Connecticut western news., 1903-07-30

help provide for the domestic wants, While the husband Is off to business the wife must be doing her work in the house. But there Is limit to a wife's physical and mental capacities. No av- craze mother can perform her domestic work without help She cannot be ilurEe and dressmaker and cook and cham nbaEnaaid and waitress and mar keter all In one. She must have female aabfstance. She must have servant or servants to aid her. or else she must \ give up housekeeping. As strRRke and unaccounta ble prejudice haSzEone abroad against our daughters and sis ters going to work as servants in the kitchen, one by one the homes of America are being closed. The husbands and wives, with their children, are going to live in boarding houses and hotels. If you ask the average wife why she gives up housekeeping, she will answer: T could no longer endure the unreasonableness of servants, The kseefvant girl question: simply racked my nerves until was in torture. One day I would seem to be getting along all right. But If the washing was a little larger than usual, or complained about my servant being out too late at night, or had some extra company for dinner, suddenly I would find myself servantless, with all the work to do in the kitchen. I could not stand the strain" When the servant girl goes out of the American home, then the
 front door of that American home Is
 barred and locked.
 A Vital Institution. a "But,"s says some one to me, ifs the | responsibility of the American girl who will not becope a .domeSi 6nz;--at So great? Cannot men and women who | live in boarding houses and hotels be | just as good as those husbands and
 wives who have their own homes| No, my brother, I do not think so. believe the Christian home is the most ! vital institution for good in all Amer | ica. l believe it is the foundation stone not only of the altar of Christ, | but also of the temple of neighborly | love and also of our national legisla- I tive hall. If man is not anchored in | a locality by a home, that implies he | has, as a rule, no individual church connection. He is not living under the | shadow of the church spire where his ! father lived and where his children
 were born.
 The home is the foundation stone of the temple of patriotism. It has been well said by a great writer, 1.-The surest way to destroy anarchy Is to bring about a social condition where every
 man can own a home" When q man
 sits upon his own doorstep he truly l feels he is an American citizen. He | will then, If necessary, be more willing l to die for that country of which his I home is part. And one of the great
 est curses blasting our large cities to-
 day is not that their people are bad, l but that they are becoming a people without homes. They are living for
 the most part in boarding houses and l In rented rooms, from which they can
 move out at couple of weeks notice. | Oh, women of America whom God isl l calling to the service of a domestipf 1
 plead and beg of you to take p your noble work. plead and beg of you
 in the name of Christ tb0< you help save the homes, ttle Christian homes. I No throne of usefulness, I care not lJsow high 1t may be, can ever overtop | that which makes 1t possible for the | littl.s children to gather around their
 own fireside.
 The royal cQmestic . queen. Tie | ki1.n nna fh3 nlllnexS nru ma uluesn whore tod expectD woman naturally u culine cypics Who wo,1ia sacbar vr~--,r---. Y a4 kt<wxc nf fo Some men, no matter what the genius
 of woman may be. would slam the door of all useful means of earning an honest livelihood in their sisters faces. They say "a woman should not be a lawyer, doctor, minister, mer- chant, an artist, a writer or anything
 else but wife and mother" But
 this is what do affirm: All things be-
 ing equal, woman, ought to seek
 those vacations which are naturally
 hers and let the men fill those positions
 which naturally belong to them. It Is
 not natural for a woman to be a soldier,
 a fireman, a policeman. It Is not nat
 ural for her to dig in the gutter or
 work as a day laborer in the fields, as
 she is compelled to do In foreign lands.
 It Is not natural for her to slave in a
 factory or to fill many of the clerical
 positions she is filling today. While.
 on the other hand, 1t Is natural for her
 to be u nurse, a dressmaker, a cook, a
 chambermaid, waitress, school
 teacher and lady's companion, and
 hundreds of other positions we might
 easily mention.
 Now, when a woman deserts the po-
 sitions for which God has specially equipped her, what is the inevitable re- suit? Her work is not only left un- 1 done, but she becomes a competitor l against her father and brothers for
 theirs What is again the inevitable
 result? By the law of supply and de-
 mand she not only underbids her
 brother for his position, but by that
 bidding the whole system of wages goes
 down. She is the sufferer. He is the
 sufferer. The mischief Is far reaching
 It is the result of her turning aside
 from her natural employment in which
 there Is pressing need of her service
 and In which she could find constant
 occupation at remunerative wages.
 She leaves a place unified and forces
 her way into a walk of life already 1 overcrowded and in which her compe-
 tttion Is injurious to other workers.
 "Oh," some one says to me, "that is | the old argument of jealous man. i Yousdo not like to feel that your sister l is just as smart as' you are and per I haps little smarter and can take away your job and do 1t better for I less money" No, my friend. I can
 conscientlously say I have not one jealous hair in my head. The more
 other people succeed the more I glory
 in their success, and to me there is
 no more beautiful sight than to see a
 young girl whose father and brothers
 are dead go forth and seek position
 which her talent gives her right to
 All and bring money home and throw 1t