Evening star., 1922-04-16

1ngs" he observed. "a flower garden
cannot grow on a battlefield"
nR. THwING proceeded to diagnose
- the case of the ailing modern
family. And it was as an expert.
For DR.. Thwing's book, "The Family,
An Historical and Social Study"
his wife, the late Carrie F. Butler
Thwing. is considered one of the
most authoritative treatises on this
subject and is used as textbook
in colleges. Written in 1888, when
DIR. Thwing was a Congregational
clergyman in New England. he and
Mrs. Thwing made the research nee
expressive of their interest in their
own home and family. After her
death DR.. Thwing revised the book.
adding certain chapters. The book
still has a steady sale, it's contents
being of permanent value, although
the social conditions surrounding the
family have changed greatly of re-
cent years.
The institution, the family. is un-
dergoing the pains of adjusting itself
to the new social order" said he.
Various factors have been disrupt
ing it more or less. and others are
appearing to protect it,"
Factors to which DR.. Thwing point
ed as tending to destroy family life
were discouragingly many = the
growth of the idea of individual lib
erty without its counterbalacing of
individual responsibility, which he
holds is most clearly shown today in
the loosening of the marriage tie
and the frequency of divorce; belief
in atheistic and socialistic principles.
which have taken away from mar
ing of the political. social and intel
lectual interests of women, making
them competitors of men and work
ing toward the failure of many to
found children; unemployment, the
farming out of children to public
agencies, conditions of lawlessness
and criminality in communities, So
Judgment, the increase of individual
interests foreign to the home, the
influence of the movie. lack of neigh
borliness in communities and gen.
eral religious lapse.
Both woman suffrage, in which DR..
Thwing is a profound believer, and
divorce, which he asserts is the cause
worthy place in society, are develop
ments of the growth of individualism.
which began away back as product
of the Protestant reformation, he
pointed out. To-day men and women
tend to want their individual free
dom without recognizing their indi-
vidual responsibilities. Pleasure and
convenience activate them even in
marriage, which is the serious matter
of founding a family. of bringing
about relations that are infinite in
time and space.
IsEAMILY life is being disrupted
by the new interests of women
outside the home. The home is
founded on the presence of the wife
and mother there. on her daily and
hourly toll and interest there. Home
is the place where you can always
find those whom you love and who
aove you. The beneficent atmosphere
of the home is made by the woman.
the wife. the mother-by her pres
ence. When she is outside earning
money, or her interests are engaged
to too great an extent in things so
cial. political. the family suffers.
. Woman suffrage has increased
womens rights without laying
enough emphasis on their duties. The
first duty of a woman who is married
IS to her husband and home. rather
, than to her own personal career-a
fact not always recognized just now.
but which will be. The extreme indi-
vidualism that exists to an extent
among women now will develop as
time goes on into the individualism
of the family-a higher ideal"
DR.. Thwing holds that the average
Syoman is by nature and training an
excellent trustee OF funds rather than
an Garner; that the proper way for
a home to be run is for the man to
earn and the woman to spend. Men
don't know how to buy. to spend.
Women do. One is always coming
across families headed by men who
are making about SIS day. who are
getting along remarkably well, usual
guy because the man turns over his
Snoney to his wife to save and to
spend as she sees fit"
Dr. Thwing inclines to tho belief
that few women can make home,
care for a family. and have career