lost some twenty-two thousand
men, though their average force of employes was
only about ten thousand. In a corresponding period,
the Americans, with an average force of thirty-three
thousand, lost fewer than four thousand men. Of the
French party, two thousand died from yellow fever;
the: American loss from this disease has been only
about eighteen. In 1911, the death rate among Amer
icans engaged in the canal construction work was
only four and forty-eight hundredths per thousand—
incomparably less than that of the average city in
the States.
This record bears cogent testimony to the impor
tance of sanitation in all public endeavors and also
to the possibilities of a thoroughgoing campaign to
free any district of its unwholesome elements. Pan
ama was once considered practically uninhabitable
by people from northern countries. But through per
sistent work and a strictly enforced system of public
health, it has been rendered almost as salubrious as
any corner of the earth. Colone. Gorgas describes
the Americans employed there as “looking more like
the farmer and his family of the northwest than like
people who have lived in the tropics for four or five
years. They are, as a class, rugged and healthy-look-
ing, of good color, energetic and active in movement.”
This achievement points an interesting moral to
Georgia in the proposed plan to drain the swamp
lands of the State. If the Panama zone has been
purged of malaria and other pestilences, so can those
great areas of Gfeorgia where the health and vitality
of thousands of people are now impaired; and such
an improvement would mean as much to economic as
to sanitary interests.
“Always for the Other Thing.”
It is characteristic of the Standpat Republicans
that they should now insist upon a board of experts
to revise the tariff and deplore the efforts of “un
skilled” congressmen to deal with so complex a mat
ter. As the Kansas City Times, which is neither a
Democratic nor Republican advocate, remarks, “They
are always for the other thing.”
When the self-styled “Conservtives” were in con
trol of the Government, they resisted as long as they
could the demand for a tariff board and then, after
such a board had been established, they refused to
revise schedules in accordance with facts brought to
light by the special investigators. Indeed, they have
always been, as they are now, opposed to any practi
cal course that will bring about needed readjustments
in the interest of the consumer and put an end 10
patronage and special privilege. Their one thought
has been how to perpetuate a system that gives an
undue advantage to particular groups at the expense
of the people as a whole.
Whatever might he the wisdom or value of a tariff
board as a matter of theory, the important fact is
that a carefully defined movement is now actually
under way to revise the tariff downward. The Ways
and Means committee of Congress has shown itself
eminently capable of this task by the bill' it has pre
pared. It has proceeded upon the just and far-sighted
principles of taxing luxuries most heavily and the ne
cessaries of life most lightly and of regarding the
common interests t£ the American public rather than
the particular interests of a few favored individuals.
It is not the method to which the Standpatters ob
ject; it is the fact that at last Congress has set forth
to give the people a thoroughly revised tariff system;
the fact that the Democratic administration means
to fulfill its pledges.
Reports say that the Mexican treasury is low.
Well, Mexico needn’t think she is any different from
a good many individuals.
Women who spend most of their time trying to
improve their complexions never think of the old
fashioned method of steaming it over a washtub.
When one considers the press agent methods by
which some people acquire fame, he doesn’t care
much whether he acquires it or not.
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CWjcted by .ms. xr. H.3rcro/»
THE MEETING Or THE SOCIOLOGICAL CONGRESS
When this issue of the Semi-Weekly reaches the
readers thereof they will have ample time to considr
the opportunity for seeing the distinguished speakers
who will be, in Atlanta, Ga., from the 25th to the 29th
of this (April) month. In view of its importance the
railroads are giving very low rates of travel and it is
expected that fifteen hundred delegates will be in at
tendance.
As it is also grand opera week in Atlanta the vis
iting attendance should be very large. A great many
distinguished people have promised to attend and ad
dress the congress.
Providence permitting, I hope to hear some of these
well prepared and instructive addresses.
The tim.j will be devoted to the questions concern
ing social health and civic righteousness.
A personal letter from Mr. J. E. McCullough, the
secretary of the congress, tells me that he will open
an office in Atlanta on the 14th of April at the Pied
mont hotel. Any questions that you may wish to ask
will be answered by him. On Sunday, the 27th, a mass
meeting of all persons interested will be called in
every city of 25,000 inhabitants asking for a full and
free discussion of these problems of social health and
civic righteousness.
Those who cannot meet with the congress in At
lanta because of distance or non-attendance will most
likely find privileges and opportunities nearer at home,
but it is a rare opportunity for Georgians that Atlanta
offers to those who are patriotic and philanthropic.
