The evening world., 1910-12-01

~ years the cluD Wo-
man has been
- held responsible for
p everything from
cold storage eggs
to crime waves.
Thu the matter OF one accusa-
ton more or less is no longer %
n moment. However, It must be
admitted Mrs. Cummings-Jones, OF
whom little Is known other than that
she spoke before an interesting circle
known as the european Club of Brook
Ign. has accomplished a unique ar
rsignment.
without the fear OF q con-
science, without fear Of offending
the Creator, without the knowl-
edge Of God, and in many cases
without the consolation Of a real
mother love, so are the children
OF to-day being reared says Mrs.
Cummirgs-Jones "And in many
instances tho blame for this can
be laid almost entirely to the
women's clubs.
The members are too busy. They
see too little OF their children, AMI
when they do caress or speak to the
little ones II Is In the presence OF a
third person, usually an illitcratc or
ignorant woman before whom the
mother Is afraid to Snow her real feel
IS.
Mother Love a Scarcity.
H"'.,r love to-day is really n
', not among the women OF tine
lower classes, but among
Ahp are surrounded by every
whose every within becomes a
fad who are. members OF seven
clghs.
.' continued Mrs. Cummings
'wHat is y more objection
Is the fact that many OF the
, women will not have children.
.sy viii not bear the pain and suf-
.tvIHs motherhood involves.
"Or again. AXE the average woman
who mas two or three children and
who does belong to several clubs. 1t
is u case OF continual go from MORN
ing til night. The child goes TO
school at $50 o'clock, usually before
the mother arises. From then until
3 o'clock It remains under the care OF
n teacher. Returning homo at 3 o'clock
II finds the mother out at a club meet
ing, a luncheon or a bridge party.
Sometimes It becomes reticent. ever
morbid. and develops a melancholy
nature. Sometimes II confdes IN the
servants. who. In many cases. are
illterate and unlnterested."
The Club Woman's View.
Now at Central Park West ana
Sevsnty-nrst street there lives one OF
the very finest n most charmrg
women anybody ever knew. She has
found time IN the course of a busy life
30 marry and to bring up a child of
her own and several other persons
children; to wttte books and to belong
to clubs and to make a great many
people love her. Her name Is Mrs.
Margaret Holmes Bates. There could
not be any one better to comment upon
Mrs. Cummings-Jones's opinion OF the
club woman. SO l went straight 10 her
with Il.
so the poor club woman is being
blamed for something again." smiled
Mrs. Bates. IL am afraid you Will
have to tell me all about It. l have
been SO busy-I have just finished my
book, Paying the r~.ler'-that l fear
/ have not been hearing everything
that is going on"
1T is about children this time" I en-
planned. Mrs. Cummings-Jones some
what paradoxically says club women
will not have them, and when they do
they will not care for them"
Now, there Is lust one thing said
Mrs. Bates firmly. Il notice Mrs.
Cummings-Jones speaks of the club
women as belonging to TIE luxurious
cl,:3 where every wh.m becomes II
to... NIT L. VNl.r. gh. "a NNpnnU In
re c,s!s of her argument.
Mast Mean Society Women.
"she referring to so-calied society
women, and CLUB women are not re-
crui,el from that strata.
Tho club women are tie irtelli-
> thinking women OF thu day,
wao are accomplishing things.
They arc net the women who
g-onl the!- tlTe at receptions and
oCtiloEG. Clubs are for the better
rign. CT women morally, intellec-
tusIiy end physically, ana you can
rot beueht e woman along these
L.. CT without Indirectly berehttng
Ter Musrard ana children; her en-
t!yo home ,ifo, N fact"
"Tncn c!I1wumcn do have childrea?'
I suggested.
"Of curse they dO-whlt nonsense!'
exclaimed Mrs, Bates. Il Will tel you,
thoarh. what The average clGbwoman
does not do: she does not have a large
family. 4 woman vino belongs to sew
eral clubs Is TOO Intelligent to have 4
number of children, She realizes that
- do justice 10 each child and to her
self, at least three years, and possibly
1--WE, should elapse between the birth Of
each of her babies, she knows that a
family OF four children Is, under ordi-
nary circumstances all that a woman
should have. and that in most cases two
children are quite enough"
And you do not call that lack OF the
mother instinct" asked.
The Proper Instinct.
II call It the proper mother instinct"
replied Mrs. Bates. 1T Is unselhsh. It
is not considering what you personally
may wish. but what 10 pest for the child