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About Gresham outlook. (Gresham, Multnomah County, Or.) 1911-1991 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1914)
12 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION W om an ’s Share in Social Culture Story of Woman’s Battle and Progress Founded on Anna Spencer Garlin’s New Book of the Same Name. BY MRS. IDA A. KIDDER, Librarian Oregon Agricultural College. HAT woman’s first s e r v ic e for ho eial advance was the habit of reg ular work, is one of the first dear thoughts seen in the interesting new hook on “ Woman’s Share in Social Cul ture,’’ writtan by Anna Spencer Gar lin. Man fished and hunted and made war whirh developed in him many traits which later made for the ad vancement of the race, but women saved and started the race by her steady employment in behalf of hes family. Her second service was in in- d u e lin g man into the ways of indue trial progress, after having prepared all the processes of peaceful labor. Ono chapter in the book treats of the vocational divide, which comes when the wage earning woman gives up her position as an earner, and assumes that of home keeper. Another takes up the ideal school training for the average girl and boy. The author advocates more practice to accompany theory. She would have the school term and the school day lengthened. She would have the midday school lunch prepared by the pupils who are learning the right kind and proportions of food and how to prepare it. She would have much of tho food for these lnnches raised in the school gardens. Further chapters of interest are those on the “ Social use of Following this comes tho almost nn accountable time when she sank into the postgraduate mother,’’ “ Problems of marriage and divorce,” and “ Wo what was virtually, and often literally, men and tho state.” Mavery; then hore and there she began to rise as the lady. The lady was, at THE BAKING POWDER TRUST. least in the beginning of her rise, a NE of the strongest trusts in the creature of superior powers, or she United States today is the Baking could not have raised herself abovo the Powder trust. It not only controls level of useful womanhood. The lady, though supported by the labor of oth the output and sale of cream of tartar era, yet performed a certain service in and ingredients that go into many of •ocial culture, in that she refined the the baking powders, but their fine Ital manners of the world and taught gen ian hand it seen in the acts of food in spectors and other ways by which they tleness in social intercourse. can crush out independent concerns Women have never been in tho first rank of geniuses, though there are many of secondary rank. Perhaps the dearth of first rank geniuses among women may bo partly accounted For by their long exclusion from the higher professions in which genius has usually manifested itself. But if woman has not often herself been a great genius, she has usually made possible, by her antiring service to the family, the ex pression of genius in man. Tho his tory of the wives of great geniuses is usually quite as interesting, and a great deal more pathetic, than that of their illustrious husbands. Tho author calls the present age the age of spinstera It is true that up to a recent time only special classes of wo men have felt free to live their own lives regardless of marriage. The spin ster first appeared in the nuns and ab bosses when the troubled age of socie ty made houses of refuge for unpro tccted women a necessity, and in these places of shelter foi helpless women anil children the spinster nuns and ab besses did a great social service, just as today in our great cities with their •enters of poverty and crime, our spin •ter sisters in the settlement houses and alums do a great work of educational uplift and sympathy. These is also in the commercial world, and increasingly in the professional world, a great body of women, which, because of their free d o m from home ties, are giving most ef firicnt service is their various lines of work. Many recent writers predict that there will tie henceforth a large body of unmarried women, who, because of their greater leisure, and broader opportunities for intellectual culture and growth, will become a superior class intellectually, and that the women who marry will lie the iufirior class. Our author does not believe that a state of affairs so suicidal to the race will ever eome about, but rather that there will be surh an adjustment that all women will have the oppo.-tunity of greater self expression and larger growth. T O Hut, after all, the great body of work women are in the industrial world, and here 1a great need to better safe guard the conditions of life for the fu lure mothers of the race. The large class of girls who are taken very young ! from the home, are losing the training1 fer future home keeping, whie’ in the old order .hev learned in domestic ser vice. The law» should mors carefully p oteet all women under 21, both aa to conditions of labor and wage». but there is a difficulty ant', a need which the law directly cannot touch. The dif ficulty is that girls going young to work in factories and shop», lose very often tho work sense, there is a demur alixatioa of Ik" faculty of »rue setviee. To devise any method by which this difficulty may be met is perhap the hardest problem in tho whole labor world. That women of the poorer 1 classes should bo better fitted by educa ' tion for self support seems self evident. I hut it is only that really effective trade i nehools save gradually sprung into be ! that seek to use other materials, or add Perhaps it would not be a bad idea improving ingredients. for the government to investigate th« We have powder concerns on the Pa- Raking Powder trust.—The Northwest cifis Coast, but they are harrassod ou Pacific Farmer. every side. Some of them have found that they can do away with the ten S in ce A laska was bought by the United tate governm ent the revenue from the seal dency of bread and pastry to “ fa ll” S islands alone has been more than tw ice the quickly by the addition of egg albu sum paid for the territory. men. This ingredient tends to make the dough stiffer and thus keep the leavening power of the powder gases from escaping. It is expensive when compared with corn starch and other fillers used by tartar powders and is not deleterious to health, but benefic ial. Yet we see Pure Food officials trying to role against it because “ the amount of albumen is so minute that Recent Govern it can have no appreciable effect on ment t e s t s of the quality of the finished product, nor baking powders does it in any manner increase the ef disclose the fact ficiency of the leavening agent.” Well, even so, and easting aside the eonten Ainvnmnm Com tion that the albumen holds up the pounds as used dough and keeps it from falling, if the In powder is to bo barred because “ the amount is so minute that it has no ap preciablo effect on the quality,” why not bar the Bale of powders of all kinds ATJ. GROCERS because they are principally corn 25c per lb. starch which has no “ appreciable ef are more wholesome than Cream feet on the quality,” but with a very of Tartar or Tartaric Acid used material effect on the quantity. The in the old-time Trust powders. consumer pays big money for this corn Write us for copy of U. 8. Bulletin starch filler in comparison to actual No. IOS Dipt, of Agriculture. cost to manufacturer and value to con sumer, while he pays a very low priee CRESCENT MI O CO., Seattle, Wn. in comparison to its cost to maufactur er and value to the consumer when he buys egg albumen. G overnm ent T ests Baking Powders Malt Rainier is the Pure Malt Tonic For Mothers W ho Require Additional Nourishment and Strength. ASK YOUR PHY3IC1AIÍ Far bate by Ali Druggists M
