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THE OREGON SUNDAY' JOURNAL PORTLAND; SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, 1310.
-ROMAN'S EXTRAVAGANCE RUINING NATION
'lr,""Jofin A. topra" Males' an Amazing Arraignment of Her Sex to Edward MarshallWaste ? of .Their
Husband's 3 Louey ou.Dress, on Automobiles, and in Countless Other Ways, Is Wrecking the Cbarao
tor of the Sox, Pestrojrins the Chances of Its Rons and Daughters, and Itulninjr Woman's Health.
man blush, ' in other years, no Increase I United States. Fashionable women!
'. By Edward Marshall. '
(Coj yrlght, 1910, by C. J. Mar, Pub
lishers' Frees.) 1 -
-EKK is a, talk on; women, by a
woman,...' which every woman
should read carefully. Even'
M man is sure to. .
' "Women are tar more r-fipon-FiMe
for the morula and imniOrals of
communities and for the welfare pf the
nation than men can ever be.. If either
roally goes wrong, the fault is, really,
woman's."
Mrs John A. Logan said this, and
Mrs. John A. LoRan is one of the most
interesting of the sex she criticizes.
As her husband. General .Loffan; was a
leader in the Civil war, .so Mrs; Logari
has, for many years, been a leader. In
wliathas sometimes, been a most un
- civil war wajred In the realm of woman's
thought in the United .States.
"As children are brought up, o goes
the .nation. ; That Is woman's work, and
the women of today are shirking it";
Thus ran another, of , the trenchant
, things she said to me, and as she saUf
it, she sadly; shook ;ber-head;:' .That
, head is one of: the most -remarkable,
I have ever seen. I can well believe, the
statements that when she was a girl
she was the reignins belle in her part
of Kentucky, where' and' when to be a
reigning belle meant something. 1 She
frankly states that she- was torn in
1S3S- one canont think of her as other
wise than frank In any statement and,
of course, hef hair is white. I doubt
if it could possibly have been ns beau
tiful when t , was dark and ehe was
'; young. ' , ' 5-' ''' 'f-' ',' ' '
What she had tq say.: that evening, is
very much worth reading, for it is tho
output of-a well trained mind, wonder1;
fully stored by such a wide experience
n.i few if any other women in' America
have had. ' A-Mlssourian by birth, edu
cated in a convent in Kentucky, married
when she was 17, to a man who after
wards proved a mighty figure injthe na
tion's -politics as well as on its. battlefields,-,
a woman of unique experience
in "Washington, New York and Euro
pean social ;', centers, a writer of re
nown, she occupies an 'extraordinary
place in American life. Add to (these
concrete claims to eminence, the fact
that, weeping, but without protest, she
saw her only son (I knew him, as did
thousands, as Major "Jack'' Logan, and
everybody loved him) depart for Porto
Eico in his country's service, whence.
presently, she had the word that he had
died in galiant action while . fighting
for the flag, and she is seen' to have a
very actual sentimental claim as well.
All the united States, must honor Mrs
Logan. The readers of this newspaper
can scarcely fall to.glve this record of
' her notable opinions respect and more
than ordinary interest '
There may be some among the women
who will read it who will shrink a lit
tle even much from the plain truths
she t peaks, but a far' greater number,
probably, will stop and think'and won
der at her logic and her courage.. ... .
Woman's' tba.Btal Responsibility.
, "There are Certain of, this life's 're
sponsibilities, " said' Mrs. Logan, "which
women must accept .Man is and must
be occupied In earning, for -hist family,
its livelihood. V That Is primary, and,
of course. Important But woman has
the more Important tar.k of teaching
that same family how best to live.: The
man takes his .responsibility, and, 1 In
the mitfn,- in one way or another, meets
it creditably. " The women of this day
and generation is shirking hers, I fear.
