Connecticut western news., 1914-07-30
More Associations Needed.

since then. This is a world of change anyhow. Let us name few of the most needed associations. The Munici- pal Home Maker and Dietitian Associa- ton should follow, as, to quote: "The friendly visitor from the associated charities or the visiting nurse need and can use domestic science and home making to great advantage" Let us then organize a Lever Bill association i'll Canaan, which, as everybody knows, is a recent bill that proposes to deal with domestic science and the home on large scale (not too large for Canaan however, and will need no home workers but a large number of church and social workers and large number also of lecturers and demonstrators.
 The Lever Bill association of Canaan It sounds fine. Some one has said that the Lever Bill is human movement in that it recognizes the need of the science and principles of home making. Now right here we are going to indulge in little straight talk against which no Canaan man or woman need take offense, since the writer herself and the world of womanhood is meant; in short we are indulging in broad generalities. What the world needs more than any thing else is not visiting nurses, social uplifters, society leaders, lecturers and demonstrators and women who long for publicity and the things that will bring them into the spot light, but women who can stay at home more than they do and mind their own business-that of their own home making. The child less woman who gads about vexing her self over the problem of mothers, had better stay at home part of the time and have a problem or two of her own. No matter how rich a woman is, single or married, nor how much leisure she claims to have, it is not necessary for every third woman in the world, to think that she is needed to moral or social uplift her neighbors or her town. The well-to-do or wealthy married women, (nine-tenths of them,) cannot do the work at home because not strong enough but they can strive, push, scramble for this and that and God knows what else. in the social world, and then you will hear them constantly complaining of being ''so tired, so busy" having no time to do what they must, where if they stayed at home and did their own washing, ironing, mending and cooking, the world and the family and the woman herself would be much better off. The world needs just about fraction of third of the women who want to escape the house work, and shirk 1t, ton every pretense but the right one,) and who salve their con- science for so doing by explaining to those who never believe them that they are needed outside the home-because of their imagined superiority gifts and talents, and abilities-to show other women how to take care of babies, bring up children, manage husband and a home etcetera, etcetera. The plain truth is this that any woman is as strong as an OK who can play golf and tennis and can stand the self imposed work of the social gadder. That is the right name for more than half the women of today who are posing as social uplifters, moral welfare workers, and the Lord knows what else. Let us organize thesC Canaan Woman's Washtub Association and the Darning Basket Club and the Do- Your Ow h. Work Club and the Uplift- Your Ownself Associa- tion, and the Get-Busy- With Your Own Home Work Club which last we think, would be the most needed of all.
 So few, oh so very few of us women are the chosen of God or nature to run the world or even the town we live ill. Not one woman in ten thousand is uncommon or extraordinary Ever think of this? and yet how many of us but would resent being called common place and ordinary, yet that is just what we are, the richest, the most exclusive as well as the poorest and millions of us, just meant to be what we are: ordinary women ;now two-thirds of the unrest, the unhappiness, the ever wearying, stultifying strivings after the thousands and one thing that don't count in the end is because so many women are unwilling to be what they are, and are determined to be what they are not The world was never so much in need of the Home Maker as now, but it doesn't need the woman who never stays in her own home, to come and tell others how, nor do we need single, or childless married women to come into the mothers home and tell her how to run her children. So don't let us have a mothers club, with some childless idle society women at its head, who, to pass away the time, thinks she can tell women how to become good mothers. The females of the animal kingdom know enough to take care of their young. Bugs and hop. .toads are likewise endowed with maternal fore thought. It is safe to assume that God gave the human mothers as much sense as he gave geese, and the four-footed tribe. Just a little bit more. The writer of this article is not specific in intention or thought, as before stated. No one need feel hit. or hurt, for the writer herself is as much hit as anyone
 She has the courage to say this and to de- clare that the happinst time of bar life