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Show THEY WER By the Declarations of a Woman Speaker in Denver IVner. Colo., Oct. 27. "The modern mod-ern woman whose activltleH do nut ex. tend u-vond 1't home Is no better than a kept woman.' " That's what Mrs A. Montgomery Montgom-ery of KocheHter. N. Y., told eleven hundn d women at a luncheon given to tb mmlers of the Woman's National Na-tional Foreign Mlssilonar' socl-ty here yesterday. Standing tn the snowj linen of the speakers" table, Mrs Montgomery went at her subject In a manner that bronchi her hearers up with a Kap. "There is no excuse for hiding behind be-hind the worn-out plea that you must preserve the sanctity of the home by staying lu It all the time,' Mrs. Mont-p.' Mont-p.' roery declared, "or thai your duty to your children will not permit you to mak ue of th" time God ha. placed In your hands In order that you may minister to your ease, luxury lux-ury and laziness, that you may Justify the term 'kept woman.' "In olden days women had to weave and spin, prepare food and do a thousand thou-sand and i-ne things about the house-I house-I hold that took every moment of their time, but God has filled the wmld w ith Inventions that have done away completely com-pletely with all these hours of labor. Now a woman has hours and hours upon her hands, even with children, but I doubt if there is a woman in this audience who makes her husband's shirts." I Eleven hundred femlDine giggles I testified that Mrs. Montgomery had Lit the mark. |