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mothers Of foreign-born Americans.
Don't think Of these things as
casual charities, to be handled with
a directors meeting twice q month,
the subscription Of spare dollar
and a general sense Of being white
gloved and superior. But get IN I'M
der them, get INTERESTED, ex-
press your own personality through
the lives of the needy-and there
are so many needy!
Go every day, all day. Put your
intelligence, your experience, back
of the problems Of the little slum
mother-the harrassed superintend-
ent of the institution. It will be
great day TO you when, upon the
husband and son saying apologize.
ally, 1--WE won't be back tonight! =
you answer fervently, THANK good
nessl Neither will J."
A hundred years ago our grand
mother, the centers Of big family
units, were doing all these things;
they were making soap and canning
fruit, they were reading TO a blind
old mother, washing a new baby,
cooking, caring for the sick. There
were no hospitals nor trained nurses
in those days, no modern boxed and
canned foods, no bakery" bread.
Now that all these activities have
been taken out Of our houses we
have to 40 out of those houses TO
find them. It's all women's work,
only now we must do 1t in n larger
sense-with the feeling that the
sickest and forlorDest baby. in the
world is our child. after all, and the
stupidest woman our sister and
that IL there is work to be done, 1t
is an honor and a privilege to do 1t.
II / we're that Doctors wife l
would take n course in nursing.
Then / would get job in a hos
pital or sanitarium. There would be
SIS or 500 a month in it-but |
wouldn't do it for that. No REAL
person thinks of that first. And
then some night, when ] was dis
cussing an especially interesting
case in the surgery, / would see a
sudden flash Of interest in that doc
tor.husbands eyes, and / would
have the delight Of realizing that
there was something about his work
that ! had learned before he did
Or better yet, take three years
Of medicine, become a full-hedged
doctor. Perhaps the most you viii
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Hughes Scores Club Womens Plan Revive Whipping Pos

and 1850 six persons were hanged
for burglary: % for robbery, and
one for counterfeiting. Five men
were hanged there for one robbery
in 1888. In 1904 a great reform
was made and the death-penalty re-
served for those who deliberately
inflicted death.
In Massachusetts, In 17s5 robbery
and burglary were made punishable
by death. In 1857, two men were
hanged in South Carolina for coun-
terfeiting.
In Rhode Island in 1888 horse
thief was given III lashes and his
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There Are a Thousand Things for a
Woman to Do; the Word Is
Yearning for Her

ever do is handle his charity cases,
when he is busy. But perhaps YOU
are the medical genius Of the fam
lily. and he is destined some day to
be known as Doctor Smiths hus-
band"
There's no money in 1t, at first?
No. and there wasn't any money in
it for him, at first. But after a few
months--a few years-the library
course, the handling Of the blind,
the nursing, has a funny way Of de-
Yeloping into a real livelihood.
IF we open the new branch, you
wouldn't want 10 be our superin-
tendent there. Mrs. Smith,"
"You couldn't take Miss Whites
place, Mrs. SMITH"
IF we DO send someone TO in
vestigate in Washington, would you
go. Mrs. Smith,
And home goes Mrs. Smith, the
idle. superfluous, unhappy woman
Of a few years ago, trying to mag
inc how she can best tell her men
that she is needed, busy, wanted,
happy
How TO tell the successful doctor,
and the successful little boy, that
she, in her turn. Is a SUCCESS
Full WOMAN.
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strongly 10 my working. He
says that would be a reflection
upon his professional success.
And i can't - l CAN'T take up
gardening, French, needlework,
china collecting or book-binding
for the next thirty years. l
can't hunt for 'busy-work' when
I'm so keen TO do something real.
"What shall / do?"
This is quoted from a letter I
received few weeks ago; it seems
to me a sad letter, unusually sad
because so unusually restrained.
Most Of US rage and storm when
life disappoints US, and are eager
TO lay the blame elsewhere. But
this woman does not; she admits
something has gone wrong some
where, but it seems to me that she
tacitly comedies that it is not neces-
ssrily anyone's fault.
OF course il Is somebody's fault,
or rather the responsibility lies
with a good many somebodies. We
have TO take the world as we find
IL, and make the best Of a pretty
twisted and darkened and stupidity
mismansged Job.
MAN AT FAULT.
In the first place, somebody
should have taught that doctor hus-
band twenty years ago and serious
ness Of bis obligation 10 his wife
when he should have a wife. He
should have been made TO realize
that the girl he would marry some
day would give up her home, her
family. her name, and more often
than not all her old friends, TO
come and keep that first little house
for him.
II their tastes were not naturally
akin, then be should have done his
share 10 MAKE them agree, he
should have found amusements that
she could share. Too many hus-
bands seize upon their young wives
for a year or two, hatter them,
baby them, drain them Of youth and
beauty, and then throw them aside.
SHE SHOULD WORK.
Another thing. Nature intended
this woman 10 bear a child ever two
or three years. Nature intended
that the sex interest that she and
her doctor husband burned out in
a few unrestricted months should
be extended over a period Of many
years. With an increasing nur-
seFy. with the natural intervals Of
bearing and nursing, with the mu-
tual responsibilities, Joys and anI-
ieties Of family, a relationship is
established between a man and
woman that has nothing 10 do with
the first thrilling glory Of young
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Mrs. Norris Says

