Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-05

! Congressman Stanley E. Bowdle, OF
Cincinnati, who defeated Nicholas
Longworth, ex-President Roosevelt )
son-in-law, for congress, has been
expressing himself on the woman ques-
ton to this tune:
Il am the apostle of the old man.
mere man, tyrannical man OF the OLD
man who brings home the rent, who
eats out of kettle at noon, and fills
it with kindling wood to carry home at
night. OF the man who wrestles with
the payment of the insurance and
struggles with the first, second or chat
tel mortgage Of the old duffer who
created a condition of refuge where
woman and her private fortune are
immune even from its creditors who
have furnished her with the food she
eats and the Paris clothes she wears.
"Oh, yes, the home is great, and
women are great, and our homes wer,.
greater in former days-the days Of
our mothers when there was on claim
or for the ballot. The home today is
not so great as it was in former days.
The deplorable state of our homes is
the doieful, sociological fact of the
feverish question of the hour, the craze
for suffrage"
The apostle for the old man seems
to be also the apostle of the dodo, fo-
the man who eats out of his bucket az
noon, and brings it home full of kind
ling, is about as extinct as the mythol-
ogical bird.
Also it may be remarked in passing.
that the halcyon state of affairs, from
feminine standpoint, where mel
created a condition of refuge where A
woman and her private fortune were
immune from even the creditors who
had furnished her with food and Paris
Clothes" and exc from her husband
does not exist, as every woman will
testify who has little money of her
own.
The one interesting thing, however.
in Congressman Bowdle's diatribe on
women is his assertion that our homes
were greater in former days, the days
of our mothers, and that the deplorablo
state of the home at present is the
result of the craze for suffrage.
The answer to this assertion is that
there's nothing the matter with the
home of today, nor the mothers of to-
day The people, who talk about how
superior things were in the times of
our grandparents, belong to the has
been class who are forever telling US
how much better the tallow candles
and thes tage coach were than electrict
lights and the automobile are.
Our grandmothers and our mothers
were good women and good mothers.
and did the best they could for their
homes and children, according to the
lights they had, but they didn't know
the first thing about housekeeping, nor
collaborating, according to modern
standards. Nor did they put in a 1.-THE
of the thought or intelligence on the
proposition of making a home or bring
ing up their children that their grand
daughters do.
We are forever hearing about how
the women of the past devoted them
selves to their children, and how the
women of today neglect theirs. But
did you ever go to some old country
churchyard and look at the lines Of
little graves in every family plot? You
Ytll see four-fve-six, sometimes
more of these heartbreaking little
mounds, showing how the babies died
| through their mothers lack of care of
them. You will not see anything like
that in modern cemetery, and the
reason for it is the unceasing care, the
sterilization of the milk the work and
fatchfulness that the mother of TODAY
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