Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-13
COOKING NOT
HIGHEST AIM
MODERN WOMEN SHOULD HAVE
BROADER VIEWS
Flying In the Face of Grover
Cleveland Club Members Ham
die Live Topic in
Live Way

as public life necessary to the full
development of woman?"
This is the question which women
of the Ebell club tried to decide yester-
day afternoon at a lively debate in
which some of the most prominent and
clever members of the club took part.
Mrs. w. j. Hole who was the first
speaker on the affirmative, declared
that in the face of all Grover Cleve-
land has said about woman's sphere
in the world, she felt courageous in
daring to discuss the subject at all.
During the entire debate the humorous
vein was allowed to have full play and
there was not a tiresome moment.
1--WE must deal with the average nor
NAL woman" said Mrs. Hole. 1.-The
average normal woman desires to
make the best use of her life. Home
life, wifehood and motherhood are
necessary to the fullest development of
women, but so are other things.
The Narrow View
"a woman should not always be re-
viewing life from behind a kitchen
range or a darning basket. When the
all important question, what shall we
have for dinner? is decided, woman
should go out and come in touch with
humanity. We need this contact with
the world, and it gives us broader
minds and new fields of thought. 1t
makes us stronger women, better
mothers and more companionable
wives.
1.-THE well poised woman can conduct
home in a better way than the
woman without poise. No woman has
poise naturally; she must acquire it,
and nowhere can she get 1t as in pub
lie life"
Mrs. w. L. Jones spoke for the mega
tive and she gave strong argument,
declaring that increase in selfishness
and extravaganza are due to the in
crease of the number of women in
public life. She brought up the in
creasing hotel and lodging house life
and said that was a sign of the tend
ency to have less home life.
Miss Fullerton gave her argument
in verse, in which the thought was
that the air is full of cries for woman's
aid, and that woman must come for
ward and give help in public life,
where she is needed
Miss Jennie Henderson said that
whatever a woman wants to make her
kingdom she will devote her time to.
IF woman wants to make her home
her kingdom, public life will take her
out of her sphere" she said.
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Mrs. B. f. Church. another speaker
on the affirmative, said that a woman's
home should be dear and sacred, but
that the woman who leaves no time
for the Improvement of her own mind
is foolish, for she is not fitted to teach
her children.
Mrs. Sumner p. Hunt, who made the
last argument for the mega tive, was
decided in her statements.
1T is to the family life that we owe
the development of our republic" said
she. Service to the public at the sac
rifice OF home and family is pernicous.
Look at the increase of the divorce
evil, for an instance What develop
ment is this which strikes at the root
of home life? Nothing can be gained
in public life which cannot be gained
in the complete home"
Mrs Kate Upper Wilkes said that
public life can be the life of the So
ciety woman. No one does so much to
attract public attention or make her
charms so public. She added:
what we want to decide is whether
1t shall be the harem or the forum.
We want neither; we want a happy
Women speak in churches
in spite of st. Paul, and they should
speak there. A woman Is a soul, an
immortal being. Marriage and Wife
hood are experiences in the life of a
woman. just as they are experiences
for men and not the end of all.
What crime to condemn woman
who has done her work to sit in the
chimney corner and darn stockings all
day! Let her go out and get other
experiences which are her right.
"A woman should extend her home
into the community"
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