The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-06
~~,THAT THE WOMEN
Nv OF Hi WORLD
I@1 ARE DOING D %

Nine. Schumann-Hcink the great
prima donna. is not a suffragist and
does not believe that women should
have anything to do with politics.
Schumann-Heink was in Duluth yes
tcrday to sing and just after she re-
turned from hearing mass at the
Catholic cathedral she was interview
ed by a newspaper reporter. In re-
Spouse to the question of whether or
not she was a suffragist the stately
ON said:
mo. indeed. I am not a s%uffragist."
she vigorously stated In response to a
question. Il think it is a very good
thing if the good earnest women Of
n community take an interest in the
welfare of the city and do what they
can to raise the standard, but I am
very much opposed to ONE figuring
in politics. Their place is in their
homes.
q think that first Of all a woman
should be interested in her home, in
her children. and in her husband and
II h does this. If the home life ia
kept on a high standard. then the life
of the nation will be kept at a high
Standard Any nation which has Il
true. loyal home life with true loyal
women in the homes, will come to the
top and will rule and any nation that
let's its home life. its regard for the
highest ideals of the home drop. that
nation will also fall. This is true and
has been illustrated throughout the
ages.
There is no other country which
can compare with America now. The
American standards are high and
American husbands are ideal. l mean
the true American. No place can YOU
find a better husband or father and
the American women should realize
this and keep up their end by making
their homes all they possibly can, and
cannot do this and mix UP in politics
and wornan's suffrage.
another thing the American wom-
en- should do is to teach their daugh-
ters more in domestic lines. They
should know how to keep a home, how
to cook, how to sew and mend. T
have ample means to hire everything
done for myself and my children. but
my little 16-year-old does a lot of
homework. Each week she cleans her
wv room and she does a great dcal
of her own mending and sowing. OF
course she does not have time to do a
great deal for she is a sophomore in
high school in our little New Jersey
town and she is pretty busy with her
studies but in the vacation time when
/ am home too, we have the best times
tending to home duties and | love to
teach my girls how to do the house,
NtOIA anu OIuCE WOIldnly II1lUES.
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium gave
a Thanksgiving party Of 1900 women
at tn palace at Brussels the other
day. Duchesses and dairy maids
were among the guests, but all were
equals in love and admiration for the
queen. Sch it was who was giving
thanks: showing her appreciation Of
the women's loyal aid in raising $780,
600 for a charity vry close to her
heart. tho dispensary for tuberculosis
patients. At a hint from the queen
each of the hundreds of women who
drank tea with her wore an artificial
edelweiss in the corsagc of her after
noon gown. The edelweiss is her MA
jesty's favorite flower.
Miss Rose Kelley has been chosen
librarian in the new municipal build
ing which Is soon to he formally OPEN
ed in Boston. In this new building is
to be a swimming pool and gymnasium
used exclusively by women and girls
on certain specified days in each week.
The gymnasium has a twenty three
lap running track composed of COM
pressed cork. The equipment includes
mats. medicine halls, pulley weight
machines. German horses. cross bucks,
parallel ladders and bars. cross bars,
dumbbells. Indian clubs. grip and in
t%ercostal machines. The swimming
pool holds 10000 gallons of water
which is constantly drawn off and re-
placed with fresh water at a tempera.
ture of seventy degrees in the winter
and sixty degrees in the summer. This
is said to be The largest and best
equipped gymnasium and swimmin.
pool open to- women in the world.