Evening journal., 1911-11-02
THIS AN AGE
OF EXTREMES
Mrs. BlddIe Tells Club Women
Homes are MOrtgaGed to
Buy Autos
MEN WELCOME ASSISTANCE
BUT WON'T TAKE ADVICE

In an address on the scope Of club
woman's work, at the Federation
meeting at the New Century Club yes
terday afternoon. Mrs. Edward W.
Biddle, retiring president of the Penn
sylvania Federation, told the Della
wareans that city fathers were as a
rule good men mildly interested IN
the city's Improvement and glad TO
welcome assistance. but not advice.
She named the phases Of city life
which affected women, and which *
was no more than right that they
should take an active interest In, such
as the cleanliness and beauty Of the
city, the conditions in the schools, the
child labor question. fair wages and
working conditions for women. the
places Of public recreation. She said
this If an age that goes too much TO
extremes, homes arc mortgaged TO huy
automobiles, grocery bills are left un-
paid to get admission TO hall games,
women take their families TO moving
picture shows every day in the week.
society women go TO balls and theatres
until a rest in a sanitarium is neces-
sary to finish the season, and bridge
whist semi-daily is certainly playing
cards too much.
Mrs. Biddle said the great menace
nowadays is the lack of good mothers
The mothers are careless Of how their
children grow up. so that frequently
fair Young girls Of today are more
typical IN their dress of the music
hall than of the refined homes they
come from. She advised the young
girls TO study the vital questions ai-
fectiuc their community, instead of
cards and dress. The speaker said
tho time was fast coming when di-
verca would not so frequently follow
marriage. when graft would be called
theft and men would be expected to
obey the ten commandments just as
much as women are.
Miss Anna Maxwell Jones, OF the
New York Federation, whose ances-
tors are Wilmington people said TIC
thought OF her religious Wilmington
grandmother had induced her to take
a Biblical text. Accordingly Miss
Jones showed how the modern club
woman answered exactly 10 the virtu-
ous woman IN Proverbs whose price
was above rubies This woman, said
Miss Jones. was neither a clinging
vine nor a door-mat She made her
family realize that she was an i'm
nortant member. Her children were
sent out into the world 10 do things,
and she did not hesitate to give ad-
vice 10 her husband or the city elders.
From the verse relating to her seek
ing wool and FAX. and working with
her hands. Miss Jones gathered thai
no tnfnNHmfUH n II
the tariff. which gave us shoddy WOO
at a high price. The Proverbs vo
man supervised the spinning an
weaving Of her hardmaids; nowaday
- did. this by inspecting workin
conditions for women IN the factorle
which have replaced the home wea'
ing, and IN protecting women genei
ally.
She was the natural buyer. and
was her duty 10 bring down the his
price of living. Here Miss Jone
nraises the picturesque Wilmingto
market and told Wilmington wome
thov should preserve this factor
doing away with middlemen's profits
She was now not only a mother q
her own children. but of all the chil
dren Of the country
The president of the Delaware Fot
Grafton. Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, Wh
presided at the meeting. gave as "a
definite aim Of the state work thi
year. the obtaining of higher educi
tion for women In Delaware
Miss Emma Lore. president OF On
entertaining club welcomed the Fe'
Grafton, and several enjoyable musle'
selections were given, vocal by Mi'
Isabelle Wales; instrumental, by MT
S Huxley and Mrs. Charles Griffith.