The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-12-13
HOME CIRCLE COLUMN.
A MODEL HOME.

more homes that can safely be spoken
of as models. 1t would seem as II
those who pass their lives in the coun-
try-whose daily occupation brings
them in constant contact with the
varied beauty OF field, and forest,
mountain, and plain--who are con-
slant witnesses of Natures great
ysteries-would, OF necessity, be
filled with noble thoughts; that their
eyes would gather continual delight
from the beauties about them; and
their whole lives shape themselves in
grander forms as natural result oil
their surroundings. Yet it is unde-
niably true that in gathering up rich
es for the future-which after all they
may never behold-they forget the
claims OF the present, and allow their
souls to grow less instead of greater.
So 1T comes to pass that the children
going out of these houses, and find
ing themselves, as they often may, in
refined and polite society for a time
become dissatisfied with home, and
seek life that shall give them the
advantages which they suppose they
cannot obtain in the country. Is it
not folly to be so intent upon the
things which perish with the using
as to forget higher aims9 Is it not
an evil when parents allow themselves
to be so absorbed by cares that they
| neglect to instruct their children in
the proprieties of every day life, to
say nothing of the small sweet cour-
tesies, the little acts 80 fruitful of
good2 A brief notice of Model Home
points out the effects OF better way.
FEMALE LABOR IN THE FIELDS.
Peter Radford lecturer for the Ma
tional Farmers Union, declares that
there are now working in the fields
in the United States more than mil.
lion and half women. This is q
most astonishing declaration. There
were only million slaves working in
the fields in the South when President
Lincoln issued the emancipation proc
lamation. II Mr.. Radford is correct
in his statement, and he claims to have
as his authority the United States
census, his protest is certainly a
righteous one. He demands that con-
gress make an investigation. Among
other things he says:
"There is no overseer quite so cruel
as that Of unrestrained greed, no whip
that stings like the lash of suborned
destiny and no auctioneer's block quite
so revolving as that Of oragnized avar-
ice. The president of the United
States was recently lauded by the
press, and very properly so, for sug.
costing mediation between the en-
gineers and railroad managers in ad-
justing their schedule Of time and pay.
The engineers threatened to strike If
their wages were not Increased from
approximately ten to eleven dollars
per day and service reduced from ten
to eight hours and similar readjust-
ment of the overtime schedule. Our
women are working in the field, many
of them barefooled, for less than so
cents per day, and their schedule is
the rising sun and the evening star,
and after the days work is over they
milk the cows, sop the hogs and rock
the baby to sleep. Is anyone mediat-
ing over their problems and to whom
shall they threaten to striker
"The women behind the counter and
in the factory cry loud for sympathy
and the press thunders out in their
defense, and the pulpit pleads for
mercy, bnt how about the women in
the field? Will not these powe rful ex-
ponents OF human rights turn their
talent, energies and influence to her
relief viii the Goddess Of Liberty
enthroned at Washington hold the cal.
loused hand and soothe the fevered
brow OF her sex who sows and reaps
the nations harvest, or will she per.
NIT the male OF the species to shove
women-weak and weary--irom the
bread-line Of industry to the back al.
leys OF poverty2"