New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21

EFT US begin 20 i've Let US Turn away
from unadorned and meaningless ex-
l. is,ence and make of the business of
81. ~. glorious and significant thing that it
ought to be-
This is not the beginning of a sermon. 1t
...,v serves to introduce plea made by
.;,,.rs and far-seeing person that we submit
longer 10 conditions that blind US and bind
:. and deprive us OF our fundamental rights
81, is intensity I plead for. Every hour
-. live should count, and count beautifully
The pleader is Anna Strunsky Walling, Rus
.;.n.American, author and revolutionist wife
~ William English Walling, who is one OF
IN. foremost Socialist writers OF our day. In
, recently published book, "Violette OF Pere
Iaehaise." she has told something of what
sb. wishes life TO mean to us-what she is con-
fd,nt il will mean to us when we have ceased
70 fear II or look at it with awe. In an inter
view with a representative of The Tribune she
oresents more specifically her desire that men
GEEK fuller experience, deeper knowledge
wider scope in the expression OF themselves
More than a hint concerning Mrs. Walling's
n,rsonaty is conveyed by that word "inten-
sty" Small as to stature, she is yet the per-
sonifcation of mental and moral qualities
which forbid the application of the often used
petite" Vigor. earnestness, courage-such
terms ht her best. Brisk and vivid is her man
ner, but serenity and profundity mark her as
one who looks far beyond the somewhat sordid
vision of our times. She is of America and
yet OF Russia
LIFE JUST A LITTLE DAY"
THE brevity OF life and the beauty OF ex-
istence.'" she quoted 'Pater was preemi-
nently right when he phrased that. 1t is just
a little day, but that day should be glorious
beautiful, poetic And in that day VIC should
70 deep into strong things, artistic things
lovely things. For only by depth and width
and breadth can we hope to give our best
selves TO our work. our companions, our chill
dren.
"Our children yes The fault with parent
hood has been that mothers were kept away
from the world and its work, that fathers were
kent away from the home and its work. Moth
ers have been deprived Of their truest mater
1;.7 by this ruling of society that if women
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&C hey are to have no glimpse OF the
vor.. their children are to enter, the world
they are preparing their children to enter 1t
is net that they could be with their children
too much, but that they are having too little
to give them.
And the same scheme of affairs has robbed
the father of his fatherhood, has kept him toll
ing for them, but not living with them; has
kept him away from them at their best hours,
in their best years. The chief business OF peo-
pie in this world is the bringing up of chill
dren, you know, yet the responsibilities and
duties and pleasures of parenthood are badly
divided and mismanaged.
There should never be the question for
women OF choosing between work and chill
dren, for they should have both. The best
developed woman must have children, the
most complete mother must have work.
There is no question to me, either, as to
which is the greater thing in life, art or parent