New Britain herald., 1929-07-05
Women Find Self-Expression in New Searchfor Culture

Chautaqua Lake. N. Y, July , - Woman's triumphant march out of the home into successful business and professional careers has been | the topic Of many articles.
 Nothing. however, crystallizes her progress and summarizes the chang | ing world as ably as a mere listing of woman's vital interests today in | comparison 10 what her sex was thinking about and doing with her | day a half century ago.
 A perfect example of this very | thing, in it's way, is inc 56th sea- son of Chautauqua held here. The women's activities give vivid cross section of the diversity and scope of modern woman's outlook on | life.
 When Chautauqua began in 1873 autos, movies, radios, womens mag azines, airplanes, electric washers, | vacuum cleaners, mechanical re | frigeration and a million other leis- ure making devices and leisure H. | ing pleasures were undreamed of, | Women's place literally was in the | home and her interests were her husband children and church.
 Seek Wider Knowledge Today, 15.000,0OO women are out side the home, in gainful occupa- lions, taking with them their spirit ual and humane interests and their | desire for wider knowledge and eX- perience. All Of this is reflected in the prominent part women's pro- grams play on the Chautauqua plan. Strikingly is it portrayer by the fine, | forceful types of women speakers and the subjects of their addresses. | Under the general topic of Train irg for Leadership and World Con- ditions," all of today's economic, so- cial, religious, philosophic and cul tural life is rigntyl discussed Even | fashions have their place, The women speaking are authorities in | their fields.
 Ruth Bryan Owen, for instance. speaks of women in politics, not as one conducting the possibilities of her sex in politics. but with the au- thority of a successfully elected l.. s. congrcswoman from Florida. Amelia Earhart, flying 10 Chautau- qua, is an example by dead and word of the fact that women are in the air to stay, making definite Contri- buttons 10 aviations development The way women have gone into finance and ably mastered it's nitric acies is dealt with in a conference conducted on the subject. The gen eral acceptance of today's woman as a home maker and Careerist simul- taneously is eXemplfied by Mrs | Franklin D. Roosevelt, first lady Of the state of New York, who gives the general welcome.
 Perhaps the farthest cry from that first ChautauqUa comes in the sub
 :ect of Heath, Vitality and Self
 Expression" What would those first Chautauquans have thought of to. days women who crave 'self-cHpres- sion,' a term they never heard oI and would not have prehended
 Today's attitude that women owe i
 to themselves. families and co-Work,
 CTS to be as healthy and attractive
 as possible would have been start
 lng, also, 10 those women whose
 idea of d lady was one who faintet
 when startled and 10 whom mer,
 mention of personal looks and tn,
 care of ones body seemed immodest
 Peace and the part women ma, play in bringing it 10 the world in
 cludes such able speakers as Carri,
 Chapman Catt. international,
 known for her staunch advocacy O
 world peace. Mrs. Ben Hooper 0 Oshkosh, Wis. who speaks on 9Th,
 World Outlook Today" subject in,
 dicative of the study and considcra
 lion American women are giving
 contemporary international political
 economic and social problems.
 Hove Mere Leisure Now
 Very new and very modern is tn,
 line followed by Mrs. John F. Sip pei, president of the General Feeder
 alton of Women's clubs, in her tall on leadership. A worker for man,
 years with rural women, Mrs. Sippe
 has seen the dreary farm worl frightened a thouSandfold by mechan !cal inventions. seen women who us cd never to have time 10 sit dow Gnd rock a second now find tim hanging on their hands. The use o leisure, therefore, becomes one 0
 the nations most important prob lens in her mind. Leadership comes through fitn, ss, she maintains and only by utilizing leisure fo
 study and reflection can that ftneS
 be developed. She would have wom
 on outlines courses of cultural de Nelopment and study current event
 also.
 Of course modern youth and ii problems ire discussed. social hy Gienc, and modern morals in rrla
 ton ot it. and even the need ant effect of puDhclty on successes. II other words. the ChautauQua prove that instead of being confined t ,, women's pages today, woman's inter
 est runs from cover to cover of an
 paper or magazine, enters all busi ness and professions. and is mightil
 concerned with civic. and nationa , and international we'll being and abl to have responsibilities in the same
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