Men and things (1918) (14793378603)

Identifier: menthings00atki (find matches)
Title: Men and things
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Henry Avery, b. 1877
Subjects: Working class -- United States Christian sociology
Publisher: New York : Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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omodern society. She has always had a part in literature.Julia Ward Howe in writing the Battle Hymn of theRepublic, contributed not only to our wealth of song,but made a direct contribution toward the winning of thefreedom of the slaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe also gaveher remarkable aid to the same cause. George Eliotwas one of the great novelists. In the field of reformFrances E. Willard takes first place. Maud Balling-ton Booth, the little mother of thousands of prison-ers, is making a new world for the men into which theymay enter when they leave the penitentiary door. It isthe Pilgrim mothers rather than the Pilgrim fatherswho ought to be given the credit for New Englands con-tribution to national history. All other attempts to colo-nize failed because the adventurers in their quest forgold and fortunes did not bring their women with them.Anna the prophetess of old in the temple and Susan B.Anthony in the suffrage cause each represent an age and Alice Henry, The Trade Union Woman.
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Ili.ss llhisliMtiry .S.i\Ci. In the army of laborers tlic sirl and tlie woman arc drafted aswell as the bny and the man. WOMEN IN INDUSTRY 163 an enthusiasm and an ability to persist until results areachieved. Now we have a new situation. Many people viewwith concern the increasing numbers of women that areemployed in gainful occupations in the United Statesand Canada at the present time. The employment ofwomen presents not one question but many. The prob-lem that is familiar to nearly all housekeepers—that ofsecuring domestic service—presses upon our attention thenumber of women employed in this kind of work. Do-mestic service engages the largest number of womenoutside of the home. Women are now doing everythingthat men have done, and in most cases are doing thework just as well, while in many occupations they showan efficiency that men have never achieved. CharlesKingsleys phrase, For men must work and women mustweep, did very well in that age, but under the economicconditions u