Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02
DECLARES WOMEN
SHOULD HAVE WORK.
Speaker at Contemporary AS
( serts Everyone Should Per-
form Some Function.

- This is not the time when woman )
= duties lie within the household, but
when she must go out into the world
:. 20 perform certain functions" assert
I'd Charles Zueblin, of Boston, who
ssmpoke on 1.-THE Woman Without Occu-
patton" this morning at Wallace Hall
5 1nder the auspices of the Contempor-
airy.
"One-fourth of the feminine popula-
= zion over fifteen years of age in the
United States is engaged in gainful
Is.occupations. Three-fourths are, there
q fore. according TO the United states
'census, without occupation" said the
speaker. "In order to understand the
social position Of the mother who,
he said, leads the unoccupied class, ''it
. Z Id, however, necessary to consider
some OF the other unoccupied females.
Z One-third of the girls between sixteen
eAand twenty are at work in gainful
occupations.
while the other two thirds are not
necessarily debutantes, they include
this interesting class of young women
whose lives and sometimes education
and morals are injured by the ex-
q oesses of the first social season. The
rsrconsequent Generalization of young
men who are unable to keep up the
= pace set by ambitious mothers also
helps to make a false start towards
n obligations Of these potential mothers.
Instead Of dances, concluding with
- n breakfast at 4 a. m, or q days work
ranging from early morning until late
~ at night, these young women ought TO
he attending something like Belgium's
,e or England's school for mothers. Even
abe fancee, who is supposed to have
=, faced the most critical problem of
life, has generally not been the bene-
fciary of domestic science and busi-
hess science as she would be In a So
s.riety that appraised motherhood at
Its proper value. The Spinster at
. nome is generally a useful member of
society, but today she is ordinarily
neither so useful as the bachelor maid
at work nor as the domestic servant,
who is our real spinster."
Speaking of the modern stay-at-
nome daughters that toll not, neither
rs1o they spin" Mr. Zueblin said
"These are the young women momen-
aarily denied motherhood who ought
Nato be our chief propagandists against
me white slave traffic.
1l 1.-THE time Is coming" he also de-
Shared, when there win be no orphan
fages and all children will have a
nome. If it is not the rightful home
b II the mother and father it will be a
laanome as near lilse it and provided by
society. 1t is the children's right to
have proper surroundings. The placing
r. IF the children will be In the hands of
The social workers"
Mr.. Zueblin emphasized the fact |
that in wealthy families the mothers |
Of today do not care for each of their
children individually. For an exam |
!, sSle the speaker referred to the Puri- |
! stan days when children were forced !
10 eat certain food, but now a din
/. ner is cooked, and the children, in |
most cases, have their choice without |
5 .Supervision.
80 In conclusion, the speaker said:
IL After the mother there must be con-
q Tdered still under those whom the
? rensus regards as having no occupa-
tJ1on. the stepmothers, mothers-in-law
widows, Divorces and grandmothers.
:, lNhatever their obligation to society |
n'br society's obligations to them, there |
-.sannot be q satisfactory social order |
? lftil the woman without occupation
. ssecures economic justice and man
= somes at last intimately to understand
= The supreme significance of mater
kify"