The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1900, Page 8

THE SUNDAY CALL. w ~\ise Words From Leading Sen Francisco- Club Women on the Twentieth Century Gir. ced ideas, e to a wo- — ened by Mra MRS. HELEN HECHT, Philomath Club prop rent or op- ers will so t as a 5 w uld be taught to ald put ner ca- as she is able f it Is ever ' MRS. JOHN SWIFT, Century Club. t Leave Her Little Ones rcies of Hir what the ke them ess and ce woman's perfect im- ) e broad-minded nd in the light of the coming tle her aside from the They hat may 1 appli- ion that ong dozmant F SRRt nafin e that no young mother wit mpted to leave them to tt servanis while she ma d becomes the (to many people) * ter every new fad in member, young mothers of to-day, that your grow up and away from you before you are mes and it 1s & aware of it, and If the way seems hard at t privation for you to sit quietly at some less fortunate ter 1 public life that they have been Ia tnformatton if not happie education of ) brightened up t your school girl pendent, se! known as t her quota also to incite her sisters to best to keep pace with her rar that freedom of thought, action that all right-mind ing women co er their of birth. Let us hope tha 56 oF Rar o achelor matd” will add broad he woman of the com- Ing century will lose w anly sweetness or refir ing graces in this but shall shine pre- and best of womank character, as waliting world s 3 right of heritags and sec ance In true If Corona Club s Will Cccupy a Plane on a Level Wi Man, but Not the Same Plane. What will the wom the experience of h Wiil she ha t craze for a that have alre ¢ Will she realize t stop making her: from the houseto Will she be 3 welgh as much ‘Wil she acknow on a level with man Will she a great artis to that threadb: aping masculir In brief, w It's all a ¢ to answer in vy make out of for a the improvements te creaturs and MRS. EDWARD d. BELCHER Sorosis Club. Has Put Her Foot on the Rung of the Ladder, Determined to Climb to the Top. Juested to expre n opinion on t products of the ¢ well as from th forth new its discove: tical ends, In a part. Her img step of the wor the approval of tn the time In anc all shades ¢ ical Debora herote Jud complished the wise Hy century run masses of nized at their t Woman n nition of womanhood century m: Woman in all ages forter of mar pain. To-day task ange conditions of less tide of on as s the woman, icus wealth, from th from the woman of the comes the eager desire to do som sunshine for her own gratificat that spin not, neither do they t rant, soulless thing of former t on the rung be ladder, deter: 1gh weak physically and warm in sympa seem, woman is stror man. The woma tury is comparative more active in educa Densities tF In fact eve: a broader, hi lution and progre The int and goodness of heart are the ge & romansnd and are the crowning g of the ni nth centur of the woman of ming MRS. L LOWENBERG; Philomath Club. - - Advanceof Woman Marks the Advance of the Age. the twentieth cent ) ywth of t rmative t fluences of this nineteenth century Of these the most prominent is the higher education now given to women Education is of undoubted good to the race, and applied specifically to women it has a direct effect through the medium of the family ence 1s to dispel ignorance and superstition and thus bring better condi- tions into the family life; to develop the power of judgment and to offer it as a balance to the oid criterion of feeling or emotion, which, how. ever, it does not destroy Therefore, 1 have no sympathy with those who fear wo- men will lose their essential characteristics as women and their love for domestic life. If there is any it 1s but a phase of before a still hig The advance of woman is simply a m of the age. Compare the liberal educatic for women in the early part of the last to-day. A valued book of those tim ing with propriety and life; read command of her pen ard complete knowle tar as the rule called practice The conditions of the next centur t an advance from the condit rom her status in the last ce “lub life, college settlements and organized charities are indications of her capacity for organization: teach her to sab. ordinate the individual for the sake of the eral good and develop her knowledge of human nature. This phase of hew growth In the present century's expression of the idea ot r require of woman of to-day as she has Continued on Page El en.