Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-18
SPEAKER ASKS WOMEN
TO MAKE HOME IDEAL
THEIR SONS BELIEVE
Excelient Address By Mrs. Andrews,
Heard Yesterday By Woman's
clubs OF The City

Heard Yesterday By WOman's
clubs OF The City
appealing to the women Of AnnapO-
Ills to make home the ideal spot their
/ soldier sons acroes the seas had pic-
tured 1t 10 be. and asking them to lOse
that grip on old age that refuses 70
endorse any naW movement and says
IE.'It can't be done, Mrs. Gertrude Nell
son Andrews gave q splendid spirited
ttaik yesterday afternoon In the old
Senate Chamber which was allied with
Ia representative audience
Mrs. Andrews had been endorsed by
the w0Inen's clubs of Annapolis, which
Included the Civic League, the D. a. r..
THE Mothers Circle. the Womana
club, and the Annapolis branch OF the
! Woman's Suffrage League OF Maryland
Iof which Mrs. a G.. Hill Ii the Anne
Arundel president, and which liz 9
branch OF the National Woman's SUIT
ifrage League of which Mrs Carrie
lChapanan Gait Is president and DIR.
Anna Howard Shaw national chair
imam or the Council of Defense. Is hon
orary president. It was this Organi-
zation, with Mrs Hill the prime mover
that was instrumental IN arranging
NFrs. Andrews VISIT here.
The Rev. Maurice S. White, intro
dnced the speaker. woman past mid
die life, but who has retained the
charm of youth which she breaches
She took for her text. The Youth and
Courage Movement, and applied IL
particularly 60 the reconstruction
movement. she said this is work IN
this country which calls fer courage
land the optimism OF youth. She spoke
LOT woman's work In this war and how
well It had been done, and Ok the great
need Of the home The great need
she said, oe the reconstruction period
is the mothers love, the mothers sym
pathy, the mothers point Of view In
doing things, and the mothers faith
land patience
Boys overseas who have written let
tiers home. have constantly spoken OF
home ais the dearest place On earth 60
them. MrB. Andrews gaid her own son
] had written her he had dealixed his
home, and had said q wonder when We
get home, if We wiIl ind 1t the place
We have idaalized. She appealed TO
mothers TO prepare themselves to meet
their sons In spirit of democracy.
elf-sacrlfice that the boys have been
1 lighting for
This country had begun to cheapen
] life. she said. instead of appreciating
1it as the greatest God-giveu gift to
man Ia the reconstruction work,
she said, we should begin with our
selves. then let our thoughts 30 ont
1 to Our environment Correct onr own
I faults, then look to our Immediate
surroundings, of city, county, state
and nation, then the universe. 1t would
be like dropping q pebble into the
water and watching the wave circles,
Hour thoughts and sympathy and love
would circle around and spread out
to ali mankind.
Mrs. Andrews urged the throwing
! aside of that spirit og old Things. that
grip Oh age, which SO many have, that
makes them refuse To endorse new
1 thing because II is new She spoke
/ az the need Of 4 7. NJ, G. A.. In Annap-
oils now being considered, and told
the people to lose their grip On ags,
4 and not ID say sit can't 10 done Marx
time, keep up with the pxOceaSiou, SO
ahead with all new and good aOve-
meats she said. Ry way De ilIustrar
ton she related tha story of the old
darkey, thOaght 70 be llslftsd on