The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-12
WOMAN AND her SPHERE.
The advancement of the Sexr Has
Its Drawback,

1t is a curious line of thought which ir
resistibly opens itself, says a writer in the
''Woman's Home Journal" when the eye
reads in one column of newspaper a very
proud feminine account of how a certain
woman has become skilled locomotive en-
gineer. and then in the next column sees
an account of how n man, member OF
humane society, compelled a mother to put
long stockings ON the bare legs OF her
fashionably attired child, and with that
one action taught an object lesson which
appealed directly to the common sense of
hundreds of fashionable mothers through
out the country. Side by side, too, in an
other paper only few days ago were the
account of the remarkable acumen of
woman judge in Western court and the
recital of a large New York dealer in baby
carriages who acknowledged that his trade
in go-carts had been irretrievably ruined
by mothers who had refused to purchase
them because of a recently published eau
tionary article written by man.
Not long ago an article was published
showing that all the infant foods now in
use were, without a single exception, the
inventions of men. This article was copied
in paper which contained an account of a
woman's congress before which the most
q1isitely womanly statement that it was
"A far greater and nobler thing for a wom-
an to be a woman than to be a mother"
At the very time a so-called 'iutsrna-
tional womans congress- was being held
in London last summer, at the close of
which an English woman made the state
ment in public. and proved it. that every
subject appertaining to womans life was
discussed except motherhood notable
scientific and medical congress was being
held in the same city, at which the great
est doctors in the world were discussing
various new methods for the prevention of
children's diseases
A woman in Massachusetts, last winter
said before hallful Of women that in pro-
portion as a wife gave herself up to her
children in just the same ratio did she
narrow her life and shut out from her
mind 1.-THE broader problems which affect
woman's highest destiny. That same
evening one of the most noted college
presidents in America made an address in
an auditorium filed with young men, in
which he declared that the highest and
deepest lessons in life he had ever learned
had been taught to him py the children of
his home. They have been my educators"
he said.
At a club meeting of women in New
York last November "a wonderfully in
spring article according to the entry IN
the official record of the club, was read
-by one of our most cultivated members
on the great value to women of their
growing Liberation from large families At
the same time. under the official authority
of the United States Government, it was
asserted. as deduction from reliable in
vestigations and statistics, that where the
families Of America were smallest in the
number of children it was found that wom-
ans life was emptiest, the grade of both
Intelligence and domestic happiness low
est. and the health OF women poorest. A
recent number of a paper edited for wom-
en- by Homen," with an eye single to 1.-THE
broadcast womanhood devoted three of its
large blanket pages to discussion point
ing out that a married woman lost but an
other grain of her individuality if, upon
marriage. she dropped her own first name
and assumed that of her husband. But in |
a "man-made" paper, edited by man."
and for men, published in the same city /
and issued almost simultaneously was !
discussion. also of three pages. But It |
presented the views of eighteen eminent |
educators on the subject, wherein were |
the modern methods OF education of our
children at fault, and how can they be best |
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