Evening journal., 1916-01-20

yet if wives would pay more atten-
ton to making the homes pleasant
and attractive, there would not be
so many men hanging around the
clubs and saloons. I have heard OF
one man that said he went TO the sa-
loon TO spend his evenings because
il was so hOme-like. One evening
after he left. his wife took mp the
carpet and sprinkled sawdust on the
floor She put table by the door
and put on it some stale bread. dried
up sausage and maggoty cheese, and
when he came home about midnight
she was sitting with her feet up on
| the center table. smoking a cigarette.
/ He said nothing more about the sa-
! loon being hOme-like. III / were the
| wife of a husband who spent his
| evenings away from home, | would
certainly do something desperate il
necessary. to see that IL was stop
ped.
We are told here that Gods woman
"Looketh well to the ways of her
| household" that is, she is giving
proper care to her family. Napoleon
said. What France needs is good
mothers" That is the crying need
OF America today. Children OF all
ages are allowed to roam the streets
at all times OF day and night. Moth
ers are now laying upon the schools
the training of their children, and are
evading their own personal responsi-
bility. II is a strange thing that we
have institutions for the training OF
artists and musicians and stenogra-
pliers. but we have few schools for
the training OF mothers. The most
important position in our civilization
today is that of mothers. II your
children are on the streets at night
with questionable associates, and you
have no thought or care as to where
they are. your neighbOrs are going
to doubt the sincerity Of your relig-
ious profession.
The fact that women are taking
their place by the side OF men in all
departments Of commercial industry
life is producing an equality Of the
sexes but it seems to be a levelns
down process. rather than a leveline
up This wider sphere OF action is
terribly straining the moral fibre OF
many women almost to the breakinl
point. Conditions in many factOrie
, and shops and mills, with the pro
miscuous mingling with evil-minde'
, men is producing a looseness Of con
, duct and Of morals in many womei
and girls. which is disastrous in Il
! results. The tobacco habit. for ex
/, ample. is greatly on the increas
. among women. The cigarette vic
! has gotten an amazing hold upo
: many society girls. Smoking b.
I women is being permitted in som
: restaurants. Women in one Organi
= zation boasted they smoked min
I packages Of cigarettes in a singl
+ evening. Sixty girls in the publi
! schools in one city admitted thai
1 they were cigarette smokers. TIL
moral trend Of many classes O
I women seems 10 be on the down
: grade. II is becoming easier ever
!, year to bring men TO Christ. an
4 harder to bring women 10 Christ
! There seems TO be wOeful lack @
G sincerity and earnestness and con
4 science evident among a large shar
. of women and girls Of our day.
= THIS downward tendency is evi
n denced by the increase of liquo
q drinking among women. There wer
q more women arrested last year i
4. Great Britain and sent to inebriai
4 asylums as confirmed drunkard
= than0 there we're men. The drin
y habit is increasing three-fold as rs
pidly among women as among mel
% A sanitarium in the east. establishe
q for the purpose of treating femal
h inebriates. had. when il opened, mor
:, applications for admission than
4 could could take care OF. These, to-
- ! we're among wealthy people. TIL
= physical organism of woman, beir
, much finer and more sensitive tina
!, that Of man, causes her 10 fall MOI
: easily under the disastrous innuenC