I CAN'T CANT-ae gardening French, neeework china
collecting bOokbndng the next thirty can't hunt
work when I'm 90 keen to do something real"
the question Of the whose life at home Is not SUI
neientIy demanding to keep her busy.
rather the responsibility lies with
good many somebod take the world find it,
and pretty twisted and dakened and stupidity
msmansged job.
In somebody should have taught that womans
husband obligations his wife
naturally akin then he should have done
MAKE them
Her salvation Of Iies-in work.
Unappness and the Of being unsaied in this life
exactly ONE that the when
we in the mirror.
njusts that life does surely Of the most
cruel making happy
lives GIVE, the only unhappy those that insist
upon TAKING.
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Truths

A n innocent girl is one who.
n when told to use rouge for her
complexion, asks how many spoon
fuls should be taken Mt a time.
do not think the moon has as
strong an effect on the tide as it
has on the united.
Another of the very desirable fea-
lures of honesty is that practically
no confederates are needed to carry
Il out.
Many a woman has shattered her
ideal by marrying him.
THE one thing an idle rumor
never does is to remain idle"
About the only thing we all make
but don't Drag about arc-mistakes.
A famous Partisan dancers neither
limbs were recently insured for
S1,000,000. Now, without a leg to
stand on, she'd have means Of sup
port.
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love, and yet that is a sweeter and
holier thing.
Modern civilization bans the full
nursery, and that's another ques-
ton after all. The only reason
/ mention It here is that it Is one
more condition, with the making
of which she had nothing to do. and
yet that tells against this womnn's
unhappiness.
SALVATION WORK.
And for a third thing, what
RIGHT has this husband 20 decree
that because he is successful in HIS
work, she shall do no work az allE
IT seems 10 me a very stupid woman
nowadays who meekly agrees with
any such despotic ruling as that.
He wants & servant in the house
indeed il Is almost an indispensable
condition in a doctors family. And
he wantg his wife 10 be sitting
about idle, walking dainty and
fresh through the streets, reading
novels, playing cards.
All these things are bitter in
justices 10 modern wives, and until
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serious play. he likes poker, fights,
mems dinners, golf, and his car; !
seem no longer 10 have any share
in his amuscments, and as he is a
successful doctor. his hours are long,
and his time at home irregular and
brief. He wants me TO have a good
servant, and be is very LOginatic
about the education Of our soa, OBJ
jecting to any interruption or as
sistance from me with the boys
lessons. For the past year he has
been taking the little boy off with
him TO the country club on Satur-
day nights, for shooting, fishing,
camping, golf.
81 am 80. ] find myself alone,
Sunday after Sunday, in a quiet,
orderly house, with a good servant
doing all the real work, my men
gone, and my hands empty. Ny
husband says that he will get me 2
little motor car Of my own, if !
like, but we live in a small town,
and ! like walking. II seems un-
necessary unless ! find something
worth while 10 do with il.
Lastly, my husband objects
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Legs Are Just Legs

