The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-19
World's Women
I Paragrapha showing Progressive I
4 Activities Of Women and I
! Feminine Organizations. (

Women. 1t would seem. in their de-
mand for greater diversity of voca-
tons. are overlooking a signal chance
in the field of architecture. 1t Is ad-
mitted that they have not received
much professional encouragement to
enter 1t: 1t is alleged that there Is nc
way for women architects to get pract-
ical training. because of opposition to
them in the offices of architects: and
1t is a fact that the obstacles. what
ever they ma be have thus far effect
ually interviewed to restrict the num-
Der of women in the profession to a
negligible few. Yet a demand for
women in the work is being voiced
with increasing frequency, a demand
that. coming from ONE themselves.
is indicatinG also the particular field
for the women architect and the par.
ticular social gain to be had out Of her.
We are so tired" says a woman
~housekeeper who speaks as one among
many. of living in houses built by men
who cannot seem to get 1t into their
heads that a bed has to have wall
space to set against. that one bath
room is not enough for a ten-room
house. and that a tiled kitchen floor is
hard on the maids feet-we are SO
tired of 1t, We women, that I wonder
more of us don't try to drown our
sorrows in suffrage than do. Why.
oh. why, don't women, who UNDER
stand the needs Of the home. so in for
home architectural"
physical Handicap"
The association. as a body. is COM
mitted to a project to furnish some
fundamental training for women along
these lines, by its new trade school at
Winfield, L. l. Speaking for the OBJ
ioot0ro n Sroon o~oHS<oa< ,,oi>k> 1,,k
that there are many physical features
in the work for which woman is handi-
capped. why, l spend a lot of my
time on ladders and scaffoldings. That
sort Of thing doesn't suit a woman. A
lot of women are too dizzy-headed ev-
en- to climb a ladder"
To the dizzy-headed objection a wo-
man architect in London, Miss Ethel
NJ. Charles, A. r. I. 3. A., speaking
before the association of Britich arch
fleets. some time ago. responded by
citing an example of Sir Christopher
Wren. who. in his early career, used
to be drawn up to the tops Of his
buildings in a basket. But it was left
for a Yankee woman architect, one Of
the two or three with their own suites
OF offices in this city, to suggest a COM
prehenstve solution to the problem Of
woman's physical handicaps in this or
any other profession. IF I couldn't
reach a point where I could employ a
man to represent me for the part Of
the work I couldn't do. I shouldn't
feel justified in being or doing any
thing"
This woman architect came here
from Boston some years ago. In Bos-
ton she had developed a business in
large buildings. civil and ecclesiastic-
al commissions having come her way.
She was too busy to stop to specialize.
came the Boston panic and
building reached a standstill. When
she decided to come to New York. she
decided also that her opportunity for
specialization had come, and. hanging
out her shingle. she went in for do
nestle architecture. She, too, believes
that this field presents great oppor-
tunities for women. but she says frank
ly that her experience with the wo-
man apprentice has not been satisfac-
tory.
1t seems to have fallen to her lot to
have had rather vague young women
essay to take up the work with her,
art students who have turned toward
architecture as they have turned to-