The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22
BY MARY KATHERINE WOODS,

fxETT1 HE intelligent of today has duties
\ both home and community
4 wide-awake interested home-lovlng
woman who assists her statesman husband
IN half dozen ways; to whom there is
conflict between private and public duties and no
danger of negectng ether-this is Mrs Woodrow
Wilson wife Of the governor of New Jersey and pos
'sible next mistress Of rhc White House,
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is her husbands companion
and her children cbunls She is also one of the most
pnbc-spirited women in America today.
/: would never Mrs Wilson 10 consider
seriously the proposition that woman to be good
wife aud mother: should bury herself in her family
and pay no attention TO the outside world.
But 1t would not once enter her head that any one
could devote herself to the good of the community
Jas TO neglect the husband and children at home
1t would be utterly impossible for her to ignore
her husband 5 work TO fail in understanding apprecia
ton and of every step that he is taking, everything
that he does
} ct she Is quick 10 decry the theory that woman
Ito be belpmect, should make herself her husband :
enhder- secretary
Seeing very clearly the work that 4 thinking
wonan may do IN the public world of the day, Mrs
Wilson recognizes struggle between this work and
sne simple old-fashoned duties Of the household
mas round the golden between slavish house
poa absorption aud too fcyersh public activity More
.perhaps than any prominent woman in America TO-
ohy she steers Der straight 10 the harbor OF
u woman s fine cizeuship
one believes very 6rmIy in woman $ duty TO the
EsommupItJ, and in her duty 10 the home And she
naS one cardinal principle to reconcile the two: A
woman soould attend to both
ME Wlsop IS home fhrou oh and through
D', sue IS none the less efficient member The
-" 'eiscT Board of Cbayitcs an apic assistant in
ent neios ot Children s Aid endesyor q prominent
'Spar ~, IN me ranks OF the Consumers lcague
cue ~ hcr daughters comradc and conddaute in.
s,.S ~ n ihelr work, eager for their success,
4 E'''TDu 10 each one of them.
~ bt sue IS Investigator of social conditions too
@ vas studied at first hand the details OF the war
luDercuo3is. She knows the work that is be-
az ss pone TOT focbeuiude1 children. She keeps in
Nm 1nc movement TO the little waits of the
>nutehe court She is IN constant touch with the
Of the New jersey village for cpiieptcs
not charitable corrective or educational m
go ,I .oh In New Jersey with whose work Mrs Wood-
m" son Is NOT we'll acquainted, by whose directors
s"e NJ ~ hoi recognized IS a helper
a Mrs Wilson is the charming hostess Of = nuhlic
o"idi nome. beautiful. exquistcly dressed WON.
all manner of folk receiving her husband :
&efi,.nls his friends and his enemies ruling her
p realm with consummatc grace
th;s out u nor long ago when Woodrow Wilson wrote
90 ~ "'N or lhe governments and economic problems
aiaod ~ ~ "oFld great nations it was his wife who
bes6 @ nn IN his Investigations. The volume has since
fionn noip as the standard text book Of inerna
uno ' husband for It's She read immense vol
M, 80. GERMAN - pol. econ - peruscd md suumod
will b;n yer frealsc IN various languages toed
She "uanrstT aat,resslT 9ptil the book was finished.
fio, 70 uhIersthnds the science of politics tbo rooc
hnsr pohtiea) forces. as well as oodrow Wilson
81, ~ ano mat IS saying Il great deal
crpnr;s aug "neu ono meets Mrs. Wilson in the gov.
sion is summer summer cottage At Sea Girt tho first in,pres
Imply "i gracious personality.
dcightful place 80 live iu-tbc seaside r,s,
,.,c ot inc states chief executive The houva