The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-04
NEW IDEAS
Of the Newest New Sort Are
Advanced
by Elizabeth Cady StantOn's
Daughter.
STARTS A HOT DEBATE
Says That Mothers Are Not
Always Best
To Bring Up Their Children
Some Agree.
STARTS A HOT DEBATE

New york. Dec 4-The society for po-
litical study was to have discussed "The
Constitutional History Of New Hamp-
shire, on which Mrs. Charlotte Bell
read a paper yesterday, but the daugh-
ter of Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch. of Eng
land changed the whole current OF
thought and launched the society into
a debate on mothers
Mrs. Blatch began her remarks with
some scathing anusions to newspapers.
The great daily papers, she said,
send out their reporters every day for
the ghastly things and not the good
Things Let an awful crime happen and
every paper in New York would rush To
prominence2 Never1
Women, they say. are more moral
IMAM men I say they are not" she
Went on - woman who would wear
an osprey aigrette in her hat is NOT
moral
There We're many aigrettes on the
ponnets Of her hearers that trembled
with excitement
The feathers are torn from the
mother bird in nesting time, and she is
Ieru to die There is something in WOnl-
ans heart that is brutal and cruel when
ale L9lloWs IaShlOn at such cost And
So long as this continues the world will
not improve much
Have You ever considered" she went
mas been swamped2 Every child should
city"
Let US understand You clearly in
lerfupted the Rev. Ant0inette Brown
l5i9ek ekWeu DO You want the mothers
70 live in the country. too2'
say replied Mrs. Blatch s'ft is
she right Of the child to be brought UP
The one presupposes the other" said
-'-ls- ISlackWell. and it occurs to me
s94 & u nave TO make the mother over
buI answered Mrs Blatch s.the
tlsllts OF the child and the rights of the
uotneF are TWO different olestions The
lnolnef IS not necessarily the best person
Agnast, and showed it's s.Fy-erv hinder
garten THAI is started proves tina CON
trary I'd rather trust 4 mother ~ 49,
pare her boys and girls for COLLEGE Than
let her loose to bring them M eba 49, 49,
4Astse here is my mother (ATrs F-lfza-
beth Cady Stanton whom, T -,,--il
now the best mother I ever knew she
IS perfectly adapted to babies and to
groWn-ups- But when we vvara -+ ~
going She is delightful with 4Ie lft+f
S-i+il' ,t+, ana ner nroad-minded sympathy is
vs. WTe zoe much managed her I've said
combs have fairly risen said AIrs.
Hlidah Gun was the first to lind Tar
pu0 should like TO saw that T
mother means breaking up the home
Ahe haby should be disciplined hi +be
earnest age-that is my theory And r1-
lIeas 90 not ln the least coincide with the
woman -i
II think" said Mrs. a. Ar Taclrson
~ is oftener the case that the mother
ana cnlla are too much alike. and hence
,i'7,.,il 9o not agree A mother NAV be of a
Let Gus temperament. and daurhrer
may may inherit it, The result is unhappi-
ness lhey are better apart"
NY belief is. said Mrs Sarah 7r,,e
Aet- ltaL the American mother is foc
much with the child 1 wy
r7,,..-. AaEe not been a mother" put i'm Miss
Teresa Barcaiow, but I can speak from
me viewpoint of the child Wherever
& SaM Hlolner saw the shadow of a slip
per vas glad to be rid of her some
ulnes- she was too particular
AALs- Madeline ID. Morton struck ravp
more I tllnk education ought to hepfr
before motherhood 1T is too much r1ofI,
suffer from A' we
LOT thirty-six years I never left NV
4lo Silefs said Dr- Ellen Miles s'T staz-a7
2y nef side I slept nightly ia her arms.
say let the child have its mother
@ @9on care who The mother is high or
lo"s Flch or poor, let the child have ffs
rlotlef. II she is not a fit one the child
1las make her So Let the child have its