The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-26

ing mechanical rather than human
w to accomplish laborious work
will not be disputed at this late day.
But it has forced the modern woman
to face new questions of supplying
her wv need for employment, and
frequently of providing the neces-
saries of life for herself and those de-
pendent upon her. The ability which
enabled her ancestor to direct all the
activities in the home, which supplied
the needs of the family of the eigh-
teenth century, must be utilized by the
modern woman to meet her wi OBJ
legations which are not less onerous
because entirely different. Since by
mans nsurpation of the province
which was formerly her own, she no
longer is able to occupy herself with
in the four walls which she called
home, she must needs turn to other
activities, some of which have been
considered to be peculiarly mascu-
line.
Consequently the red glare of the
steel furnace is reflected upon wo-
mems faces in America as we'll as in
Europe. The pulpit, the bar, the ply
sician's office, know feminine activ-
ltS DIS 40 dlSo tHe HldTket ana the
counting room. In these callings, how
ever, it is becoming more and more
apparent that women are not taking
mems places in the great n indus
trial business world, but are doing.
in a distinctly feminine way, a new
work that has been created by chang
ing conditions, and which, but for the
women, would go undone. The mas
culine and the feminine principles
may be clearly recognized in every
field of work. Woman is only coming
into her own.
The industrial revolution which
eliminated SO many Industries from
the home, also changed its sociological
and economic outlooks. Society has
not yet adjusted itself to these
changed points of view, and in this
fact is found the reason for the great
unrest among the women of the west
ern world, and especially among those
of the English-speaking nations. Ma
chinery is multiplying daily and, with
its multiplication, tends still more to
lessen both the labor yet remaining
to be performed in the home and the
products of that labor. This brings
l. liz ~ VI IloNitIdiS IiiCdIl5
greater leisure than the richest wo-
mar knew a hundred years G Leis-
ure cannot mean idleness to a human
being of normal intelligence, so the
modern woman Is turning her atten-
ton to work helpful to the whole hui
man race. although she is still filling
only the broader requirements of her
true sphere-the home.
The mother of a family desires to
have only pure milk for her children.
To secure this it may be- necessary
not only her
for her to inaugurate a crusade for
milk inspection which will benefit not
only her own family, but that of the
poorer mother, who would not have
been able to initiate such a movement
or to secure such protection for her
self. If the modern woman would
protect her own family from the ty-
phoid germs to be found in impure
water, she must demand a system of
filtration and purification which will
make the water pure. and safe for the
whole community. The modern wo-
mar nay demand that the clothing
which she buys for herself and her
children shall be made under proper
sanitary conditions. In this she not
only safeguards her own family, but
protects less fortunate women-it
may be less able Women-by using
her influence toward the prohibition
of child labor, for the prevention of
long working hours for women. and
for the protection of workers in the
factories from avoidable disease and
accident.
The dust and the dirt from unclean
streets and the smoke arising from
improperly built and managed fac
tory furnaces, affect the cleanliness
of the home: but the woman in charge
of tina home must go outside it's four
walls if she would overcome them.
The future good of the country de-
mands that every child should have
an education under the best possible
conditions. To secure these condi-
tons for her own children, the
mother must needs go outside her own
-four walls and give her attention to
the Improvement of the entire school
system of the community. Thus, in
order to do her home work properly,
1t may be required of her to hold
public office as a member of a board
of education.
Every crime committed has it's eff
feet upon the moral status of the
community and, therefore, acts direct
ly upon every home in that
ity; consequently. in her efforts to
suppress crime. to alleviate poverty,
to take care of neglected and unpro-
tected children. to have clean streets,
and pure food and water, the modern
woman is really not going outside of
her legitimate duty in taking care of
her own home.
The present unrest among the
women of America is traceable, there
fore, to changes brought about by
men. 1t is, in one of it's aspects, a
protest against the added RESPONSE
bllities imposed upon woman without
giving them adequate power to meet
them. The leaders of the movement
for women suffrage are fighting not
merely to secure a greater freedom
for themselves, but to acquire a
stronger power to aid in administer
ing their duties to their homes and