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, Our Women Workers
The Right Road to Health
By ELBERT HUBBARD.,
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A (re&t 1U lnsurantfe compuny, whoe
aetunries have' mora than a national
reputation tor aoundncss of reasoning,
has. recently given Its agents some in
structlone oh Insuring, tha llva of wo
men, quote:
''Whereas, .this,
company has not
heretofore thought
best to insure Um
lives of women,' it
is now. acceptable
for li'.vto fctscure
appfica'tions for
policies... from wo
meiv fi folloiys:
"4.H Accept sippa..''
cation, ,on)y , from, .
women:-. in business
or from , wageetirn
lng.ii women-; who
hv(.f people',-- Je
denftent on theai. .
"2. Do not - accept'"-
women with
an inc&ine that is. uo; aenved from tneii
ownjproperty.'', . , , I '", '
rom 'thW' X rsgume that these hard
hea4eij actuaries, who eliminate gallantry,
poetry, and entlm.ept .from thejf calcu
lations,' regard marrid women and wo
men,, who have things provided for them
as uncertain propositions, to Insure.. ,
Wajte-etrtilng - women .are - reasonably
happy. Steady,,- steniaU work r means
health.-; TW! ccftnpetent man w woman
is a good moral and financial risk. -4
A married wontan may be competent or
she may not.' She may-be -happy or she
may Jnot. It is quite ' unnecessary to
qiiestiorr her she will not tell the trtith
abcu't herself, and It Is exactly the same
with 'A-' Woman who lives on the" bounty
troTtffed by either a live man ot a-detti
one' '' ' "' ' ' i,
FoUr-firtliS of all the surV."il cases -'n-public
hospitals- are performed on women.
But of the -wage-earning,., wjalth-priduc-lng
Women, no more go to hospitals pr,
portlonately than do mso. It is men who
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take the physical risks of the world-lt
la men who ' operate railroads, tunnel
mountains,.' sail ..ships, , inln-i. ores, and
build buildings that scrape the sky.
Yet, . In plte , of these facta, the
Insurance actuaries much prefer to Insure
men who are abroad In the world doing
things than to accept risks- On. women
who abide in the safety of the hdme and
are "protected and shielded on (very .Bide.
From this there Is only one conclusion,
and that is, that to be married and ktep
house,' and to..have. anincome.rnd.;do
nuinmg, are nazaraous unaeriuKiugB. -
It is not the dangers of childbirth that
make women a bad risk It s the paucity
of their lives. If it were the dangers of
motherhood, the insurance . companies
would not refuse women over 50, but mar
ried women, and those unmarried,, who
are provided for, are placed in the same
category. ' . . , . . .
Tiie real fact is, few women, cfimpara
tivel'y, are admitted into the 'work of the
world. Woman Is the slave of her house
keepingthe slave of 'a man, When, she
gtis marnea sne inrows up ner, joo.
And In New York. If she is a school
teaelier, Mr mariage 1s-equal tS a resig
nation. Hence the misery that leads to
the '; ether-cone, the ligature . and - the
scalpel. - '
And that is the reason why life insur
ance companies, us 'a rule, 'will not insure
the lives of married women. The average
married- woman has rtd high purpose in
life no output for hef-.mbirron, no rock
upon.w.hich she-can strike her intellect
and cause, the) welling .waters of life, .to
flOW. i .
6he has tasted of fqod and found it ai
kallne all there is for her now Is sub
mission. . She Is a passive party.- So the
insurance actuary, viewing ' the average
married woman with his cold, oalcula
tlve, . financial . eyer declares . her a haz
arous risk, and passes her up..
Give women the ballot. ! It will help to
enlarge their lives, Improve their mental
and physical estate, and make them bet
ter risks. Also, It will make, them better
companions of men.
How Housework Intelligently
Done Will Give You a Good Figure.
Turn your
housework into
intelligent, joyful
activity, saya. '
Miss Hellermann,
and you will find
that the exercise
of it will help
keep your figure
shapely and add
to your bank ac
count besides. . , .
If you want
housework to do '
you any good put
less sinew into it.
, .Manageableness at: Sea
By JOSEPH CONRAD.
The following interesting story is taken
from "Some Reflections on the Loss of
the Titanic" In "The English Review,"
the author of which Is an old soa captain
and a' writer of wide reputation."