"The children of today are the,-men
and women of tomorrow, and the men
and women of tomorrow will be the na
tion oi me xurare. . xne "women or ims
country have done, as much as men
nave to accomplish ail the creditable
things which make up onr vast na
tional achievements, but but but are
they keeping : up, in these days, the
marvelously fine record of theiri past? '
"Women have neglected opportunities,
are neglecting opportunities. They are
becoming careless, mentally supine and
morally slipshod, v Where they should
feel the vast responsibility of setting
good examples to the youth of both
sexes, they are, drifting Into number
less 'small' vices., They are becoming
tipplers, they are . becoming gamblers.
No woman has a right to drink cock
tails or to play cards for money: Men
Ijava tint thnnA ritrhim Tniifr wnmcMavnn
- - .0..w, w .
more especially, should hold themselves
above such things. No woman can, con.
slstently, preach temperance, or "purity,
or virtue to her children. If ahe,when
not with them, participates, in any of
the Tittle'; vices. .: .v;. ".- .?-.,"
"I was , delighted when I heard, the
other day, that ; Mrs, Taft had erlmi-
naiwu x njm nr visiung use au women
whom she knew were gamblers. That
was a notably good thing for the .Tirst
lady of this land' to do; and, also, she
objects to women who smoke. Particu
larly she objects to cigarettes. from
tbe two vices of intemperance and
smoking tho American woman has kept
clearer than the women of some other
nations, and for this deserve all honor;
but, of late, there' has been a relaxation
In our standards in these two regards.
For one, I-make all haste to signify
that I pay homage to tbe lady of the
White House who is doing, what she
can to put a stop to this alarming tend
ency. . :',' v? .';,'. 'f ;-:''?'C'--;.
"Intemperance has been a curse in
Washington. I went to Washington la
1S5S. As General Logan's wife I was
thrown much into association with the
great men of a lengthy period ?of years.
Among these I have seen, liquor work
groat havoc. Drinking', has been re
sponsible for national blunders, mora
than once, and for women to participate
In It that shocks me. r The dissipation
of important men, both -north and south
luid much to do with bringing on the
Civil war, -Those were days of rank
Sntomperanco. Members .appeared upon
the floor, armed, secretly, and one often
found in talking to them, that they
wore irrational from liquor. How many
lives did that war count f How many
homes did it lay desolate? I don't mean
to say that liquor was its only cause,
but there are few disasters, national or
leser, to which it is not a contributing
In fl uence. ; Tha thought that women
Khould encourage it . and foster it by
their example is. to tne.w-abhorreiit :
Temptations Stronger Sow Than Cvr.
"Women, to help the nation,' most not
encourage vice. but fight it -every de
tail of it. The natural progress of the
time has reached Such high speed- that
St wears and tears iand makes men,
Ktrained beyond their strength, .crave
stimulant .: This ' has relaxed.restraint.
Hut women should not help to . tear
down pafognards;' -they should hein to
im.hu vimui. iiio leuuency, toward tip
j.ilng amonjr women In this country is
booming strongly ,markod enough to
i -I nl -,f it ratlonaf o, speak; of it as nat
": ' 8ve .menacA:'sNot -only
;:r t! women drinking; more and more
' ' v oar- 1 thay are permitting.'evon
b iy teaching thoir. children' to : do
i ; ; ,v ie. I have known 'of mothers
wi.o K-ive their chlldretn--littla babies
liquor as a mcajiBf quieting them and
kci'iig.'Uem from Wsing bothersome,"
im4 m-tcvT th'frwrrnrtir'Brtt
ih public-hotifea, and mentioned this to
Mrn. l.oi;an.- ' "'''.':'
'Vch, 'I kno. aid she. ' "And it is
vory drcajfnl the way the WoTnen of
Use nntlsh .)um-ctas takes hr babies
to th rublic-houHc sod gives them gin
to utiipify (hem into qtiSet: but they are
C;-ia of the slum, witf h.ive hud few
' : C "
Mrs. John A. Logan.'
advantages, and may be said to sin
through ignorance, ;. The j women in
America who do essentially . the same
thing the women I referred to have
not ignorance to excuse them. Working
women do it in this country, possibly;
but there are 'ladles here, who do it,
too. ;
; "There is something wrong With 'the
American woman of this generation,
and the fault Is growing. Women dont
appreciate their opportunities, and the
proper effort is not being made to teach
them how to do so. . American boarding-schools
do notteach girla -how to
becomegood wives and mothers; their
own mothers do not teach them the
great - lessons of responsibility. .-The
American girl of now docs not get right
instruction in the schols or In her home.
