Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-30
NEW WOMAN VERSUS THE OLD.


60 HE new woman Is still person
age who agitates the old woman
and causes many ominous
shakes of the head. mot cook? Nor
do her own laundry work? Not make
her own gowns?" she eXpOstulates, and
holds up her hands in holy horror.
Live in an apartment house, buy her
own and her children's clothes ready
made and put her clothing all out to
be washed with everybody else's in
general laundries! What are We COM
ing to?"
Better times, hope. Did it ever
strike the ''old woman" that the proper
training Of a child is enough for one
woman's head. hands and heart? And
suppose there are several children. each
with his own individuality, his own
temperament, and each needing con-
slant and almost prayerful study to de-
velop and perfect into the highest type
of men and women. One child Is timor-
GUS, faint-hearted and weak. He 10 the
kind who Yields to temptation when
he grows older. He must be strength
ened physically, mentally, morally. An
other Is rash. reckless, headstrong. He
must be held back, taught caution. led
to think before acting.
| Is not such constant study and over
sight enough for q mother. without
stopping to make bread and clothes; to
wash until back and head ache? All
such purely mechanical. machine work
should be done for her; done we'll to be
ure-scientifcally, hygienically and as
inexpensively as Is consistent with
good work.
But surely In this, the twentieth Gen.
fury, it is time women stopped labor
ing at drudgery with her hands and
devoted the major part Of her time and
attention to the moraland mental train
ing of her children.
Not that their physical welfare
should be neglected. l do not mean
that in any sense. A sound body is as
necessary as a sound mind. But now
that the worlds work is looking SO
we'll after these lower needs, do not
condemn women for dropping such
tasks and moving ON to higher and
more essential ones. A conscientious
mother has her hands full in simply
training and developing the character
of her little ones. And she needs much
study and training herself to be ready
for the task.
The new woman Is recognizing the
importance Of this task and earnestly
preparing for it. And though she also
knows how to make good, wholesome
bread, she doesn't spend her days nor
achieve reputation for the latter
work. II the bakers strike, she can
make it. But otherwise she passes
such tasks ON to skilled labor and de-
votes herself to the higher work of
building character.
Willing Away Her Husband.
Why should not a woman will away
her husband, as Is reported from New
York? Under present existing arrange
ments she exercises the privilege Of
experimenting his feminine relations
during her life, and 1t Is fitting enough
that she should make a bequest of
him to suitable party In the event OF
death. The will may be broken, or
the gentleman may be released by an
other woman under writ of habeas
corpus for good and sufficient reasons.
1t is an interesting question, with good
legal principles subject to limitations.
We assume, however; that the beneti-
ciary of the will Is not obliged to &C
cept the bequest, but may nobly turn
him over to charity. Why not assume
that public-spirited woman may be-
queath her husband to the Art Insti-
tute or the Historical Society or the
Lincoln Park Zoo, or the department
Of fossils at the Columbian Museum,
according as her experience and his
qualifications may suggest Chicago
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