Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-04
JERSEY WOMAN ON
HIGH LIVING COST
Mrs. PattisOn, at Economic Sci
ence Conference, Speaks of
standardized Homes"
PROF. PATTON SAYS DRESS
MARKS WOMAN'S UPLIFT
Says Gentle Sex Has Ceased to
Be Sensory and Become
Motor.


gists, investigators and others who
have studied the wants of human
beings began two days discussion
today on "the cost of living" at the
annual meeting of the American
Academy of Political and Social
Science.
The discussion has been divided into
six parts, Family Standards, .
Public Control, THE Living Wage,
Waste and Extravaganza, THE
Minimum Wage" and How Can the
Cost of Living Be Reduced?"
At the opening session Prof Simon
N. Patten, of the University of Penn
sylvania, spoke on the "Standardiza-
ton of Family Life" and Mrs. Frank
A. Pattison, of Colonia, N. j., made
an address on standardized Homes"
The strange new fashions in
women's clothes and the constant rise
in the price of millinery were ex-
planned on scientific basis by Prof.
Patton He said in part:
I'm the early history of America
the dress, the habits, the morality.
the relations between men and
women could be predicted with GER
tainty. This uniformity has been
broken up by recent industrial
changes, through which the working
population has been transferred from
the farm to shops and factories. City
life makes new demands and eXcites
new wants.
when old types of social control
break down an epoch of confusion
ensues; but human nature, or, better
said, social nature, at length asserts
itself. A new uniformity arises,
which is expressed in standards that
impose themselves on men through
the advantage routine gives.
Women think of each not in terms
of their housekeeping virtues, but in
those of dress and manners. Indus
trial occupations give to women an
opportunity for skill and efficiency
which is denied them ia the interior
of a two-story house Dress, amuse-
ment and street activity create the
! forces that hold together the families
| thus enyironed.
"a new woman is appearing, who
differs in many ways from her prede-
cessor. She is stronger, more healthy
more ambitious, and with moral
| qualities that match the new Vigor
Her predecessor was sensory in de-
velopment, who thought of her
clothes as an ornament, and not as a
tool through which the ends OF
womanhood are reached.
Food, housing and clothing are
simplified, as the joy of doing dis
places the pleasure of seeing. An evo-
lution is thus encouraged, which, III
the end, will motorize conduct far
more completely than present facts
| indicate. a
1--WE have just begun the ehange>
that are to transform woman from
sensory to a motor basis. The seem
| ing dissolution of family ties is due te
this transition and not to the fac
that family life or the relation of the
sexes will be less standardized thar
they were in the past. Volition vii
displace coercion, the motor Will dom
mate the sensory, an enthusiasm fol
| social ends will replace the moral re-
strictions that bind us in the past"
A thorough investigation into the
causes of the high cost of living has
been undertaken by the delegates tt
the convention, and the opening SEES
sion was attended by learned mer
from all parts of the United States
sanctioned by the governors of States
Prominent among the States so repre-
scented were New York, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey.
Porter r. Lee, of the School or PM.
anthropy, New York, presided, anc
addresses were delivered today also
by Professor Russell FL. Chittenden
LID, director of the Sheffield Scien'
tific School, Yale University; Mrs. Ell
mer Plack, member of the advisory
board of the New York terminal mar
ket. and Mary E. Pennington, Phi. d.
chief of the food research laboratory
| Philadelphia.