The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-09-17
THE MODERN WOMAN'S
ENLARGED SPHERE
Having an Enlarged Vision She Is a
More Intelligent Companion, Bet
ter Wife and a Truer Mother.

above sentence hurled at her in supreme
contempt when seeking to regulate
wrong things outside her home, which
directly affected her family with Ter
home.
Twenty-Five years ago, # the first hi
ennial convention of the woman's clubs,
a delegate arose and proposed a plank
in the federation platform endorsing
equal suffrage. She stood absolutely
alone. Not single woman supported
her. This dangerously aggressive ~
woman was gently but firmly suppressed
and the women decided mot to NEEDLE
with politics." AT their recent convcn-
ton the federation adopted equal sui
frage, for they have learned through ey.
perience that in furthering their many
lines of work they have bumped into pol
itics all along the line. They have seen
| that political influences control, more or
less. every individual, also that individ-
ual's home and property. They have
learned that political power has sup.
pressed facts which should have been
made public. They have learned that
political power has kept men in Office
who were known to defeat the ends OF
Justice: that political power in the legia.
lature has defeated bills intended to put
down those who were corrupting the
people and the nation for a price.
The great organized bodies of women
are to-day making their influence felt,
and editors are more glad than ever be-
fore to flash across the continent their
doings as news"
Some very interesting articles by Mrs
Mabel Potter Daggett are appearing in
various magazines which Vermontcrs
should ponder and perhaps apply. Many
statements in this article are quoted
from her writings.
Our men-housekeepers have very gem
orally ordered cleanup day or week
once a year. This is well, but it is not
often enough to suit the women. Men
do not always understand when dirt is
dirt hence need to be taught by house
wives. who are experts in the matter
of cleanliness, having had more or less
training and experience together with
inherited domestic sense
Women in the suffrage and other en-
lightened states are to-day demanding
women municipal housekeepers and food
inspectors in order that they may know
more of the food furnished them, under
what conditions prepared, and if they are
getting what they pay for, and II not
why not.
Here is a fair sample of the way woni-
en- clean up town; The inspector on
her first trip often takes committee
of influential women with her to see
things as they are: and later she again
takes them with her TO note the inn
'provements The Inspector visits hotels,
bakeries, restaurants and other eating
places, markets, stores, shops, creameries
and factories. Here are some of the
things she has found: Employees hand
ling food products while wearing soiled
clothing. She has found dirty floors,
walls. refrigerators. coolers, back rooms,
cellars and back yards, some OF which
might better be termed vile, and disease
inviting. She has found that fines fire.
quently get ground up in sausage and
hamburg steak; that quarts of flies daily
go swimming in creamery tanks, that
rats and cats frequent grocery stores,
that help working in bakeries often al
low preparation to drip into food which
they are preparing, and that some men
actually smoke pipes as they work,
squirting tobacco juice anywhere and |
everywhere, as is found most convenient. |
She has found sidewalks actually run
ming with liquid filth which has been
expeetorated by street loungers. When
this dries, the wind takes it up and dis
Al i A.
otherwise clean and sanitary. Women |
inspectors have found some cooks actual |
ly working from IL to IA hours a day |
for seven days in week. As the best |
qualified people cannot be found Who |
will do such inhuman drudgery, any kind |
Of help is accepted. The inspectors, TO |
their surprise. have learned that many |
of these workers were suffering from |
scrofulous and venereal diseases and |
some who were affected with tuberchlo
sis were handling food products in ho-
tells, eating houses. factories. stores and
shops. Inspectors have learned that rot
ten eggs, wormy raisins. buggy, wcbbv
nuts were going into cakes, and that
semi-rotten foods were sprinkled with
injurious preservatives. that food prod
ucts have been colored with poisonous
dyes, that housewives were getting shot
weight, short measure, and short pack
age foods, and that stomach troubles are
and these women inspectors
have declared to the world that Il is
quite time more women came to the aid
Of men who have been struggling with
housekeeping problems which
we're quite beyond them, and which have
been entirely out of "their sphere"
Some men have charged women insnec-
Tors with being "gossipy and sensation
Al" in their methods, and they say you
cannot fix things up with woman by
her a drink, cigar or even a.
box Of chocolates"
The women see everything from one
viewpoint namely. their home and their
family; they realize only too well that
1irty and improper food is liable 70
mean sickness. expensive medical at
tendance and perhaps death.
Sometimes proprietors have refused to
lean up. The woman Inspector then
.akes along a reporter on her round, and
,he points out the dirt and filth. The
reporter sends TO the morning paper a
most interesting and perhaps humiliating
account Of the existing conditions. which
he whole community may read. 'ine
Of this kind is usually
TO cure the worst offenders.
svery place Of business inspected is CIV
N a definite per cent rating; they are
PATCHED and Epu4 rleau. how clean Euv