It, is., in ..more ?way than one a very
ugly'tiHsine'ssv and -a merei scrapei along
the snip 'sMerso' light that, if.' rfeporta
are to': be1 ,be!teved,-4t. did not interrqpt a
oard : party in the gorgeous! fitted (but
i4 chastl irtyleHsmoklng Jroom,. of .w,as it
in the delightful Frenoh tafe, is :enough
to ;iprih;on;the. rJosurti Al the peo
ple op. 'bqard existed under a sense-, of
false-seeurlty.,' lH&w false,' ft' has '.been
sufficiently;' ; ditfonstrated.-. iY Mi- the'
fact,1 'which seems, undouoted.'t that ' soma
ot them actually ;'wer reluctant , to pn
tr ths boats when told ito do" so. '-sho'ws
the strength of that falsehood. Incident
ally.' it showralso the'sort of discipline
on . board these ships, the sort; fit hHd
kept on. the passengers in ,the face; of the
unforgiving sea. These people seemed
to Imagine it ah ' optional matter. Whereas
the" order to leave the ship should be an
order-of "the sternest' 'character, to ibe
obeyed wnquesUonlngly and promptly by
everx. one on board, with men enough
to enrbfceit air once"," arid" to carry: it
out -methodically and swiftly., , And, it
Is no use to say It cannot be done,
for it can. It has been done. The
only requisite is manageableness cf the
ship herself and of the numbers she car
ries on board. That is the great thing
which makes for safety. -
The Douro, a ship longing to the R.
It. S. P. Co.," was rather less than-one-tenth
the measurement of the ..Titanic.
Yet, strange as it may appear to the
ineffable hotel' exquisites who form the
bulk of the first-class cross-Atlantlo pas
sengers, people of position and wealth
and refinement did not consider It In
tolerable to travel in her. .. - '
She was not a mass of material gor
geously furnished and -upholstered. - She
was a ship.' And she -was not, in the
aPt worda of an article by Commander
a Crutchley, R. N. ,R.K "run by a sort
of hotel syndicate, composed of the chief
engineer, . the purser and the captain,"
as these 'monstrous Atlantic ferries .are.
She was really commanded, manned ,apd
equipped as a ship meant to keep to sea;
a ship first and last In the fullest mean
ing of the term. r . ... ,' !'.,
She was off the Stanlsh coast, home
ward bound, and' fairly full, just about ! may tall, and men, too, may fail some
like the Titanic, and further, the pro- j limes; but more of un. men, .when they
portion of her crew,i itmcintKs.- u.tej8' given the chance, iu yrove them
well. to her passengers was very much i selves truer than le!, . that wonderful
that she must have been rolling a good
deal, and in that respect the conditions
for her were more adverse than in the
case of the Titanic - Some time either
Just before or just after miUnig.ht,. to the
best of my recollection, she was run into
amidships and at right-angles by a large
tteamur; which, after the blow,- backed
out, and, herself apparently damaged,
letnaiaed. motionless at some .'distance. .
ily recollection is that- the Duoro re-
mumed afioat after the collision ' for
fif'teea mlnutes or ttieieaboUls," " In that
time the boats were lowered, all the pasr
sengera put Into them and the lot shoved
off. There was no time to do anything;
more. " The crew went down.' with her,
literally without a murmur. When she
went she plunged bodily down like a
stone. The only members of the ship's
company who survived wero the third
officer, who; was from the first ordered
to tuke charge of the boats, and the sea
men told oif to tnan them, tw4 in each:
Wobody else was picked up. A quar
tcrmaateri; one of the waved in the way
oi auty, with whom 1 talked a month or
so afterward, told me that they pulled
up to the spot, but could' neither see
a head or hear the tuihtest cry."
-But I "have forgotten. passenger
was drowned. She was a lady's maid
who, frensled with terror refused to leave
the ship. One of the boats waited near
by, but the chief officer, finding r.lrosclf
absolutely unable to tear the girl away
from the rail to which she clung with a
frantic, grasp, ordered the boat away out
of danger. My quartermaster told me
that he spoke over, to them hi hit ordinary-
voice, and this -was the last souuJ
Heard before the ship sank.
" THo rest 'is sileac. ' '
, A seamanlike peace of work, of which
one, cherishes the. . old ' memory at this
Juncture more than ever before. She was
a snip commanded, manned, equipped
not a sort of ' marine Rita ' Disclaimed
'unsinkable and sent adrift with its casual
population upon the. sea, without enough
boats, without enough seamen (but with
a Parisian cafe and 400 of the poor devil
of waiters) to meet dangers which, let
the engineers say what they like, lurk
always among the waves, sent with a
blind trust in mere materials, light beart-
edly to the most miserable, "most fatuous
disaster.