I am particularly interested in child welfare be
cause common sense teaches us that all real beginnings
must start with the child no matter how many diver
gent problems can rise up in discussing social health
and civic righteousness. The babe in its mother’s
arms is the basic feature of all reforms as well as all
preservative legislation and wise judicial methods.
Why? because the child is to be the future citizen
after its elders have gone on their last trip to the cem
etery. The child not only inherits what its parents
leave to it, including the hereditary features, good or
bad, but that coming citizen will be the future law
maker and will have to bear the burdens that will cer
tainly fall unfinished from our lifeless hands.
Therefore, the welfare of the child is one most
prominent in every sensible point of view for any con
gress, The more I think about the child, yours and
mine—the more I become impressed that as the twig
is bent, so is the tree inclined. Our features are re
produced in our offspring, our tastes and inclinations
are perpetuated, our likes, and dislikes of people are
prolonged, and, alas! our sorry example continues to
plague and lead astray! Who is really wise enough
to raise one child as it ought to be raised?
Degenerates will crop out in apparently the best
regulated families. Sometimes the child defies both
grace and gospel, and is stubborn and malignant in its
tendencies. King Solomon was noted for his wisdom,
but he failed in raising, his son and heir, Rehoboam.
Who is sufficient for these things? You know and
I know that fathers’ commands and mothers’ en
treaties have a thousand times failed and their poor
child has been led astray by lust and liquor! Lord
teach us how to apply our hearts to wisdom!
HOW POOR OLD TURKEY HAS MISMANAGED
HERSELF.
Those of us who have been sufficiently interested
to keep up with the Balkan war and the losses that
Turkey has sustained in the late bloody conflict, would
hardly understand wh^t a fefpble despotism that Tur
key had become without Ja^in^ this clipping which
went the rounds of the n£wspa£>er s some months ago:
“Emigration fro.m thfi ^Turkish ^empire is for
bidden. No man or wi>h|an 'is permitted to leave
a Turkish port without aj tsqhera or permit, which
must be obtained from the police authorities, and
under the general instructions and policy of the
Turkish government tscheras cannot be issues to
subjects of the sultan.”
There is a disposition in all humankind to fight
whatever rises up and resists their freedom of speech
and freedom of action. Sometimes, as it has happened
in Turkey, the monarch • is powerful enough t-* hold
his subjects down and can use the bowstring to stran
gle all resistance, private or political.
But reaction will come iinevitably. And finally it
has made Turkey bend and yield to the bitter mon-
archs who were the sultan’s near neighbors. There is
nothing in Turkey to inspire patriotism or love of
country. With harems for the attractive women and
the bowstring for the resisting men the ball simply
unwound itself and became only a loose and bedraggled
cotton string.
The very idea that the Turkish government re
fused permits to the subjects of the sultan was quite
enough to kill out pride of "life and pride of country.
There are two sides to every question even in a
state like Turkey, and as before said humankind nat
urally and instinctively resists whatever tyrannizes
the privileges of speech or action. A man who only
reigns by bonds and blood may keep it up a while, but
the coming retribution will certainly chase hfm down.
Turkey got what was coming to her, and I hope she
will continue to get aplenty.
An End to Fine Feathers.
One of the minor hut very interesting clauses of
the new tariff bill is that which prohibits the impor
tation of wild bird plumes and feathers for trade pur
poses. This provision was adopted by the Ways and
Means committee in response to earnest appeals from
Audubon societies and, if accepted by Congress as
probably it will be, it will go far toward the conser
vation of beautiful and valuable birds throughout the
world.
For many years past, there has been a vigorous
campaign to secure a similar law in England, though
thus far it has been unavailing. It is believed that
if the United States takes the initiative, Great
Britain, Germany, France, Holland and other im
portant nations will follow. The movement for pro
tecting bird life is now aggressive in nearly all
civilized countries. Only a few months ago Australia
enacted just such al law as is now proposed in
America.
The United States has furnished a profitable mar
ket for plumes and feathers from foreign lands. If
our ports are closed against such importations, the
traflic that is proving fatal to many species of rare
birds will be discouraged and checked and perhaps
eventually abolished. Miilions of dollars are spent
each year for decorations which cost the lives of
thousands of birds. There aas been a cheering ten
dency of recent years among the members of women’s
clubs to frown down this custom which demands so
pitiable and useless a sacrifice; and it is a note
worthy circumstance that women’s clubs are among
the stanchest advocates of the proposed tariff clause.
