New Britain herald., 1926-11-10
WOMANS S7ANDON LIFE EXPLAINED
New Haven Convention Listens ! to Message From Illinois

New Haven. Nov. 10 P-A mes sage from woman member of the Illinois legislature, Mrs. J. Paul Goode, featured the morning ses- sion of the annual convention Of the Connecticut League of Women Vot- CTS here today. Mrs. Goode took for her subject let Women Mind Their Own Business" and outlined what she considered was woman's position in the world today.
 "Au the age-long businesses of women are social and they give so- cial training" Mrs. Goode said. The preparation of the food, the mak- ing of the clothing, nursing the sick, teaching the young, caring for the old and feeb,e-al these were stag gering processes in the old days when families were much larger than now and when the processes had to be performed from the raw material to the finished product. All women's time and energy were con- stunned in these burdening processes.
 'No relief came until about 1880, when modern science came into the world and proceeded to standardize many Of these processes. Scientific experimentation answered the ques- ton. that women used to ask each other over the back fence.
 Modern machines could spin and weave and sew and knit with more precision and speed than could the most highly expert woman. Teach ing, nursing. healing the sick be- came expert jobs, standardized, re- quiring specialists training.
 50 here Is where we are now: Nearly all the processes for which women have been responsible in past ages, in which women have always lived and moved and had their being, all gone out from the home to be on the whole better and more cheaply done because done by experts with scientific understanding and with the help of scientific research.
 
 going to let go of responsibility for these processes just because the pro- cesses have gone out from the homes. It is true that we have ne- glected them since the 1SS0's, but not, think. because we are lazy or careless or thoughtless. There are three reasons why for half a cen- tury women have turned aside from these age-old businesses of theirs.
 ."The first reason is tradition. Tradition had it that woman's place was in the home. where surely it had been for all the ages, for until the 1SS0's practically every re- sponsibility of woman's life could he met within the four walls Of the home but there was nothing in recorded history or in literature or in the ideals or teachings of our grandmothers to prepare the new generation of women for a new day, a day of new processes but a new day in which not only these pro- cesses, but also the conditions under which they were performed, must be regulated not by individual women, but by legislation.
 The second reason was because we did not have the tool by which legislation could be affected. the bal lot. Our generation got the ballot, that is we took it when 1t was hand ed to us. the generation before us having made the struggle for it.
 The third reason why we have not been attending to our ase-o1d businesses Is because we have not had the method. Tn all the old days the method was individual. Each housewife. in her own home, if she were energetic and intelligent. might have things right in her own home for her own. No longer Is that pos sible. Quality of food, water, milk. light, air, standards of education, of medical practice, opportunities for