The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-10-20

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~ ALICE LINDSEY WEBB.
| Questions gladly answered. Write
me In care Of the editor.)
The one invincible thing is good
book; neither malice nor stupidity can
crush 1t, says G.. Moore, writing Of "A
Great Poet" in his Impressions and
Opinions"
Is 1t possible for a woman to divide
her life between a business career and
the making of home? Can she give
herself sufficiently to husband and
children, under those circumstances,
to make normal, happy, wholesome
home life? Are not children brought
up by servants, robbed Of an essential
element Of preparation for life; the
ideals and sympathies developed by
constant loving contact with a wise
mother? Void it be better for woman
who recognizes in herself abilities
along a particular professional or
commercial line, to forego the happi-
ness Of married life in order to give
herself to the full development of her
special talent? Must she choose be-
tween love and career? A. s. NJ
Hutchinson thinks she must. In a nov .
81 stronger and wider in its appeal
than IF Winter Comes" (Which by tae
way, Is still most in demand of any
fiction in the public libraries) he has
probed to the heart Of the question of
w0man's liberation from the domina-
ton of domestic duty, This Freedom"
little, Brown. A Boston reviewer OBJ
jects to the title; any but the most OBJ
fuse must see how exactly it points the
central thought Of the book. Tne auth
or raises the question whether 1t is
freedom a business woman gains, or
slavery to an obsession for power and
accomplishment outside the field for
which God specifically created her,
gave her a particular physique and
powers. 1t is not freedom but perver-
sion, not Natures way. The animals do
not desert their young before the wee
things can fend for themselves, or
leave them to the care of others-ex-
cept birds like the European cuckoo.
But who wants to be a cuckoo?
*s%**
Who would suspect the family mar
ket basket of containing a regular
NOah's ark collection Of animals and
people? would never have guessed it
until looked through "Kitters Of the
Kitchen Kingdom" (Little, Brown,
$3.50 by Aunt 10 and Uncle George. In
it George Adams Woods shows how
the children can make a pig out Of
lemon, two calves, and seven snipes OF
cardboard; very presentable chef
from an Irish potato, six raisins and
pins, strip of white paper and It's
sue napkin; an army mules head from
a pear. pins and paper; a realistic
caterpillar from carrot and bits of
loothpicks; and dozen other anus
ing creatures from the common veg
etables and fruits. Paul Browns pic
lures are the best part of the book and
are sure to please the little folks.
Many of the accompanying verses are,
think, rather over the heads of most
children, though they are often decid-
eddy clver. They make much use OF
puns and tropes. The book is certainly
suggestion of new occupation for
little shut-ins, for which it should have
a grateful reception.
"One cannot tell the surprises or
disappointments the, future has in
store, says H. G. Wells in that most
remarkable book of his, THE Outline
Of History" macmillan, So Before
the world State can begin fairly in our
histories, other chapters as yet unsus-
pected may still need to be written, as
long and as full of conflict as our &C
count of the growth and rivalries of
the great powers. There may be tragic
economic struggles, grim grapplings
Of race with race and class with class.
It may be that private enterprise will
refuse to learn the lesson OF service
without some quite catastrophe revo-
luton, and that phase OF confiscation
and amateurish sOcialistfc government
lies before us. We do not know; We
cannot tell. These are unnecessary
disasters, but they may be unavoidable
disasters. Human history becomes
more and more a race between educa-
ton and catastrophe. Against the uni
flying effort of Christendom and
against the unifying influence of the
mechanical revolution catastrophe
won-at least to the extent Of achiev-
ing the great war. We cannot tell yet
how mucn of the winnings Of catas-
trophe still remain to be gathered in.
New falsities may arise and hold men
in some unrighteous and faL.u scheme
/ of order for time, before they col
lapse amidst the misery and slaughter
of generations.
"Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the
world. it seems, progresses and will
progress"
once bought in London a curious
old volume, printed III years ago, en-
titled "The Young Woman's Compan-
ion. or Frugal Housewife. 1t contains
not only 1.-THE most approved methods
of picking, preserving, potting, collar
ing. confectionery" but also "manag-
ing and colouring foreign wines and
spirits, making English wines. com
pounds, ETC." which should give it a
still" greater value in these days. A
recipe for "moonshine" would be found
however, something of disappointment
as the word evidently carried differ.