The preservation of wild bird life means much to
economic and agricultural interests as well as to na
ture lovers. In America we have but recently awak
ened to the importance of this issue but the awaken
ing seems to’be a genuine one, and widespread. All
the progressive States have enacted game protection
laws and are insisting more and more firmly upon
their enforcement. The bill providing federal pro
tection for migratory birds will prove especially val
uable; and when to this is: added a tariff prohibition
against the marketing, of, plumes and feathers, the
United States will have, set the world a worthy ex
ample in thfe particular sphere of conservation.
THUNDER OF THE
MODERN CONSCIENCE
BY DR. FRANK CRANE.
f Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.)
This that I call ME is made up of many Ingre
dients.
First, there is earth, dust, matter, which I hold
in common with stones, seas, stars and material sub
stance in general.
Then there is my living organism; _ i- this I am
akin to all plants in meadow, mountain and river-bed.
Another part of me is animal, wherein I am
brother to all birds, fishes, insects and other animal
life.
Then comet my human element, in which posses
sion I am partner with the whole human race. All
who have died, from Adam to my parents, have poured
this quality into me; all who now live constitute a
huge body of which I am a small member.
A large part of me is English, a part is American,
a part comes from my own family stock, a part is
created by the influence of all I meet.
When I get down to that portion which is dis
tinctively ME and nobody else, it is extremely small.
Ic is what the taste is to the apple, the perfume
is to the flower, the Correggiosity is to a work ot
Correggio the style is to an author’s words.
This being the case, if you wish to “save” - or to
“reform” ME, you have a large and interesting con
tract on your hands.
To change the apple you must not only alter the
flavor a bit, but you must make different the tree, the
garden, the country and the climate.
To reform me in any way that will insure that 1
stay reformed, you have to reform the folks I belong
to, the city I live in, the books I read, the friends 1
play with, together with my state, nation, race and
the whole human family. We will excuse you from
reforming animal and plant life and the nature of the
soil, for the present.
For many centuries thos e who wanted to make
men better have pounded away at the individual. For
ages the church was possessed of the idea that the
larger ME—that is to say, the state, or mankind at
large, was doomed; it was non-salvable, and the best
the savers could do was to pluck a few “brands from
the burning.” Humanity was a goner; a few 'might
be rescued as the elect.
It has been discovered that this sort of saving
does not save. To secure a good, honest, upright and
noble man we have to begin with great-grandparents,
and to include society at large.
Tae benevolence that gives a beggar a quarter has
become . suspected. To be real benevolence, it must
alter the conditions that make beggars.
To imprison grafting police and to rescue fallen
women here and there seem to do little good; more
and more you hear the saying, “It is the system that
is wrong.”
The conscience of the world is deepening. It is
enlarging to embrace the larger ME.
We are not losing faith; we are discovering that
to help people permanently it takes more faith than
we ever dreamed of.
We can no longer go on in “the good old way,”
rescuing individuals and calling social, business and
government conditions “the will of God.” We are
waking to the conviction that we can and we must
bring those conditions up to conform with justice and
humaneness.
There is a new note in the thunder of the modern
conscience. It no more says we must rescue the
faMen, feed the hungry and give alms to the poor; it
dechares that we must prevent crime, hunger and
poverty.
The cry pf ancient Rome was that the barbarians
must be destroyed; the cry of modern civilization is
that there must be nb‘'more barbarians.
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WATCH YOUR STEP!
The Conductor Wants To See a Finished City.
“Ain’t they ever gonna get this town done? I
been steppin’ over cement sacks an’ dodgin’ hod car
riers ever since I was a kid. First it’s one buildin’
an’ then it’s another. Looks to me like people is aw
ful poor guessers in puttin’ up stores an’ skyscrapers.