If she does not, in some measure, make
a failure of life, it Js because of Innate
ijoodness, and that innate goodness will
become loss likely as time passes if cor
rection is not made in ' some directions.
family j life, in the United States, is
failing, and It is the women's fault.
If the men are showing a strong ten
dency to put' their wives -out of their
actuat lives,, the women . must accept
the, crime.- . : - , t
-XThtf the Husband's Tault Zilaa.
"I was married when I was seventeen
and my husband, from the first made
me an actual part of bis career.' I bad
had an education when ! married him,
but I was very ignorant Many edu
cated girls are pitifully ignorant While
my husband lived he taught me some
thing every day, and I've learned noth
ing since the died which he had not
first taught me. We shared everything.
He did not hesitate to let me take my
part of the responsibilities . of. life; I
think. 1 did not shirk it 1 One thing
which has assisted in the deterioration
of our women is that their husband's
have perhaps shown' an increasing ten
dency to' shut them from participation
In a large part of their lives; .but
there again at base. I fancy It is very
largely the wife's fault. If they showed
the proper interest In what their hfua
baad8 Uvea are filled With, they would
not be shut out from participation..
"Women do not realize in these days
their power for good; if they know it
then they pitifully lack courage. When
Mr. Hayes waa , in . the White House
she was a real power in the land. , She
would not yield her principles, , al
though, when she refused to have wine
served at diplomatic dinners, she was
very, widely.; criticised. . That ;, woman
reallyidld good. . No one ever, went to
her -for help for, any worthy cause who
did not get it; knowingly she never
countenance one otherwise than worthy.
She was a president's. wife who left
behind her almost as great a reputation
as her husband and Mrs. Taft, who
frowns on. gambling, ' and Miss Taft,
who taboos , women-smokers are both
doing really good service to the country,
; . Extravagance of Women. :
"And there are other ways In which
the modern .woman is becoming weak,
becoming far less admirable, in this
country, than the women of past gen
erations. Her undoubted .tendency to
ward ; liquor 1 and tobacco - are by no
means - all she- may- be indicted - for.
There is, for instance, her astonish
ing, her deplorable extravagance. Wom
en are responsible for half the business
failures, probably; they drag their men
to ruin by their sinful waste, the mad!
rapacity of their demands for more,!
more, more. They must h.ve gowns,
they must have costly , furniture, they
must have this, they must have that
whether or not their - husbands ', have
the money for the purchases, If they've
not, the money, let them go in debtl
What -matter if debt is a mill-stone
tied to a man's neck? The wife must
have her silly luxUBiea, in spite of that
in spite of everything. Fashion! The
modern woman is pursuing fashion to
tho very brink : of ruin and beyond,
And almost always she is dragging some
aevotea man aowni to flestructlpn with
her,' One reason why the Bisters'
schools have been so eminently success.
ful in turning out fine women is that
love of gewgaws, love of foolish fash
ion, is not Included in the. courses which
t hey. teach. , In such. schools girls must
wear a sort of uniform, and that rule
should be adopted in every boarding
echoou . The choice i should ',be. ; of
course, a neat and pretty .garb, "but
school gowns should be absolutely cheap
and simple,-,4 If cheap and simple frocks
were mandatory in all boarding schools,
those schools would turn, out. better
women, better fitted 'to , be wives Jthan
those who now are 'S-raduatinir from
them: They would turn out girls' with
wit;i.-vci uifti-iuaiLiuua,. luu. , .. yue. Of tntS
chief reasons for heart-purnlng would
be done away with,' and heart-burnings
often sour sweets natures, -We ,have
schools for boys in which the pupils
must wear uniforms. , Our1 military
schools do, not turn oiit a crop of fool
ish dandlos. Why not have uniforms in
fclrls n-hooIs, too? ' In tho convent
of intelligence is indicated. Far frpm
jit! -- v ,, v-.: ' .
