Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-03
DREAMER'S LEVEL HEADED
 VIEWS.
OLD SOL

Dear Social Corner Friends, and eS- pecially Queen Bess: Your little story regarding young women getting over enthusiastic on the question of wom- ems rights emphasizes an important point; yet if the young woman of your story really cared enough for the apothecary clerk to become his wife, would she let such thing as suffrage interfere with their happiness? And even if she did enlist with the suffra- gists, and go about featuring would her qualities be in any wise injured for making good wife and mother :? Might not she make even a. better and wiser wife for having taken tour lec- turing to many women who are them selves mothers?
 What if she did get some bumps this world Is full of them. No doubt your story girl. Queen BeSs, is not un- like many other young women When they become interested in a certain subject it would almost seem that their enthusiasm knows no bounds. and it never occurs to them that they might hurt the feelings of friend. or shock their elders. Simply they are young, full of life and want to be up and do- ing; and if they are enthusiastic over nothing worse than woman's rights, surely you don't think they'll come out of such strange capers'' with any less modesty or womanliness than when they started out?
 Of course. young women are called very complex these days. They can't help it. and it is downright foolish to harrass our young women with the old theme of, What would your grand mother say?" Everybodys grand mother was dear old soul, but how could she see what her eyes had not been trained to see? She got mar ried at 1s, had 8 big family and lived happy ever afterwards because all women did that when grandmother was young-that is. most of 'em did. and those who didn't were queer" They weren't considered women They were pointed out as females with strange ideas.
 Today women want to know things, lots of things everything; they de- mand that things be discussed in the open and not behind closed doors, as in grandmothers' day. Every woman who expects to be a good wife and mother should look into these many present day affairs. They owe 1t to their children. for children have been known to outgrow their mothers
 Mothers just have to be interested in everything, baseball, campfire girls, boy scouts and suffrage.
 young man remarked te a cefa- panioni You just ought ts know my mother. She's an up-to-date lady; didn't allow herself to get rusty when we were babies"
 This sounds better than "0h, don't ask mother! She's too busy to take interest in anything but pots and pans"
 Now don't it. Queen Bess?
 You understand me. don't you? We are not sure whether our boys and girls are going to be suffragists or anti -suffra gists, so we've got to look into this matter and find the good and bad points, haven't we?
 You know, you and I will never get so extremely enthusiastic over wom- ans rights that we'll leave our happy homes, our babies and husbands, to go hiking and smashing and slashing. and there are lots of mothers just like us. who can be interested enough to inn prove the home and not foolish enough to wreck it. How bout it?
 Maybe my daughter might take it into her head to so about espo1sing