The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-02

re. As'sriae r t1uMsl- RSlaT ~
by furnace man. | have been
doing my own laundry. but | am
afraid shall have to stop that,
with my added duties as DEAN
Then you personally have solved
the problem of a baby, Il home and a
profession" l observed
It's Just n matter of systematic
ing DR.. Munn-R echt insisted y
have done nothing other women can
not do. OF course l devoted myself
pretty closely to my son in the
months Immediately following his
birth. | don't believe in going off and
leaving babies high and dry. But
little later. if u woman spends part
of her day caring for her baby and
her home I see no reason why she
should not devote the rest of the time
to work of her own
Every Girl Should Have Job.
Don't You think that every girl,
no matter what position her father
holds, should bc taught some work by
which she can make n living" I
questioned.
llt oillS u btlloS'isy 10
in giving every girl a job and
compelling her to succeed at it
through her own exertions and
not through her fathers nflu-
cnce." she replied. And the girl
without work in which she takes
an interest and which will make
her self supporting is likely to
become nothing more than a der
~; h,,. rla,.n
lic,s. lunchcd today with
woman psychologist who said her
job consisted of going among
rich and idle women and trying
to give them an interest in life"
Don't you believe in Il college cdu-
cation for girls. II they will regard it
as the beginning and not as the end
| of life?' | asked DIR. Num- Recht.
| Il suppose ! ought not to say it."
| she began with a note of apology in
her voice. but a rebclliously tilted
chin, since am associated now
| with a college. Nevertheless. | do
| think there must be changes In our
higher education. Some time, when
/ meet the wisest teacher, I'm going
to ask him why all teaching begins
so far back. Why can't we begin to
learn about the things that are hap
| penng now? | studied American
history for six years and never
reached the civil war. | can repeat
pages of beaumont and Fletcher or
sponsors 'Faery Queen but I'm al
ways getting Edith Wharton nd
Mrs. Humphrey Ward mixed up. /
think the most important things for
| us to learn are the things that bring
us in touch with the life of today.
Go education is excellent. because
| 1t destroys the false glamour that
arises from seclusion of the sexes, and
because, generally speaking, the girls
in "A co-cducational college are AT the
| head of the class. That's a good thing
| for them and n good thing for the
J men," the little doctor observed with
| a sly twinkle.
Also, ! believe that we must
have mere domestic training for
girls in school and college. II
they can get It at home so much
the better, but often they cannot
l was Il before my mother real
lied that | knew nothing about a
home. Then she made me so
through the cook book. But how
many mothers are able TO teach
Lneir daughters the best and SIM
plest ways of performing house.
hold tasks To be a scholar should
not mean that woman ceases to be
the maker of homes.
Girls Not to Blame.
u do not blame the modern girl for
what she does not do" her anal.
yst repeated firmly. Il have known
40 many girls who longed to make
something of their lives and were dis
couraged and hindcrcd in every way
by their parents. ! think that attitude
of opposition is common among the
well-to-do middle class. even though
1t may TIC dictated by most affection
ate motives"
Out of the brief pause u young
woman from Brooklyn asked, with
timid irrclcyance: do YOU approve
of the Russian girls Regiment of
Dcnth?"
Il approve of them to this extent"
FREELY responded DR.. Mum Rechr:
IF thought the only way to down the
kaiser and the German empire vas
for me to go into the trenches. I'd 60
| and take everybody could with me-"