Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-03
ROC|ETY GIRL IS
DECLARED AN
ORNAMENT
. Place for BIase in Worthwhile
Work of Suffrage, Declares
Mrs. EIsas.
MRS. BENJAMIN ELSAS.


want to explain, by way of in
lr,5u,rion. that what | have to say
as been induced by my observa-
op fs.t IL is most always the wo-
III .af lc.sure-she of few duties and
I,ary pleasures-who is the first to
rsver in the negative when ap-
reached as to equal suffrage.
And let me explain further, that
lben speak of the woman who
or,s it is with no idea of mini
l,.zpg the Importance of work done
the home. l believe there is no
better or more dignified work than
hat which good home-making i'm
Eags.
And / also believe that there is
IL more unwholesome influence than
he mad pursuit of pleasure that be-
Irnes such hard work as to crowd
ln all other kind.
Edward $. Martin, ii an article,
srtteu for The Atlantic Monthly,
|ayy "Feminists make the mistake of
linking Of man as the master of
komen. whereas the master of both
han and woman is necessity
A Moral Obligation.
This appeals TO me as very vital
ltatement
II is necessity that has made equal
Iuffrage a moral obligation, rather
ban p privilege to be determined by
h. Individual With modern inge-
buity minimizing the, one-time duties
II the housewife, we have developed
In army of women with nothing to
To- Relieved of these duties of
bouseWifery, there has been nothing
h their education or training to fit
hem with other work.
And SO we have the woman of lei
sure. And in this enforced leisure
he find the cause of the absurd ex-
|remes our pleasures take on. We get
Die keynote to the unrest that begets
N unreasonable and unreasoning de-
band to be diverted.
The influence of such example up
N women who must work is another
story We are concerned, for the
|me, with the woman who can work
Ind think, but won't, and must be
hade to do so. And 1t is equal suf-
lfage-With its equal responsibilities
|-that will replace our society duties
fith social duties, and be the means
II making us helpmates. instead OF
4Here playmates.
The Woman of morrow.
Let US consider the woman of to-
borrow, who is to grow out of our
Efforts of to-day. Her education is
provided with the thought that she
shall be specifically useful, rather
pan generally ornamental. The so
lety girl is as obsolete as the feu-
pal gentleman, and in her place we
pave the vocational woman, the So
pal thinker and worker. With some
lhing real to do, emotionalism gives
Place to the repose that comes with
/ ~ serious purposes. We have no
loung women waiting to fall in love,
| or-Worse still--waiting to marry in
lrder that material provision be made
|or her She is self sustaining and
pussy She has no need to marry to
p fed and clothed and housed, and
ler healthy, busy frame of mind pre-
gaes waiting for that something to
the emptiness of a purpOseless
Instead, love will come as some
ling real grown out of the necessity
/ two people for one another. And
Pc woman who has worked and
/. ought and voted before marriage,
PringS into her home a practical
lehse of values that could have
Peen acquired in no other way. She
as learned to conduct her affairs in
pusnessiike way, TO live on TWEEN
Velour hours a day." to use her hab-
/ OF concentration to meet all her
Eomans duties-be they in or out of
IeF own home-with an ability and
precision that disposes of them to the
PaVantase of all concerned.
A Real Woman.
she isn't keyed to constant ex-
Iectatlon Of pleasure Her clothes
Ire means of comfort and adorn-
lnehI' not an end to which the means
Tre often reprehensible.
,ohe hasn't destroyed her sense of
Ies proportions by having known
Puly one side of it.
pho q SUM q . y 'e'
wants world with homes for all
the race,
for every babe that's born a happy
place,
ana equal opportunity to be
All that BELTS a high humanity"