New-York tribune., 1922-11-05


IL nected with it as obsolete in
their turn as the line with
which. Nine. de Stael preludes "Del-
phine" Gun homme peut braver l. opin-
ion; une femme doit sly soumettre." )"
The woman who decides that she can
arrange her life without premise
based on the general outlines of her
mothers habits is no longer freak.
She. is no. in the majority but she has
chance OF becoming the controlling
influence, because she is so active and
eager. Millions Of girls rise early and
go forth TO a long day spent, in the
main, in doing and making things
which concern us greatly. The point
winch comes to the front these days in
private argument and in books is what
the full measure of women's business
ana political achievement is doing TO
the world, whether it is salutaM.
whether the game is worth the candle.
neither to man nor woman alone h,7f
to human ity.
| | Ihere IS a sentimental confusion of
ideas which mixes up children with
humanity. Children, with men and
women, are simply differing stages of
human development and you can't ar
rest that development in any stage
without affecting the general growth.
1t women are to give up all business
and political work so that they may
give all their time to their sons and
daughters, with the understanding that
their. daughters will do the same thing,
then we get back to the assumption
that woman is simply factor in male
development. 1t is just as stupid to
try to run the world for the children
. alone as it is to air silly sophisticated
, phrases about children being acciden-
tai by-products of sex, who must take
. their chances of survival.
/ 1t was John Stuart Mill said that the
power of earning is essential to the
. dignity of woman if she has not in
dependent property. That is the crux
/ of the matter. The power of earning
| IN woman ought to be preserved even
II chiid-bearing takes her out of the
possibility Of earning for stretch of
years. You can't draw large, easy
fitting conclusions that cover all the
cases-or rather you can. but Won can't
be sure they are life-proof. Most
women nowadays who are worth their
salt want that earning capacity, and
the day is dawning when men are going
TO have skeptical eye for the woman
who hasn't it.
The vast majority Of young women
do earn their own living, and the quar-
rel comes over the clash of a perma-
nent full-time job with collaborating
and nurture If woman wants to marry
man and is normal enough to want
TO see the thing through and bear chill
dren. There is real clash now-you
hear echoes of it in the shops and in
the divorce courts, and it furnishes
meat for fiction. There is much ten
dency to stress the case OF the child
less woman or the neglected child or
the man who has been tricked out az 8
comfortable hearth-fire. One alwavs
nnds IT easy to argue from such cases.
regardless Of the thousand and one
minor contributing causes, Inherent in
tne characters Of the peoples which
would nave made them wreck any stu
ssion and render conclusions based on
them beside the point o~ -
when women had families Of twe1va
eniidren, made the soap and washed nv
nand, doHnesticity was full time ioh
ihere are many women for whom ii
femains 50, but it is NO longer true
lor the average woman with three chill
ofen ana an apartment or small house.
with an electrical equipment. There r.
no reason why that average WON an
snouid have to be Put out Of the run-
nlng N the world outside her four
WaHs because she has to knock ofg
activity for from ten TO fifteen years
Whlie her children are small. n n
argued that during these PEARS shs