The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-07-03
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Conducted by "vERNA vILLIERS"


not heard" and whose later train
ing was all based on that founda-
ton, woman lecturer will always
be something of novelty.
came away from the one I heard
feeling very much as did after at
tending concert at which the prin-
cipal feature was bass solos. When
/ see big, square-Shouldered man
with plenty of muscle, stand before
an audience, and with languishing
young lady airs, sing forlorn love
ditties in a roaring bass then when
"A woman steps upon the platform,
gives her skirts an energetic swing,
and with gestures more emphatic
than graceful discOurses about the
tariff, and finance, and plenty of
other things, i don't understand it !;
somehow it seems that things are
getting pretty badly mixed. Ishould
like to have reversed the parts, and
given the man the lecture and the
woman the solo.
/ don't pretend to remember half
the things the lecturer said to her
audience of women. Some of it
want to forget. She treated us to "a
brief disquisition on love, which will
hardly be suitable for these pages.
Now believe in love, such as we
read of in some sweet, Old-fashioned
novels. l believe in love sweeter
than life, stronger than death, and
the woman lecturer and the modern
novelist strike at the very founda-
tions of my faith. Many of the sub
jects which she brought before us
she said had been discussed by a
high and mighty council of the
greatest minds in the world. They
were quite new to most of us pres
ent, but we were very likely behind
the times. / konw vast number of
remedies for Group; have had eX-
perience with measles, humps, and
whooping cough; and am something
of authority when it comes to kites,
sleds, tops and dolls, but many of
the movements in high and mighty
councils are unknown to me. The
point which fingers with me most
distinctly is the announcement
which the lecturer made in her
most impressive way, that in very
short time we should have co-opera-
tive housekeeping. In her most
feeling tones she entreated us to
think of the happy time when wo-
men will be relieved of the drudgery
of preparing three meals a day; of
sweeping and busting, of baking and
brewing, of making and mending,
and planning for the daily needs of
husband and brood of children.
She held up to us the great problem
of church and state, the social re-
forms, and other things to which we
might then devote time and
thought.
Cooperative housekeeping, in
deed We don't want cooperative
houseke eping; we don't want any
thing substituted for the home just
as it is, because there is nothing bet
ter this side of heaven. We don't
want our children brought up on a
, cooperative plan, and we don't
. want cooperative agency looking
after our husbands comfort. We
don't want to bend our intellects
over great public problems until we
T have mastered the problem of how
, to make the one spot we rule the
f dearest, happiest, hottest place or
( earth, from which our husbands and
sons may go out to plan and work
for the good of all mankind.
, AS to the drudgery of housekeep.
= ing-well, that is altogether in the
: way one looks at it. 1t would be
) drudgery to some of us to wade
: through the volumes of dry-as-dust
! reading that a man must do to be-
ian intelligent voter" 1t would be
} drudgery to be out late at night at.
, tending mass-meetings etc. W.
, should be wondering all the time i
the children got to bed or went tC
t sleep on the floor, and who hearC
= them say their prayers. But to pre-
= pare with ones own hands tempt
= ing meal for the man who has beer
+ hard at work all day that wife anC
= children may have home and thu
comforts of life; to sweep and clear
and make tidy, cheerful Preside by
which be may rest; to make little
p, garments, and keep them whole anC
, clean; to help with lessons, anC
> mend toys-perhaps you think these
are too small things to fill the whole
!, heart and life of woman, but don't
: know it is building character, anC
q storing away sacred memories TO
. the later years, and don't believe /
, greater work was ever given to any
g man.
=. God bless our homes and may tn,
). women who keep them feel tina
= they have a sacred trust, and fill tn
. highest Office to which any woman
y can be called. God bless the mel
" who work for them. and the Childr ell
- who go in and out of them, and, il
!, the language of Tiny Tim:
:, "God bless us every oner