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4 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1913. - V •i»c * m ?*• ?s:; M pu; U r rs I-;" * - f" f ' P ; - m ' 5U THE SEM1-WEEEY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. i JAMES R. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months r "5c? Six months Three months -5o The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday k.n£ Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. * * l v c contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents warted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R- R- BRAD LEY, Circulation Manager. Thfe only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks,before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old, as well as your new address. If on a route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this de partment to THE ^EMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. & 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. * (oUrtTRY ill. J L 1 TlME.LT? T0PIC2 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. ■ : • : - ■ r J - : • : -y • . - ■ ; 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. * * * 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. . * ■ 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. The 1