The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-03
EVERY WOMAN OUGHT TO
 WANT BABY OF HER OWN
so Declares Associate Editor of "GoOd Housekeeping in Address Be- fore Motherhood Club,
''THE ART OF RIGHT LIVING. ,,

Helen Louise Johnson. associate ed-
 itor of Good Housekeeping, address ed the Hartford Motherhood Club yes
 terday. Miss Johnsons subject was
 The Art of Right Living" and per-
 tained to the general problems of
 home economies. There was an at
 tendance of about 150
 Life said the speaker 'is a road
 that all feet must travel, young and
 old. To some it is duty, to others lu-
 mlnous. The Why" of these con-
 trasts was the key to her theme
 The Art of Right Living"
 When spring is here we do not stop to analyze the buds, but we wait until fall to measure the results. In the springtime of life we live for the sheer love of 1t. Advice will help some, but We have to walk alone along the memorable road called "Ex- perience." Before we know it the leaves fall and the fruit is here. Here ana there are mothers who fulfill their promises, but too many procrastinate and say: Wait we will do this or that some other day Then, alas, it is | too late.
 Men are coming to put more and more weight upon the gospel of con- | servat1on. In the economic world study is given over to production and consumption. Men make things to l IS by the wise or unwise use of mon- ey, by the intelligent or foolish con- l sumption of commodities that the world is made better or worse Civili- zat1on demands of woman kind that they aid in this process of conserva- | tion.
 Man as the producer has had cen- turies of experience. He learns his l trade by apprenticeship or through | technical schools He is equipped for his vocation by experience or a spe- | cialized study of his profession. But woman as the consumer has been left | to work out her salvation as best she might. She has been given baby, kitchen and a husband for use or abuse. What the gift of the gods has withheld from her she has been left to extemporize or develop by in- | stinct
 | Years ago-way back in 1S42-a de- vout and beautiful lady of the city of Hartford conducted a seminary This woman was Catherine Beecher. Through her observation of the blun- ders and tribulations of young house. l keepers, and out of her strong cul- ture, she wrote book on Domestic Economies This work Is still an au- thority on this subject. "Sixty-nine | years later." said the speaker T ! come to Hartford from New York city | to echo this noble woman's observa- | tions."
 Home economies is an applied sci ence. It is an attempt to reduce the art of housekeeping to a scientific ba- sis-to teach girls not to go out and buy plunder and bring it back home | as a crow returns to her nest but rath- CT to select things scientifically and | artistically with relation to their sur rOundtngs. The most stimulating game of solitaire that one can play is to acquire the habit of defining things : as one sees them. In featuring she had often been asked to define the term Home Economies It was very broad. After study she has decided to name 1t, when considered in all its aspects and relationships. The Greatest Thing in the World" f WHAT WOMEN SHOULD KNOW. When girls colleges were opened their founders and promoters had great difficulty in convincing men that women had sufficient gray matter to undertake the curricula. Now their capacity is no longer a matter of Ques- tion. But in fifty years vassar col lege. for example, has advanced very little. The large eastern 'women's colleges are still almost wholly cul- tural-devoted to the study of Latin, Greek, mathematics, science and the human1ties. They are lacking in ap- piled, knowledge Every girl ought to be taught how. to bathe and dress
 
 to hunger for home and the protec- tion and companionship of a good and wholesome man. She ought to want baby of her own. Girls come out of college who are unable to broil chop. A graduate of Smith college had told her that after marrying she had seen chicken, and not knowing how to prepare it, had asked the butcher to cut it up. Then she was afraid of the receipt and gave it up. When asked what she did she replied, Exchanged it for chops'
 There is something wrong with our colleges here in the east The best department of home economics is in the University of Illinois. The next best are in the University of Wiscon- sin and the University of Chicago. Other western institutions have small and growing departments on this sub- ject. Part of the fault lies with the parents and part resides in the social and political unrest of the country. in its lack of stability and settled hab- it's.
 METHODS AND SYSTEM"
 Women ought, continuously to ask themselves the question, Am I getting all that there is out of life?' They need method and system. They ought first to decide where they want to go and then plan how to get there Men are as good as women force them to be. We complain Of the moral stand | ing of men, yet we welcome and ac- cept in society those of doubtful hab- it's. We extenuate, wink at, and | sometimes laugh at their peccadilloes. |
 ''The three phases of life are the | physical, the intellectual and the spir- itual. Each of these is lived through | and its successor entered upon The l factors which make up the physical | side of life are food, shelter and san- itation. It may be somewhat appal- l ling to woman to be told that each | year there are ten hundred and nine- | ty-fve meals to be planned; but if this places upon a woman that number of responsibilities, so too does it give | her an equal number of opportunities to make the husband satisfied and John or Mary a better boy or girl. The goal of life is so to live as to save waste and realize ideals, and the function of home economies is to de- wise ways and means to reach that goal"
 At the close of the lecture which