4 EGs are no longer limbs
- they're legs.
And moreover, girls are going TO
wear 'em bare.
A noted British eyolutionist said
the other day that 1000 years from
now women would be wearing trous-
ers. He was kidding himself, be-
cause he knows as well as every.
BODY else that many women have
adopted trousers already and feel
more ct home In them than they do
IL skirts.
The eTolutionist didn't make any
prediction about how soon the girls
would discard stockings for keeps
Rnd adopt bare legs IN lieu thereof.
4erhsps If anyone asked him, he'd
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can imagine the fine effect on the
future life of a woman who has
been stripped and flogged before
crowd. 1t made a charming spec
tacle for the children and the loaf
ers; but the lady, of course, was
convinced that anything she did to
the world after that was paid for in
advance by her mangled flesh and
her degraded soul.
In 1882 in an American prison a
woman was flogged to death. The
overseers themselves in our early
prisons dashed men who merely
looked up from their work.
The whip was the great comfort
and cure-all of our forefathers. As
George Ives says, in his History of
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claim that the sockless age is al.
ready with us.
Fashion designers have already
heralded bare legs and sealskins for
the coming winter season. Six
months from now the chances are
WE'LL see Fifth avenue filled with
girls in $1,000 fur coats, and pro-
truding beneath each coat will be
legs just as bare as those that took
Mother Eve On her daily jaunts
in the Garden Of Eden.
Even today. stockings are woven
so nearly sdn-color that the men
are getting eye-gtrain and still are
unable 20 tell whether or not the
girls are bare-legged.
Evolution hasn't got far TO 20
70 give US girls with pure skin IN
dcrpinnings.
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Let Her Forget Her Husband, and to
an Extent Her Children and
Forget Her Wrongs
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

sSyLIE have been married eleven
w years. ! suppose in the very
beginning we were infatuated with
each other, certainly we were abb
solutely happy when it came TO
finding our little apartment, and
having our first Sunday dinner par
ties.
The family laughed at us when
we said we were made for each
other, and that our love was unique.
They predicted that all that TO-
mantle side Of life would pass. And
il passed.
I'VE have our little boy Of nine.
In every other way we have grown
apart, our tastes and interests are
absolutely different. We are po-
lite 10 each other-I am conscious
that J am always trying 20 be con-
siderate Of John, and / think be
tries TO make allowances for my
different point of view. But that
is all.
is LEFT ALONE. E..
she likes the theaters. especial
II movies and vaudeville shows, and
I like only an occasional opera or
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happy Married Women Find Their Salvation in Their Wor

just, the goodness Of herself, the
badness of him.
For unhappiness and the sense
of being unsatisfied, in. this life, are
created by exactly ONE person, and
that is the person we see when we
look in the mirror. THERE is her
enemy, there is the culprit to whom
she ought to address her re-
proaches.
What does it matter IL the doctor
Is busy, selfish and neglectful, and
the little boy growing to the age
when he does not need babying any
longer? They are outsiders, 1t is
she herself who is making her life
dull and empty and useless, after
all. She has been trying to live
their lives, not her own-or rather,
she has been trying to extract from
their lives what will make her own
more interesting.
IL they refuse it, she is all the
more free. There are thousand
things for this woman to do-the
world is aching for her, yearning for
her. hungry for her.
But on one condition. And OF all
the injustices that life does us, sure
~ one of the most cruel is in max
ing it so hard for us to understand
that the only happy lives are those
that give, the only unhappy ones
those that insist upon taking.
She is like a person who goes on
and on spooning sea water into
hole in the sand. II keep working
and working. and 1t never shows"
she says psthetically; nobody pays
me for it-nobody seems TO care"
HELP THE ORPHANS.
She puts flowers on the table,
and the doctor doesn't notice them
ms he snatches his lunch. She makes
fudge for the little boy, and he
rushes in only long enough to know
IL he can 20 over to Georges.
But out at the Orphan Asylum
there is a little girl Of three crying
because the only doll she ever had
or ever will have is broken. And
at the Home for the Aged Blind
there is a sanity old woman wait
ing for one of the busy attendants
70 have time to write a letter for
her. And down by the mill there Is
a young woman lying flat, with her
fourth baby beside her, and the
other three babies scrambling and
crying and hungry and unwashed
on the cold floor.
In the hospital wards there are
superintendents who are praying for
lust one extra pair Of reliable hands.
Girls clubs are eager for sympathet-
ie guardians and matrons, milk
bureaus are empty because they
can't find the right woman to meas
ure and weigh and advise the young
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The Whip Is the Oldest Failure in the
Form of Torture in the His
tory of Mankind
By RUPERT HUGHES

