Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-09-18
REGULAR MEET
OF W. c. 7. j.

| vi W. ". L. y.
Mrs. L. H. Palmer Reads Paper
On Other Duties Of Woman in
the Home.
The monthly meeting Of the Wom-
! ans Christian temperance union was
held at the home of Mrs. George Han
son. After short business session
Mrs. j. E. Sizer state worker was
present to explain the one million
dollars jubilee drive now being laun-
ched by the national W. G.. T. u. Mrs.
Sizer also addressed a public meeting
in the evening. She gave a very force
full and instructive talk. This money
is to be used in several departments
world prohibition, child welfare, wo1n-
en- industry, Health and Morality and
Americanization The w. G. T. u.
has always been self supporting and
many have thought with the death OF
John Barleycorn they would disband.
Not SO! The government has asked
them to raise thirty thousand dollars
for the health department. They
claim the faint of drink follows four
generations. Mrs. Il. Fl. Palmer read
paper as follows:
Home Condition Largely Responsible
for .Intemperance
The home is the most important in
stitution in the world and from the
beginning of time it has stood back
of all social, moral and business life.
The house keeper (the wife and moth
err has been "the power behind the
throne" the one who moulded for
veal or woe the moral and social life
of mankind.
A woman takes on a large order
when she accepts the responsibilities
of wife and mother and it is ABSOLUTELY
necessary that she be educated up
to the duties and privileges Of the pos
ton. She must appreciate the impor-
lance of her life work; must fully re-
alize that she is building for time and
eternity; that she has got for compel
itors,t the tobacco houses, pool rooms,
soft drink parlors, yes, and the sa-
looms, Notwithstanding the great VIC
tory won, the fight is still on and
Will be for some time to come.
The home should be as fine as fin
ances Will permit and so attractive
that husband and children will gladly
return to its shelter at the close Of
business and school hours. 1t should
gatehr for recreation and where each
be the social center where friends may
member of the family shares in the
pleasures and duties of the household.
Domestic service has always been
regarded as a little degrading and
those engaged in caring for our COM
fort in the home were not considered
quite equal socially to our bookkeep-
er or clerk Why? Can any one give
the most important work of womans
life, (the caring for her family, an
occupation requrining tact artistic ap-
probation of the beautiful, good ex-
ecutive ability, sound practical bust
ness judgment together with unlimit-
energy and patience, as inferior to
any other business or occupation.
God created woman as a helpmate
for man and it is a strange perversity
of nature, that will cause a woman
who has bas been a successful home
keeper to so belittle the honor Of her
achievement as to bring up her daugh-
ter in ignorance OF the common de-
! tails of housekeeping and worse yet,
to have contempt for the work,
proudly proclaiming that she never
baked loaf of bread Ut cooked a
dinner in her life. Give your daugh-
ter the best education that your cir
/ cumstances will permit, but do not,
If you value her future happiness, ne.
, glect to train her to fulfill the God
given duties OF wife and mother.
Sooner or later every girl has the
privilege offered her to accept the
highest position in life, that OF wife.
About the first question asked by
! careful parents Is "can the pros
pective husband support wife
The question can usually be answer
ed by ascertaining IL the girl is ca
pable OF managing the home affairs
| in a. business like manner and IL
| necessary doing the housework.
! In large preparation Of the
applications for divorce, by men, the
plea made is incompetency and many
a man gives as an excuse for spend
| ing his time in saloons and bowling
allies, that his home is so untidy and
disagreeable that he can't stand it.
He will not take into consideration
that by spending time and money in
such places that rightfully belongs
to his family he is making bad mat
ter worse, that his wife will become
more discouraged and slack and the