HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT "The Business...
...Wilson every day since his nomination at Baltimore...
...If, as Miss Tarbell seems to think, nature can be trusted to look after her own works one wonders why there is any need to impose restrictions and pass laws which hinder woman from being herself...
...Mac-millan Company, New York, 1912...
...The first subject to be taken up is most likely to be the tariff...
...INITIATIVE represents the ability to plan and to execute...
...If a Unitarian minister should sing the praises of orthodoxy or a socialist should take the stump in favor of a Republican candidate, one would not be more amazed than to read this book by a brilliantly successful woman, showing her own contempt for the kind of woman she has chosen to be...
...I believe that when he begins his work at Washington he will be surrounded by the most able men who ever undertook to administer the affairs of the government...
...Tie a cloth securely to a stick or handle and swab out the basin thoroughly...
...To defy and denounce the male has always been one of woman's most successful provocative ways...
...The author is pleased to see that women still remain women after the unnatural experiment of higher education has been tried...
...This responsibility required a preparation entirely different from that which had been hers...
...This is nature's plan for her...
...MISS TARBELL'S BOOK is full of inconsistencies because, being an intelligent person, and starting with an untenable hypothesis, she must at times admit that it is untenable...
...In his campaign speeches Wilson declared in positive terms for immediate and substantial downward revision...
...One most important fact has come out of our great coeducational experiment: The college cannot entirely rub femininity out and masculinity into a woman's brain...
...She then blames women for their absorption in the home...
...But she has rarely made it and kept it with full content...
...No individual or group can come to him and say: " 'Here, you must do so and so because you agreed' to be guided by me if I helped elect you.' "The first thing he is going to do is to select a cabinet...
...The test of industry lies in the character of the results of study as revealed in the recitation...
...IN SPITE OF the many contradictions which leave the mind confused as to the author's point of view, it is fairly obvious that what Miss Tarbell really objects to is the broadening of woman's sphere...
...She positively states that women have no business in the larger circle outside the home...
...The doctrines of these great instruments would be worked out according to the way she played her part...
...The next problem tackled by the new President is likely to be the trusts...
...Rarely is society well served by her undertaking his activities...
...For the normal woman the fulfillment of life is the making of the thing we best describe as a home...
...That accident may throw her into this outer circle is of course true, but it is not her natural habitat, nor is she fitted by nature to live and circulate freely there...
...When flushed with water it will be like new...
...Moreover, if man is to remain a civilized being, he must be held to his business of producer and protector...
...It is not too much to say that the success of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution depended, in the minds of certain early Democrats, upon the woman...
...It is the quality of response a pupil exhibits in the daily preparation of lessons, either under self-direction at home or under partial supervision in the school...
...In Miss Tarbell's own words:— "The suffragette adapts to her needs a form of feminine coquetry as old as the world...
...The woman saw this, and the story of her efforts to secure both, that she might meet the requirements, is one of the noblest in history...
...She must be given education and liberty...
...I will tell you what I believe, from close observation of the man, from studying his public documents and from knowledge of his record as governor of New Jersey, he is going to do...
...It is the ability to stick to a subject, to think it through, and to test conclusions...
...that she can never be his equal until she does the same things her tyrant does, studies the book he studies, practices the trades and professions he practices, works with him in government...
...He has not spoken a word himself on that subject...
...The most significant fact is that he is free from promise or pledge...
...Here she breeds and trains the material for the outer circle, which exists only by and for her...
...Being free from every sort of special obligation, he is able to select the very best man that can be obtained for each position...
...The President-elect has spent years of study on this problem, but he has never, to my knowledge, expressed an opinion showing what he considers the proper remedy...
...The pupil who works with a purpose, more or less independently, gives evidence of initiative...
...She asserts that:— "The efforts of woman to prove herself equal to man is a work of supererogation...
...She wants woman to be the ornament of the home and then criticises her for an excessive interest in clothes...
...I do not know—and I doubt if anybody else knows—whether Wilson will call an extra session of Congress to meet immediately after March 4. Some Democratic leaders favor an extra session and some oppose it...
...THE MAN who does right needn't worry if somebody catches him at it.—Anonymous...
...They are defined as follows: INDUSTRY represents working power applied continuously and actively in the mastery of assignments...
...Unless she obeys freely and fully she must pay in unrest and vagaries...
...ns the skin...
...ATTITUDE represents the disposition of a pupil toward the work of the school...
...She condemns the Woman's Rights Movement and calls its declaration of principles a "revolt against man and his pretentions...
...She then asks dramatically:— "Will a man's work stifle her unrest...
...He made this the chief issue in his campaign...
...A Household Hint TO CLEAN OUT a toilet basin, remove the water with a cup kept for the purpose, pour in muriatic acid and if badly stained let stand for quarter of an hour...
...But not so, according to Miss Tarbell, who classifies all human work as male...
...In referring to the Woman's Rights program Miss Tarbell says: "The essence of her complaint as embodied in the above expression, is that man is a conscious tyrant holding woman an unwilling captive—cutting her off from the things in life which really matter: education, freedom of speech, the ballot...
...She limits women to personal interests and then condemns them because they are personal...
...Miss Tarbell says: "Embroiled as man is in an eternal effort to conquer, understand, and reduce to order both nature and his fellows, it is imperative that he have some secure spot where his head is not in danger, his heart is not harassed...
