Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-07 | Page 14 | Family Bound by Traditions

Family Bound By Traditions By RUTH MILLETT Tradition is Ie the tile real tie that binds families together Women could do a great deal to hold th their lr homes together if they would keep alive family traditions We the Women Mrs drs Theodore Roosevelt told me as we talked about women and war women and marriage and women and tradition Pride Binds Mrs Roosevelt thinks thinks there Is nothing that thal so ties a family together together together to to- gether as pride in each other and in inthe inthe the lie earlier bearers o of Ot a name It always has been and probably probably proba- proba bly ly always will be the women of a af f family amily who keep that kind of pride burning Its It's the women who care to fo or heirlooms and save them for other ther generations Who save old dairies and historical letters Who see ee that little ceremonies are are ape pre- pre served Who tell their children storIes that they heard when they themselves were children And it is isn In n all of these ways that family pride iride is La fostered For Contentment Mrs Roosevelt too is all f for r the feminine love of needlework She believes that the the woman who can make something beautiful with her herlands hands lands has a better chance for contentment contentment con- con than the woman who cant ant And evidently there are women all 11 over the the- country who agree with her er For when she recently tray trav- led over the country talking about her er experience in China women crowded around after atter her lectures to o ask her not about her exciting experience in China not about women's women's wo wo- wo- wo mens men's responsibilities in war-threat- war ened ned times but to ask questions about bout needlework needlework how how such a stitch is made and where a cert certain n kind ind of yarn can be found Mrs Roosevelt seemed pleased at atall atall all 11 his concern of women in a purely feminine occupation Not alone because she herself does such uch beautiful things with a needle and nd thread that there is an exhibit of f her work in a New York art erl gallery allery She is pleased because it itIs itis its is s traditional for women to sew things in which they take pride pride- and she thinks women shouldn't get too oo far away from these h homely mely traditions