The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
Topics That VIII Be of
 Interest 10 Fenaininity

Mrs. Henretfa on woman's Expe,sss. xp N The claim put forward by Mrs. Charles Henrotin In a lecture before an audience of 200 women members of q Social Service Club in Chicago is:
 Mans smoking and drinking habits mean 'fIIegitimate' expense fn the ecnomic field. and the traditional neces- sfty for satisfying these perverted masculine tasfes is keeping woman in economic slayAry"
 1t was . symposium on "A Living wage.n She Is quoted as saving:
 .Woman's le& Imates expenses are larger than mans legitimate expenses.
 .sThe root of all the economic in- justice from which woman suffers, IS found in the ancient but pesuferous fallacy that man has more legitimate expenses than woman. tell you " isn't so, but that the contrary Is true --that woman's legitimate expenses are greater than mans.
 Most of the mans expenses Ter his thirst are not legitimate. None, or but few, of his expenses for tobacco are legftimate. And there are others. Now. how about wonan7 She has bigger laundry bills, bigger medical bills bigger dressmakers' bills
 "Yet we have it dinned into our ears eternaIIy that the reason man gets larger pay than woman Is be- cause his legitimate expenses are st0atsh.
 .why. the real facts are that wo- man. by every law of common sense and nature. has infinitely more wants than man, and all that keeps her from getting the larger pay is the mon strously unjust system created by man for his own selfish ends during the ages when the world was in darkness and gave him the upper hand"
 Mrs. Alice Henry. of Hull House, an- other speaker on the occasion, pointed Io the fact that the facility with which men gain access to the Tree lunches that go with cheap drinks in bar rooms''--places which no Iespecta- bie women can enter--rpoved the "llt- eral truth" of what Mrs. Henretin averred.
 Mrs. HenrotIn's plea Is for equal pay for equal work for man and woman. The world has not reached that point of justice yet but with such women as she making track to the waters edge the time will come when public opinion will demand 1t.
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 No Taxataon wfthout Repreaentatlen.
 crowd of more than 5000 persons witnessed the sale at Market Cross, JEdinburg, of certain property cf Lady Steel widow of Sir James Steel. the former provost of the city. Lady Steel refused to pay her house taxes as a protest against taxation without rep resentation. The tax was about sf00, and the first article put up--a hand Some oak sideboard---brought nearly double that amount. Mrs. Brummond, at one of the many suffrage meetings lately held in London, told the re- lnarkable progress of the movement in Scotland. <"Twelve months ago" she said, large numbers of women who had been keared in dour and orthodox families would not enter a political meeting: now they flock to suffrage demonstrations in thousands."--Ex- change.
 Cooking as an Exercise.
 "Pity 1t Is that the average Amer scan woman should look upon cook ing as mere drudgefy." said Prof. Har- vey W. Wiley, Chemist in Chief of the Department Of Agriculture Such an attitude is wholly wrong for cooking is true art--as much so indeed. as painting, music or poetry, and far more important to the welfare of mankind. ''Incidentally. cooking Is admirable for the development of the body. It affords physical exercise of the most beneficial kind, bringing into play nearly all the muscles. To knead bread is most vigorous and whole some exercise, not surpassed by bowl ing or tennis; and the beating of eggs the stirring of materials for cake and 4he mixing of puddings--not to men, tion the rolling of pie crust--are as healthfuI as rowing or golf.
 II am not of opinion that all kinds of homework afford beneficial exer- else. Indeed, sweeping and dhsting are liable to be. injurious, and the same may be said of washing, from ing. and scrnbbing. They are too arduous. They exercise one set of muscles at the expense of others, and Ifxy 1at tfNh fo alr bad."--New Orleans Picayune
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 Mrs. Evans on Servant Problem.
 Mrs. Glendower Evans, of Boston, who has been travelling South visited Atlanta and ins conversation on the subject of the servant problem Is quot stitution: M