Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-02-22
MISS NELSON TALKED ON !.
SUFFRAGE IN CONVENTION

interests as against outside air" He
| says women must keep out OF the
class OF problem creators; but that
at cannot be done by mere general
intelligence, by devotion to home or
|, by contemplation of the paradise that
lies at the feet Of the mother 1t re-
quires information about other peo-
pies work and needs"
William Hart in Women. OF Tomor-
row says, "lf a woman Is going to
prepare her son for a knowledge Of
the real world, If she is going to be
able to give him a training which has
in it an understanding and an appre-
citation Of the real world, if she Is 60
ing to We able to educate him into real
living, she must, nowadays and in.
creasingly in the future, have some
experience of her own, on her W &C
count, in the real world" 3
Prof. Max Eastman Of Columbia
college says: Keep your mothers
in a state of morbid remoteness from
genuine life and who Is to arm the
yiung man with wise yirtue?"
If we look back 100 years, or even
less, things were all very different.
The colonial home was a part of the
working world, all sorts OF activities
were within. There vas found the
rudimentary forms Of modern indus
try. The manufacturing of cloth from
wool t. the finished product, the pick
ling and preserving Of all sorts Of
fruits, vegetables and meats; soap
making, candle making and scores OF
other things. They were necessary
home duties. Marriages were early,
for a man could not set up an estab-
lishment without the help Of a bride,
who brought her economic value with
her. Men did not marry from any
sense Of duty to the commonwealth.
but from necessity. And they were
often much married.
The first class to graduate from
Harvard university numbered II, |
died early, 10 married, leaving a total
Of IS wives, to whom we're born II
children, 81 or almost %one-third died
in infancy. Hart asys the modern
man does not carry so many children
to the christening font, neither does
he carry so many to the cemetery.
There was early death Of wives as
well as of children and their epitaph
read: Died at "a, left children; died
at 10. left 3 children; died at %, left
l. children. G. STANLEY Hall says:
"Thc problem Of suporfluoIs women
did not count in those days. They
were all needed to bring up another
woman's children. Times have chang
ed. Today thousands OF factories do
the work OF those early homes. Oliver
Schremer In his women and Labor
writes Our spinning wheels are all
broken. Ourd hoes and our grin
stones passed from US long ago. Day.
by day machine.prepared and factory
provided viands take a larger and
larger place in the dietary Of rich and
poor. Even the minor domestic oper-
ations are tending to pass out of the
circle of women's labor" The book
tells the pathetic story Of the attitude
OF many an old mother Of the race who
have survived here and there, who
cries, 81 always cured my own hams.
knitted my W soX and made up all
the linen by hand. We always did 1t
"hSIi WV 'NShS 6hiC, u III" NNu6"
tcrs object. They say it is too expcns.
iv 1t is so much cheaper to buy
things ready made"
Not only the Industrial work has
gone from the home, but the care Of
the children had largely passed from
the mothers hands. The kindergart-
Ell, the public school, the college and
the university shape the career Of
childhood and youth. School ply.
%sicians, nurses and physical directors
look after their health, and the play
superintendent %supervises their play
time; the mother cannot keep the
children out of school when she
wishes. There is a compulsory attend.
ance law, She cannot put them into
industry and regulate their hours Of
labor; this is controlled by law. She
cannot altogether control what they
eat for there are pure food and san.
itary laws. In fact law regulates the
furnishing Of gas, water, lights, fire
escapes. They regulate Cor in many
cases fail toy the gambling places, the
saloon and the social evil. In times
past these things were under parental
control, but now they are the affairs
OF the state and if women have no
vote they have no way to protect their
homes and children in these very vita
matters. 1t is nc longer a question of
whether women want the ballot or
not. 1t IS her duty to take it that she
may defend her husband, her home,
her children. against the ten thousand
lurking foes in the way of sickness,
diesase, contaminated food, death
traps, ETC.; and it is mans duty as
the cerator Of the state to see that she
has this opportunity put into her
bands to be used in defense Of her
home, as Zueblin atirms, "She must
learn housekeeping with new nipple.
ments, and new opportunities. She
must learn to do municipal %housekeep.
ing. It is an old saying that the state
is only the home writ large" When
Hard says, Home economics is tho
study Of right living. No one can
study sanitation, fresh air pure food
and adequate housekeeping. the care
of children. the protection of the fam
lily from disease, the maintenance Of
a proper environment and regulation
of health and efficiency, without in.
stantly %preceiving the clossness of the
Relationship between the life Of the in
dividual and the life of the conmun-
itv." Hence it seems evident that all