Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-28
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Mrs. e. B. EStey of Tyson, VT, has a
hen that lays eggs weighing on an aver
| age little more than a quarter Of a
pound. The largest egg laid was one
which measured 61a by Ne inches.
| Miss Clara Webb of Oregon, who is a
practical farmer, says that poor breed
of horses. chickens, pigs or anything else
eats just as much as a good breed and ad
| vises other women farmers to remember
| that it will be cheaper in the end to buy
the best Miss Webb has model farm
Mrs. Florence Kelley has been in the
West organizing and giving fresh life to
| the consumers leagues of that part of
| the country. Mrs. Kelley thinks that
very much depends upon the attitude of
women in buying to compel good work on
the part of manufacturers, refusal to take
goods without the label soon making
merchants eager to produce such goods.
England has been slow to take up the
matter of helping the children by means
of legislation, but new laws will change
all that. A boy under 16 may not buy Gig
arettes. cigarette papers nor tobacco, and
/ a juvenile court is provided for. The
work along these lines in the United
States has evidently proved an incentive.
and the women of America are RESPONSE
BILE for these laws in this country
Florence Nightingale at 80, Julia Ward
Howe 80, DIR. Elizabeth Blackwell SHOW
much they have seen of the development
/ of the cause of women as revealed in his
, tory. exclaims the writer The effort OF
each was to make the world better by
giving women a better opportunity to
work, and who, knowing them, could
possibly think of the woman working for
rights as the callous, mannish creature
she is sometimes represented to be
Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, daughter of
Julia Ward Howe, told at a meeting in
Boston recently of the efforts of her
father to get bill before the Massachu-
sets legislature looking for the education
of .feeble-minded youth. Shouts of deri
sion met his appeal and that of Charles
Sumner, and yet there are now hundreds
Iof just such schools throughout the coun-
try. So Mrs. Elliott thinks the cause of
woman suffrage has passed from a matter
of ridicule to one of serious and dignified
thought.
While women have been working for
their rights in many directions it must be
confessed that they have let men get
ahead of them in studying the science of
child life. says a writer Mothers are so
engrossed with household cares and the
physical care of the children that they
have not entered deeply into the intellec-
tual problems that they could so easily
have studied at first hand. However
they are giving more attention to the sub
ject and may not only advance farther
than men have done, but prove many of
their theories not in accordance with
facts
| After all, Wesleyan university is not to
| abandon the education of women, but in
stead of co-education a coordinate plan
! Is to be adopted. President Shanklin has
in mind new way of solving the problem
that may be adopted as soon as sufficient
| money can be raised. For thirty ven
years the dual system has been on proba-
tion at Wesleyan. 1t has been found
that the boys don't want the girls 1t is
more sentiment, but that means much to
college community. In the fall of 1892
the young men began to ostracize the
woman students and since that time feel
ing has run high, until finally co-educa-
ton was abolished. Now coordinate
school like Radcliffe at Harvard and Bar
nard at Columbia will be tried.