"A THRILL of positive horror
"A chilled my blood the other day
when / read that Mrs. Blank, presi-
dent of a local branch Of the Fed
GRAFTON of Womcn's Clubs in one
of our most important mid-western
cities, permitted herself to say and
TO be quoted as saying that she be-
lieved it would be well to revive the
whipping post as a curb for Ger
tain forms of wickedness.
This shows how little we seem to
emerge from the dark ages; how
few of us want to get out; and
how many of US go right back at
the first opportunity.
For if there were ever a proof
that we are evolved from jungle
beasts by way of jungle savages,
the lust for the blood of prisoners
is conclisiye evidence; and it never
fails. The moment a scientific stu
dent of the facts of criminoloTy, or
a sympathetic advocate of sanity
in dealing with lawbreakers, lifts a
voice in protest against some bar
barrie cruelty, certain people begin
to snarl "sob-squad stuff"
They say: IF you have so much
pity for the murderer, why don't
you have a little pity for the MUIR
dered man and his wife and chill
dren?"
This is always considered
crushing retort. 1t has one fatal
weakness. 1t is based on the idiotic
theory that a person can have only
so much pity in his system, and
that if he pities John he can have
no pity left for Jim and Jane and
Jack and Jill. But pity grows by
exercise. Like appetite, it increases
~ lne tnlng IL IeedS on.
AN OLD FAILURE.
There are misers of sympathy
who squeeze out a kind thought as
an avaricious soul sweats out a
penny. The tear that goes with it
is not a tear OF sympathy but a
tear of suffering for the pain of
giving down a gentle thought.
If the whipping post were a new
idea. like some Of these cures for
cancer that are announced every
day and forgotten, it might be
worth trying. Nearly everything is
worth trying once.
But the whip is perhaps the old
est failure. in the form of torture,
in the history Of mankind. 1t has
been tried on nearly every type of
person and has been finally dropped
because of the CHASTITY futility of
il. The usual form of whipping is
TO tie somebody to a post, strip his
or her back, and then go to it with
a lash.
The whipper seems to derive such
voluptuous pleasure from the exer-
else that it viii always appeal to a
certain type Of sensuality we'll
known under the name of Sadism,
from the infamous Marquis de Sade,
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WHIP IN DELAWARE.

In the name of heaven, hell, or
humanity, how much blood must be
spilled before the good people learn
that blood-letting is bad medicine
and never cured anybody of any
thing!
1t is a shameful thing that in this
land of liberty, the whipping-post
still is in vogue in one state, Della
ware. But then it was in Delaware
that Upton Sinclair was kept in Jail
for thirty days for playing golf on
Saturday. In Delaware alone it is
only a misdemeanor for a husband
to kill a man he finds with his wife.
If the whipping-post were such a
good thing, why was it given up in
every state except Delaware? Who
ever heard Delaware referred to as
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property confiscated. Strangely,
that much-recommended whipping
did so little good that he set fire
to his cell; whereupon he was
branded with an A flor arson) on
both cheeks and banished.
Two years later IN Massachusetts,,
they kept a man who made fifty
counterfeit dollars on the gallows
for an hour, gave him twenty lashes,
cut off his left arm and sent him to
hard labor for three years. In Con-
necticut a perjurer was branded on
the forehead and condemned to wear
a halter for the rest of he life.
And yet life was not perfect in
fhnsn etntns
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a very pious gentleman who wrote
and practiced torture as form OF
delight.
WEAK HELP THE STRONG.
The ancient Assyrians fayed some
Of their captives alive. Like all
ancient peoples they used the lash
with great generosity; but the COM
parative cruelty Of the Assyrians
vanishes as we learn more of their
history. The Assyrians up till re-
Gently had the misfortune to be
known only through the histories of
their enemies and the people they
defeated. OF late years we have re-
covered countless records of theirs
and a most eminent historian says:
There is not an Assyrian atrocity
which has not its parallel or its
equivalent in the civilized history
of the last hundred years" He finds
that in many things our record is
infinitely worse.
He points out that slavery in
Assyria "was less severe than what
existed all over the Christian world
hundred years ago. Woman had
lower position in Assyria than she
had in Babylon, but at that she
had more privileges than were hers
legally in most parts of the Chris
tian world century ago."
1t is the more terrible to find an
American woman Of our day advo-
eating a return to the bloody lash,
whose bloody resounding failures
disheartened the Assyrians. The
Babylonian king Hammurabi's code
Of laws, which is IN our possession
and is known to have been promul-
gated about six hundred years before
the dates usually given to Moses,
declares the purpose of laws to be
$50 that the strong should not in
jure the weak"
What a glorious ideal, The au-
thor of it was born in the year
2124 B. C-and in the year 1925
A. Dor more than three thousand
years later, a clubwoman in free
America rises and demands that
lawbreakers shall be tied up and
whipped.
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WHIPPING is COMMON.

