The Washington herald., 1912-07-14
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Campfire Girls and the New
Relation of Women to the World

DR. Luther Halsey Gulick, director OF
the Department OF Child Hygiene of the
Russell Sage Foundation. in his address
at the National Education Association.
Chicago, July L, said:
Most of the grandparents of those
in this hall lived in homes which were
largely sufficient to themselves That 10,
the mothers knitted stockings, wove the
cloth for. and made the clothing: cooked
and served the food. churned the butter,
made the bedding. did the washing. pre-
pared FOR and served guests. cared for
the sick, had many children and-died
young.
The conditions that our children meet
to-day are fundamentally different from
the conditions which faced our grend-
parents when they were children Stead
lily, one after another OF the occupa-
tions. trades industries. and arts have
been taken hold by the community. organ
!zed and placed upon a basis of effective
ness unimagined in the old days OF home
manufacture The beauty Of our clothes.
the comfort OF our dwellings. the variety
and quality Of our tools. the bewilderins
world Of books the space devouring rail-
way the steel structure business house
forty stories high. the great hotels. the
bake shops. specialized farms, schools.
churches. theaters clubs, political par
ties. universities. world news and travel,
all proclaim that the humble attainments
of the home We're but first steps. and
that larger and more varied groupings
OF human beings could attain ends I'm
dreamed of in the olden DAYS. II Is not,
as so many sadly declare. that the home
is degenerating. The splendid truth is
horn and raised in
the home are now stepping out into the
community.
Man Made Modern City.
This wonderful new social integra-
ton of the world became possible only
when man had harnessed power and had
invented machines. With power and
machines he has done most OF the things
that most of the people OF all the world
have done during all the ages. He has
thus increased the riches OF the world
more in one generation than had been
accumulated in all time before. This. as
| have already said, was done mainly
by man and not by woman.
woman's World Changed.
The result has been fundamentally TO
alter the adjustment of woman to the
world. In the olden days man. with his
weapons, provided food. shelter and
safety. Woman made of them the home
she converted passion into love, do
mesticated beauty, invented industry and
was the mother OF happiness.
To-day man has again gone out, this
time into the social world and with his
tools and harnessed world power, has
again brought back food. shelter and
o.. ~,
from the whole world in a new acun-
ance and a SURPRISING variety, shelter
such as was never dreamed of before.
and has doubled the average span or
life by lessenins its dangers.
Woman Follows Mans Work.
Man has made Of his new world a
wonderful, a magic place in which to
work, in which to make physical at
tainment. He has not made OF II. how
ever. good nor a beautiful place in
which to live. He has made OF the COM
a factory. not a home
The world-old power and skill and de-
votion of woman are again being called
for and being given. but now not merely
TO make and preserve the individual
home. but to give to the community
those spiritual qualities which she gave
to the home.
Many of the psychic functions of
she is discharging in the
school She is making Fairgrounds for
healthier conditions in schools.
fairer conditions for the work Of men.
and children IN farm. store. fac
tory. shop, and mine. The ideal is that
of universal motherhood-all the women
being responsible that every child is
loved. cared for, and given a fair chance.
She is beginning to see that she Is re-
sponsible for much of the municipal
Woman and Social Life.
The relations between young people
must be so arranged that all the power
Of sex and the passion OF love and de-
sire shall lead toward attainment and
growth and beauty and power. To make
goodness alluring and show the shallow
ness and stupidity of vice-to bring the
lualitcs and spirit of the home into the
to embody such ideals in the
common habits, the daily life of the peo-
Dle is such a task, such an opportunity
rs has never before been given to the
world. Thus are the age-long qualities
II women needed in our new world to
realize its surprising possibilities as well
as to save II from spiritual disaster
We are significant In the world mainly
hy the extent to which We. a. indi-