Show WOMAN suffragists ANU AND BABIES BABIE 19 rev anna H show whose avrit to go this city last month will be long re has baa been the bubl act of an animated discussion dicu aelon in san francisco it was all because her woman friends wanted her bar to make a speech at the fourth of july celebration the antl anti dd not see gee what a woman had bad to do with independence anyway 80 90 far as an public speechmaking wal waa B concerned and insisted inflated that the innovation would be the opening wedge tor for destroying national independence the contest conteas waxed very warm but that trouble in past the family quarrel la in ended the parties have kissed and made mad madeep eup up and miss show beaw will orate in san francisco on the Fourth t he the women got get their way as aa usual but what has all that to do with woman suffragists and babbet jut just thie the chief opposition lov was waa based on the claim that the proposition was to in the interest of woman suffrage and that the granting of such auch suffrage auf frage would cause the mother sex to go out of the field of baby raising t engage in politics cB the antl anti based their argument on this statement of the situation 1 4 if woman barrage is carried out it will end in the destruction of this nation statistics taken in in 1885 show that per cent of the native american women of that thai state were childless the now new york census for 1865 shows that 75 per cent of the married women average only one child each the birth rate is far less than the death rate forty five per cent of the men between the ages age of twenty five fire and ad thirty are unmarried and were it not for foreign immigration this land of ours onre would soon become a howling wilderness just what arguments the brought v to convince the committee are not dot given out since that discussion woo was behind closed doors it may be that they instated insisted that the equal suffragist platform would contain anti aati oa anu childless planks or that the cause of the low birth rate and the failure to marry was in the masculine mae ouline manipulation of politics and would be removed when the women had bad the franchise at any rate the committee was converted aoe thing these conion women did declare however openly and with emphasis was waa that the now new woman womac will not abandon mother hood bood she is going to be a wife land a mother and will not only increase the birth rate tut but will decrease adlish he jtb rate among children to the latter purpose she he to ta to use ibb bb ballot to ta enforce regula regulation tiona bat will prevent the adulteration of food end will insure cleanliness ventilation and other sanitary tary neede beedis being a power politically she also intends to octal reforms which will rub rob of its ita chief attractions at leat least this was waa the trend of the he discussion engaged in on the subject here are some features ol of the program pointed out by mn helen guthrie miller dr florence M sal ton staJl mrs mn marion thresher thrasher dr harriet kazoon rev ads ada U J bowles bowle sarah platt carr and others who led at be recent aomand on home and sanitation in connection witt with the suffrage move movement mout one tenth of the children born die during the first mouth month and a fourth during the first year of lile life one halt ball of the race dies before reaching the age of 17 years boards of health and sanitary conditions cond irions will cease to be composed wholly of politicians tic ians but will have their affairs ad by persons persona trained in health science and with motherly experience that young mothers may be taught to nurse their own children to give them the care necessary in infancy and to conform to sanitary regulations regula iiona that will prevent disease and this unnecessarily beigh high death rate children die from slow starvation in the adulteration of milk and other foods the craving tor for strong drink is caused by insufficiency of proper nutrition our loved ones have asked for bread and we have given them a stone it is womans comans work to see that the world is properly fed and yet there are those who see in the higher education for women nothing but bat the destruction of the homes the new woman means a new race she will not lace until she has but one lung tine she will go back for her models of beauty and grace to the works of greek art the new woman the voting woman will keep obscene play bills and writing off the streets for the childrens sake the new woman will be a corset leas physically cultured women woman and that in her house if sue she have a house and does not decide to live in a tent on account of the superior ventilation there will be no worcestershire sauce and no oyster cocktails to 10 say nothing of any other kind of cocktails in other words the new woman is going in for a rational large fainted dress ref reform ornit and plain and eating and drinking the evil effects of close dressing not tight lacing for a women woman will not admit that thai she laces will be removed and children will be born bora waha gropes der de daring it lift and with ii a brong and without a predisposition to every cry to these thee results the mothers of thle antry should be up and doing to show how their big stately dau daughters of aters what todo to do to tn become bacome the mothers of a worthier generation I 1 00 oo these bases the d referred to go wine motherhood babyhood health and bowe from beginning begin a tax to end and the tb women who tallied talked were doinik ao all aft ardent equal glato the practical valuable life and dorala morels improving I 1 one advanced strongly flug geet that it if the woman euer enter largely ioto into that field of operations in their meeting the he to the now new sumao ou the ground of being a monaco to the home boute will melt malt away before the fact of advanced education in al for the sacred duties of wife and I 1 mother |