! "There le ah opportunity in this for
women who are filled with the desire to
! 'reform' something. . 1 1 ; do not decry., at
j all, the honest efforts of any woman
along any 'line which, honestly, ; she
things, reformatory. Woman cannot
think and Work too much to bring about
the betterment: of any Of the world's
conditions; but charity begins at home
and there is a great , opportunity for
earnest women to commence the labor
of reforming the insane extravagance
of their own sex in cash expenditure,
andjn the exhibitions which they make
of their own selves, from time to time.
in roeetinr? fashion's latest "whim.
"Whim!' These are no whims that make
the whole sex dress Itself ..like simple
tons or sinners. They are the bunko
games of clever manufacturers and cyn
ical modistes Whowish to lorce upon
the sex the purchase of new outfits, pe
riodically, which are not . In the least
necessaryv-- v.--. '' ',-'.'':'
The Hobble Skirt insanity.
""I cannot "see why women of plain
sense should hot and do not band them
selves together to put down' such disas
trously recurrent manias,!;- Sensible wo
men are not. rare, they ! could do this if
thev wouldi by doing it they;would be
wondrously advancing their own com
fort, theln own -'dignity: anfl, the- actual
'. welfare of the race. What could be
more utterly- absurd, 'and, ( worse, more
. harmful, Ih- a dozen ways,, than the hobi
We skirt of .1910? I've seen jin , New
r York . City ' women, dressed f in hobble
i skirts Who not only, made them silly
and lmmoral exhibitions, but made them
i wholly miserable, as well.. Most of the
extremes of .fashion hurt the health In
one way .or another,, but " these hobbl
skirts distinctly hamper ordlnary eese
of locomotion. , I've seen women, and
this is not at all an exaggerated state
ment; who could not get on a streetcar
because' their feet were bound too close
ly to make the step-up from the pave
ment to the platform step a possibility.
I will not comment further on the mor
als of the costume. It. has none. But
what an Idiotic thing to so restrict one's
movements that (he ordinary little nec
essary movements of progression on the
street become impossible, in 7 order' to
live up to the silly dictates of a crasy
fashion plate! , t
"It is all such a tremendous waste of
money, waste of brains and waste iOf
morals!-.. -, '
"And it is a waste of morals other
than the women's own. ' All these things
mean extravagance and extravagance in
women , means hard times for the men.
The extravagance of women often drives
men to. bad things. There are few days
when the newepspera do .tnot,; beneath
big headlines, chronicle the downfall of
some man, , led into his wrongdoing by
his efforts to supply a Woman with the
foolish, therefore sinful, " things ' She
craved. ! Extravagance , Bends, every
year, a multitude ot men to prison; It
sends other men to early graves. , It is
very serious and worthy of . deep
thought, continual' discussion. .
Ulreot rffect Xt Has on Women.'
"And if it has this terrible effect on
men, and indirectly,-what effect must it
have on. the .women themselves, directly.
These silly, fashions lead them further
than to demanding of the men who- lov
them i and for whom they should show
constant, and comprehensive, considera
tion, more money than they can afford,
mors money than they can. legitimately.
give them.. , They Jead them into doing
things, themselves, and' often dreadful
things; Which, If they were not nerm.
ated with the mad extravagance born of
mis rasnion silliness, they never would
consider doing. - If we knew how many
women wiu, mis year, sell their very
souls for hobble skirts! Unnecessary
furs,: Unnecessary , Jewelry unnecessary
gew-gaws of a thousand different and
pltlfnl varieties are the price whir
women barter all teir is good In them,
annually, , for. . ,vj A .
