The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-24
For Women Readers
in Current Magazines
"HE Pictorial Repieao is inaugural
ing a campaign for Better Mar


number many leading women Of the country
indorse the idea There are forty-eight
varieties of marriage and divorce laws,
and the magazine. with the help of the
women. proposes to put an end to what
the editor terms "a public scandal" Mrs.
.'arrie Chapman Gait thinks we should
perfect the business of mating and that we
should bring to bear upon marriage the
advanced ideas OF science. religion and law.
so that we shall be able to offer to young
men and women a sensible presentation of
the subject Other opinions expressed
come from Mary Garrett Hay. Ida Tarbell,
Mrs Frank A Vanderlip and Miss Alice
Paul. Helen Ring Robinson has some
significant things to say in her article.
How About the Wcman's Bioc?" There
are now in the United States approximately
fifty thousand women holding political
Offices. with not more than thousand
holding positions of Importance Now is
the accepted time for women to run for
Congress-" Congress needs the womans
ts more effective than one, as a lone
woman is handicapped by her conspicuous
ness. Prominent women are quoted. and
the situation here is compared with the
position of women in politics in England.
In an editorial the Pictorial Repielc
offers a prize to the woman's club which
renders the greatest benefit to its COM
munity during the year ending September.
1898 Ida Clyde Clarke. who writes the
editorial. compares the various types OF
women's clubs. In fashionable club in
the South there is a rule that no civic
question shall be discussed during its meet
ings and anything political is instantly
taboo But these old fashioned clubs are
IN the minority, while important work Is
being accomplished by clubs affiliated with
the General Federation. The other special
article to be noted in this number is Arnold
BENEFITS Failing IN Love-" the fifth in
his series. How to Make the Best OF Life"
The man who is bored viii fan in love
more readily than the one who finds ex-
istence fun and interesting. while the man
who has been baked in a love affair win
fan In love the second time within brief
period. Courtships Of reason as well as
marriage or reason appeal TO Mr.. Bennett,
and he believes that judgment and control
should be encouraged in all love affairs.
A campaign for Better Homes in Amer
.ce- is inaugurated by the DeliHeator. and
rns October number emphasizes this sub
ject AS October p is the anniversary
OF the birth Of Theodore Roosevelt, and as
he valued home as the center OF life, the
editors have chosen the month of October
TO start this active campaign. Also it
may be recalled that from October 3 TO IA
will be Better Homes Week for America.
Calvin Coolidge writes Of a Nation OF
Home Owners" ana Herbert Hoover OF
The Home as an Investment Dom
Barber contributes practical article on
The Ideal Small House," with plans that
can be adapted by ones local architect.
Angelo Patri's contribution this month is
on 1.-THE Old School and the New" in
which ne suggests that the new school
freak the old mold OF education. Other
articles. the titles OF which explain their
especial appeal. are Maternal Nursing"
by DR.. L. Emmett Holt; Children OF the
Day" on the value OF rhythm, by Celia
Caroline Cole, and Table Customs" by
Elsie C. Mead
The most important article in the De-
Si9ner for October is What's Prayers?"
by Ethel r. Peyser. The title was sug-
gested By the small boy who. when told
10 say his prayers asked this question.
Hiss Peyser has interviewed the radical
and the liberal mother as well as other
types of mind. and she sums up the situa-