The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-06

| was in Canada they told me that If
women would condescend to grow ber-
ries in British Columbia and make
them into jam for the mining camps
they would do well. No doubt they
would marry the miners.
TO the great unmarried / would
say: Go where you are wanted. Mar
riage is the ideal for women. It may
not be possible now for them all, but
there is no getting away from the fact
that unmarried women have only seen
one side Of life. They are likely to
become abnormal, and II is noticeable
that they take extreme views. It was
obvious in the suffrage movement,
Tax on the Bachelor.
with unmarried men it is even more
the case / cannot think of anything
more off the line than an old bach
elor. And if there are so many women
without husbands it is time to rouse
the bachelors. Their numbers in Eng
land are extraordinary.
"They must be taxed.
"The money derived should go to
keeping unwanted children, and the un-
married mother should look after
them.
''There are women who have the
feeling OF mother, although that joy
has never been theirs. In order to sat
isfy this mother love women must be
allowed to have children or they must
be given the care of other peoples chill
dren. To make the first possible, the
stigma must be removed from illegiti.
macy; the second is in the hands Of the
local authorities.
''In every locality are mothers who
have so many children they do not
know what to do Why cannot the mu-
nicipality provide deputy mothers
"The right woman would be found
among the great unmarried. They
would delight in taking the mothers
place while she had two hours off II
would be Joy to them to take the
baby out or teach these toddlers their
letters. Incidentally the mother would
learn new and better ways from her
deputy,
This might very well be scheme
for a health ministry. Neither mother
nor children have chance Of proper
health and care under present condi-
tions. II would be good, of course, for
the mother to pay few pence to the
Municipality for the use of a deputy.
An extension in the training of moth
ereraft, already given at girls public
schools, would fit the deputy for her
work.
Thousands of War Orphans.
There remains adoption; the diff.
culties ought not to be insurmountable
when on the one hand we have thous-
ands of war orphans and on the other
thousands of wonld be mothers. In
stitutions for motheriess children have
proved a failure. We now want a state
institution of foster mother and child.
"The fathers of girls have new re-
sponsibility in face of the post war
problems. Hitherto what has been
done in making women's careers has
been done by the girls themselves. 1t
is the fathers turn now He must
make as sure of his daughters career
as he has made of that Of his son. No
girl must be allowed to grow up with
out means of livelihood. She has
one and half million competitors
in the way of marriage; she must have
something to fall back upon.
by giving her career the father ia
also increasing her opportunities OF
marriage. knew man who had nine
daughters, and all the daughters who
went out TO work got married, and
those who stayed at home did not The
average girl does not meet enough men
| at home.
Having found her career the unmar-
ried woman must have a suitable home
The present day homes were not built
to accommodate one and a half million
surplus women They were made for
big families with stats of servants
They want to be divided up now into
suites Of rooms which two girls togeth
err could afford to share.
Zone and half million unmarried
women are hot going to live among u:
without affecting the position. There
is going to be a change in the statu:
of the unmarried woman, and the un
married woman will make it, By hen
numbers even she can enforce respect