The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-06-01
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HXIERE 1 asked to describe the
" new woman Of today. l should
say. There is none
Woman has not changed her ideals.
She is no less dear and sweet and lovable
and m0therly than she was fifty years
ago. She has simply hroadened her hori-
ION. There is a popular feeling today
that the rich woman is ne-lectinE her
home and her children simply because
she is devotin- a great deal of time to
the education. uphft, refinement SANTA
ton. health. food. beauty of her city, and
she may later extend this influence to
the State. to the hation.
\ few years ago the mother was
obiScd to devote herself almost entirely
to the care of furniture. food and cloth
ing. tie material things connected with
her child. The very fact that today she
is able to hire these things done, that
the vacuum cleaner the garment manu-
facturer. the knitting machines run by
power. are relieving her of much Of her
duties makes it necessary for her to
rcpIan her time. She simply extends her
home Housekeeping to the city house
keCpInS If her children are grown so
that they do not need SO much of her
personal care. she is reaching out TO
make conditions better for her sisters
,-childrcn leSs fortunate than herself.
Mighty forces are operating through
womankind today. She no longer sees
her chief duty in attending to materials.
Materials arc now servants. not masters.
Her housekeeping has become scientific.
She plans her work as Systematically as
man plans his business. and it runs as
smoothly.
few years ago there was hesitancy
in wcmanS reaching outside of the home
for fear she might be considered man.
niSh-enterinC mans field of labor-but
she can be just as dear and sweet and
lovable and ladylike in directing the
cleanliness. the sanitation, the beauty and
art of her city as of the four walls OF
her home. She is no less womany in d.
rectlrS the planting of vines on a river
bank or covering an unsiShtly building
with vines than she Is planting a vine
to grow over a trellis on her own lawn.
1t depends upon the woman. The
very fact that she is reaching out to
make conditions better for the child
of her laundress does not mean that
she is changing her ideals of woman
hood. She is simply broadening them.
She is reaching out from her ideal of
personal motherhood to universal.
spiritual motherhood.
There is no new woman. The wom-
an of tomorrow. of today Is the same
privilege is to serve. She is simply
learning how to serve better. how she
may serve greater number From
the material duties to the few. she has
progressed TO moral duties to the
many
All hail the woman of today who
is broad enough and large enough
and great enough and womanly
enough to include mankind in her
love and care and protection and privi-
lege of serving. not in an aggressive.
political way. but in reaching out to
help the other woman's child as we'll
as her own, Motherhood is material
motherhood IL it is simply to take
care of clothes. and food. and furni-
ture; spiritual motherhood for ones
own child is impossible without the
desire TO reach out and help the other
mothers child.
The woman today knows the neces-
sity of exercise. pure and right food
for her own child, and she is provid-
ing parks and play grounds and clean
streets and vegetation and flowers In
the poorer sections of her city She
is educating the mother who must
toll with material things. to earn the
daily bread for her child. to know
that IL Is care and education and
thought that make beauty-not of ne.
cessity money. Gods sunshine reaches