! "The spectacle la dreadful. Contem
plation of it turns the heart sick. The
woman who- is slave to fashion cannot
be ? the handmaiden of the old fash
ioned Virtues. The woman in -whose
mind the latest fashion occupies first
place is sure, to find herself unwilling,
even quite unable, to concentrate upon
the really important matters Of her life.
Such women cannot be good .wives, they
cannot be good mothers, good members
of society. ; For downright, unadulter
ated selfishness the woman who thinks
constantly of fashion and of how to
keep up with the times tn dress, . is
absolutely nnapproached.
... s:, , Suffers la the End. - -
And she suffers for it, in the end
the woman does, herself. .If her' hus
band is involved in ruin, she must share
the wreck.; If she drags some man. to
whom she la not wed down to destruc
tion, she goes with him and goes far
ther .than he goes. Bitter sorrow and
remorse must Inevitably be the end of
it sorrow for the Individual at first
and, later, sorrow for the nation which
is gangrened by the poison of her aggre
gate extravagance, her aggregate neg
lect of duties as a Wife and mother.
"Women compromise themselves, eoa.
tlnually, in order to get means where
with to gratify their tastes, and, 'after
tney have gratified them, find that thev
have paid out everything and hate been
given nothing in return. The lebble
skirt is doing more than hamper women
aa they try to step up to the street car
platforms; it is hampering them as they
try to step up to a higher plane of
brain and morals. ;, I think that if a cer
tain class of women In this country had
more,Courage and would carry. out what
they know well to be the bounden duty
of their- sex, they might . do a vast
amount to rectify the pitiful conditions.
They might change the situation .greatly
by becoming leaders in the virtues in
stead of leaders In the vices and there
are women of position,- in society atut,
.I.Mth n a ,,1. , 1 . 1 1 . Wm "
n-nu iQ uivrvuij iiiau. ii Tine
nation's mentally strong women would
actually band together with .this great
result in view, tremendous thinars con id
be accomplished and accomplished quick
ly. . Men follow able leadersas, sheep
do; and women are much more f like
sheep than men are, as is plainly shown
by their devotion, slavish and complete,
to the leadership of the unworthy in
this matter of extravagance in? dress
and other things; The majority? of wo
men are still weak and loadable, v Why
do not the strong ones of " the sex take
advantage of this fact and give them
leadership which will deliver them from
the morass of their ' extravagance and
i foolishness? ' i
Great leaders Among Women.
."There have been great leaders among
women. Think Of grand old Queen Vic
toria! Year after year, she beld ' the
women of Great Britain down to com
mon sense, or something which at
least approached it,! In this very matter
or expenditure on dress. She showed a
marvelous- measure of refinement, cul
ture, virtue and gobd sense, and helped
to . make her f nation 'prosperous - and
great through merely showing them she
encouraged women to be honest wivea
and mothers first and fashion "plates
long srierwaras, ji ever, and her exam.
pltf had its great effect in gaining and
maintaining, ior. xne .British empire its
school in which I had; most of my edu
cation we were not permitted to wear
Jewelry.. Those, girls who brought
much gewgaws with them, in their
trunks, ,saw them neatly packed up by
the faculty and sent back home. They
had no chance to wear them at that
school, and the result was much less
Jealousy and much less vanity than
usually exists in most girls' schools, to
day. Some of the schqols today teach
foolishness far more effectively than
they teach wisdom-: In effect their most
important course is silliness and most
of their girl graduates stand high in it
upon -commencement day. .
i Tht Had Girt of This Period,' '"
: "Even in my youth they used to talk
about the 'Girl of the Perlod with
amusement She,: used to wear some
dreadfully, exaggerated , costumes her
fashions; some of them, were quite in
sanebut the worst of them ,Were mild
and modest by comparison with : the
extreme vogues of today. . I gasp, with
real astonishment, I sometimes blush
with shame, when I go upon-the streets
of a large city, nowadays, and observe
the manner in which women irarb. them
selves.' .Some 3f 'the fashions of this
year of nineteen-ten are not only hid
eous but viciously indecent Oh, yes; I
mean quite ,that lndecqntl-r The only
nats mis season, which show real in
telligence in their design are the poke-
oonnets or some sensible automobllists.
