The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29
HEIGHTS AMERICAN
WOMEN MAY ATTAIN
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Dis
cusses Sphere Of Woman
CURSES OF SOCIETY
Mrs. Howe Deplores the Habit or
Drinking Among Society Women
and Hopes to Live to See
Her Sex Enfranchised

Boston. May Observation-Disclosures
Julia Ward Howe, the grand old wom-
a, of America, authoress of THE Bat
tie Hymn of the Republic, VINO mas
inst passed her ninety first plrthu"'
TODAY discussed the part American
womanhood is playing in tweh.ie'n
century life.
Mrs Howe believes that other Wom-
on could live to be 81 quite easily II
.ho,, sb,,n the fast life of society and
lool. with old fashioned horror on the
insidious and demoralizing COCK
Mrs uowe's ideas are not so old lasii
toned as her precepts for Longevity
For instance. she hopes to live long
enough to see the enfranchisemeht VI
women throughout the United STATES
Tn on far as the rights of equality go
Mrs Howe believes that American wom-
on are lust beginning to attain their
rightful plane.
"rimes and conditions have certain
Nv changed since I was girl, saie
Mrs. Howe. "Some changes have peeh
for good. others for worse. we were
all shut in and I can go back III my
,,or,orv and see myself like a damosel
90 o,aan times shut up in the castle OF
my home. 49,
81 have been shocked to near VI INC
nrevalence of drinking among socie's
women today. The cocktail hapi'' DIS |
believe II is called, is the curse OIL moo
ern society. That is one of the phases
- fast life in society. 1t is alarm
ing
nTmaeina the regret with which l
have heard that some women have even
acquired the breakfast cocktail hapi'
am I right in that? / am told 1t Is
a. habit of drinking before preaNias'
in the morning in order to acquire an
onnatite shudder to think OF the
harm which is done to woman not oiis
but morally by this custom.
Even the O'Clock teas whlch Were
once SO staid and decorous nave
changed and liquor is associated Win
tha delicious and delightful tea whlch
gave the name to the fashionable re-
past.
Society will change with the equai
of women. In recent
wears the wealthy matron and girl nave
had no way in which to spend their
time but in frivolity. Their idleness leu
to mischief. The ballot will impose o
duty upon women which will give
them something to occupy their
thoughts with. They will not have so
much time for silly and harmful pleas
ures. Much of the "fastness' will pass
from smart society.
Happy old age comes only from
health and a clear conscience Health
can only be kept by simple and quiet
living. 1 do not decry society at all;
only some of the phases of 1T which
have grown up in the past 20 years.
1.-THE old fashioned ideals are the
best. Every woman who attains a GER
tain age comes to realize this and
breaches it's doctrines. Give us the old
h ONE with its coy comfort and its
Tranquil air of perfect peace and do
nestle happiness. No divorces, no sud-
den voyages to Europe upon the merest
within.
perhaps great wealth has done much
harm to American society. 1 do not
know. Wealth has done some harm in
the manner in which it has caused
men and women to become dissatisfied
with their homes. 1t makes them seek
the gilded hotels where one can have
his bidding done merely by pushing a
button. The hotel life of today is very
harmful. 1t makes people lazy. 1t re-
moves domestic obligations.
Some day 1t will be all changed.
Some day all people, rich and poor
alike. will realize that the old fash
Toned ideas are the best after ALL