The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-30

who have not. andttha sphft Of HE as
ISOLATION is n of general helpfulness
which is expressed in its motto, Lift
ing as we climb"
J Most of the problems which con-
| front the white wife and mother come
also to her colored sister. The diff
cultfes of the latter are largely in
creased by the barriers of race. The
colored women are just as anxious to
educate their children and to have a
high standard of living as the white
| m The number Of uneducated
women who will toll over a wash tub
all day long in order to keep Their
children in school demonstrates this.
But their ambitions are gained only by
a constant struggle such as the white
woman has never even imagined.
The association includes twenty diff
ferent departments of work, each of
which is under the direction of a wom-
an who is a specialist in that SUBJ
ject. Social science, literature, domes-
tic science, art, woman suffrage, res
cue work, juvenile court, forestry, chill
dren and health are the things most
emphasized. Domestic science receives
especial attention because the pro-
gressive. colored woman recognizes
that in the effort to secure higher ed
ucation the colored girls of the past
generation, like the white, have devel-
oped a tendency to despise the work
of home making. The pendulum is
swinging backward now and the edu-
Gated colored girl knows that there is
no work more worthy of respect than
that which enables her to administer
TO he needs of a home. Special classes
in domestic science are being MAIN
tanned by the colored women's clubs
in every city, which will give i%nstruc-
ton in every form of household work
so that the woman who has had little
opportunity may learn to do as much for
the comfort and health of her family
as the one who has had better educa-
ton.
The work of the colored Parents and
Teachers associations is an important
branch of the social work taken up by
the clubs in the association, and the
more fortunate colored woman is ca
gerly working to help her less favored
sister through the medium OF the
school which is attended by the chill
dren of both. Colored women are in
vi olV IL Se1uI llS hlI~lueTSdEJenS Tor
their children and in securing for them
a proper amount of playground space.
The matter of children's play has also
received their attention, and at the
last biennial convention a detailed
discussion of the play games of child-
hood was led by Mrs. G. w. Cook of
Howard University. The value of the
dance as a physical exercise is also
being advocated by Mrs. Butler Wilson
of Boston, who has for several years
been working to secure interest in the
folk lance of different nations as a
substitute for the forms of dancing
which have been condemned by the
clergy.
The educated colored woman has no
aspirations regarding the social equal
1ty OF the races as has frequently been
charged. She has no desire to marry a
white man and she is strongest in her
condemnation of the cOlored man who
marrles a white woman. What she
does desire, n what from her stand
point is most %unjustly denied her in
most parts of this country, is an op-
portun1ty to secure any added culture
or intellectual development which she
is fitted for without discrimination on
account of her race. If,she has a tai
ent and taste for classic drama, and
the means to cultivate it, she feels that
she should be able to attend a theater
and secure a comfortable seat in which
to study a play n not be forced into
an undesirable section Of the gallery
as If she We're a pariah who would
contaminate those about her. She
would like to take her place in con-
ferences where Observation-Disclosures the
social order of the public are dis
cussed, without being segregated from
other social workers. 1t is not unusual
for committees on social order to send
invitations to colored workers to at
tend conferences and then, after they
nave accepted the invitation, humiliate
them by asking them to sit apart from
the invited guests.
n colored population of his coun-
try nave records of generations of pa
trlotlc loyalty. There were negro SOL
dlers in the revolutionary war who
fought bravely at the battle of Bran
DIVINE and took part in other a
ments. In every wal in which the
american nation has been engaged.
negroes have fought bravely and there
are few, if any, records of colored
traitors.
The colored women are loyal in their
reverence for those of their race VIII
nave accomplished work for some
worthy cause. Their records OF those
who at sacrifice to themselves have
helped others to rise is a long one. Few
VIII be longer remembered than Har-
rlet Tuhman Davis. who died last
month in the Home for Aged Negroes
which she had founded in New York.
Harriet was called The Moses or the
negroes because having run away
herself from the brutality Of an over
seer she made no less than nineteen
Trips back to the south to lead other
negroes into freedom. A price of
$4,000 was finally put upon her head.
but this did not deter her, and her ma
tive cunning enabled her to lead large
parties of slaves to freedom. Durins
the civil wal she was a faithful army
nurse and also performed valua Bile
services as a spy and scout, so that
she was honored by the highest Off
GERS of the Union army. Elizabeth
Wright. Mrs. e. c. Bethuna and Inc,
/ ana ~, nth,r ra,,,