"But sli this has Its moral. Yes, material
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An Old-Fashioned Book
By WINIFRED BLACK.
"Tempest and Sunshine," by Mary J. .reading it In
Holmes-there it lay, face down, Oh the
rock. - -
. The tall ferns grew "green and sweet
around the rock, the waterfall sang a
song of summer '
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Housework is
fine exercise if .
you know how to
do it right.
the name. The ulght was moonlit, but
hazythe weather fine, a heavy swell
running from the westward, which means
thin steel from which '...e sides and to
bulkheads of our modern sea-leviathans
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BY ANNETTE KELLERMAN.
Last Winter when I took an apartment
In New York everybody thought, of
course, I was going to have a 'maid. I
have a theater maid, naturally, but she
has all she can do to attend to my cos
tumes, whicH, while they may not seem
to require much attention, nevertheless
take up all of her time.
"Mo indeed, i n not going to have a
maid," I announced calmly. "I need the
extra exercise of housework." '
There was a general ha-ha at my ex
pense, but I knew what I was about
Housework is fine exercise .If ypu know
how to do it right, and I've always done
a good deal of it, and been none the
worse for it ,
First of all, of course. It depends upon
your house., whether you are going to
enjoy your" work, or -find it burdensome
and unhealthy.
By house I mean apartment, or one
room in a lodging house, or a four story
dwelling, of whatever the place Is that
you call home. ;
Most of us fill our houses with use
less truck,; for which we never nave any
real need, and which usually costs a
lot of money in the beginning, and much
more to ceep clean. -
The ' Japanese seem to me to have
worked out the most , perfect plan for
their homes. Everything they possess is
necessary, and every necessary thtng is
beautiful, artistic and valuable. If you
will'-go over your home and eliminate
everything you have no use tor; and
everything that .is not beautiful, the daily
care of what Is -left will be excellent ex
ercise ' fbr you, and It won't take you
long to do It.
I like to do my own .Housework, De-
cause I 'am perfectly fussy about having j
things, perfectly clean, and I hate dust 1
, Now, I have watched the ordinary
aoussWorker perform the daily chore of ,
fj8 ANNETTE KELLERMANN.
dusting, and I can't say that she does
It scientifically -or successfully. She Is
too much like the stage maid, who is
always laced into a very tightening
dress, with a little bit of a' white apron
about the size of a dolly, and a large
lace .cap, who goes up and down the
stage flirting a feather duster around
the legs of the gilt furniture, while she
sings a merry song without looking at
what she's doing.
Dust that is dislodged with a feather
duster simply goes and settles some
where else. Usually it settles in your own
lunga A nice, healthy place, isn't it?
When I do my dusting every window Is
wide open, my hair is tied up tight In one
of my favorite silk handkerchiefs, and I
dust with a cloth, a damp rag or chamois,
and take the dust away to be washed out
of the rag. . ,
I insist, upon having the picture mold
ings wiped off, and when I do it myself
you can see this Is the best kind of reach
ing and stretching exercise. Sweeping is
good exercise,, too, but as It raises so
much dust I prefer the vacuum method
of cleaning, and there are as many dif
ferent kinds of these cleaners now that
most families could afford to have them,
especially if they got together, two or
three families clubbing in and buying a
good cleaner.
I never go at my housework, except in
the loosest and most 'comfortable cloth
ing, and I am very particular to have
comfortable not high-heeled slippers, but
soft, low shoes, with a very modest heel,
which I keep for this special purpose.
Half the time the woman who does her
housework is not properly dressed for her
work. She csnnot combine comfort and
something at least half way pretty in
appearance. Many women look upon a
big apron as a sign of bondage or social
inferiority, I think. That's why we see
so many dirty blouses and soiled kimonos, 1
The one-piece dress is a blessing, as It I
always looks tidy, and the big apron is
a complete protection, like the -workman's
blouse which Englishmen wear, but
of which I don't see - very many In
America. ...
I don't mind scrubbing, and if you do
It with a will it Is the same as many of
the standard exercises for shoulders, back
and waist muscles. There is no reason
why one should only scrub with the right
hand; you could easily get accustomed to
alternating with the left hand. - This
makes the development of the muscles
more equal.
One of the reasons why housework Is
looked upon as such a bugbear Is that
women have never taken the trouble to
systematize their work and to get the
most out of It for themselves. The
average woman who does housework
either for her own family or for soma
one else looks upon herself as a sort of
martyr, and she really is a martyr, too.
A martyr to dust dirt, discomfort; ' to
complete lack of system, and the thought
that would save her so many steps and
so much time.
