Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-14
DIARY
AND GOSSIP
BY GRACE GRUNDY

on Saturday evening the members
of the Phi Sigma fraternity, the mem
| bership of which Is made up of Los
Angeles high school and Harvard
school young men, entertained at a
dinner and ball at Hotel Redondo. The
party was conveyed to the beach in
private cars early in the afternoon
and at the hotel bowling alleys. billiard
rooms and ball room were filled with
the merry guests. After dinner dane
ing was INDUCED in and the party re-
turned to the city at midnight. The
members and guests included the
Misses NJ. Boiler, r. Kane, L. Carson,
Foster, E. Campbell, A. George, McH.
Henry. II. Dickinson, V. Ball, Phelps,
b. Gale, A. Andrews, Burkhalter, Maud
Howell, I. Wilson, V. Carter. S. Utley,
A. Wainsborough, G. Stevens, r. Pol
lard, Helen Stafford, r. Payton, Helen
Worsham. Cecil Badgeley, Clara
Badgeley, Bessie Woolacott and Carrie
Bogart; Messrs. A. Wright l.. Granger,
J Mailman, c. Marsh, L. Wallbridge
Z. Hammond, j. Booth, Mr.. Lull Dick
Montgomery, l.. G. Avery, A. MacLash
S. O'Melveny, e. P. Fay, H. Kelsey G..
Booth, Jack Howard, Bud Bonsall Sam
Bonsall, G. Rule, 3. Cooper, b. Dyer,
r. Ward, S. Granger, c. Briggs, l..
Everett, b. Travers, Mr.. Woodbury.,
Mr.. Rime, d. Schwartz e. Brown and
r. Bailey.
The chaperons were Mrs. C. e.
Wright, Mrs Fred e. Fay, Mrs. e. A.
Curtis and Miss L. Lewis.
In the presidents recent annual mes
sage the following sentences occurred:
ut is desirable that married women
should not work in factories. The
prime duty of the man is to work, to
be the breadwinner; the prime duty
of the woman is to be the mother, the
housewife. All questions of tariff and
finance sink into utter insignificance
when compared with the tremendous,
the vital, importance of trying to shape
conditions so that these two duties of
the man and the woman can be full
filed under reasonably favorable cir
cumstances." Naturally, this has
stirred up women themselves to dis
cuss the matter, and some of the COM
ments have been Illuminating.
For the presidents comfort, one sta
tistician has come forward with the
figures in the case. Only six per cent
of the married women of America are
engaged in gainful pursuits" Fifty
five per cent of the divorced women
are working women, thirty-two per
cent of the widowed, and thirty-one
per cent of the single women. Women
wage -earners, therefore, as a whole, are
practically outside the duties of wife
hood, though not of motherhood as
the widow and the divorced woman
often have family of children to sup
port. But, on the other hand, that
most practical expert, Mrs. Florence
Kelly, of the National Chld-labor COM
mittee, agrees with the president as to
the danger of women's work, though
she thinks he has not touched exactly
the point In her observation, it is the
young girls, from fourteen to eighteen
years of age, whose steadily increasing
numbers in the factories, where they
form the great majority of the workers,
are "a much greater danger to home
life and the future of the race than is
the presence of a comparatively small
number of married women. The ten
dency of the work is to educate them
away from home-makmg, and it also
disables them physically" Defective
eyesight, deficient nervous energy, and
peculiar liability to all the ills which
beset people wearied in their youth
"are the dowry the shop or factory
girl too often brings" Miss Grace
Dodge agrees with President Roosevelt,
too. She considers it "most undesir-
able that the mother should be en-
ployed outside the home, except in
cases of extreme necessity" So far,
no champion of the married woman
in industry has made a point against
the president. 1t is certainly an inter-
esting question that he has raised in
his message, and the more discussion
it gets, the more truth we shall arrive
at to guide the progress of feminine
evolution.
"NeVermore shall be at loss as to
what sort of cakes to have at my
euchres," said the pretty young mat
ron. "For there are the cleVerest little
cubes daintily iced and adorned with
aces. Hearts, diamonds, spades and
clubs are each and all realistically
done, and at a little distance the four
look like decidedly suspicious
hand There's another sort cut out
in the shape of these devices. These
are very tempting, with their coats
of icing. Refreshments are growing
more tasty every day."
"NeveF before have we had so many
evidences of kindness to wild animals"
remarked a member of the Society for
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Fright here we see the sparrows feast
ing upon every side on the dainties
set out for them while dogs and cats
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