When whipping was in fashion,
women usually got their fair share
of it. 1t was about the only public
privilege in which the men allowed
them equality.
It was the commonest thing mag
Unable to strip women thieves to the
waist and give them 30 or more
lashes on the back, publicly. You
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the New Jerusalem Of perfect yir-
tue?
Let Delaware keep her great dis
tinction as the only state where bru-
tally is practiced by the officers of
the law.
PUT MANY TO DEATH.
In Blackstone's time there were
100 crimes punishable with death.
There was a girl in her teens whose
husband was shanghaied into the
navy, leaving her with two babies to
support; she started to steal piece
of linen, but seeing that she was
watched, put it back. She was ar
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hibition against "cruel and unusual
punishments" Delaware Congress-
man pleaded that the investigation
be dropped, because the whipping
post was used for putting a stop to
wife beating and other crimes
against women.
As matter of fact, according to
Bailey Willard, it is applied to four
teen offenses. He describes the hor-
ror of seeing a hobo who had stolen
pair Of shoes, receive 20 lashes.
Women were whipped in Della
ware up to 1880. The lash is now
used there chiefly to keep tramps
out of the state.
WHIP THE WHIPPERS.
Thus it is that cruel punishments
are gradually extended far beyond
their original purposes. There might
be some poetic justice in whipping
wife heaters. But the Mosaic law
of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a
tooth. was discarded as bad morals
and bad gospel centuries ago.
The whipping post takes an eye
for fingernail, tooth for
bruise. 1t is disgrace to a civil
lied country. And the only person I
can think of who really ought to be
whipped Is the person who believes
in whipping. Perhaps if this club
president and this Y. NJ. G. A.
leader were stripped to the waist
and tied to two posts in Delaware
perhaps at about the fifth or sixth
blow, they would cry:
an mercy's name, spare me! The
effect of the whip is not so soul
sweetening as / thought"
I never was more moved by an
orator than once by Thomas Lee
Woolwine, a district attorney for
Los Angeles, who ran twice for
governor of California. He has Just
died, and I remember the wild pas
sion of his tone when he described
what he felt when he was prose-
cutting a certain organization that
threatened to take him out and
whip him till he dropped. he cried
aloud from the platform:
II said to those men, I have
sawed-off shotgun in my home, and
when you come for me / will meet
you and pile you up like cord wood
in my front yard. But If there are
still enough Of you left to take me,
then I beg you to kill me on my
doorstep. Kill me, but don't whip
me. For there Is something about
the whiplash that scars the very
soul of a man forever. He never
can lift his head again after he is
whipped. SO kill me IL you must
and can; but don't lay the whip on
me !"
REFORM YOURSELVES! r.
Let those who want to lash their
fellow-beings stand forth and admit
that their hearts are fierce with
lust to tear and blister those they
hate. But let them wear none OF
those masks of lofty idealism that
have covered so many diabolic grim
aces.
For how can one advocate in the
name of humanity something that
outrages the very name Of human
ity?
How can people call themselves
good citizens and claim the right to
punish when their stubborn souls
will learn nothing from thousands
of years of history? They make
themselves fools and fiends and
defy all the lessons of time and
then expect to teach a poor criminal
to love them and their wisdom by
making a red network Of his bleed
ing flesh.
Reform your own souls first,
ladies and gentlemen who believe in
the lash.
Copyright, 1925, by the Bell Syn
dictate, Incl