The modish dresses are an outrage upon
tho modesty of womankind. Any lady
fuiu jicrHeu iu me extreme iasn
ion of today and' has her picture taken,
will,; if she looks at it , and stops to
think, blush at the thought that, later
on, her grandchildren may see It If
the fashions of today were actual signs
of the times, the i thoughtful person
would be forced to make admission that
they were very sorry signs of very
Sorry times. It has been, many, years
since we have had a line, of . women's
fashions so objectionable as, are those
which rule the mode, today. The wom
en promenading; upon -1 Broadway or
Fifth avenue, in New York, or in the
shopping districts of any of our other
cities, form to me; at least, a shock
ing spectacle a very shocking spectacle
and a very melancholy spectacle. I
may be foolishly old-fashioned I some
times think that plain morality and
common' human decency are getting,
nowadays, to be old fashioned but, to
me the fashions of today seem incom
patible With proper womanly modesty.
'."It is a fact that if I were the mother
of young girls I should, today, endeavor
to prevent them from walking much, on
fashionable highways in fine weather.
I think the exhibition which such streets
afford is really demoralising. , When I
say 'demoralizing. I, use the word in a
broad,' serious j sense Anything which
diminishes the : modesty - of women is
a bad thing: for the human race, ; and
the fashions of today diminish, if thev
do not,. sometimes, utterly destroy,. the
modesty of woman. The present fash
Ions -are Incompatible' with anything ap
proaching womanly reserve, true femi
nine delicacy.- The styles which one
sees constantly exemplified upon , the
streets, upon the cars, at theatres, ho
tels and in the privatl'resldences of the
prosperous, thla year, are more than
sllly-ther are definitely vlclotm -an !
demoralizing. They harm seriously the
women ,who submit to them, the men
w i - nuw . mose women, ana, " more
nia.Djy, me cnuaren or this genera-
uon. nave seen, within the last' week.
In New York city, costumes . on the
streets, which should have made their
wearers subject to official Interference;
"Nothing could , be more absurd or
harmful than the present system gov
erning women' ' costumes, r Styles
change very definitely twice a year, and
old styles never come back into popular
ity. It's a pure matter of commerce.
Women do not realize how utterly they
are befooled and made to . Serve com
mercial purposes, by men . wh make
their living out of the sunnlv nf h
demand which changing styles create
Women Exploited by Conmerciallsts.
c "By frequent changes of the styles a
mighty false demand is - annually cre
ated for new cloths; new: ornaments,
new everything.; .The changing styles
are not to be charged up, at all, to wo
man's love , of , beauty. Most of them
are yery far from beautiful.-.They are
due to woman's - willingness to be led
hither and then yon, docile and sheep
like, by commercialists who prey ; on
her. The spectacle would be amusing if
it were not very, very melancholy, But
It. is so melancholy that It
shudder for the safety of the future of lunequaled power. We have had
!n;I?f2!"A''1,f '"W'aslh amMfjIih this cOunty, who, in their own ways,
womentrritope' and In.iw- it. is, alongTwere "quite 'VreaTaQueeS. Victoria!"
u""i linen, uui in uin maccer or
slavishness ' of her submission to the
What do they amount to, really? Very,
very tittle.
'There is, today, a general and woeful
lack of all of the old fashioned virtues
among women. I have tried ' to study
out trie reason for the solemn fact that
this lack is increasing. I tnlnk the aim
less, useless and infertile European trav
el which now fills the Transatlantic
liners with vast hordes of tourists who
go forth to study not the good of ,other
nations but the bad they have to show
upon the surface, is, to some extent, re
sponsible,:, The Woman of the middle
west, whose husband runs a factory ahd
makes a comfortable income out of it,
now counts that season lost which does
not' see her ogling Idiotic gowns upon
the boulevards of Paris. , That" s what
they go abroad for, mostly. Guides will
tell you'that a jess and Jess proportion
of American women tourists visit annu
ally what used to be the shrines of the
sightseer. ... . . - ; -A , : - s . :-.
