Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

especially interesting and helpful After
noon came Mrs. Birney's excellent paper
on the power Of organized motherhood
to benefit humanity and DR.. Chrsman
professor of Pathology in Kansas State
Normal school. DR.. Chrismans paper
was very long and very original and con.
tanned many good thoughts, true as well
as new; but like many others who read
and study and think exclusively along
one line he had evidently exalted his
own line Of investigation to place dis
| proportionate to it's Importance Indeed
he indicated that reproduction is the one
important thing in life, the one thing
for which humanity should be educated
and prepared. He was the most extreme
EXTREMIST / ever heard and aroused the
congress to the highest pitch of indig-
nation by some Of his radical statements.
felt like saying word myself when he
asserted that the only thing under the
sun for which we educate our daughters,
give them fine accomplishments and fine
dresses, is to make them manageable
Their highest ambition he said should be
to marry and to rear children did not
hear the Kisses that the newspapers
record, but there was distinct murmur
Of disapproval all over that vast
assembly and many cries Of mo, no.
after this, and the statement that men
do not love, but reason; women do not
reason but are all love aud auy effort to
educate the reasoning powers Of women
is lost This paper was quite the sensa-
ton of the convention and the mothers
came down on the Professor Of Pathology
like they were charged with dynamite.
There were few speakers on the stage
after that who did not feel called upon
to condemn it. was greatly impressed
by the discussions on Physical Training,
The Religious Life and Training of
Boys and The Right Education for
Women, How to Fit Boy for Citizen
ship, by Henry Sabin and the Ideal
Education as discussed by Col Francis
Parker, of Chicago. The future Of the
negro race, by Mrs. Murray colored
sister from Washington, and many other
reports and speeches were extremity in
teresting and helpful and hope to give
a more extended verbal report, as soon
as possible, to the Audubon Mothers
club concerning those things brought
out in this congress in which as mothers
and teachers, we are all interested.
The thought which seems to have led
to this organization was that the modern
movement of women's clubs toward the
higher education and professional life
for women. must sooner or later, detract
from the home and the mothers first
duty Of child training. unless there was
a movement to emphasize this branch
also Of woman's work. Its object is to
raise the standard Of home life; to de-
velop wiser, better trained parenthood;
to bring into closer relations the home
and the school; to carry the mother-love
and mother thought into all that con
Germs or touches childhood in home,
school, state or legislation; to study
children, their development and educa-
ton mental, moral and physical. To
decrease the work Of public institutions,
iails, reform schools, and asylums by
raising the grade Of individual homes,
teachers and parents. The work is one
of love, patriotism and humanity and
deserves the sympathy and help Of every
good citizen. That it may prosper and
do it's best work in Audubon, we ask the
interest and cooperation Of all.
M. E. M.