Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-19
WOULD TEACH THEM VALUE OF
HOME MAKING
Advocates Ten Years Course Of Do.
mestic Science Before They
Should Be Allowed the
Ballot


Metropolitan Museum of Art, is its au-
thor.
Making no discrimination between Eng
land and America as to the increasing de-
sire of women for a career in preference
to the home, Mr.. Clarke, in an inter-
view, declared 1t his belief that a radical
method should be employed to teach the
gentler sex what an exalted profession
home making really is.
"Just two words more now-just two
words more. don't like to be quoted at
length"
Every well. But you'll talk about
woman, won't your
'sNWomanl What do know on that SUBJ
ject?'
About Wage-Earning Women
what do you think of the wage-earn-
ing woman? Do you approve of her?'
'She Is an experiment." he replied. IT
am neither for nor against her Time
will show whether the experiment was
worth while"
I'm America there is much distress be-
cause of her. he was told. "She is
crowding men out of business, they say"
mot any more in America than in
England he declared. 1--WE have the
same problem. Girls leave their homes
and work for small wages in shops and
stores and offices. For what? Merely to
deck themselves in feathers and ribbons
that's all their slavery means. The worst
part is that. because they are willing to
accept small pay, they are keeping men
out of their employment These girls can
afford to accept meager wages. because
they live at home. Here is where the
parents are at fault. Parents who sup
port girls at home so they may work
for little or nothing in business. are
thereby simply contributing to I'LL the
Golfers of rich employers
''You believe it all wrong. then?'
1--WE shall see. AS said it is an ex-
pertinent"
"Home Best Place for Her"
'sYou favor the home for woman, don't
your"
Most certainly. Home is without ques-
ton the best place for her Home is the
best place for everyone. Particularly is
it womans sphere. I do not mean by
this that she hasn't the brains for any
other work What I contend is that home
making requires the very highest order of
lbrains and talent. 1t Is such mistake
to speak of home making with contempt,
as If an inferior mentality alone would
be content with it. Why, the fact that a
woman can succeed in managing home
indicates plainly that she has superior
mentality"
Home making is the greatest profess
sion, you Think"
"The greatest of alE Far better be
splendid mother and home maker than.
famous woman surgeon. Women can do
what men cannot do. Why should they
abandon a great work for lesser? They
do this when they leave home for a
career"
but it is difficult to convince women of
this. They are not content with domestic
life alone
"CompeI Them to See IT.
'Well, compel them to see it. Why not
pass a law making it compulsory for
women to spend ten years In the practice
of domestic science before they can vote?
This would settle the question quickly
enough"
you believe housekeeping should be
exalted to place among the highest pro-
fessions?'
81 firmly believe it. 1t is a false idea
that leads us to minimize its Importance
Why, it requires brains to rule home.
Remember. the wife and mother does not
alone manage ner home and children. She
manages her husband. Doesn't it indicate
superior mental powers to be able to rule
a MANI
Mr.. Clarke should certainly receive a
vote of thanks from woman suffragists,
for he approves of the ballot for the fair
sex.
Women have the right to a voice in the
laws" he said. 1.-The humblest woman
wage-earner, renting only hall bedroom.
is contributing her part to the taxes and
she should have representation.
"America Not a Free Country"
In discussing the possibility of his be-
coming an American citizen Mr.. Clarke
made the statement that he did not con-
slider America a free country.
at is not the land of liberty" contend
ed he. your blue ribbon laws that make
the temperate suffer for the Incorporate
are most tyrannical. In England at least
we have no laws interfering with per-
sonal rights. Talk about oppression in
RUSSIA Where will you find any great
er oppression than in the state of Maine,
with its unjust blue laws? Freedom!
America cannot boast of that
''But you do not dislike America other
wiser"
ooh no. l am very much attached to
it. have many friends here. My wife
is, delighted with America and she is
coming here in the fall with our daugh-
tiers. They have some charming friends
in this country, and of course will enjoy
their stay. However. it is doubtful If
they remain to make America their
home. New York is a most expensive
place to live in. A house costs about
five times as much for us here as it
would in England. New York is no place
for poor people"
Favors Early Marriage
Referring to his early marriage-for
Mr. Clarke married when he was 2O-he
remarked:
early marriage is good thing for a
man. 1t gives him an incentive-some-
thing to work for and live for"
Referring to the topic of American
citizenship the Englishman said
Even If l do decide to take out nat
uralization papers, I shall not become a
voter. In England I do not participate in
politics and 1 should not do so here.
do not believe in party. There is so much
corruption in politics 1t is impossible for
a man to be true to his principles and
his party No, even thought became an
American, I should not vote"
Mr.. Clarke said that, whereas he ap-
proved the ballot for women and admit
ted the fact that her ability to cope with
man In many fields he thought she some-
times allowed her emotionalism to lead
her into fads and useless reforms"
'It is women" he asserted who are
really at the bottom of these blue-ribbon
laws-these tyrannical restrictions Of
personal liberty. Whenever a woman
permits her emotions to run away with