Borrowed Bad Things From Earope.
"Someone said at a time of crisis in
French history'that what France needed
was more homes. She had begun to sub
stitute the flat houses for the home.
This is a crisis in our own nation, al
though, we! do not seenf to quite aonre-
ciate the fact !; We have introduced from
France, the flat house; along :with other
things, and have carried its construction
rartner tnan the French have ever ear.
ried it. What the United States most
neeos is nomcs more homes. It must
be the women who, arousing to this, will
supply the want France, failing; to ap
preciate her . peril, . Is degenerate, and
still it generating. ; The home .in, France
is less important than it was when the
remark was made, there are fewer chil
dren orn there, In proportion tp the
population than there were then, the
nation is deteriorating morally and men
tally and physically. " The stature of
the men lis less than i it once was, .the
virtues of the women are less -para
mount There are those who have, with
in the past few months, predicted the
real downfall of the great republic, t I
do not think I am at all extreme wher,
i attriouie mis .to me jrrench woman
and her erase for dress and disregard
of ' all these very, things ' which, r.ln this
Country-women are today also beginning
to neglect There is in France a mighty
lesson for the woman of 'America to
study, if she will but study it intelli
gently and If the leaders of that study
will arise. ' - .
"The moneyed folk of Paris take their
meals upon the sidewalks in front of
uie cares, wnenever weather Will per
mit, which, in Paris, is a good part Of
the year. They have lost their interest
lit homo life. : We do not yet take meals
upon the sidewalks, but I fear it la our
climate, .rather' than our lnclbaations,
wmcn prevents us rrom so doing. .. ..
Wdern Women Keglec Their Husbanas.
"The American woman of today does
very little in return for all her husband
does ' for her, and he does .more than
any other ; husband upon earth. She
doesn't give him a real home; The men
are busy all day long at fighting for the
money which their wives demand, and
when they got home in the evening they
do not find that home a plaice of peace
and quiet comfort - They So not find
their .wive there, waiting Jo see to It
that .they get a, chance to" rest up for
the next-day's bitter struggle a strug
gle forced upon them, largely, by the
extravagant demands of these same
wives. Instead of being ready to make
home a pleasant and a restful place to
stay In, they are waiting, nervously ex
pectant, when their husbands come, to
be taken out to dinner, to the theatre,
or opera, or somewhere, : anywhere
which is not" home. The modern woman
does not entertain , her husband. It's
dress, dinner (hurried, if at home), at a
hotel most likely, then somo entertain
ment theatrical or otherwise, then a
supper at a restaurant Home Is a place
to go to when one is too sleepy to re
main awake in public places. r J
"Do the women who demand these
things really help their husbands? No.
They won't talk business with them; and
it bas been so long since they have done
so .that if they tried now they could not
Of the things of serious Interest in Jlfe,
Which are as vital to them aa they are
to the men, they know literally nothing.
They don't share their husband's bur
dens;, they avoid them . eagerly. There
are few,meri who would not welcome
burden sharing with their wives. , The
man is struggling, with a bigger load
upon his shoulders . than he can carry
comfortably, often with a bigger load
than tte.can carry safely. He does, not
njoy It; often , he gets nothing in the
wav of a reward for . it But he has
given up the effort to get help la bear
ing it from the woman whom he loves,
supports and lives with.: She i unwill
ing to assist him, and has been so long
unwilling that, &. last, she has become
incapable. :'... -.k,".;' ...
Health Gone. : Too. -.'":'"
.nd the women have no more health
than they give happiness, and no more
happiness than they have health. They
are becoming nervous wrecks, of course,
because their lives are quite irrational.
And they aret losing in Intelligene, What
reading they indulge in is. of trash, they
have , no useful recreations of any sort
whatever. What mental growth can any
woman have who - starts ' in' to play
bridge,; for instance, in the morning?
There are thousands upon thousands of
American .Women - who - are doing' Just
that dally. Can such women do their
duty by t their families or by society?
