The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-01
Opportunities Greater Today Than Ever BeforeBy Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Copyright, 1910, by the New York Even
ing Journal Publishing Company.
TT HE wonderful age of the world
/ sing
The age of battery, coil and spring.
OF steam, and storage, and motCred
thing.
Though faith may slumber and art
seem dead,
And all that Is spoken has once been
said,
And all that is written were best I'M
read;
Though hearts are iron and thoughts
are steel,
And all that has value is mercantile,
Yet marvellous truths shall the age re-
veal,
Aye. greater the marvels this age shall
find
Than all the centuries left behind,
When faith was a bigot and art was
blind.
oh, sorry the search of the world for
gods,
Through faith that slaughters and art
While reason sits on its throne and
mods.
But out of the leisure that men will
know,
When the cruel things of the sad earth
go;
A faith that is knowledge shall rise and
grow
In the throb and whir of each new
machine
Thinner is growing the veil between
The visible earth and the worlds
unseen.
The True Religion shall leisure bring;
And Art shall awaken and Love shall
sing;
Oh, no! for the age Of the motored
thing!
r WENT into the kitchen of a large
J. establishment one day, and 1 saw
all the dishes being cleansed by a
mechanical process; the dishes ran
| along pulley and dropped into boil
| ing suds; and then they ran along a
| little farther and rinsed themselves; and
still farther on they bathed in clear
water and came out to dry themselves
in a moments time.
One pair of hands moved the ap-
paratus with scarcely an effort; and in
| fifteen minutes, work which would have
required hours to complete in the old
/ way was finished, and no one was IA
| tigued at it's end.
1 went into the house of a friend and
| found her busy with machine which
was sweeping and busting her house at
| the same time.
And the air, and her hands, and hair,
and pretty morning gown were free
| from dust; and in an hour she had fin
| ished what it took our mothers a
whole forenoon to do with the aid of
two maids.
Not a Material Age.
1 went out with my friend, and we
stepped into her motor car; and in
another hours time we had transacted
| business, and made a call, and at
tended to some benevolent work with
which old methods of locomotion would
have required two days. And l said
again, as I have said a thousand times
before, Thank the great creative pow
ers of the universe that 1 am permitted
to live in this age Of invention"
1t is NOT a material age.
1t is not an age of mercenary ideals
Back of all these inventions. how
ever mechanical they are, stands the
great spirit of progress, which is max
ing the way clear for man to find out
what lies in himself.
And for woman to find what lies ir
HERSELF.
For centuries woman was a drudge
| To merit the name OF a good house
keeper" meant slavery and premature
old age. 1t meant continual physica
labor, cleaning and sweeping and dust
ing: it meant hours in the kitchen, an6
it meant being too weary when the
work was done to take a walk in the
open air, or to read book.
But the good housekeeper of today
needs only brains, and the ability tC
oversee and give directions.
The work of the world is to be dons
more and more by mechanical processes
and the mind and soul and heart OF
humanity are to find room and time
to reach up and out.
All hail to machinery Let us vel
come every new invention.
1t does not mean taking bread from
the poor mans mouth. 1t means thai
the poor man need not live on bread
: alone. but that he, too, may enjoy thu
dainties and the luxuries of life If h
will turn his mind away from thu
drudgery of which he has been deprived
by the machine and set himself t
watch for the larger and better. worl
which waits for him in other paths.
! The man who was cheated out of nj