River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-02-25

auditorium in the world was re-
serve ed for them. A published ac-
count of the pageant, after q e
scribing the delegations Of
teachers, nurses, doctors, journal
lists, artists, authors, housework-
ers, factory women, stenographers
and others, Says: "Then h
rank opened and down the long
aisle came the chain makers who
work at the forge, n d the pit
brow women from the mines
women whose faces have ben
blackened by smoke and coal dust
until they can never be washed
white. ' To these women,
the hardest workers in the land,
were given the seats Of honor,
while behind them, gladly taking
subordinate place, were many
women wearing gowns with scar
let and purple hoods, indicating
their university degrees"
No work can be greater than
what women are doing today and
planning for tomorrow.
If women today do not realize
the four great things they are
striving for, tomorrow's women
will. Tomorrow our women will
open our churches every night,
their open doors and windows will
pour forth streams Of music, light
and warmth, SO that the poor
slaves of machinery by day, deni-
zens Of dreary tenements, labor
ers in overcrowded places, may
have some place to satisfy their
starved craving for recreation,
and they will come to church t Q
play. Every church will become d
working mans church with it's
widespread daily interest in the
daily welfare Of those VINO are
unaccustomed to coming. rather
than remain a church, alive on
Sunday but dark, empty and e
serted the other six days and
nights Of the week. Humanity is
not SO low, and when give
chance usually chooses the right,
but until the work of our social
settlement organizations, it had
no choice and their work, although
it is making progress, is still in
it's infancy.
Women Of tomorrow will pro-
vide fresh air vacation work for
girls and women who spend fifty
weeks of the year toiling long
hours in factory and store. There
are four hundred thousand Of
these women toiling in New York
alone. Of these about seven
thousand, who earn about $500
weekly. are allowed vacations with
or without pay. They nearly all
spend the time at Coney Island,
dancing freely and enjoying daily
excursion boat parties.
/ Women of tomorrow will beauti-
fly America: A beautiful and prac-
teal beginning is the Lincoln Way
on which committees are now
working. AS this will literally
connect America from ocean to
ocean, so will woman consolidate
humanity. and by her conservative
labor assist in placing each indi-
vidual in that field where he can
exercise (his special gifts to the
best advantage not only for
himself. but, for his fellow man.
What the world fears most is
what woman WILL Do when h e
gets the vote. Men have often ex-
pressed their dread of an Irish
vote. the miners vote, or b e
vote of some class of men; but
above all. they dread in some
places, woman's vote, for they are
not sure what she will do (as they
were not when they contemplated
allowing her the first property
law. but Mrs. Anna Howard Shaw
says that such points are not to
be argued: The question is
whether women merit equal suf-
frage. and not what they will do
with suffrage. This apprehension
what they will dos
answered by this little story of
Olive Schreiner's: "There was a
birds egg once, picked up by
chance upon the ground, and those
who found it bore it home an
placed it under barnyard fowl.
And in time the chick bred out,
and those who had found it
chained it by the leg to log,
lest it should stray and be lost.
And by and by they gathered
round it and speculated as to
what the bird might be. One said
1T is surely water fowl, a duck,
or it may be goose; if we took
it to the water it would swim and