'The automobile has been bad for
women, too. i Riding upon rubber tires
is not a, healthful exercise, when It Is
absolutely all the exercise one geta The
open air is not the only thing the human
body needs; it must have actual work.
There is very little 'work about a place
upon the rear Seat of a touring car. The
excitement, too, is far too. great. for
almost any woman to endure; continual
ly, Without decided ill effects. Too much
auto riding makes a woman glassy eyed
and traveling in autos teaches nothing,
generally. The brain and nerves are
wrought ujf! to the highest pitch by the
unusual ' stimulus of the mere r going.
The auto" riders can't leara anything
about the country they are passing"
through. I have friends who have mo
tored all through Europe and come home
with far. less, knowledge of the
lands they traveled In than tho average
school mistress who goes traveling with
the Cook's tourists gets. There was a
time when travelers returned from for
eign lands could tell you all about them.
The women to Whom, ; now; the advan
tages of travel are vouchsafed can tell
you very little when they come back
from their Alpine auto Journeys, or their
tours by gasoline, through the Black
forest It is purely the excitement they
are after; thoy are crazy for excitement,
and the auto gives It to them. It is
plain speed drunkenness. .. .
- "It la a dreadful thing for a woman
to say, but none the less I must declare
my rirm belief that there are signs to
day that this generation is going; to
black ruin through extravagance, and
that the greater part of the extrava
gance is woman's. .
"They don't realize, or else they shirk,
their plain ' responsibilities. Women
make almost all of men'a Innocent rec
reations, and if they do not make them
for them, then' the men are likely to
find ! recreations for themselves which
are not innocent I lived with my hus
band for 31 fine years; and he never once
went downtown 1 and away i from ,'me,
during all that time, unless there was
some definite occasion. I'm sure he
never went downtown because his home
Dorea jnm. . now many modern wives
can say as much? There were thousands
of my generation who could say it My
case was not unusual. And my husband
was in politics! . . ' .. . .
"I tried to make it the same way with
rhy dear son, and think I quite succeed
ed. Mothers ouaht to entertain . thir
sons and wives their husbands. Boys
need their mothers more, far more,- than
girls do. , But the . women of the last
decade have not done this; they go to
Europe while their sons go to the mis'
chief, '.'V rw-.-.v. -"i
Thus spake a woman who has lived
much, thought much and accomplished
much, Was I wrong In saying, at the
start that what she had to say . was
very much worth reading? , ;. - r
- - Grange Chooses Officer, y I .
v (SiMttUI OisMtrh to Tbe imratLI - "
Forest Grove, Or Deo, 10. Gale
grange, of this city, has chosen the fol
lowing officers for the ensuing year:
Worthy master,. A,. T. Buxton; overseer,
Mrs. Rose, Cori; treasurer, N. 3. Baker;
secretary, Mrs. A. B. Todd; chaplain,
H. L. Bates; steward, Mrs. Nora Rice;
A. S.,'0. C. Schofield; L, A. 8, Mrs.
O. C Schofield; gate keeper, Allen Bice;
Pomona, Mrs.. D. A Kennedy; Ceres,
Miss Maud MlQer; Fluora, Mrs. Emma
snow. , , . . ... x . , , .
Ren ton coal is best it's washed, Costs
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wholesale agents, 13th and Overton. M
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gift- Something always useful.
Reliance Plate; medium hol
low handle knives, flat han
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manaates or tho smart' commercialists
riQ aupe ner ana muuee ner to waste
money, nress
make women
uui wihwd vyvvi luuiiivn, or course, were
less. I think, especially, in this con
nection, of Julia Ward. Howe. There was
a woman who never wnra knkki. ..
her like a maniac or idiot; ; about herv ankles - of a ' mentar hobbla
who are good at heart en en hnr brain. In) ,h.
fliwinting on the Ktrects in -costumes j press on the country such as no fash
which .would have .wade "wicked .wo-ilonaWa woman avur k.s i. n i. i
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