Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1911-02-08

is making to don her respondent robes
of summer time. 1t is good to know
that the toWnspeople are already plan
ming to cooperate in Springs scheme
OF beautifyng all our surroundings.
The advent of such a committee Just
at this time is most opportune, for
the wholesale cutting away of our
trees has convinced us of the fact that
we have need of such a band. Coun-
Gil few years ago demanded that all
telegraph poles within the limits o.
the town should be high enough to
save the symmetry OF our trees. Is
the present license with which they are
being handled merely oversight or
neglect?
Again we congratulate ourselves
that the women of the town are to
take a hand in the neatness of our
streets and public squares. A repeti-
ton OF the words OF Jane Adams
woman honoreI, by her own genera
ton, may not be out of place along
this line of thought. Although these
quotations referred primarily to con
dit;ons OF larger city life, they are APP
picaDe to smaller communities.
Miss Adams asks the question:
May we not say that city housekeep-
ing has failed partly because women,
the traditional housekeepers, have not
been consulted as to its multiform ac
tivities?'
The following are extracts from her
talk along this line
"Becauseal these things have ira
al 50,
men, ii they take no part in them now,
they are not only missing the educa-
ton which the natural participation in
civic life would bring to them, but the,
are losing what they have always had.
From the beginning op tribal life wo-
men have been held responsible for the
health of the community, a fraction
which is now represented ty the health
department; from the days OF the cave
jewellers, so far as the home was clecr
and wholesome, it was due ii their CT
torts, which are now represented Oy
the bureau of tenement house inspec-
ton; from the period OF tn. primitive
village, the only public sweeping pcy.
formed was what they undertook i'll
their own dOoryards, that which is now
represented by the bureau OF street
cleaning. Most OF the departments in
a modern city can be traced to wo-
mans traditional activity. but in spite
OF this, so soon as these old affairs
were turned over to the care OF tht
city, they slipped from womars hands,
apparently because they then became
matters for collective action and lii
Piled the use of the franchise"
rs it quite public spirited ior wo-
men to say, We will take care OF these
affairs, SO long as they stay in our
houses, but if they go outside and con
Germ SO many people that they cannot
be carried on without the mechanis
OF the vote. we will drop them 1t is
true that these activities which women
have always had are not at present be
ing carried on very well by the men III
most of the great American cities, Dat
because we do not consider it ladyl:Ie
- vote shall we ignore their failure:
Because women consider the govern
ment mems affair and something which
concerns itself with elections AMI
alarms, they have become SO con. us
in regard to their traditional business
in life, the rearing of children, that
they hear with complacency state
ment made by the nestor OF sani,dry
relormers, that one-half of the tlny
lives which make up the city's death
rate each year might be saved BY a
more thorough application vi santarv
science.
Are we going to lose ourselves II
the old circle of convention and add
to the sum of wrong-dong which is
continually committed in the world be-
cause we do not look at things as they
really are' Old fashioned WAYS, which |
no longer apply to changed conditions,
are snare III which the feet OF women
have always become readily entan-
gled. 1t is so easy to belese that |
things that used to exist still go on |
long alter they are passed. it is so |
easyto commit rreparab'e blunde1s |
because we tail to correct our theor-
les by our changing experience"
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