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By Miss Ida Lou Barron,
(This excellent paper was read at. the cernmencunent exercises, Geor
gia State Normal and Industrial College, Milledgeville, (it. It is good
reading in this, the age of the poodle dog and the sufTrag ■tt*\)
In this year of our Lord—to-
day— and at the present moment,
the most fundamentally vital and
significant call which comes to us
frolni the hills and fields and
busy! city marts of our Empire
State of Georgia, is the call for a;
educated, trained motherhood.
When we shall have answer
ed this instinctive call which
comes from the heart of our elov
ed country; when we shall have
given, to future generations of
Georgia, that type of motherhood
which shall nobly exemplify the
God-given misson .of woman,
then we shall have answered the
weightiest problems that a wait
solution. Then shall educational
social, economic and political is
sues be settled wisely and conclu
sively because men—men whose
lives are living examples of tri
une development of man—shalj
be given to us as a living testi
monial of true motherhood.
Why is the need for efficient
motherhood the most significant
necessity of the day? It is
because motherhood is an
intellectual and spiritual in
fluence as well as a phys
ical relation. t. si a univer
sal truth that every individual
mothers life radiates a powder
which shall mean good or evil
to her progeny. The poet who sub
limely said, “Give us men,’” was
only voicing the great desire of
all peoples everywhere—“ Give us
an educated trained mother
hood.” I
What evidence have we in our
state today that her heart is cry
ing for real mothers? First, a cas
ual contemplation of the average
Georgia youth of today will re
veal the most unquestionable ev
idence. Let us lift our eyes, not
unto the far, blue hills, but unto
the streets of any town in Geor
gia, if we would realize the ineffi
cieney of m >therhood today. Sec
ond, the startling marital unrest
which, permeates our social life
and threatens the stability of the
eonerstone of our beloved land :
reveals the truth that America —
yea, Georgia—girlhood has not
received the training which en
ables woman to fuliill her heart's
desfy’e through the glorious sac
rifice of motherhood. Thirdly, the
dence everywhere that woman’s
feminine unrest which is in evi
coneeption of life has been mis
leading because of unwise train
ing. i *
Study the nations of the world
•—“search the pages of history”
—and we shall find that those
races who have preserved the pu
rity and sanctity of the home as
the cornerstone of the nation,
have been those who have oh’er
ished the loftiest conception of
motherhood.
Nor do we disparage, but rath
er encourage the highest eul
tural and vocational training for
woman being firm in the faith
that motherhood is that railing
which demands the acme of a
t hree-fold t raining —vocational,
that happy, useful homes may he
resultant; pedagogical, that a
knowledge of child life may de
vel p composite in inhoc and from
the elements of undeveloped in
stinct; cultural, that our land
miv he made glad by “seers of
visions an 1 dreamer-; of dreams
Whence comes the answer tc
this most urgent of Geor
gia’s calls?
■' More 1 1 in a score of years
ago the vision of a trained moth
erhofd was given to cn l who her
self was a moth< r. That vision
has materialized in the institution
of our state, which is of our peo
ple, by our people and for our,
people- for the training of true
mothers and home-makers, name
ly, the Georgia Norma] and In
dufstfial college.
Just what are we doing defi
nitely in our three departments
for tile training of mothers to
that needed efficiency?
Through the primitive mother,
of true mo.herhood was stressed
even in that ancient dawn when
pedagogy and the classics were
unknown. Th.ruout the ages this
aspect of life has maintained its
primal significance, and today
three constituents of the compos
ite, true motherhood are: The
ability to clothe comfortably and
beautifully our little children;
the ability to prepare, scientific
ally.nourishing and palatable foo<
and the intelligence to create a
home that shall reflect natural
beauty of God’s out-of-doors, and
the atmosphere of which shall be
characterized by peace and love.
The development of this domes
tic efficiency goes band in hand
with the development of culture;
for there is, in itself, no study
more cultural and at, the same
time more utilitarian, than that
of Domestic Science. The aims,
then of our important domes
tic department are to train young
women for true motherhood, and
to train them) to teach others the
fundamentals of home making.
And in the final analysis,.an intel
ligent knowledge of Domestic Sci
ence is a basic stone in the up
building of the homes of Georgia.
So, in recognition of this truth,
the industrial course is a prom
inent one in the Georgia Normal
•anti Industrial college.
