Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-01


of the world?"
1T depends on how you define
civilization" he returned. Her
taste in art and literature certainly
isn't civilized. The magazines and
almost all the books are published
! for her. The theaters are built for
her, and the plays, stories and mo-
tion pictures are all written to appeal
to women.
The whole craft of inventors la
! bors on devices that will add to her
comfort and convenience. The house
keeping of to-day, with its vacuum
cleaners, its plumbing and heating
systems, it's laundry and dish-wash.
ing and bread-making machines, it's
hundred and one handy electrical
appliances, is all the product of care
full thought for woman"
You speak as if man had no part
in the enjoyment of these various
comforts and luXuries," | said.
He'd never do it for himself" he
shook his head. He'd got his sec
ond wind by this time, and he didn't
mean to be stopped. Everywhere
that man is doing anything, wheth-
er behind a plow, or at a desk, or be-
.ore an easel, or swinging a sledge,
it is always with the image of some
woman in the back of his mind.
Even in the trenches he is, as
the song goes, fighting for my coun-
try and you, dear Yes; take il
from whatever viewpoint you please,
things are coming pretty soft for
Louise. But what is the effect of
all this on her?'
Rave on" / murmured. "I like
to hear you"
well, compare louise with her
eat-grandmother," he pounded
away. She spun and carded and
wove and knit for an entire family
She washed and swept and mended
and busted and brewed and baked.
Then if she found time hanging
heavily on her hands, she helped in
the fields or aided in repelling an
Indian attack.
"Great-Grandmoth did not suf-
fer from nervous prostration. neith-
er did she sit around reciting the in
terminable details of her latest sur
gical operation. No; Great Grand
mother, if she survived sun-stroke,
or the tomahawk, generally sue
cumbed to one of the old-fashioned
diseases-there We're only three or
four recognized ailments at that time
at the age of eighty or ninety"
Again he shook his head mourn
fully. Beside this vigorous. old
lady, Louise seems pretty fiabby
fiber"
He paused for breath, and I took
advantage of my opportunity. Your
indictment is not framed against
Observation-Disclosures descendants"
] said; but against the descendants
of Great tGrandmother's shiftless,
lazy sisters.
Anyway, 1 am getting rather tired
of at-Grandmother. l think it is
about time that her carefully re-
touched ghost is decently laid. She
| is always being dragged on the stage
to play the role of silent witness to
the sins and imperfections of the
women to-day. I'm not belittling her
in the least when 1 say this. She was
great and sturdy figure. She be-
! longed to the splendid minority of
her era. But the women of to-day
also have their minority. And it's
the minority that sways the future.
"Great-Grandmoth life was free
from the complexities that confront
the modern woman. She had a def
| mite place in the economic program.
! Her duties were obvious ones, and by
! tradition and training she was fitted
| to cope with them.
But owing to many inventions it
was quite q different world in which
/ Great-Grandmother opened her eyes
! "a changing world and a world of
! change. not only in the customs of
| ages, but in the ideas. Her first
! thought was, L can play at last. I
don't have to card wool and spin and
cook and sew and look after the
ways of my household every minute.
/ have plenty of time to read novels
and think about clothes and go to
clubs and department stores and
matinees.'
! And presently she awoke to find
that she was immeasurably bored.
Then, being reau-Grandmother's s
great-granddaught and not a slug,
with the same vital impulse to live as
thoroughly and ably in her era as
! Great-Grandmo other had in hers, she
looked about her and yearned to take
her share in the cleaning-up of this
big, untidy house of the world.
Her maternal heart ached at the
thought of unnecessary conditions
responsible for poverty. sickness and
suffering. Great at-Grandmother's ex.
listing prototypes insist upon taking
their part in the worlds housecIean-
ing. and they know that the only way
this can effectually be done Is by the
ballot
I'VE are going to create a future
which will not be a mans world nor
woman's world. but a man and
woman's world.
1T will be a beautiful world. full
of congenial work. delightful play.
love and laughter and the shouts of
happy healthy little chiIdren To