The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-30
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In the face OF the rapid progress
woman IL making into social economies.
both practical and theoretical. 1t IL q
matter Of comparative indifference
whether she gets the ballot or contents
herself To be merely behind It. BY the
process OF education. made the more
active through the necessity OF achiey-
Ing results without the Official co-opera-
ton Of her opposite sex. she Is acquiring
. knowledge. capacity and skill
that win enable her. probably. to do
az she pEeases when the question OF vos-
ing or not voting comes to an issue.
Persons who are skepticai Of woman's
advancement toward self assertion. po-
iiiicai or otherwise. and OF certain start
ling possibilities that await her arrival
at the self-assertion goal. usually are
those who have not watched what
women are doing. The enaetments OF
an cement OF the race that is silled with
determination and has begun 20 b.
either careless Of consequences. or to be
resolved to control the consequences to
suit itself. are not inscribed on the side
walks or seated in the church pews. or
plated In the exhibition OF dresses
They are brought 10 life In clubs. In
the strictly one-sex assoc.atlon--in the
places. In other words. where wofnen
alone ara their own sponsors and their
own critics. They become known only
as the inner circle itself chooses to re-
veal them.
For this reason a recent Bulletin of
the department OK labor containing
report By Mrs. Ellen NJ. Henre,in on
The Attitude Of womens Clubs and
Associations Toward Social Economics
Is the most important and striking,
Mrs. Henrietta understands women. per-
haps. as well as any % her sex, and
rot only understands them, but sym
pashixes with them. and is a practical
leader m their various Developments
After quoting and summarizing the
report Of s,sos woSnsn's clubs In various
portions - the United States. involving
a membership Of over Is, os3. Mrs. Hem
rotin observes: 1.-The replies to the !r-
aniries Of the commissioner ~ labor dts
close two specially interesting facts.
among many others. First. the diff
Guilty experienced, BY the clubs In keep
lng any one department az cluh work
separate from another. as education
from eiyses. or philanthropy from re-
forta: second. the growing interest fels
cverywhere IA social economic aues-
tsans. THE eisss sEssneess seem 20 have
become convinced that the science ot
eaonemles is At tbs bottom cf nearly al
their nsos.ermS'
According ~ Mrs HenFatin ;he
wroraen's slabs ~ sIse country have rap
idly evolved frssu 3 ''ssginnlng simple
Ia form and usually literary Or purely
charitable Tn character The Interests
az ,hesr daily environment have eYow.-
IL sastv ard more sron them How -
educate tae ssiIow being. far example.
h@s crowded sn with TIE question of
how - esssease the clan sTssaesrs them
selves, The p~aesteai application If sef-
emge hss !gsrwsiea inso IRE abstract study
- science. as n che close relationship
between the sAeoTsrs - sacserselexy ard
she ayoategns ~ Sanitation Music has
aanteSs fer its theme afnenS ssse eosu-
ssoa gseesle wfse furnish SIS snsrssatisn
or seek Egs Delights rAserstnre has
turned 10 she material worfa se- is