HOME AND EDUCATION

...One great motive that is urging on suffrage for women is the demand of 'equal pay for equal service.' Justice demands this, but it has not been and never will be granted except where women can make their influence felt by the ballot...

...It is time that the women had taken a hand and given us a political house-cleaning, as they did in Seattle, and other places...

...Kent from the first has been heart and soul with her husband in his public interests, it was the equal suffrage campaign in California that drew her into the political arena...

...It will hardly interfere much with these duties for a woman to take an hour off once every two years to record her opinion by dropping her ticket in the ballot box...

...Kent are blessed with seven children...

...It is stated as an objection to woman suffrage that our negro cooks could vote...

...William Kent, whose New England father had settled in Chicago, went back east to college and was a classmate of one of these Thacher brothers, and a familiar of the home circle...

...But when a boy becomes 21 he has no experience, yet he is admitted at once to the suffrage...

...And I have not heard it asserted that white men should not vote because the negro might...

...Then there are a large number of women who are either widows or have never cared to marry...

...Besides, if men bear arms, the women raise the men, and train them to be brave and patriotic...

...The little daughter chatters about what goes on at "Head," as Suffrage headquarters are familiarly known in the family...

...But I hope she has gathered a little book learning too...

...Though these leaflets are planned for the instructors of colored children in the South, only a small percentage of whom have had the advantage of such training as is given at Hampton, they will be found helpful to teachers in all parts of the country who are obliged to make the most of limited resources...

...The older boys when they come from college always find room and a welcome for the classmates they bring with them, while the girl friends of young Elizabeth Kent are as much at home in her home in Washington or California, as were the girl friends of young Elizabeth Thacher in New Haven a generation ago...

...Here the needs of the hour and her personal endowments conspired to bring her quickly to the front...

...When Knighthood was in Flower' the sisters were often put in convents that their brothers might have the estates to squander in brutal and licentious pleasures...

...Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE A Woman of The Home ELIZABETH KENT Home Maker and Leader in Public Affairs By FLIZABETH GLENDOWER EVANS ELIZABETH KENT, wife of the distinguished citizen and congressman from California, is an example of the new type of women who are shaping and being shaped by the civic revival in the United States today...

...Another argument is that women should employ themselves with their home duties, and the raising of their children...

...undoubtedly in several directions the most useful man in Congress...

...From the address of Chief Justice Walter Clark before the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs...

...The big boys confess to a new respect for women since they saw their mother march in a Suffrage Parade...

...Kent took a prominent part in the suffrage campaign in Washington last winter...

...Those who know something of the lamentable conditions in rurals chools for colored people in the South will read much that is disheartening between the lines of these leaflets for they deal with many matters which should" not be allowed to complicate educational work...

...Kent enlisted at once in the struggle to free San Francisco from "gang rule...

...she was constantly in requisition upon the platform...

...In 1910 he was elected to Congress, which event was hailed with joy all through the country as far as the Atlantic coast by lovers of freedom who were then just recognizing each other as comrades enrolled in a common cause...

...Even the little boys understand that mother, as well as father, has duties which must sometimes take precedence of their pleasures, and that there exists a big world which is an integral part of the little world they call Home...

...Then there are a large number of unmarried men...

...Her first street speaking venture was at Norfolk, Virginia, last winter, when that historic town Was stirred by a suffrgae campaign as it probably has not been stirred since the days of the Civil War...

...There are two boys at Yale...

...CROWDS BLOCK traffic to hear women speak from automobile...

...Kent: "the best posted and most active conservationist in Congress...

...Few soldiers are over 35, but all adult males are voters...

...What woman's views does each of them express...

...And that each ballot represents a musket...

...Endowed by nature with the qualities which for all time will be counted the peculiar glory of women, and endowed by fortune with all that advantageous circumstances can supply, one finds in Mrs...

...It is impossible to tell the story of Mrs...

...Her dominantly domestic type is in itself a strong appeal...

...Kent apart from her husband...

...Kent made answer: "Let my sons do deeds in their own person to win them honor...

...Thoughtful men everywhere are beginning to believe that the exclusion of the intelligence, public spirit, and patriotism of one-half of our people from a share in the government is a great injury and a serious detriment to progress...

...It is said that women have no experience in electoral matters...

...While Mrs...

...I will merely give briefly some of the reasons that have been debated pro and con...

...The argument that voters are substitutes for muskets is therefore untenable...

...She is a most pleasing speaker...

...When his sister becomes 21 she has had exactly the same opportunities and the same lack of experience...

...If the negro cannot vote, neither will his wife...

...This cannot be true...

...The Kents' first married home was Chicago, and there the husband at once took a lead in the struggle to restore self-government to that city...

...I SHALL NOT make an argument in favor * of Woman Suffrage...

...And she certainly spells better...

...He possesses pre-eminently the quality of meeting every kind of person on terms of equality and on their own ground...

...But half of the soldiers in every war are under 21 and are not voters...

...The women do their full duty to their country thereby...

...He is beloved by hunters and cowboys who recognize a kindred spirit in this man, born a millionaire and dedicated from youth up to the redemption of our once free institutions...

...It has been urged that the ballot is a substitute for physical force...

...Lynn Haines, in his Law-making in America, says of Mr...

...For the younger ones there are games of basket ball and splendid romps in the big yard that surrounds their house in Washington...

...and many were the night journeys, beginning or ending in the small hours, and the hundred-mile motor runs, which these good comrades traveled together...

