The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-16
GOVERNORS WIFE
STARTS CRUSADE
Mrs. B. F. Carroll of Iowa Blooms
Scientific NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
it a School Study.

DES MONIES, Ia, Feb. 14-Mrs.
B. F. Carroll, wife of the governor of
Iowa, has given up society to devote
her efforts and her influence to a cam
paign for the enactment of a state
law that will compel the teaching of
scientific motherhood to the girls in
the public schools.
Mrs. Carroll recently delivered an
address on Purity at a meeting of
the Des Moines Chautauqua league.
Speaking to an audience of women
she delved deeply into the subject of
the duties of parents to their chill
dren and the duties of children to
their parents, to themselves, and to
posterity
No matter whether her husband is
reelected to the governorship or not,
Mrs. Carroll says that she will not
falter in her determination. 81 ad-
vocate the teaching of scientific
motherhood in schools she told her
audience. 81 am going to present the
subject to the next legislature.
have something to say to those law
makers and l am going to say it. even
if my husband be not reelected.
Plans to Talk Plainly.
II will not say anything that will
make the legislators blush" she con-
tinued with a smile that was reflected
upon the faces of her hearers. "but
I am going to talk plainly to them
put before them the true state of af-
fairs and tell them the causes for tho
conditions that threaten the Amer.
can home"
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Mrs. CARROTS lecture has been de.
| livered before audiences of womer
in various towns throughout the state
during the last few months. She
handles her difficult subject 'withou
gloves" and speaks to audiences of hei
own sex without the restrictions tina
are placed upon the fecturer who ad,
dresses mixed assemblages upon sim
liar subjects.
The black plague and it's resulting
horrors receives attention in the lee
ture. AS a mother, talking to &
gathering of mothers about subjec
that Is closer to their hearts thar
any other-the welfare Of their chill
dren-she holds the attention of her
hearers and convinces them OF hel
sincerity and earnestness.
L
! Mrs. Carolls advice is for girls ant
boys as well as the mothers. On sew
eral occasions she has addressed larg,
audiences of college or school girl
and boys, always talking to then
separately, but laying stress on al
occasions upon the Importance O.
pure living and of absolute under
standing and sympathy between par
ents and children.
The wife Of the governor firmly
believes that scientific motherhood
should be taught to girls in the sew
enth and eighth grammar grades. ant
that boys of the same age should b.
taught tn he good husbands ant
fathers.
IF these lessons are given the chill
dren at the right age" said Mrs. Car
roll, there never will be a time whei
they will SOW their wild oats
they are taught purity when they ar,
young they will remain pure always.
Pleads for the Future.
1t is not alone for the present gen
GRAFTON that Mrs. Carroll pleads, blu
for posterity. 1t is the boys and girl
of the future who will reap the bene
fits of the moral uplift that she seek
to bring about.
/ Her desire is to gather larg,
enough following in her crusade be
fore the converting of the Thirty
fourth legislature to make 1T certain
that law making body will regard he
demand for a statute as of the sam,
importance she attaches to it.