Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-03-16

men, however many small, scdllefeu
In the American Magazine is re-
markable article from the brain OF
no less a parsonage than Ida M. Tar
hell on "The Business Of Being a
Woman" The article should be read
by every mother,-Ed.
Miss Tarbell says; IF there We're
TO other reason fer the modern
woman's revolt against marriage,
the usual attitude toward its central
facts would be sufficient. The idea
that ceiibacy for woman is 'the arts
tocracy of the future" is soundly
tased if the Business of Being a
woman rests on mystery so ques-
ticnably that it cannot be frankly
and truthiully explained by a girls
mott er at the moment her interest
and curiosity seek satisfaction. That
sic GETS on as we'll as she does, re-
suits of course from the sential
soundr ess CT the girls nature, the
armor of modesty. right and instinct
and reverence, with which she is en-
dowed.
The following list of topics dealt
with in the writer's chaste style, will
indicate the Importance of the article
"UncoI scious of the Supreme I'm
pcrtaIce CT Her Mate" "A Young
Brides Axioms; Home a Real
Economic Partnerships" Is House
hold economy narrowing" "Woman's
Duty as Consumer" Cup to the
Woman" Home as an Educational
Center" mot too Small, but too
Great Job" Making Democrats,
Her Freedom Defeating Her; "Eman-
cipation and Political Corruption"
Suffrage Needed"
'The Worlds Work for March
contains several articles we'll worth
quoting.
The first of these IS an editorial
about "Peopleizing" Industry. "The
truth is-and it is vicious to con
oeal it or to smear it over with
sentimental Misrepresentation
practically all successful corporations
are controlled by little groups of
then, however many small, scattered
stockholders there may be. Even
at Pittsburg. The President was there
a majority of stock, they can keep
the control, particularly if they are
successful, but often even if they
are not successful, in their manage.
ment.
The controlling Influence in the
large corporations is necessarily self.
perpetuating, and is likely to be the
more easily self-perpetuatng in pro
portion to the increase of tn numbi
of stockholders. To induce wage
earners to buy stock, then, with the
idea that they are likely to have any
influence on the control of corpora
ton or to work up maudlin false
notion about the democracy of in
dustry" as represented by big cor
Horations is, when stripped of fine
phrases, mere falshood 1t belongs,
with the tender concern for widows
ard orphans which big rogues al
fected till it wore out
The Misfit Child" The work of the
visiting-teacher among difticul
children--her success as link be
tween the home and the school. BY
Mary Flexner, visiting teacher in the
New York City Schools.
The work broadly considered is
two-fold in character 1t Is at once
educational and social; but it's scope
is limited, for it concerns itself only
with the difficult child, Within this
field variety abounds; for each child
10 NtulL Will duu
not merely as case of irregular at
tendance poor scholarship, incorrigi-
bility, immortality or poverty with its
attendant evils of household cares and
child labor
The visiting teacher acts as a link
betN cen the chid's school and his
home. She interprets on to the other
She is the sympathetic observer, the
helpful frie1d Of both.
Arthur Page contributes a splendid
article on Safety First Underground ;
Thirty thousand miners have been
killed in explosions and other acct
dents in the last ten years. To stop
this waste of life-and incidentally
of property-was one of the main
reasons for the creation of the Blu
feau of Mines. It's rescue work is
one of its first undertakings. In the
past, after explosions, volunteer res.
cuers without training or apparatus
rushed into the wrecked mine to save