She would rather save every piece of
dust-gathering brle-a-brac than to ' dis
card it and give the time she used to
spend in keeping the brlc-a-brac clean
to some more entertaining or more up
lifting form of work. When she does
her housework she goes at it disliking
the work; the dull routine of It has long
ago deadened any possibility m her mind
that it might contain elements of interest
or of physical development
I believe we are coming to a time when
housework will be so intelligently or
ganised and so well done that no one will
dare look down upon it as an inferior
trade. It takes a lot of intelligence, ,a
lot of thought to keep your house In
perfect order, keep It clean and well
regulated, and to do this yourself, with
a minimum expenditure of nervous, vital-
and of' laughter In
grsen places, the
pines sighed morn
full y In the can
yon, and above
there floated In the
serene blue ; a
uvei-y cloud.
The blue bells
shook thslr deli
cate petals as If
some fairy wedding
was at hand, and
there in the cleft
of a great rock
smiled a wild rose,
ks sweet and as
pink as the first flower that bloomed
the Garden of Eden.
80 still it was In the deep, green can
yon, so still, so sheltered, so scented, so
cool, It looked and felt as If my foot was
the first even to tread the way of the
olesr rock by the clear, spring.
And yet there It lay, the queer, battered,
weather-beaten old book, "Tempest and
Sunshine," by Mary J. Holmes. ! '
Who was reading It? I wondered. "Where
did It come from? In what attto had, it
lain all these mocking years?
I had Just got Interested In that book
When teacher slipped up behind me and
took It out of my geography.
"What's that you're reading, by dear,1
said she, "something about South Amerl
-can Industries?" And she took the book
right away from me then and there and
never again did I get one glimpse of It
I never did know whether Tempest got
Sunshine's sweet heart away from her or
not, and hers It was right here In the
deep canon waiting to be read, fact down.
on the riven rock.
Hearkl Are those voices on the wind?
Some one Is coming up the canon. I'll
step Into the shadow a minute Here
they are three girls three funny little
old-fashioned girls. One, very little, and
one middle sized, and one quite tall. They
are looking for something. Here's where
we sat," said fhe eldest girl,
"I see It." said the little, girl, as she
sprang and picked up the book-
In less than a minute, the three were
In a knot by the riven rock. The eldest
girl set her sturdy back sgalnst a tall
tree, the two smaller ones settled them
selves comfortably at her rather good-
sized feet, and the spell began to work.
'Tempest frowned darkly," began the
eldest girl.
"Oh!" cried the little girl, "that mean
old Tempest Is beginlng again. I almost
hate to hear about her. She Is awfully
mean." '
And . rather than disturb their joy
stole carefully away down the green
canon and left them together there by
the riven rock, where the clear water
sang the song of summer and of laughter
In green, shady nooks. Tempest and Sun
shine and the three little old-fashioned
girls.
And now I shall never know what
happened to little Sunshine and her sweet
heart, the young doctor. I shall never
know whether Tempest found out how
wicked she was and reformed. I shall
never know what either of them wore
the day they were married, or what the
young doctor said when he "gathered
little blue-eyed Sunshine to his heart"
as he must have some time before the
end of the story. Isn't It too bad?
"Tempest and Sunshine," what a queer,
oldfashloncd book It was, to be sure.
Not a married woman In It hot a stolen
kiss, not an elopement even; no actresses.
no late suppers, no divorces, no '"climb
era," no clever innuendoes, as Mr. Aston
Stevens says-nothing but honey snd
bread snd butter and snowy biscuits and
blue eyes, and that wicked, wicked Tem
How could we ever have been so
absorbed In It when teacher found me
lty and physical strength.
I have been telling you- all along, in
writing about my rules for health, that
all the exercise in the world Is not going
to help you unless you put your mind on
the work you are doing and the benefits
to bt derived. .
It's the same way In housework. If
you want housework to do you any good,
put mora brain and less sinew Into it
Every day you will fine some problem
to solve that wilt tax your Ingenuity and
stimulate your thinking machine.
Housework tires most women because
they hate it. The same physical motions
performed In a gymnasium and called
physical culture will bs considered fua
Turn your housework into Intelligent,
Joyful activity and you will find that
the exercise ef it will help your figure
shapely and all to your bank account be
sides. ....
my geography so many, .
years ago? And yet there they tat today
together Mn- the -dep canyon, the three",
growing girls, as deeply absorbed in the r-old-fashloned
book they had fished out "
of some garret asr If It had been a trea-r
Use on eugenics, the sort of thing that
seems to be so fashionable Just now.- :
Have the girls changed; or have we'
who buy the books for theor changed?
