The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 25, 1915, Page 14

Progressive and Practical Ideas for Women { _ Edzted By Audrey A. Harrzs How strange in its workings i$ hu- man logic! We give our boys a course- in msz:dicine, ' ressoning that such training will make them physi. cians. We give our daughters a mu- sical education, believing that they will become musicians. -To educate one child for the ministry we give * him training in theology, and to fit another for ‘a horticulturist we give him a course in horticulture. But we give our boys mecharfical devices —tool -chests, cars, kagons for toys; while to our girls we give dolls, tea- sets, irons. In the maunal training department of our schools boys are taught the skilled use of tools, while girls are taught sewinrg, cooking and| millinery. All this is dcne haphaz- ard and with no definite aim in view. We do ‘net..give our.boys these me+ chanical devices to make them skilled, but because they. arc boys. We do not .give our girls dolls to .cultivate an instinct which needs no cultiva- tior, but bccause they are girls. But the moulding influence . works just the same. The results of such train- ing being beyond our grasp, we have to the profund “Sunday Supplement Scientist”? to deduce for us that be- cause a woman is apt to turn a screw Lze " to the left she is therefore “centri- pital” Make a-study of your own children and, you will be surprised to find to what a degree their “natural in- stincts” are but a matter of your: own molding through the power of suggestion. Tt has been my observa- tion of young chldren, paricularly my own because of the intimate association, that the boys are as apt to. be fond of dolls as the girls and the girls as interested, in trains anc - automobiles as the boys. But on the impressionable minds of little. child- ~ ren it does not take long to imprint the idea that it is unmanly for boys : to play with dolls and a crime for girls to be interested in boys smrt.h and games. ‘When you say to your httle son,| “Boyg, should not cry. Only girls cry.” do you intend to teach your son strngth or do you intend to impress upon his listening sister that for her there is no necessity of conquering MISS THEODORA BOOTH Something new in the way of schools is ‘the Illinois State Fair School for' Girls, held yearly at Sprmgfield in connection with the state fair. 3 The school is under the ‘supervision * of a woman’s board, which cooperates with the State Board of Agriculture. , The State supplies instruction, chap-- | eronage, and surervision of daily wants and needs, but a fee of ten dollars, which covers board and room, is required of each student for the two weeks term. At present the school accomodates only one student from each county. The mission of the school is to sup- ply an up-to-date course in domestic | seience to girls who have n\t had opportunity for such instruction in high school or college. The school is so well conducted that, even in its short term, it gives a taste of real college life. More- over, the ‘students have all the ad- vantages of the fair and of visiting places of historic interest about the - capitol. Duluth Herald:—Democracy is rule of the people. Women are peorje. Therefore women should, vote. When women vote no harm- will be done, nor will the millennium be magically created. The ballot should not be given to women simply because they want -it, or withheld from them sim- ply because not all of them or even . not many of them want it. Neither should it be °given to them solely fo3 the good it is hoped they will do, nor withheld ‘solely because of the harm it is feared they may do. The bale lot should be given to women be- cause democracy is our ideal, because democracy means rule of the peopje and bécause our democracy is mcom- : plete until all the people—including women unless it be demonstrated that they are not people —share its responsibilities, = its duties and itg privilege. MRS. H. S. CARPENTER A PARISIAN NOVELTY. HESE beautiful raincoats have been used largely by continental women for some time, their silkiness and novel coloring vying with our silk 8weaters. American women will welcome them. their advantage being lightness of weight. They can be folded and put in very small quar-. ters, traveling. Transparent, silky of texture, in all the new shades and eut on ‘smart lnes, belted, these coats can be used for automobmng as well as Istorms. e e U e R SR s e SIS IRET VR e PR weakness? Since character is attzin- statisties. ed through effort, thrcugh self-diz- There are, in Missouri, 232,720 cipline, and the conguering of weak- wage-working women and girls over nesses. why, by the potent power of |the age of 14. And they are ‘doing suggestion, aid our boys but hinder|almost everything under the sun. 1 our g:rls" For instance, five are teamstzrs, When. mothers, - from a study 0¢ elght ‘keep livery stables, 35 are rail- | their own children, give the subjech road, ticket-and station agent, 43 are intclligent reflection, they cantot bat mail carriers, 5 are fisherwomen, 1 conclude that ambition, talent, cuali {is a wood chopper, and there are ties of mind ‘are not “istribut’d on|women paperhangers, patternmakers; a sex basis. Having thus freed them-|sawyers, painters, glaziers, varnish- selves of that baneful superstition|ers, enamelers, lawyers, physiciars, 1of a past age, they will be capable | assayers, metallurgists and p_reachexf:. . |of giving to their -daughters the 1| same. advantages of trammg thati 1 they glve to then‘ sons. ; To mend a hole in an ‘umbrella, take a piece of .black court plaster, s - Jeut to. the size required and’ place WHA'I' 1s “WGIEN’S ml(?” ‘icarefully under the hole on the One need not ‘20 all the way to‘_sn}e “When dry, the _patch mll- Europe to see womsn | domg worl:' scarcely be. V!Sflble- N ; that was once'a “man’s job.”~ ! L | doing that right: here . An the Um ‘| States; working side’ by man, and, doing work that. ‘man- uced i|.to - 1mag-me none but ~he could e do. 4 > Notice the figures Just made pub B by flxn :Missouri -bnreau of. la‘bor' - Salt thrown on- fallen saot:: pr - vents the ~carpet marking,.‘and " en- Salt sprmkled over carpets hefore| ‘Sweeping . preserves the colors n‘d~' keeps 2 'ay moths, ° A 3 PIOKEER: BUILDING ST. PAUL, MINN. "Mrs. Herbert: 8. carpenter Ied he ew: York State