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Show AAisccllany What Is Woman's Real Business in the World? By Edwin Markham. Mr. Edward Sandford Martin, from a rather oonsorvatlvo standpoint, dls-cussos dls-cussos tho ferainino agitation that is one of tho currents merging in tho largo onward social movement of tho time. His book, givon ub by D. Applo-ton Applo-ton & Co., of Now York, ho calls 'Tho Unrest or Women." Hero is an extract ex-tract from his oponing chapter: "Girls havo a widor choico than thoy used to havo. Besides tho old-time callings call-ings of dressmaking, millinery, teaching school and getting married, thoy can let's boo, lot's 600 work in factories, laundries, stores; bo enshiers, bo stenographers steno-graphers or typowritors, bo trained nursos or doctors, bo tolcphono girls, indcspensablo office workers, acrtessos, writors, librarians, social workors, doans and presidents ot colleges, or go into somo other business not dono at homo. "Tho wisdom of mothers, a body of knowlodgo dorived from instinct, experience ex-perience and observation, and of enormous enor-mous voluo to human lifo, is a good deal baffled by them. Indeed, it is a current doctrino that tho llve-at-homo mothers aro not up to tho task of looking aftor nil thooo out-working gilrs, and that tho law tho governmonfc must undortako it. "Tho girls as thoy como along and sco this great body of out-working womon say to themselves: "That is what woman's lifo is coming to bo. That is what I must iaco andT proparo for. Tho old domestic lifo of housekeeping house-keeping is going tho way of tho distaff. What is importnnt now for mo is to bo qualified to hold a worth-while placo in this now lifo that is, and is to bo.' "Law)-pra' oOieos aro full of womon. extromcly competent and useful, but Uoro aro but row women lawyers; ; thoro aro many trained nunes, but comparatively fow womon doctors: thero aro girls galore on tho floors or , tho department stores, and somo womon hold excellent positions in thom, but a woman in tho firm is n great rarity. Women aro admlrablo holporB in business, busi-ness, cheaper than men, moro tractable, often moro agrooablo, but they do not stand on tho same level with men in these undomestlo employments. "What ib tho roasonf "Tho reaaon is this, that all this out-of-tho-homo wark is to man hi3 vocation, voca-tion, but to woman at largo no moro than hor avocation. Hor great vocation voca-tion is motherhood. "It is In that that Hho is indispensable indispensa-ble and unrivaled, and in that is tho basis of her complcto equality with man. In all that sho is the principal, not only in bearing children, but in rearing and training them as woll. "That is by so much tho most important im-portant calling to which women must look forwnrd that for tho gonoral nm of womon all othor omploymonts aro of negllgiblo moment in comparison with it, and havo to bo considered on a basis of thoir rolation to it. To that calling tho great mass of women in duo timo find thoir way. "Thoy marry and havo children. The extrnparietal wage-earning wS flm of them do bof oro mnrrTdgftMW compared with tho venra otW V servico which young mou havsW f in Franco and Germany. V "It is lomporavy cninloviBBM:!Cf ccssary and otton very valnSn ll training, but iu a Hold of IL from which thoy expect to ''H W as soon as they' can. "To marry and havo chilM IL renr mom m tho natural dcssssB women; tho $amo now that mTA was nnd always vill be. It wfl '-primarily, '-primarily, that girls should to that thoy should bo enconBsitf look forward, and their trainliHII bo such ns will help thom Mil MS wisely, to have children that aHf HJ rearing, and to roar them wclkHI j A woman visiting a phvsicIjjB' how sho could provent her V talking in hia sleep. S "Well," the doctor said, "Mtf0 try riving him a few opportlwU H the daytime." -National MoJT |