The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-23
LAWYER, WIFE AND
MOTHER OF FIVE
ONE BROOKLYN WOMAN HAS
SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF
FILLING SEVERAL POSITIONS
WELL-LIFE is MORE coMPLI-
GATED.

New York Evening Post: Whether
professional women a marry with
success, whether married women can
profess" with success, whether 1t is
worse to do both badly or to do one
Well, and miss the other, whether the
w conflict or supplement each other,
and all those perpleXing things which
are much on the mind Of the public,
II which seem so burdensome in the
bulk, but which each woman seems to
settle quite calmly and naturally for
herself, come to ones mind when one
meets Mrs. Flora Groden, lawyer, wife
and also mother Of five children,
housekeeper and charitable worker. AS
NJ one woman car answer all these
questions for all other women,
Mrs. Groden does may not be Of gem
eral interest; but she can speak for
at least one woman that a married
woman can be a professional woman
and dc both things we'll. and that the
W things supplement each other In a
very satisfactory way.
Mrs. Groden has not made conscious
choice between two courses at n
time of her life; she has simply done
the next thing. And doing the next
thing Is a logical means Of progress.
The first thing she did was TO marry
while she was very young. Now she
has grown-up sons and daughters,
and she Is still a young woman II
am doing now what I probably should
have done between school and mar
riage," she says "if | had not mar
ried four months after l was gradu-
ated from high school,"
Mrs. Groden is a Brooklyn
and a. graduate Of the Brooklyn Girls
high school, in which she is much in
terested. and from which iler two
daughters have been graduated.
Being a Mother Takes Time.
while @ mothers children are
growing up it undoubtedly takes all
her time just to be a mother" she
says. AT least, there is no time for a
profession, although every woman has
free hours which she can devote
either to society with q big letter or a
little one. l cared for the little one.
and did as much charity work as l
had time for. But q woman's home
and children are her first and biggest
interest. My home has always been
first with me and still is-it is only
since my children do not need all my
time that ! have been able to take
up law"
AS she says, even in the years when
she was at home. Mrs. Groden found
time for charity work, and she is con-
tinulng his in whatever time she has
left for it. The work in which she
had the largest share is the Brooklyn
Hebrew Home for the Aged. She
founded the society, and was it's presi-
dent for the first four years of it's exist
ence from 1907 to 1911. A new $75,-
600 building for the home has just
been finished n Mrs. Groden hopes
that 1t can be opened on the seventh
birthday Of the society, February 3.
1t was after her resignation from
this presidency that Mrs. Groden be-
gan to study law. She entered the
law school in New York university in
October, 1910, took her LIB. in 1912,
took her examinations last October,
and was admitted to the bar in No
Vember.
Life Moro Complicated Now.
Life Is more complicated for girls
now than 1t was when I married."
says Mrs. Groden. Then there was
no cho1ce--the thing to do was to
marry. Now so many things come to
girls to be thought out and decided
and gone into and chosen between
that were not thought Of then. If I
had been brought up now instead Of
then J. don't know what I should
have done. AS it has been, it has all
been made simple for me-" And prob
fSoAy CNSAS "N4ldus Wrought up now |
pr then. after She has once taken
some definite course, feels the same
way.
. As to Suffrage.
Mrs. Groden says about her suffrage
attitude:
Il am in sympathy with equal suf-
Ifrage, Of course, but I have never
been active in working for it. I have
been too busy doing other things to +!
work for suffrage, too. but 1 am not
sure that L should have worked for it,
anyway, for I am not sure that my
have been strong enough
to make me work for anything which
I did not personally need. I have al
ways been so we'll protected that
have not been forced to think about |
.pettinrr the Nnta for muSalf MI hue