The Washington herald., 1915-08-04
FAMILY ALBUM, UP TO DATE.

OF course the family album, red
plush, gilt-clamped relic of the days
when we had to have our heads prop
ped UP by an iron vice whenever we
went to the photographers, is thing
of the past In those volumes of
horrors there is always the picture
of mother when she was a little
girl" her hand on a fake garden
fence post, an expression of Sunday
school decorum on her ringlet framed
face. And there is father" too,
with his hair stiffly parted and plas-
tered down, ar uncomfortable col
lar and those long tight trousers,
even though he was a little boy.
Then, as you turn the pages there IS
a succession of be-bustled. smiling
young women, fathers old sweet
hearts," and a callow youth or two
who were, no doubt, old flames of
mothers. There is "auntie" and un-
Gle and the little cousins and then
On the next page you find yourself
when you were in long clothes. help
less. toothless, and hairless. Really
il it weren't for old association you
would have thrown that red-plush
book into the furnace long ago.
The family album of the future
will be worth keeping. 1t will be,
indeed, human document worth
treasuring. 1t will consist of some
neatly wound rolls of film tucked
away safely in corner OF the family
safe where they will be dry and fire.
proof There is no doubt about it.
Several prominent folk have begun
having these films made. The films
OF the children are taken at mo-
ments when they are unprepared with
Sunday school faces, at play, in their
frolics when they least suspect it.
Then, in years to come, if the
grandson should be laying down the
law to his own children, telling them
that he never acted that way when
he was a boy, maybe the offspring
will be able to disprove the assertion
with the family films. There'll be
no Sunday-school-faced photographs
to be called upon by dad in defense
OF his statements concerning his
own Cody youth.
Quite a commentary on the change
that has come in the status OF wom
en- in public affairs is the list of new
appointments on the executive COM
mittee Of the League to Enforce
Peace, of which Vice President Taft
is president. Fifty years ago, or
even two dozen, if the name of one
woman had appeared on such a |
board, there would have been COM
ment and no doubt some protest
protest against those who made the
appointments and against the women |
who so forgot themselves as to ac-
cept. But now it is taken as quite
a matter of course.
There is Mary Wooley, president |
OF Mount Holyoke College, oldest
women's institution OF learning OF
collegiate rank in the country. There
is Jane Adams, greatest of settle
ment workers; Mabel Boardman,
whose work with the Red Cross has
been of greater importance than
that OF any man; Carrie Chapman
Gait, prominent suffrage lecturer;
Mrs ]. Borden Hartman, society
woman whose recent work on the
Bureau of Industrial Relations
brought her into the linelight; Eva
Perry Moore, prominent in the
Federations of Women's Clubs and
prime leader in the district nursing
movement in Chicago, and Fanny
Fern Andrews, Boston's prominent
social worker who came from Nova
Scotia.
And the men are Senator Theodore
E. Burton. one of the two most prob 4;
able Republican candidates for the a.,
next Presidential nomination; DR.. I
Shailer Mathews, educator, historian.
and Bible student; Mr.. John c. Hib- t
ben, president of Princeton; Mr.. {
Myron T. Herrick, former Ambassa-
dor to France, and Frederick Lynch, c
secretary of the Church Peace Union. q
Surely this is a representative body a
of American men of prominence and .
to them there is not the slightest '
suspicion of question as to the I
fitness of the women on the board :
to deliberate on the questions to L
be brought before the league to in i
soree peace. All of which could, of S
course. be taken as an added argu- !
ment that women are quite ready to :
be granted the ballot.