The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01

Much is being said on the subject CT | 'Womans Transition" Discontentl Rest | essness, Shall call 1t that? Yes. The highest type of womanhood today is
 that type that does not allow the progress of civilization to destroy the deepest vital source of her physical eing-Motherhood. | Woman is doing the silent work of the
 world and in her eagerness she empha- ! sizes her discontent. This woman discon- | tent convinoes us that the old way Is making room for the new. no one is more | conscious of this fact than woman her self, when she looks about and sees what | she has achieved and what her influence
 stands for. 1 When l speak of Woman Discontent' | do not mean the empty mind. the empty | heart nor the woman whose only thought ! is that of selfishness. but of the serious minded woman. who enjoys thc privileges of life, it is her discontent that bears | analysis.
 | Why this restlessness. this eagerness | Study industrial and social conditions as | they touch woman's life-therc is the de- | mand-the imperative demand.
 Mother progress must go on as civiliza- | tion goes on, she must be up and doing | to combat with social conditions that are
 carrying the child on and on. Must she | permit the boy or girl. whether it be
 hers or not to be carried along with this
 great amusement wave, for instance.
 without knowing how far and where the | child is led? Her dlscontent with con
 ditions that are moulding child-life makes
 her realize that the many sided influences
 on the child have often greater hold l than just the mother or woman influence alone, hence one cause for her caeerness.
 
 from the realization that tine purpose
 work of woman is of tremendous social l significance. The question as l see if Is,
 not so much support with woman-it is
 more a question of whether woman is
 ble of coping with the rapid advance
 menI of social, moral and intellectual ! changes The woman of yesterday with
 her puritanical ideas can not meet con
 ditions of today--contrast social and com | mercial conditions of today and 50 years | ago If material conditions change, so 1 then must men and women keep pace, 1 no man or woman has any right to allow | God given intellect to retrograde. Man | fights the battle for material substance
 woman battles with dual responsibility l herslf and child.
 l Conditions with their rapid changes have | Of necessity forced woman to act and ! by nature she is impusive and in her | eagerness she desires to create remedies rather than work out by a longer process relief for these conditions that she 1 rt alizes is lfe-destroying All .his eager ness, this restlessness will in time sim mer down to an event placid fife work great human ideals gather momentum for time but the conflict will not last long. The Remedy
 "The cry Tn the wilderness Of life con fusion is only the voice of woman raised in the hour of need
 How. Oh How shall this Jiscontent this restlessness be satisfied' Not by tears, not by force. not by ballot No. Woman realizes that. that which is done by one if done by all. either makes or destroys society. See largely See widely ! Social responsibility must not connlct with indiyidualsm in the wide-world sense.