New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19

IRE following consists Of a group OF opinions
=, ,all known women There is still much
20 ~ said on this subject. VIII you not write
,onr ideas 20 the Editor of the Women's
Io-uro New York Tribune. 154 Nassau street,
Mrs. Laura A. Bachelor. president of
national bank I'm North Dakota, was in
attendance al the convention of the
American Bankers Association in Boston
a week or so ago. and these are some of
the things she told a reporter:
THE best wife. the most contented
housekeeper and the dearest mother in
the world is the woman who has at some
time had business experience of some
sort
Home life. so called, isn't enough TO
al the modern woman's life, any more
than il would be to fill a mans life. Look
about you and make a mental inspection
Of the women you know. How many mar
RED women I'll their time with children
snd housework-I mean those who have
10 other occupation?
"Now-just from a common sense view
point-why wouldn't II be better for her
10 use up that excess energy in work
which would develop her mentality and
also add TO the family income?
''Housework-even homemaking as a
sole and perpetual thing-is the most mar
rowing life a woman can have. II she has
other work TO broaden and develop her
mind and character she is better house
mother and a better hostess. If you de-
yelop women's mentality you're going to
have women reacting on every situation
With which they come in contact in
bigger. finer way. They will even dust
better, sweep better and wash the dishes
cleaner. You're never going 10 have great
women TO become the mothers OF great
sons while ypu keep them cooped up III
the pantry or the boudoir. At the present
ratio we have one great man in 10000 or
more. With the potential mothers Of the
world given an opportunity to grow IN
every direction we'll some time have one
great man in ten, TO say nothing Of the
great women
What kind Of woman makes the best
wife and mother?
Mrs John Martin, anti-suffragist.
writer OF books. maker OF bon mots, ana
incidentally. the mother Of two curly
haired little adopted boys. believes that
as the shoemaker should stick to his last
so the wife and mother should stick 70
her job. and her job. Mrs. Martin SAYS
is inside her home.
MRS. MARTIN MAKES EPlGRAMS.
The woman who tries to do mans
work" Mrs Martin said yesterday
cant be the best wife and mother.
Making laws is mans work. Going out
into the world is mans work. Woman
true work is the four walls Of her house
If the mothers Of the world turn out
half-baked citizens of course the laws
aren't going 20 be we'll made, but the
way 10 remedy conditions is not for these
mothers to 90 into politics and try 10
mend the laws their half-baked Sons
make They should begin at the bottom
Of things and turn out better voters.
That is the kind of wives and mothers
this country needs
MRS. EMO FOR PRACTICAL GIRL.
But Mrs. Alfred j.. Emo. OF Queens WI
age, Long Island, a hard worker TOT
Suffrage, is also the mother OF Itt'e
adopted boy, and she believes 1t impos-
sIbe for a woman TO be a really good
wife and mother, unless she is interest
ed In outside things.
The sensible, practical girl makes the
best wife and mother" said Mrs. Emo
And how can a practical girl, when she
marries and has children, help being con-
eerned about the schools. about the
drainage about the hundred and one out
side things that affect her child and the
children Of other mothers and the chill
ofen who have no mothers. Why, she Is
no true mother if she doesn't ache 10
make conditions better-and that needn't
make her oblivious of the little intimate
home duties There is time for both'
BUSINESS WOMAN HAS CHAMPION
The best wife and mother" said MISS
Chrlsue Macdonald. the pretty actress
VINO Is playing in "Sweethearts the
pest wife and mother is the business
woman, or, at least. she who has been
BUSINESS woman. Because then she can
|hpathize with her husband when ne