e."

Society is only just beginning to realize that it has at its command
today for its own regeneration a great unused force in its army of
housewives, teachers, mothers, conscious of power but uncertain how to
use it. Perhaps the most progressive movement of the times is one led
by women who see clearly that cleanness is above charity, that moral
support must be given to those who know but do not dare to do right,
and that knowledge must be brought to the ignorant. Nothing can stop
this most notable progress but a relapse into apathy and fatalism of
the vast army of women now being enlisted to fight disease.

The opportunity has come, the responsibility is woman's hereafter. No
one can take it from her; she has knowledge. The door has opened, she
has taken the weapons in hand, is learning to use them. Will she
falter on the eve of victory simply because it involves some sacrifice
of prejudice or tradition? Must she not boldly accept the twentieth
century challenge and fight her way to victory, even at some aesthetic
sacrifice? In another hundred years, then, Euthenics may give place to
Eugenics, and the better race of men become an actuality.

The keeping of the house, the laundry work, the cleaning, the cooking,
the daily oversight, must have for its conscious end the welfare of
the family. It cannot be done without labor, but the labor in this as
in any process may be lightened by thought and by machinery.

Knowledge of labor-saving appliances is today everywhere demanded of
the successful establishment EXCEPT of the family home. Is it not time
that it came in for its share? If the housewife would use wisely the
information at her hand today, it is safe to say that in six cases out
of ten she could cut in half the housekeeping budget and double the
comfort of living.

As conditions are, the twentieth century sees a strange
phenomenon--the most vital of all processes, the raising of children,
carried on under adverse conditions; human labor and life being held
of as little account as in the days of building the pyramids.

Women may be trained to become the economic leaders in the body
politic. It is doubtful if life will be anything but wasteful until
they are trained to realize their responsibility.

The housewife was told that she must stay at home and do her work.
This was preached _at_ her, written _at_ her, but no one of them all,
save, perhaps, the Englishmen Lecky and H. G. Wells, saw the problem
in it