Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-10
TWENTIETHCENIURY WOMAN TOBE
GONsUNNAIE MOTHER sCUDDER
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the God-spirit anC man-spirit meet
and commingle. the transcendence CT
the union of man and woman as nu-
tual compliments, physical and spir.
itHal. side by side with the perfect
independence of each, viii form the
very center of the educational life of
which mother will be the presidine
/ genius because of her physical reia-
ton to the beings whom she has
sucked. In this home scheme the
| father will have his own place of
largest Importance especially during
adolescence but we are not thinking
tonight about men. The great major
| ity of women in the age to come will
| be mothers. They will see clearly as
] never before that the home absolute
/ ly conditions society, that the saloon,
white slaYery, unsociel business, ire.
! ligion and crime are all Of them coroi-
laries of the Inefficient home. s The
coming woman will demand that she
/ be taught motherhood from the
i cradle. Society owes her the train
ing that shall equip her with power
to create and maintain an ideal home.
/ Bat motherhood in the family
CIRCLE covers at best bur segment Of
a woman's lite and that segment is
not likely to prove so long in the fu-
ture as in the past, Women will not
be able to marry early because the
educational period is being steadily
heightened, while the man Of the fu4
i ture, trained to conserve sexual ens
ergy in order to cease to be british
learning to transform much of his
reproductive power into socially pro-
Guctive efficiency and using the re.
mainder to bless the world with child
ren worth being born, will guard his
partner from being drained of larger
vitality by too continuous childbear.
ling. 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 viii
play growing part IN the coming
family. The human life span is being
prolonged The period of largest
/ powers begins now at 50 with promise
of greatest efficiency during the sue
ceeding quarter csntury. In tho
mothers, then, whose children have
grown into independent life and in
the army of the yet unmarried and
the childless the world win have n
mighty reserveir5iof Womanhood fit
for highest uses Where will this
force be applied?
again the conviction Is strong
within me that this force of woman.
hood in its greatest volume will be
directed along the channel of wo-
mans essentially divine attribute OF
motherhood The social whole needs
| mothering as well as. the family.
| Chicago is finding that out and has
just equipped women as members Of
! the police forcegs But that is a mere
| incident though one of greatest i'm.
eortance. In all OF our social aetivl5
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. Al social
system that sets only men to direct
Tor control men and women is vitality
at fault. Hence 1.-THE present genera
tion is bound to see women united
with men In all positions of social
supervision OF course this will open
a wide professional sphere for the
coming women.
| Work of Women Needed.
i Unto these positions she will carry
her motherhood. They need 1t. The
notion of setting men to deal with
street walkers, men alone to cope
4 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
i heap of worn-oat ideas Honolulu
cries for woman differed Jail for
w0men offenders Anything less Is
an insult TO womanhood and civiliza-
ton. =.
All this, however, deals with pro-
4 fessionalism, while the next genera
ton will have great surplus of non
zI professional woman-power ready for
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-slavery, with the ex-
lploitation of children in industry, and
like colossal ills Now women are
looming 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 sine qua non but il
needs counteracting 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 its very ma
ture personal. The lengthening of the
n period of infancy which made human
being evolutionally possible demanded
a corresponding deepening of person
tality in the mother Now where We
J men are apt to fail in dealing with
Igreat 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
Iality that characteriZpS motherhood