Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-29
sS,OOO,OO FOR TRAINING
GTRLSFOR MOTHERHOOD
Philadelphians Believe Bequest
Shows Sad Pass to Which
Young Women Have Come
MRS. scHAFFs OPINION
She Says Home Is the Best School for
Development of Right
Ideals

shades of our preserving making SOCK
knitting. home keeping female ancestors
what would they say, the old-fashloned
dears. II they but knew that three million
dollars had Just been willed for the cstab-
llshment of a school in which girls OF very
tender years were to be enrolled for the
purpose of being trained in the duties OF
wIfehood and motherhood
II Is even so. however. The will Of Mrs
Lizzie Palmer, widow Of United States Sem
ator Palmer, recently filed, provides that
three OF her four millions be used for the
erection of such an institution, where girls
and young women Of the age OF ten and
more can be trained and developed with
special reference to fitting them mentally.
morally, physically and religiousy for the
discharge sof the functions and service OF
wlfehood and motherhood and In the man
agement, supervision and inspiration Of
homes" In the opening paragraph Of the
clause making this provision Mrs. Palmer
says:
"I hold profoundly the conviction that the
welfare of any community is inseparably
dependent upon the quality OF Its mother
hood and the spirit and character of it's
homes"
Doesn't the fact that thinking woman
has left three million for the establishment
OF such a school indicate that our young
women have come TO a sorry pass2' Is the
question that naturally arises
MRS. SCHoFFS VIEWS
Mrs. Frederic schoff. president of the
National Mothers and Parent-Teachers AS
ISOLATION and director of the Home Edu-
cation Division of the Federal Board of
Education, answered emphatically that It
does.
"The girls and women who are leading
around dogs on strings instead of playing
with their dolls and their own children are
the ones who need such training she said.
Personally, believe she continued,
"that the establishment OF such an institu-
tion may do good in limited way. but
1 stand for a broader education of all the
girls in the United Station, 1t Is TO that
end that the Mothers and Parent-Teachers
Association is working.
EVERY normal woman is adapted to
wifehood and motherhood. The women
who chase madly after careers, who do not
want children, have not been trained in the
right way a career does not satisfy n
woman in the long rum and If you analyze
closely the work of the women In the world.
some little wife and mother quietly and in
conspicuously from the vantage point of
her own homo usually does the most.
HOME THE BEST SCHOOL
"The best way to train girls for mother
hood and boys for fatherhood is by setting
them a good example in the home, and by
the close association of the school and col
lege with the home. The whole work of the
Mothers Congress is based on this. theory,
and one of the wisest things ever done was
the act of the United States Bureau of Edu-
cation in putting the parent on the plane
,of the educator and pointing out the broad
education necessary for the parent to have.
"The education for motherhood should be
the broadest possible kind of a one. The
mother II she is to train her own children
properly must know of things outside as
we'll as inside the home, civics and politics
as well as cooking and domestic economy.
But her domain will always be the home"
According to Mrs Rudolph Blankenhmrg,
the average marriage is such hit or miss
affair, and the modern girl usually so ignor-
ant of the requirements of the wife and
mother that a school for her special train
ing is probably step in the right direction