The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19

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 If only Miss Austen and her Spinster
 Of 26 were alive today to read what Dr.
 Woods Hutchinson, the eminent physician.
 has to say on this subject in his recently published article in the Saturday Evening
 Post, entitled "Woman in Public Life"
 If they were alive these last century
 pi oducts. they'd drop dead with heart
 failure, brought on by sudden shock 1t
 what this entertaining and delightful
 medical gentleman has to say on the sub jeot
 The New Woman" has in pr. Hutch
 inson a most able ally.
 1t may not be amiss just here to sug-
 gest to many of the latter day pessmists
 who think the Home" is going to rack
 and ruin on the rock of "Club Interests" and Civic Enthusiasm,' and general alertness of the Modern Woman" who
 Is Interested in most things under the sup-hersef not the least of the same it is only in spirit of tolerant charity, 1t
 is suggested that these -world-is-not-
 what-it-used- -to-be" individuals read Dr.
 Hutchinson and hear from him how much
 better the world is today than it has ever
 been before.
 He refutes absolutely that the modern
 Home has become merely a place in which to eat and sleep; a place, as some
 cynics declare, that man only goes to when all other places are shut
 Instead Dr. Hutchinson says that homes
 were never more commodious. well arr
 ranged. well managed and comfortably equipped as they are now, thanks to the clever housekeepers of this day and time. "A town" says Dr. Hutchinson, may
 or may not have fine business streets and a great wholesale district, but what it
 stands or falls by, to the eye of the sani- ,fnlr and span. new homes in the residential su- brrbs-the cheerful dominant feature of | the architecture of the new century" | He declares that there never were as
 many "realr homes in the history of the world before
 | The home decayng? l Dr. Hutchinson scouts the idea by say | irg.
 | sIts just beginning to flourish" Perhaps many will be shocked to hear | that Dr. Hutchinson says that few things promote harmony and affection between the women of the family and their men | fclks and vice versa more than a regular | daily vacation from each others com psny.
 I like that expression. "a regular daily vacation from each others company, . don't you?
 Lets of people need it without suspect
 inFnt
 | or course the woman who works is
 bound to leave her home the greater part of the day.
 s.sThere is no danger though that this
 partial physical removal from the home l atmosphere will diminish the working
 won.ans interest in her home' Dr. Hutchinson says. for the simple reason that home is a thing that Is self-exstent
 and self-supporting, l The need of home of some sort is as universal and irresistible the attrac- | tion of gravitation. even though there be, | in the bitter language of the pessimist: i "Nothing to breathe but air. Nothing to eat but food. | Nothing to wear but clothes. To keep us from being nude. | Nowhere to go but out Nowhere to come but back" l Of course. Dr. Hutchinson believes in woman marrying. but not with the matri- monv that a girl paid when she married in her early teens and became an old woman at 3o,f"a shapeless bag of fat or
 skin and bones" Dr Hutchinson declares that ''the old woman in the shoe" was by no means the only other mother of earlier times who had so many children she didn't know l,what to do" or whose methods of discip- line and training were in consequence of the same primitive andI indiscrminate
 character and says most humorouslx,
 ''to spank them all soundly and put them