The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-07-09

elal advance WIS the habit of reg
ular work, is one of the first clear
thoughts seen in the interesting new
book ON "Woman' IS Share in Social Cul-
tnre," written by Anna Spencer Gar
LIN Man fished and hunted and made
war which developed in him many
traits which later made for the ad.
yancement of the race, but women
saved and started the race by her
steady employment in behalf of heI
family. Her second service was in in
dneting man into the ways of indus
trial progress, after having prepared all
the processes of peaceful labor.
Following this comes the almost un-
accountable time when she sank into
what was virtually, and often literally,
slavery; then here and there she began
to rise as the lady. The lady was, at
least in the beginning of her rise, a
creature of superior powers, or she
could not have raised herself above the
level of useful womanhood. The lady,
though supported by the labor of 9th
ers, yet performed certain service in
social culture, in that she refined the
manners of the world and taught gen.
tleness In social intercourse.
Women have never been in the first
rank of geniuses, though there are
many of secondary rank. Perhaps the
dearth Of first rank geniuses among
women may be partly accounted for by
their long exclusion from the higher
professions in which genius has usually
manifested itself. But if woman has
not often herself been great genius,
, she has usually made possible, by her
untiring service to the family, the ex-
preston of genius in man. The his
tory of the wives of great geniuses is
usually quite as interesting, and great
deal more pathetic, than that of their
llustrious husbands
The author calls the present age the
age of spinsters. 1t is true that up to
recent time only special classes Of wo-
men have felt free to live their own
lives regardless of marriage. The spin
ster first appeared in the nuns and alb
besses when the troubled age of socie-
ty made houses of refuge for unpro-
teeted women necessity, and in these
places Of shelter fol helpless women
and children the spinster nuns and abb
besses did great social service, just
as today in our great cities with their
eenters of poverty and crime, our spin
Bter sisters in the settlement houses and
slums do great work of educational
uplift and sympathy. These is also in
the commercial world, and increasingly
in the professional world, great body
of women which, because of their free
dom from home ties, are giving most eff
ficient service in their various lines
Of work. Many recent writers predict
that there will be henceforth a large
body of unmarried women, who, because
Of their greater leisure, and broader
opportunities for intellectual culture
and growth, will become superior class
intellectually, and that the women who
marry will be the inferior class. Our
author does not believe that state of
affairs so suicidal to the race will ever
come about, but rather that there will
be such an adjustment that all women
will have the opportunity of greater
self expression and larger growth.
But, after all, the great body of work
ing women are in the industrial world,
and hero is great need to better safe
guard the conditions of life for the fu-
ture mothers Of the race. The large
class Of girls who are taken very young
from the home, are losing the training
for future home keeping, whicH in the
old order they learned in domestic ser
vice. The laws should more carefully
otect all women under 81, both as to
conditions Of labor and wages, but
there is a difficulty ant need which
the law directly cannot touch. The diff
fieulty is that girls going young to
work in factories and shops, lose very
often the work sense; there is demor
alization of tho faculty of true service
To devise any method by which this
difficulty may be met is perhap the
hardest problem in the whole labor
world. That women of the poorer
classes should be better fitted by educa-