Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-10

and cOmmingle, the transcendenee OF
The union of man and woman as nu.
/ tual compliments. physical and spir.
Il itual, side by side with the perfect
independence of each, viii form the
very center of the educational life oi
which mother viii be the presiding
genius because of her physical rela.
4 ton TO the beings whom she has
sucked. In this home scheme the
father win have his own place OF
largest importance especially during
] adolescence but we are not thinking
tonight about men. The great major.
ify of women in the age TO come viii
be mothers. They will see clearly as
never before that the home absolute.
i ~ conditions society. that the saloon,
white slavery, unsociaI business, ire.
i ligion and. crime are all of them corol-
! laries Of the inefficient home. The
coming woman Will demand that she
/ be taught motherhood from the
cradle. Society owes her the train
\ ing thai shall equip her WiihI power
/ to create and maintain an ideal home
"But motherhood IN the family
I circle covers at best hut segment OF
4 a wonan's life and that segment IL
i not likely to prove so long in the fIl-
ture as in the past. Women viii not
be able TO marry early because the
educational period is being steadily
heightened, while the man of the fli-
ture, trained to conserve sexual en-,
1 ergy in order TO cease to be british
learnings to transform much of his
Reproductive power into socially pro-
euctive efficiency and using the re-
mainder to bless the world with child
rem worth being born, will guard his
partner from being drained OF larger
vitality by too continuous childbear-
ing This Is no brief for the small
family; the many childrened home is
the happiest, most democratic, OF
largest value to the individual child
and most potent socially. But eugenic
demand and not blind instinct will
play a growing part in the coming
family. The human life span is being
prolonged. The period Of largest
powers begins now at so with promise
Of greatest efficiency during the sue
ceeding quarter century. In the
mothers, sstheH. whose children have.
grown into independent life and in.
the army of the yet unmarried and
The childless the world will have
mighty reservoir 6f womanhcod fit
for highest uses. Where VIII this
force be applied
Again the conviction is strong
within me that this force of woman
hood in it's greatest volume will be-
directed along the channel of wo
mans essentially divine attribute OF
motherhood The social whole needs
motheFing as well as the family.
Chicago is finding that out and has
just equipped women. .as members Of
the police force, But that is a. mere
incident though one Of greatest i'm
portance. In all Of our social actiyi.
ties where human beings supervise
other human beings of both sexes,
the force that does the overseeing
must consist of both sexes. That is
an axiom for our century. A social
system that sets only men to direct
or control men and women Is vitality
at fault. Hence the present genera.
ton is bound to see women united
with men In all positions of social
supervision. OF course this will open
wide professional sphere for the
coming women.
Work Of Women Needed.
Into these positions she will carry
her MOTHERHOOD. They need it. The
notion of setting men to deal with
street walkers, men alone to cope
with the white slave trade, men to-
police dance halls, men to care for a
jail as our city fathers attempt to do
is effete and fit only for the scrap
heap of WORKOUT ideas. Honolulu
cries for woman Differed jail for
women offenders Anything less Is
an insult to womanhood and ciyifiza.
ton.
All this, however, deals with pro-
fessionalism, while the next genera
ton will have a great surplus of nom
professional woman-power ready yfor
the most efficient voluntary social
employ. Here, too, motherhood will
be the keynote of woman;s work. Men
have wrestled for ages with the sa-
loon, with crime, with commercialized
vice, with wage-slavefy, with the ex-
ploitation of children in industry, and
like colossal ills. Now women are
coming to this motherhood, to the fac
tors for solving these problems. Men
are too prone to settle great questions
impersonally and along the line of
logical principles. This masculine
tendency is a sine qua non but it
needs coHnteraeting feminine force.
For women, on the other hand, are in
tensely personal They are so be-,
cause they are essentially mothers.
Human motherhood is by it's very ma
ture personal. The frightening of the
period of infancy which made human
being eVolutionally possible demanded
a corresponding deepening of person
ality in the mother Now where we
men are apt to fail in dealing with
great human evils is in our machine
methods. Civilization itself has fore
ed mechanism upon US. Reforms oft
en- halt for this very reason. All our
schemes for social betterment need
personality and in especial the person
atty that characterizes Motherhood
Great forces are at work Iihpratiuo