They keep tearin’ down one block an’ startin’ another,
so’s you can’t go nowhere an’ not hear a donkey en
gine hoistin’ brick. This is gonna be a fine town
some day, but it’s a long time off. To hear some fel
lows talk, you’d think the minute all th’ buildin’s has
been put up an’ all th’ railroads made, an’ all the
hammerin’ an’ sawin’ ’s done, you’d have to chloro
form workin’ men an’ stop raisin’ men babies. That’s
all bunk. This world wasn't made to keep rippin’ it
to pieces an’ doin’ it over agin, like a fool baby knocks
down blocks an’ sets ’em up agin. They don’t no more
need a sixteen-story buildin’ in this town ’n I need
sixteen legs. Like as not, after me an’ you’s dead,
an’ a earthquake scrambles all these elevator houses,
th’ fellows livin’ then’ll get it into their heads that
nobody ought to live upstairs at all, an’ then them
guys’ll be tearin’ down all th’ skyscrapers an’ build-
in’ houses spread out all over ten-acre lots, an’ no
stairs in 'em at all. I tell you, us people’s gone daffy
on brick «*nd mortar. Time they get all th’ cities
done, they’?; have all th’ strong men crippled. Most
workin’ men can’t stand straight up bow. It takes a
small boy to tell ’em how many stories a new buildin’
has. We don’t need any more new buildin’s. If we’d
spend th’ money in helpin’ old people live easy an’
givin’ young ones somethin’ to think about ’sides
gettin' a job we’d have a city worth livin’ in. I’d like
to wake up an’ find this town finished, an’ th’ people’s
minds on somethin’ ’cept rent. Maybe th’ government
could plan how to make folks happy, ’stead o’ schem
in’ how to juggle dollars.
“L6ok where you’re steppin’!
“Both doors, both doors; little lively, please!
“Watch your step!
Two negro roustabouts at New Orleans were con
tinually bragging about their ability as long distance
swimmers and a steamboat man got
up a match. The man who swam
the longest distance was to receive
$5. The Alabama Whale immediate
ly stripped bn the dock, but the Hu
man Steamboat said he had some
business and would return in a few
minutes. The Whale swam the
river four or five times' for exer
cise, and by that time the Human
Steamboat returned. He wore a pair of swimming
trunks and had a sheet iron cook stove strapped on
his back. Tied around his neck were a dozen pack
ages containing bread, flour, bacon and other eata
bles. The Whale gazed at his opponent in amaze
ment.
“Whar yo’ vittles?” demanded the Human Steam
boat.
“Vittles fo’ what?” asked the Whale.
“Don’t yo’ ask me fo’ nothin’ on the way ovah,”
warned the Steamboat. “Mah, fust stop is Ne^ York
an’ mah next stop is London.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A colored woman went to the pastor of her church
.the other day to complain of the conduct of* her hus
band, who, she said, was a low down,
worthless, trifling fellow. After
listening to a long recital of the de
linquencies of her neglectful spouse
and her efforts to correct them, the
minister said: “Have you ever tried
heaping coals of fire upon his
head?”
“No,!’ was the reply, “but I done tried hot water.”
—Metropolitan Magazine,
THE MODERN WOMAN
1. WOMEN’S PRESENT SPHERE.
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
Woman’s sphere is the home. This dictum is ac.
cepted both by those who support the modern woman
in her broadened activities and by those who would
have her return to the narrow circle from whence she
so lately emerged. The difference of opinion is based
not upon the character of woman’s sphere but on the
definition of the word, “home.”
...
Those who oppose the mpdern 'activity of women
would define “home” as a place, bounded by four
walls, beyond which no 1 woman’s voice should be
raised. The modernists and the feminists define
“home” to mean all of those Influences, circumstances
and conditions that affect the life of husband, wife
and children, whether these influences, circumstances
and conditions are to be located within four walls or
whether they are ; s broad as the nation.
...
It ip not the wor. an’s fault .hat her relation to so
ciety has changed,' and is still changing. It is the
man’s fault, if fault it be. For the domestic revolu
tion now in progress in all the western world is but
the necessary and inevitable result of the Industrial
revolution that a c ntury or more ago took industry
out of the home and planted it in the factory.
...
These two revolutions, industrial and domestic,
that were set on foot by the invention of labor and
time-saving machinery, are far more important in
their effect upon mankind in general than any polit
ical revolution, bloody or bloodless, 1 ever staged in
the world’s history.
...
For thousands and untold thousands of years wom
an stayed at home, kept house, reared children, and
carried on manufacturing enterprises. Many hunted
and fished and tilled the ground, often with the help
of his women. It was the woman who spun yarn and
wove cloth; it was the woman who tanned hide® and
made shoes Of course, there were artisans and han
dicraftsmen who worked in metal, wood and stone, but
even these did iheir work in the house where they
lived arid hourly called for the physical aid their
women could give them.