Sentiment, high-flown, . lacking in lit
rary merit. Doubtless, doubtless, no
one could claim much for the "art for;
art's sake" side of the Holmes' book or,-
Its like. And yet Just the other day when, v
a girl of 17 went with me for a walk
up the green canyon where the laughing
water calls day and night to all who are
weary to Oo me and .rest and laugh, too,"
and when she carried as light reading In.,
her ' blouse ' pocket "De Profudis" and
"Omar , Khayyam" ,f elt somehow ai
dlsooncerned as I would to watch a harm-;.,
less gray and whits kitten trying to '
make Itself believe that it liked musU',
erd and horse radish for dinner and-.
couldn't abide a dish of bread and, milk
with good, thick yellow cream on.lt
"Tempest and Sunshine," by Mary J.
Holmes. We laugh at the old-fashioned
books now, and at' the old-fashioned;
people who read them, and yet, do you
know, I'd take my chance with any pne.g
Of the little readers ot "Tempest and..,.
Sunshine" Up there In the canyon thft"
other day and let the poor, puzzled,
earnest young person With the "Omar"
Khayyam" ' yearnings , and the "De
Profundls" cult go by on the very cold
aide if the street for all of me. I wonder"-
If I am entirely 'wrong?
Love, friendship,- simple hopes, kindly
ambitions," sweet daughterly afteotUo
home, the whits table cloth, the yallcw,?
butter, the golden honey, the amber tea,
the little sprig of woodbine In the golden
hair, the -simple bouquet of wild rostS
on the table, the. bright -fire, on. the
friendly hearth, when the cool of even:
Ing falls, the sweet clover under tlwsrt:
window, the comfortable cat In the sun-".?
shine on the porch, the old dog at thej '
gate, the bees a-hum In the buckwheat-
what is there better than these things
or more to be loved and desired after"
all? ' ' . - - -
ELECTRICITY JON THE LINERS-: ;
The saying of Klngf Solomon that:
"money answersth all things" might bar-1
paraphrased to apply ,to electricity aboattl
ship In these modern times. Often dtj
scribed as a floating palace, the great 5
ocean liner Is today an enormous elecv
trie plant It hss reached the polni. thai
steam is restricted to a single functlon-va.'
that of driving the screw propellers. All'
else Is done by the current electrical. It
Is hinted in certain quarters that the::.'
day s close at hand when electric mo
tors will drive the propellers also. .
Passenger' ships,'' battleships and,'
freighters, -all alike,- require heat and.,.
light and ventilation. For these essential u
purposes electricity Is Ideal, because It
can be transmitted so easily over the en
tire ship to any desired point. The trans-',,,
mission of heat by steam or hot water.
requires an elaborate system Of iron' '
pipes. The ssme result can be had by a,.,
few small wires entlrsly out of sight If t
electricity is used.1 - '('
The speed of the modern ship, although' '
propelled by steam, is chUfly dependent;,
upon electricity, because the bellows that
force the fires under the ship's boilers-5
are worked by electric motors. : Thisj.
forced draft makes the greatest differ-" r.
ence Imaginable. The flames are liter- j -ally
fanned, the fans being large and" '''
calling for great power to operate them. 1
In some cases' there are eight motors ot '
fifty horsepower, each motor being ' ;
coupled to two fans, making a total 0! :
400 horsepower, Full speed in the aver- '
age ship requires ,200 horsepower at th V
least for the fans. Formerly the all-important
fans Were driven by steam, but
the motor Is both better and cheaper for. V
the purpose...
So it is also with reference to the cap-.
stana and winches. . The old-fashioned ,
steam pipes, when occupying exposed f
places in winter, had an ugly way of
condensing and , freezing when most"'
needed; but no suoh bother is met where.
electricity is employed. Many ships carry.-;
four elevators, some for passengers and
some for freight, and all ; vessels are"
required to do. a world ofjlfting amp
hoisting In handling the. cargo. For all,-..
these ends motor , power Is far 1 mor;...,
handy and equally efficient when .con.: '
treated with steam. ,. ,
The doors to bulkheads, and ..water
tight compartments can be closed mor
quickly by electricity than by any others
means, and' there are scores of -othei'.f.i
things to be done on board ship forV-r
which it is best sulted. ' The current It'
generated by 'steam turbines, connected
with the main boilers of the ship, t
switchboard subdivides the 'current ana
distributes It to' all desired points ' '