Arizona republican., 1914-04-26
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neighbor woman. Elf it hednt been l fer her wise counsel and lovin' words, I might a-been one O those l poor misguided girls who didn't go i to no Crittenton Home cause there
 want none then. There aint nothin' new in the Sex Problem, my friends I it's. been agitatin' human bein's ever sence the devil swished off apples in /! Eden with that fOrked tail O hisn jest fore he slipped into the snake skin:
 , Thank the Lord, there's still a few wimmin that hev time to harll to the thoughts that girls are too
 bashful or too scared to talk to their
 maws about. l got one right in my own neighborhood; she aint very
 "brainy," she don't or can't or won't play cards, an she ain't got much i time to help steer the ship O state, but she's savin' other wimmin heart
 aches sign postn' the narrow way
 the day when we'll hey a Juvenile
 Court.
 Now don't think I'm belittlin the New Woman or the New Ways, cause 1 ain't. Blessin's, sez I, on the wimmin that he'd sence enuff to
 get the water piped into their kitchen sinks and done away with the his- toric bucket of oak and the pine
 pump handle. And more blessin's on the still newer woman who's learned to hev her sinks and work tables 1 built to fit her height, sames a car ! penter hez his bench, and. who in
 sists on hevin' good tools to work
 with Right there where's she's out
 distanced the Old Fashioned Woman,
 who were her forebears and who
 wuz allus savin' to help paw-savin' everythin but theirselves-paw's s
 wife
 i The Old Time Woman he'd sym
 pathy--the New Womans what Son
 Tom calls "a good pal" I dunno
 but the latter's the stronger word.
 Seems as if it sort of embodied the
 idear O gettin an pullin' part O the load, enterin' into a mans play
 as well as sympathiZin with his | troubles, gittin' his pipe and settin'
 his carpet slippers out by the stove. 1 Every woman knows, ef she's a good helpmeet, whether she's O the
 old or the new variety, that she hes
 to act as goad eff her husband belongs to the gab and whittle club
 furnish a convenient post eff he's a leaner; puff his self esteem eff he's
 toO timid. or tone him down with
 mild sarcasm ef he's inclined to hey
 the big head. but it seems to me
 the modern wOman's sort O edged
 into the family council and made it
 more of a mine and thine affair
 than it used to be. Her mother he'd
 to learn to be a good listener when
 her paw asked(0 fer advice. He jest wanted somebody to think out loud to, sos to get his idears straight
 in his own head. Elf he went round talkin' to himself, folks would think he was crazy, so the Old Time Woman learned to look sympathetic
 long bout nine o'clock at night an
 still keep it in mind to set tho
 buckwheat batter and plan a new
 dress for the baby out O the bacl O little Sallys best one that shs spilled the ink on.
 Course wimmin fail their Tiff, companions sometimes and don't fur. nish the post, or the cheerin' up, ol the sympathy jest when they should because they're so close to the need: of their Obediars all the time tha they git near sighted or cross eyed or somethin', and cant see 'em, bu when it comes to other folkses troubles. we git perspective, an e we jest run in now an then witt our kitchen aprons and sun bonnit on, sos they won't feel so dreadful, on their good behavior as they d. when we make party calls. we migh surprise some O their real emotions and mebbe we'd be able to offer Zen helpin' hand now and then, O show a bridge over the river ( diversity that they can't see. The Lord bless the newest O tn New Wimmin. sez I, the ones fror twelve to eighteen that are develop in their bodies in the tennis court. the swimmin' pools and the gym nasiums of the land, 'sted of in tn l harvest field as their great grand { mas did: who are learnin' to coo ! an sew at school with the prope kind O equipment. 'sted O usil granny's fireplace. or the old woo stove an tea kettle of maw's. They'I S learnin' to be good housekeepers, al eff it's their lot to hev a big estat lshment, they'll be able to run : from the business end of pus ' button.
 . They'll make good mistresses to the
 help-knOwin' how to work theil
 selves, they won't expect more ! Bridget than she kin do an the ! won't let her play off on thel { neither.
 $ But girls. when it comes to taxi a personal interest in other folk { take a leaf from the ledger of Il ] wimmin O yesterday. Develop yo,
 system of work and play and goo deeds, sez I, to the one hundred l power of efficiency, but don't ferg { to ile the machine with a little pc ! sonal kindness now and then. IT { cup Q, cold water bespoke by Il { gentle Galiiean is mighty refreshi to the thirsty wayfarer and sometin ! when you hev fergot all about it, il ! likely to turn into a spring O livi water in the shade O the cedars
 { Lebanon, fer you and yours.
 {l The Maman,s clllh Mrs H. R WI