The Washington herald., 1912-07-14

Fiduals and rs groups. diner from each
other. My special place in the world Is
due to my differences rather than to
my likenesses, to other people. For ex-
ample, woman Is as sure to have the
suffrage as the tide is TO rise. not be-
cause she is as wise. as strong, as skill
full as man Is, nor because she. like him,
is human being. nor for any other
reason OF likeness or duplication at all
but because she Is different because she
can do what he cannot, because the
world needs her peculiar and special
abilities. 1t is because she is different,
because these differences are funda-
mental world needs. that Il Is necessary
that she shall bring these differences to
the service of the world. This fact
whether woman wants IL or no, the suf-
frage will force inevitably upon her. We
insist that she must speak, but because
she is different and not because she is
like. The vote is no end in itself To
serve the community IN ways in which
she IS the creator and specialist IS the
end. and toward this service the women
of the civilized world are pressing. most
OF them unconsciously-a few OF them
consciously. but all OF them inevitably.
Work ms Discipline To-day.
We are many Of US distressed by the
lack Of responsibility which SO many
children show-their failure to under
stand and yield to the deeper needs Of
work and its place IN life. This deeper
moral equipment for life in the old DAYS
was associated with the faithful per-
formance Of the daily work in the home
and the deep lessons which were learned
by working alongside OF the parents.
We have thought. however. that these
lessons lay in the specific work done-so
we have organized the elements of the
work with tools into manual training.
We have developed. systematized, organ
lied, and pedago oGicalized cooking and
sewing into domestic science and domes-
tic art. From two to four hours of lab
oratory work per week has taken the
pDce of from six 10 twelve hours a day
Of real work with a real mother doing
real work for real people IN a real
home. And We are only just beginning
TO realize that learning how 10 do work
in no respect has the Choracter effect
of doing work. and that being taught if
one thing, and working with is another,
and that knowing how and having re-
sponsibility for are all different in their
effects upon life.
Social Function of Work.
About cooking. for example, have
grown most OF the social feelings and
customs of the family. To break bread
or to eat salt together is a social fact
far deeper in significance than is the
knowledge Of physics and chemistry in
voIved in the coking. Tho college girl
gets her chafng dish not because she is
hungry, but TO feed her soul with the
charm of comradeship.
To meet the new and larger response
bilities it is necessary that the woman
of the present world affairs shall.
l. Continue in her learning to do team
work. To bring about home conditions
of beauty. comfort. health, social happi-
ness, and whoIesomeness in the commu-
nifty, mean the very highest order of mu-
tual loyalty and OF team work. This Is
a new demand upon woman.
2. II is necessary that the conscious
ness OF dignity. romance. and beauty be
again restored to daily work. that Il may
once more take the fundamental place
ter.
3. Tho psychic relations between
daughters and mothers have been hurt
by those forces which have lessened
their working together. These relations
between mothers and daughters are to
be not only brought back, but TO be
deepened and rendered more beautiful
l. And last, and most important and
most difficult, the nature Of true social
relations is TO be so revealed that It Is
evident that the adventure, romance. and
happiness are to be found in those human
which are found on the
broad roads of life and work. rather
than in its fenced-on sloughs and
deserts.
The deepest need OF woman is the need
Of being needed. This is why she re-
spends to the sick or crippled child. II
ever woman was needed. il is to-day.
The very riot of our material riches is
the peril of our souls. Woman Is already
taking hold of the present material
world. giving to II and bringing into it
the love and service and spiritual rela-
tions which in the old days created the
home and which to-day are changing the
man-made workhouse into a place ads-
quate to the glorious future life OF human
beings
The Campfire Girls Is an organization
which aims to bring the power of organ
ization and the charm OF romance again
into the humble acts and needs of daily
life II Is a deliberate attempt to help
meet the new and splendid social world
which Is before "