The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-26
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fectiveiy enlightening the public re-
sarding her wrongs. That is Jane
Adams. To me, she Is the greatest
living woman, built on h old heroic
lines. She had a wonderful vision,
| and with it the self-sacrifce. power
| and patience to round II out to won
derful achievement, that brought
with it's accomplishment benefit to
| humanity, not only today, but in the
| years to come. Others may have had
as wonderful a dream, but not the
strong hand to hew the way to its
complete realization. Other achieve
ments have dazzled humanity more,
but no other work OF u
day has had such f~ar-reaching human
help.
Still a woman does not have to be
famous to be great. Without sub
tracing from the monumental work
OF Jane Adams. | would say that
probably the greatest women are
those we never e about. When
a wonlan's home is smashed, the pub
lie knows it, and she receives the
brief pity we all extend TO failure,
but the woman who faces some heart
crushing crisis and keeps her home
intact at the sacrifice Of herself-who
saves, not blights lives, goes uDre-
corded. You see I don't put wof
DIS d1l-liIlpCIIdub III d @OI4du > Hit,
as SO many are now doing, though
J believe every human being ought
to return service to the world as pay
for his keep, but thai service may be
Il perfectly ripe character, not neceS-
sarily a book or a picture, or a
philanthropy
L too am o1d-fashioned in be1iey-
ing that woman's primary duty is
carrying on the race; that is her high
l<cf f.,ro}inr MANA ofl1~ 60 1<ar. n ,o
bic to it, but in individual cases lesser
work must be substituted; the wo-
ma has to fight that out by herself,
neither precept or precedent can help
her.
Il do not believe, however, that
women plunge into work to heal a
broken heart. I am sure there are
some highly talented women who have
been SO wholly absorbed in their work
from extreme youth, that they have
never taken a recess long enough to
have their hearts broken. And many
Il woman has dropped into marriage
as the last resource, when failure in
hat she wanted to make her life
work was absolute.
Il have no patience with women
who refuse to have children on the
Plea that the world is over-peopled
and that it is cruelty to give life that
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sic. The world is not ov~er-peopled.
but badly peopled. A hundred hands
stretch out fOr-what only two can
grasp, but that is our fault, not the
edrth's; h can feed US; she is equa-
bic to all; it is We who are not"
Miss Tarbell laughs at the idea Of
jealousy growing up between men
and Wonlen in the same profession
the new jealousy as it is called-not
the Othello kind.
7 have often heard OF it but never
felt it directed against me, though
sometime I have been the only wo-
helped me and valued my work i'm
personally. It may be different in
ether professions. I only know jour
nalism. There the editor cares only
for the product-nothing for the pro-
Queer, either as to Sex or person
atty.
II hope to see more women go into
the severer side of writing. because
they possess naturally the first re-
quisite for Observation-Disclosures.
With this slower and steadier writ
ing will come the realization that
literature is a profession like law or
medicine, and not the i~nscribing of
Dreams And like those others it has
the long years Of training and the
bare early professional period, but
the slow sure creeping to success.
ecaus you work with a pen Ices
not mean of itself an immediate and
winged flight upward.
when / gave up an editorship and
decided to become a writer
on historical and biographical sub
Jects, l went to the Sorbonne and
worked three years on just how to
get to my material. I have almost
a trunk full Of rejected manuscripts
returned at a time when I was de-
pendent On writing. for my living
But 0 can't expect the world to
listen to you while you are finding
your voice.
Ida Tarbe1Fs appearance, manner
and conversation, all spell one word
-vigor. But she does things withouf