The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-09
WOMAN'S WORLD.
At Sixteen Year.

Long hours over Kipling and Dickens
She is only schoolgirl, you know
She =, cps up her physical culture,
And plays basketball with her might
Studies Latin and neutrality-suspicious.
And goes to bed early at night
What she likes is to dance until morning
In ruff1es all frily and pink,
To ''scoOt' III the Drive in motor,
Or to gaily roll round at the rink
She practices Grieg and Moszkowski,
Though her brain wanders Off in a dream;
She goes to hear Symphony concerts,
With Damrosch expOunding the theme.
What she likes is the waltz of the WIDOW"
Gay twO-steps that tlngle ana STIR,
The resonant chorus of Boom,
Or the lay Of the Little Chauneur
/. She goes to hear "Julius Caesar"
With notebook, not just as lark;
/; She visits Greek casts in museums
And sketches bare trees in the park.
What she likes is Maude Adams as Peter,
Or jolly good 'Hippodrome' show
A comrade to laugh with-and caramels-
She is only a schoolgirl, you know.
BY Elizabeth Elliott in st. Nicholas.
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Colleges a1d Women.
The head of Bryn Mawr college is a
profound, sincere, and brilliant woman.
Recently she has taken up the charge
that the college-trained woman is I'M
fitted for domestic life. Her inquiries
have convinced her that 80 per cent. of
college women do their own homework;
that though they marry later in life,
they marry more wisels; that they have
an average of three and six-tenths chill
dren, as against the non-college women's
three and 6ve-tenths. Said The Spec
tator of 200 years ago:
las our English women excel those OF
all nations in beauty, they should en-
deavOr to outshine them IN all other
accomplishments proper to the sex, and
to distinguish themselves as tender moth
ers and faithful wives rather than as
furious partisans. Female virtues are of
domestic turn"
Nobody doubts that the home and the
small child's care will always fall to
the woman. She is the more directly
responsible for the succeeding genera
ton. What is receiving heavy blows
at present is the traditional and stereo-
typed idea that knowledge and intel
lectual training are less suitable to these
nOrance-Colliers
An Indictment Of Mothers. =.
There has been great interest mani
tested in facts that have lately been
made public regarding the American
white slave traffic. Much has been writ
ten in regard to it by those who con-
tribute TO the Peoples Forum of this
newspaper. Condemnation has invarl-
ably been strong. The writer's have evil
IDENTIFY ransacked the dictionary for. ex-
pressive, forceful adjectives with which
to drive home the facts regarding this
Infamous business. The traffic has been
repeatedly referred to as our nations
greatest shame and, strange though it
may now seem, it is our intention to
question this assertion.
Various estimates have been made as
to the number of white slaves in the
United States. The figures are in some
respects contradictory, but of this We are
certain, that the proportion OF White
slaves to the total of the women who are
leading lives of shame is very small.
The white slave traffic should be stopped,
and stopped Immediately. On that point
we are all agreed. But the work of ref
ormatlon will not have been fairly begun
when that is accomplished. Every year,
more than 10000 recruits Join the army
of sinful women. Perhaps this state
ment astonishes you, and therefore we
pause to say that this figure is considered
conservative by those who are familiar
with the conditions of social impurlty IN
all sections of the United States. And
where do these women-these young
women. these recruits-come from!
From the slums? Yes, in part, undoubt-
eddy, but in very small part. The major,
ity? All, now you have hit at the vital
point. The majority, if the estimates OF
careful investigators are to be. credited,
come from the homes of the land.
Some one is responsible. Who is it! On
this point let us have the testimony OF a
noble woman who is at the head OF one
of the rescue homes of great city:
How many young women have you had
here?' she was asked. about 700 was
the reply. DO you know" the inter,
viewer asked, whether these girls had
been taught by their mothers, before
leaving home, the proper care of them
selves, or warned as to what temptations
might be placed in their way?' The an
swer was emphatic; II have talked with
each one personally the rescue work
er replied, land | can assure you that
although most of the girls came from vir-
tuOuS homes, not one mother had thus
particularly warned her daughter, and
only few had given even the vague in
junction: BE good while you are gone
That is the Indictment Does it not tell
the parents of girls in words as plain as
any that we could use where much of
the responsibility lies for the 10000 re-
cruits who each wear join the army of
women in sinful life?-Woman's Nation
al Daily.
Teaching Women to Speak.
The price of admission to the class for
public speaking, which is held under the
auspices of the Equality League of Self
Supporting Women at 43 East Twenty
second street, New York, each Tues
day evening is a speech. At the
door you are hidden to give name
and address, and you may not
leave until an address has been delivered.
School teachers, society women, shirt
waist strikers, clubwomen - all ardent
suffragists, of course = meet in a little
room on the top floor of the WOman's
Trade Union building to learn the funda
mental principles of elocution and to con-
quer the common bugbear stage fright
Under the supervision of Miss Frances
Nelson the scholars begin the evening by
reciting TennysOn in unison and with ap
propriate gestures. Inspiring as is '"The
Charge of the IL Light Brigade nothing
quite equals ''The Splendor Falls on
Castle Walls" as the little graceful ges-
ture accompanying failing splendor" is
so effective, particularly when followed
by "And the wild cataract leaps in
glory" Think of ''leaps" done in Del
sarte-where you can sway forward with
the whole body and fairly initiate a
young gazelle in your enthusiasm. Then
the refrain, "Blow, bugie, blow offers
extraordinary opportunities, particularly
when it comes to dying in the distance
and depicting all the horrors of death in
fear choked and tremuious tones After
young Lochinvar" has been said three
times in one breath and several emphatic
exercises have been practised the serious
work of the evening begins.
This consists of a debate on suffrage
question of eXtempOraneous two minute
speeches on any given subject. The first
might be more of a success at any club
other than an equal franchise league,