The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-28

tfODabiN Inc tutd OF TnOInef
union will strike your funny bone. II
is to laugh to think Of mother demand
ing an eight hour day. and a six-day
week, and a % per cent raise in wages,
and threatening TO go out on a strike
If she doesn't get them.
Nobody has imagination enough 10
picture mother refusing 10 go to work
until o'clock and knocking off at s,
and calling 1t a day Or demanding
overtime when she has to work all day
Sunday getting up an extra good din
rer for all the other members of the
family who are loafing and resting Or
refusing to cook up something extra
for father, or the boys, or girls be-
cause they have come In late after
the regular meal hours and the dining
room liz closed
OR stopping to walk the baby when
it has the collie because her time Is Up.
Or refusing to nurse someone who is
sick because she Ia a regularly quail
fled cook or seamstress, and not a
sick nurse or Joining in sympathetic
strike because some other woman's
husband Is stingy to her, or some other
woman's children treat her with in.
gratitude.
Should Organize,
No. 1t doesn't look. at first sight,
AS II mother was really good union
timber, But even so, there is des-
perate need that the mothers Of the
country should get together and form
| an organization through which they
could effect some greatly needed res
form that they can never bring about
individually.
The purpose of this mothers union
should be to enlarge, increase. solidify
and enforce mothers sacred influence.
| Pefhaps that seems unnecessary to you
| IL isn't, Mothers sacred influence ID
the most over-touted and over-press
ACCENTED thing in the world. II does
not control even her own children. and.
| IL Is nuliified by the opinions OF the
other children with whom her own as
| sociate.
Individually mothers inffuence
amounts to almost nothing, but the
influence of mothers union would IA
SO great II could change the world. and
| save II.
-, For instance, you can not find In all
the length and breadth of your ac-
| quaintance, sensible riRht-mfnded
mother who approves Of the manner N
| winch girls dress, and dance, and gen
| orally conduct themselves NOWADAYS NO
| woman really wants to see her innocent
| niue gifl go out to a party looking
more like woman Of the streets than
a. pure young girl She deplores Ina
| plucked and dyed eyebrows, the paint
| ed face. the indecent exposure or her
| gown, but she can not prevent her
daughter from getting herself IN IN
| me same sort Of style that all the other
girls affect.
Dancing the shimmy.
1t makes every woman who knows
| life turn cold with horror when sha
sees her daughter dancing the dances
| that We're imported from the brotheig
Of South America, and borrowed from
| tne sensuous savages Of the Pacific
1 tGlHnH2 nd Nxgith hos fxn
laid aginst that OF some degenerate Or
| rogue, but mother can not stop her
| sally, or her Mary, because all tn
other girls are dancing the shimrny. ~
1azzing. and If Sally and Mary don't
| they will be wall flowers
| SO the mothers Individual Influenza
| even with her own daughter, fails to
work when 1t liz put to the test, but
| II the mothers of any community al
any city, or OF the whole country were
banded together they could stop any
social abuse they pleased in ten min
utes.
Suppose the Amalgamated Order Of
Mothers issued an edict that a wisp
OF tulle would no longer be considered
substitute for a bodice and that
skirts must be made wide enough, and
long enough, not to make every girl
an anatomical study OF limbs FASH
ions would change overnight because
In the little black handbag that mother
clasps In her stubby hand is the money
that enrfches dressmakers and turns
cloak and suit manufacturers into mil
| lionaires
And II mother served notice on
| them that the union would only pur-
chase decent frocks, decent frocks would
appear in the shop windows as If bv
magic.
And the mothers union could settle
the divorce problem by practically as
| surfing every girl good husband. and
every boy good wife, If women could
| only be brought to feel that the whole
sex Is one great sisterhood. and that IL
they save their children they must stand
together and work as one woman.
All of this and much more the moth
ers union could accomplish God speed
the day of its establishment.
Copyright, 1890. by the Wheeler SYM
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