Yet neither domestic efficiency
nor ability to develop it in oth
ers alone insures the happiness of
homes. A pedagogical knowl
edge of life—of the several com
mon human instincts, as well as
that insight into human nature
which deals intelligently and sym
pathetically with idiosyncras
ies in both husband and
children is an important el
ement. in efficient moth
erhood. Hence, the Normal De
partment of the college with its
beauty of theory—and yet the ac
tual,practical experience with the
precious lives of children. More
over, a girl is brought in touch
with various *eaehers and associ
ates which afford valuable, peda
gogical training. She loses self
in? her desire to help others; her
opportunities for the exercise of
tact, resourcefulness, originality
and self-reliance and sympathy
are limitless.
The domestic and Normal De
partments are closely and har
moniously correlated, each em
bodying the basic aims of the
others. The nicest analysis of
°ur Normal Department is that
all motherhood must need he ben
efited and made transcendency
beautiful, since it makes the true
teaching spirit, one of its attri
butes. The purpose of our Normal
Department is to train the Ooach
ei\s to find the way in o the
hearts of the most incorrible lit
tie waifs; to bring gladness to all
lonely little souls and to decide
what manner of man shall this
he. We need ho h the domestic
and normal training, for, if we
recapitulate briefly, while either
would train a woman to fit a
child for living, is not tile her
itage of oiir children to have life
and life more abundant?
I'he Great Teacher ,of Nazareth
;iti 1 of all the world taught wom
an her mission through 11 is di
vine exemplification of the truth,
"I came not to be ministered un
to, but to minister. ’’ And veri
tably the acme and glorious eon
summation of woman's work is
reached when sin l ministers unto
the spiritual need of the child
ren of the wirld. All the world,
vs a child, and all true women
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mothers —mothers to minister un
to the world’s spiri'ual needs.
Therefore, our college has per
meated its atmosphere with a
literary spirit. Our classical course
is intended to give to the minds
those cultured treasures, than
which nothing is more practical.
For, while we concede that there
is fully as much beauty in radish
roots and nasturtium stems as
there is in the roots and stems
of Latin variety, a knowledge of
the latter proves an “open se
same” to the world of untold
beauty which casts |a halo of ap
preciation about the world of
prose. * 1
The sweet, far-tinkling music
of harps Aeolean attunes the ear
to music of the sewing machine,
churn and broom; and' a journey
over land and upon Pegasus
inspires us to tread with renewed
energy the little, humble path, of
every day. The light from fair,
shining castles in Spain is a ben
ediction unto the house by the
side of the road; “tile sweet in
fluence of the Pleiades” is re
flected in the (hearts of ordinary
men. /
A sojourner of the literary
world comes away wi'h visions
many and beautiful, which shall
bring forth others, and, in the
heart of a mother, they* make of
her sons and daughters “ seers of
visions and dreamers of dreams”
There shall come to our youMi
visions of golden age—socially,
politically, morally and spiritual
ly. !
And when the seeds from our
trinity of educational fields fall
upon the productive life of Geor
gia girlhood to blossom into a
beauteous womanhood, then are
we elevating the home and its
glorious mission; then shall we
have given to our beloved Geor
gia mothers who have taught
their children to realize ideals
by idealizing their real. Then
ignorance and crime shall be no
more because through thes-
mothres we have taught our hoy
and girl the beauty of life and
the sacredness of its origin; and
mothers shall ‘have whispered to
baby souls things wonderfully
sweet. Then shall the divorce
evil flee, because mothers shall
have taught sacredness of mar
riage. Then shall the age of chiv
alry return and knighthood flow
er again.
Then shall we rear a mighty
race of men and women, who
shall not he disobedient to the
heavenly vision but who labor for
God and home and narv land.
We shall give unto our youth
life —life more abundant. Wt
shall produce a man “°f whom
nature may stand up and say to
the world, ‘This is a man.’ ”
We shall answer the quest of the
poet who said:
“God give us men. The time de
-1 mauds
Strong minds, great hearts, true
faith and willing hands;
Men whom the lust of office
does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office
cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a
will;
Men who have honor, men who
will not lie.”
And we shall rear a heroic
type of womanhood, the dimen
sions of whose heart are exact
ly 8,000 miles in diameter and
25,000 in circumference- —a wom
an—not educated in a universi
ty, perhaps but better far—edu
cated in God’s own great uni
verse, of which, it is our highest
ideals to be a perfect epidome.
Then shall the Amrican girl not
he one of the perils of the Amer
ican boy hut a noble and efficient
helpmate whose future generation
will rise up and call her blessed.
And when the ranks of the
great shall have gathered in some
fair summerland of fields Flysan
when many shall receive the
?o >d and faithful servant," it
blessing of. Well done, thou
shall be said to thee, little Geor
gia mother who answers the
call of today: “Many daughters
have done virtuously, but thou
excellest them all.”
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