The Ordway new era., 1911-11-17
The ChriSteSen Millinery
Where Woman Is Equal

There's one spot in the United States
where women are economically free
and on an absolute equality with men
In everything that pertains to life.
Yet the women do not vote-for
this spot isn't In suffrage state. 1t
existed years before any American
woman ever voted, and its women
don't care flg for suffrage.
This Utopia of equality is "True In
SEPARATION" the Amana colony in Iowa
county. 1Owa-a successful communis.
tic settlement Of $4,000 persons, cstab-
lished sixty years ago by Germans
driven from the Fatherland. They
own 2, 500 acres OF land. many houses
thereon and several factories.
The Amana men and women share
alike In work and reward. The woman
doesn't need to marry to get home.
When she Is II she goes TO work In
! the field, In the factory or in the COM
munity kitchens.
II she marries she has no domestic
problems to face. She still works side
by side with the men. Each family
has separate apartment, though
many families may live under one roof,
All eat ut community dining rooms,
which accommodate from l6 to 40 per.
sons. The trustees OF the colony as
sign individuals and families to the
different apartments and dining halls,
assign them also to their particular
work and pass on their individual
needs.
A mother devotes the Hrst two years
Of her child's life exclusively to the
baby-with no outside work, no meals
to get, no household duties. After
that the child is cared for In n public
nursery, or by old women no longer
able to work In field or factory.
School keeps" the whole year
round, and in large measure sup.
plants the home training. AT the age
Of IA all girls have finished their edu.
cation, and are afterwards considered
as women, and with the latter share
in the colony's work. For ambitious
boys over IA there Is night school,
Everybody over II and In good
health is expected to "pull his pound"
whether 1t be In the garden, the fields
or 10 the factories. During the sum.
mer the gardens and the fields demand
most attention. The colony's chief
the woolen mills, calico mills and
flour mills, in all OF which women
work as hard as the men. and receive
like return.
Woman receives no favors because
of her sex: no man would urge a WON.
an to work less hours than he does,
nor would he urge her to seek lighter
labor. Every woman is economically
the equal OF every man. No husband
has the right to ask his wife to do
this or that. any more than he would
have the right to ask 1t of one OF his
fellOwworkmen. On the other hand,
women expect no cOurtesies such as
are common In other places. Men do
not lift their hats to the women they
meet. Those courtesies, say the Am.
ana leaders-men and women-are sex
distinctions and initiate against soci-
al progress.
The women seem contended and
happy and free from the usual Ameri.
can "nerves." They visit while they
work all day long and seem thorough.
ly to enjoy themselves. The coIonists
receive their board and clothes, which
all share alike. In addition, each per-
son is given an allowance according
to individual necessities as decided by
the trustees. No one lacks for any.
thing which his or her ability and
position in the community require.
The people are held together by re.
ligious faith. They are individualists
as far as the Importance placed upon
character is concerned and commun.
lists in dealing with each other.
They believe that Gods power is as
omnipresent today as in olden times
when he revealed hidden things
through visions, dreams and revela.
tions. They believe in inspiration and
that it can take place as we'll now as
in former times.
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