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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
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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
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