...IMPROVEMENT represents the amount of progress and accomplishment...
...It is also handy to use with the muriatic acid, but it wears out quickly and a cloth is more economical...
...Perhaps if society ever adjusts itself to woman's entire nature so that the woman who is a wife and mother may also find expression in some form of human work—the restlessness will cease...
...Now this world-old restlessness of the woman has a sound and a tragic cause...
...The Uneasy Woman, driven by the thirst for greater freedom, and believing man's way of life will assuage it, lays siege to his kingdom...
...But whether or not an extra session is called, the tariff probably will be the first big problem given attention...
...IF MY WAY of thinking and acting is wrong, others will correct it by a better way...
...Out of their uneasy souls have come the varying changes in the woman's world which distinguish the ages...
...Commercial muriatic acid can be bought by the gallon at a reasonable price and kept on hand for the purpose...
...Following these comments Miss Tarbell inconsistently praises the early struggles of women for education and liberty, leaving one a little uncertain as to where the author really stands...
...These are regarded as significant qualities in the development of young people and the school aims to provide for their best development...
...It is reasonable to anticipate he will favor a strict government regulation of banking practices and an elastic currency under government instead' of Wall Street control...
...The entrance of woman into large human activities is described by Miss Tarbell as "Making a Man of Herself...
...She then closes as she began by appealing to the weaker sex to do the right and fair thing by our brother man who may or may not be considered by Miss Tarbell as the stronger sex...
...Pankhurst," it may fairly be questioned whether the revolt is after all unnatural, whether it may not be a part of the universal restlessness of all human beings who struggle toward complete self-expression in social adjustment...
...But for myself, I must be true to the light that shines for me.—Emerson...
...The fate of the meddler is common knowledge...
...Questions like the following are raised in determining the character of a pupil's attitude: Does he show a willingness to respond to the demands of the teacher...
...Does he co-operate in advancing the interests of the class...
...He realizes it is going to be an enormous job to transform into law the ideas he holds, which are the ideas held by the other leaders of his party and to which he, they and the party are pledged by the Democratic platform, but he is going at it with the expectation of succeeding...
...It is another proof of the eternal fact that Nature looks after her own good works...
...He declared emphatically against the Roosevelt plan to control the trusts through an administrative board and proposed instead federal laws that would definitely prohibit the specific trade practices by which trusts have been built up...
...Eve was a revoltee, so was Medea...
...In every century they have appeared, restless Amazons, protesting and remolding...
...The third big question is banking and currency reform...
...Developing Efficiency in Young People THE HIGH SCHOOL of the University of Wisconsin has adopted an interesting plan...
...A brush with a spring is very convenient for cleaning out the toilet daily...
...The Business of Being a Woman," By Ida M. Tarbell...
...Woman, by virtue of the business nature assigns her, has always been theoretically the maker and keeper of this necessary place of peace...
...ATTENTION consists in withholding thought from diverting subjects and fixing it upon the problem in hand...
...In the inner circle rules the woman...
...Society has not liked it—was there to be no quiet anywhere...
...Teachers recognize, along with the report in scholarship, five traits,—industry, initiative, attention, attitude, improvement...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT "The Business of Being a Woman" Does Miss Tarbell, in Her New Book, Hold Up the Mirror to Consistency, Truth and Justice...
...He is likely to take months to do it...
...But if this restlessness has continued, as Miss Tarbell admits that it has, "from Eve to Mrs...
...It is poison and should be handled with care as it burWhat Will Wilson Do...
...Perhaps the restlessness of woman is only a revolt against the too great stress laid by society and people like Miss Tarbell on one part of woman's nature...
...Wilson has very positive and very definite ideas on the trust problem...
...DURING the week the newspapers have been speculating freely as to President-elect Wilson's "next move" in grappling with the problems that will confront him at the beginning of his administration on March 4. An answer to this question is written for the press by Oliver P. Newman, a correspondent who has been with Mr...
...These, I believe, will be the three big tasks undertaken by President-elect Wilson as rapidly as it is safe to undertake them...
...Her serious responsibility came in the fact that her work was one that nobody could take off her hands...
...She then explains that the woman's rights campaign is after all mere coquetry...
...After contending that home-making is the only natural work a woman may do, Miss Tarbell proceeds to classify all other work as masculine...
...Practically, attention means thoughtfulness...
...The inference from all this is that the Business of Being a Woman, as it has been conducted heretofore by society, is of less importance than the Business of Being a Man, and that the time has come to enter his world and prove her equality...
...Nature lays a compelling hand on her...
...Toward the close of the book she tells us that, "Human society may be likened to two great circles, one revolving within the other...
...The answer is No, and the reason given, "She is a different being...
...the ability to go forward without detailed oversight...
...The woman's mind is still the woman's mind, although she is usually the last to recognize it...
...She cannot overlook her obligation to keep him up to his part in the partnership, and she cannot wisely interfere too much with that part...
...By MARIE JENNEY HOWE IN HER BOOK, The Business of Being a Woman, Miss Ida Tarbell shows that woman's place in the scheme of things is merely to make a place of peace for man...
...Does he regard the preparation of his lessons as serious business...
Vol. 4 • November 1912 • No. 47