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About the middle of the eighteenth century things
began to change. Watts invented the steam engine;
Hargreaves and Arkwright invented the spinning jen
ny; a little later Whitney produced the cotton gin
and multiplied the available supply of raw material
for the new textile mills. Thus, for the firrit time
since Eve span, men began to weave. A woman
spinning by hand could not produce as much yarn In a
whole day as could a man at a single spindle in a single
hour in the new factory. A linen sheet, which re
quired a month’s labor in the home, could be made in
the factory in a few hourv. This was the beginning.
* * *
The industrial revolution swept on until It has all
but abolished the domestic industries. Now all spin
ning and weaving is done in the factory, and most ot
the sewing. Even cooking is no longer a domestlo
industry. Iread comes from the bakery; vegetables
and fruits from the canning factory; cereals and break
fast’ foods appear on the table ready-cooked from the
factory.
• • *
The economic advantage of employing mechanical
rather than human power to accomplish laborious
work will not be disputed at this late day. But il
has forced the modern woman to face new questions
of supplying her own need for employment, and fre
quently of providing the necessaries of life for her
self and those dependent upon her. The ability
which enabled her ancestor to direct all the activities
in the home, which supplied the needs of the family
of the eighteenth century must be utilized by the mod
ern woman to meet her own obligations which are
not less onerous because entirely different Sine®
by man’s usurpation of the province which wa.. for
merly her own, she no longer is able to occupy her
self within the four walls which she called home, she
must needs t to other activities, some of which
have been considered to be peculiarly masculine,
...
Consequently, the red glare of the steel furnace Is
reflected upon women’s faces in America as well as
in Europe. The pulpit, the bar, the physician’s of
fice, know feminine activity as) do also the market
and the counting room. In these callings, however.
It is becoming more and more apparent that women
are not taking men’s places In the great and Indus
trial business world, but are doing, In a distinctly
feminine way, a new work that has been created by
changing conditions, and which, but for the Women,
would go undone. The masculine and the feminine
principles may be clearly recognized in every field of
work. Woman is cnly coming into her own.
...
The industrial revolution which eliminated so
many industries from the home, also changed its so
ciological and economic outlooks. Society has not yet
adjusted itself to these changed points of view, and
in this fact is found the reason for the great unrest
among the women of the western world, and especially
among those of the English speaking nations. Ma
chinery is multiplying daily and, with its multiplica
tion, tends still more to lessen both the labor yet re
maining to be performed In the home and the products
of that labor. This brings to the woman of modern
ate, means greater leisure than the richest woman!
knew a hundred years ago. Leisure cannot mean idle
ness to a human being of normal intelligence, so the
moderri woman is turning uer attention to work helpful
to the whole human race, although she still Is filling
only the broader requirements of her true sphere—|
the home.
* • •
The mother of a family desires to have only pure
milk for her children. To secure this it may be neces
sary for her to inaugurate a crusade for milk inspec
tion which will benefit not only her own family but
that of the poorer mother, who would not have been
able to initiate such a movement or to secure such
protection for herself. If the modern woman would
protect her own family from the typhoid germs to be
found In impure water, si - must demand a system of
filtration and purification which will make the water
pure and safe for the whole community. The modern
woman may demand that the clothing which she buys
for herself and her children shall be made under prop
er sanitary conditions. In 'this she riot only safe
guards her own family, but protects less fortunate I
women—it may be less able women—by using her in
fluence toward the prohibition of child labor, fob the
prevention of long working hours for women, and foi
the protection of workers in the factories from avoida- j
ble disease and accident.
The dust and, dirt froiri Unclean streets and the
smoke arising from improperly built and managed
factory furnaces, affect the cleanliness of the home;
but the woman in charge of that"home must go out
side its four walls if she would overcome them. The
future good of the country demands that every child
should have an education under the best possible con
ditions. To secure these'conditions for her owri chil
dren, the mother must needs go outside her own four
walls and give her attention to the improvement of
the entire school system of the community. Thus, in
order to do her home work properly, it may be re
quired of her to hold public office as a member of a
board of educa.ion.
* *
Every crime committed has Its effect upon the
moral status of the community and, therefore, acta
directly upon every home in that community; conse
quently, in her efforts to Suppress crime, ttf alleviate
poverty, to take care of neglected and unprotected
children to have clean streets and pure food and wa
ter, the modern woman is really not going outside
of her legitimate duty in taking care of her own home.
The r ather experts seem to be determined not|
to let tLv £”jpply of rainfall fall short.
Give us the Good old summer time,
bleachers don’t look right on a cold day.
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