...It is a cause for rejoicing, however, that in response to the problems of a poorly prepared and poorly paid class of public servants this valuable series of leaflets has been issued...

...William Kent the purely domestic interests enlarged to the broadly social, and the accidents of privilege accepted as an opportunity for public service...

...Close on the enfranchisement of the California women came her husband's campaign for re-election to Congress, in which Mrs...

...Wherever woman suffrage has been tried it has benefited the women and been benefited by them...

...The congressional district is 450 miles long, reaching from the Golden Gate to the borders of Oregon...

...Thus began a romance which culminated in one of the rare marriages made in heaven...

...Among barbarians, they are beasts of burden...

...They are given directions for preparing a hektograph at small expense and for using it...

...More than this: because the new times have brought new duties since Elizabeth Thacher and William Kent were lovers, their children are taught to share the public interests which are the backbone of both their parents' lives...

...Both belong to the East as well as to the West...

...With tongue and pen he exposed the alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics...

...And her arguments come right out of her own experience in a way that is peculiarly telling...

...I don't mean that she has acquired it at twenty, but I hope she is on the road...

...WE ARE OFF in the morning to see Josephine graduate," writes a friend, whose casual comments on life are always stimulating, "mostly in the flesh pots of Egypt...

...Near San Francisco is a magnificent stretch of public land, known as the Muir Woods, which was the gift of William Kent to the city...

...Some few years back when the Kents came to make their home in California, Mr...

...and Mrs...

...who casts their vote...

...Why should there be any discrimination...

...The Hampton Leaflets OUR ATTENTION has been called to a series of leaflets published by the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute at Hampton, Va., of which one of the most recent and valuable is "Housekeeping and Cooking Lessons for Rural Communities...

...As much and no more than the cook's husband can...

...She served upon the Executive Committee...

...There is a daughter just budding into womanhood,—as lovely as ever a girl was made, —and a vivacious little sister just entering her teens...

...Young Elizabeth was a marcher, along with her mother, in the Washington suffrage parade, in which her father too would have marched had not his duties in the closing hours of Congress interfered...

...These last do not realize that the world turns completely over in twenty-four hours...

...They are advised to have the walls of their school rooms frequently renovated, using a whitewash of yellow tint, and are given exact directions for preparing the proper mixture...

...She grew up under the shadow of Yale University, of which her father, Thomas A. Thacher, was for many years an honored professor, and from which her six brothers all graduated...

...The objection is made that the enfranchisement of the women is unnecessary, because every woman can vote through her husband...

...Then there is the outworn argument that we should put woman on a pedestal...

...We know that the churches are largely kept up and maintained by the activity of the women, who constitute twothirds or more of church membership...

...He is a crack shot...

...If there is filth and mire in politics, it is due entirely to the men, who so far have had sole charge of it...

...To give a few examples: Teachers are advised to economize their energy by manifolding many of the exercises given to their pupils, but they are not left to wonder how this is to be done...

...As some poet has well said, 'Man to man so often unjust, is always so to women.' "8...

...He got his gray hairs in that fight," said his wife...

...Whenever the law has been administered solely by men, there has been gross discrimination against women...

...Who casts the vote for the drunkard's wife...

...A Serious Detriment to Progress" IV...

...Kent allied himself with what was then a small insurgent band and became conspicuous for his independent and militant spirit...

...another boy who will soon be entering college, and two little boys, the youngest the adorable age of six...

...Kent did most effective work...

...and among the fanatic followers of the fiery prophet of Mecca, embracing nearly one-third of the people of the globe, it is held that they have no souls...

...wife of congressman and boston woman here were the headlines in the Norfolk Daily describing what is probably the first suffrage street meeting ever held in the once solid south...

...In Washington Mr...

...A sure sense of getting at just values seems to me a most valuable acquisition...

...Nor should we disfranchise white women to keep their cooks from voting...

...No argument has yet been used against the admission of women to the suffrage that is not based upon one of two grounds: Either it is based on the fears of bad men, who know that the ballots of women will abolish the abuses by which they live and profit, or it is based on the opposition of good men who are by nature opposed to any change in anything...

...Inevitably Mrs...

...He is a rare story teller...

...and she has certainly widened her point of view...

...she made her motor car almost suffrage property...

...It is said that women ought not to go into the filth and mire of politics...

...He helped organize the men's Voter's League, of which he became President, and which has been described as "one of the most effective organizations in the world for the purification of polities...

...William Kent has been called by Jane Addams "the most democratic man" she ever knew...

...If they need their name attached to a piece of woodland to secure esteem, they had best be undistinguished among their fellows...

...If he does vote, we ought not therefore to disfranchise white men to get rid of him...

...But Mr...

...We must recall, as one qualification for suffrage, that criminal statistics show that criminals are five times more numerous among men, and that the proportion of women criminals is smaller still, where they have property rights, suffrage, and equal pay...

...In every land civilization has been measured by the status of women...

...He served as an alderman...

...It was urged that this park might more appropriately be named for the donor, that his descend-ents, who should bear his name for all time, might be held in honor...

...Has any one ever seen it done...

...Among the semi-civilized, they are secluded...

...It will work its way without any help from me or others, and in spite of opposition, from whomsoever it may come...

...If the same belief were entertained among us our churches would soon go to ruin...

...This does not interfere with their home duties...

...Their literary and typographical form is excellent (a matter of special importance in publications likely to fall into the hands of young people) and all the directions for work and teaching are most carefully given...

...and the mother is the friend and playmate of each of these sons and daughters, according to their years...