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the most thorough sense. The mothers, many of whom are wives of Smith College Faculty members, take turns acting as teacher's assistant. They like this because it not only helps the school along, but gives them pointers on handling their own children. Those with cars bring the neighborhood flock to school.

This year the Institute has started a co-operative laundry, and it contemplates a co-operative kitchen, believing that such things will save untold time and money for individual housewives.

UT the question of careers for wives is

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not entirely one of securing care for the children. It is also a matter of persuading employers that it can be done. Business men are getting over some of their prejudices in this respect, and it is no longer necessary for an employee to conceal her marriage on pain of instant dismissal. That sort of thing has gone to join the ban on bobbed hair.

However, I have recently talked on this subject with three personnel managers, representing, respectively, a utility company, an insurance company, and a bank, and all admitted a preference for single women. Two of them said that if a girl wanted to continue working for them after she married they had no objection. But when she dropped out to have a child, they would not ordinarily let her come back.

One personnel manager summed up the objections in a sentence. "To put it bluntly, we prefer not to take on married women, because you never know when they are going to be pregnant," she said. But she and the other officials alike emphasized the fact that they had no hard and fast rules governing employment of matrons. It depended on their individual value to the company.

The attitude of the bank official was a shade more favorable than that of the other two. "If a woman with two small children applies, that usually means she is going to lose a day whenever one of them has a slight illness," he said. "But if she has relatives or some one she can leave in charge, we don't mind taking her."

I asked him whether he would give preference to a former employee who wanted to come back after having had a child. "Yes, if her record was good," he said.

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to a question of keeping her job open over the interval required for motherhood. One of the few men who have had the courage and the imagination to admit this is Mr. Samuel Reyburn, President of the Associated Dry Goods Corporation, which owns Lord & Taylor's, McCreery's, and a number of other famous department-stores. In a remarkable address before the New York League of Business and Professional Women some years ago he said:

An industrial leader who can use women to advantage should have the morals, the understanding, and the courage to have the policy that permits a woman executive to marry and have children without losing her position, provided she will do her part to prevent unnecessary loss to the business arising in such eventuality. In any large organization, if the leader will help, a woman executive can get a bright assistant and so thoroughly train her that the functioning of the department or the division can go on in an orderly and profitable way for six months or more without the actual presence of the head of that division. Naturally, she should keep in mental touch with the business activities even if not physically present.

To the objection urged that children will not get proper attention, I answer that a mother with a wellorganized business mind may give them even better attention. If the home is not too far away from the business, before and after the business day. . . she can find time to give attention to the child. . . . If she has learned . . . to lead her assistant in business, a mother could use that ability to train the nurse, and the final result of developing the mind and spirit. . . of the child is apt to be even better than if she had spent her whole time in looking after it.

I do not know how far Mr. Reyburn has studied child psychology, but his views dovetail in a striking manner with those of people who have studied it. While they do not underestimate the importance of correct home influences, they are convinced that one can scarcely begin too early to supplement these with broader contacts.

These opinions are being confirmed by experience. For instance, there is a psychiatric clinic in a certain city which exists merely to investigate those hundreds of otherwise normal children, often from excellent homes, who can't get on at school. It has found far more cases of trouble due to over-indulgence than of trouble due to neglect; or, if the child is deprived, it is usually because he has been left out in the cold while a favorite brother or sister gets all the love.

One child of eleven was whiny and difficult, doing his lessons badly and unable to get on with other children because he couldn't stand any one he couldn't boss. The investigator found that he was still being washed and dressed by his mother, got special food every time he demanded it, and couldn't go anywhere alone. She was unhappy in her marriage, and was making the boy her emotional prop. Already a social misfit before adolescence, such a child, unless something intervenes, may become a real tragedy in adult life, knowing nothing of his abilities, unfitted to cope with reality, perhaps even unable to find happiness in love.

Another child observed by this clinic was failing in reading for no apparent reason. It developed that he had an older brother with whom his mother had "a complete understanding," or thought she had. Little No. 2 was superfluous, and was made to feel it. But he found that when he flunked his reading test quite an uproar was made, so he did it consistently in a desperate desire to attract any sort of attention. Outrageous and unexplained naughtiness often springs from the same cause.

All of which may explain why psychologists look with favor upon those twin measures, pre-school education for the child and outside occupation for the mamma. They earnestly hope, however, that the job will not be so absorbing it will take her interest too much away from home or deprive the children of the love and security they urgently need. A good mother, they feel, will always be the greatest thing in the life of a child.

It appears, however, that our definition of a good mother calls for revision. The good mother, old style, "lived entirely for her children," and gloried in sacrificing herself to them. Her heart was so overflowing with love that it obliterated her perception of faults in her offspring.

The good mother, new style, considers such a program less than efficient. She watches her children with a gaze compounded of maternal tenderness and psychological knowledge, and hands over portions of their training to experts who she knows can do it better than she can. In comparison with her predecessor, she is characterized by less emotion and more intelligence. Meanwhile she keeps her own mind alert and growing; and what a difference that makes in later years! For she will never be a party to that frequent and distressing situation between mother and grown-up child, with a strong bond of affection between them, and nothing on earth to say to each other.

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The Legend of Catechee

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she spurred on her steed and he swam it nobly. "Twelve-Mile Creek," Catechee named it, for she knew she had covered that much of her journey. Farther on they forded a second stream, and this she called "Eighteen-Mile Creek." Then came, not a stream, but a river, with a rocky bottom full of dangers for the --pony's stumbling feet. "Rock River,"

she called it, and rode on, passing "Fourand-Twenty River," and soon after "Six-and-Twenty." So she sped, naming the waters as she passed; all night she rode and all next day, until when, late on the evening of the second day, she reached Fort Star, brave Catechee had gone ninety-six miles with neither food nor sleep.

Clinging to her pony, she rode up to the settlement and gave the warning, then fell half-fainting with fatigue. But her warning had come in time. Ammunition and provisions were stocked in the 40

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When, just before sunrise, the Indians stormed Fort Star, they were met with a volley of firing that took them completely by surprise. For hours the battle raged, fiercest and bloodiest in the history of the fort. Once the Indians ran up a flag of truce, offering to go if the whites would deliver up Catechee, whose betrayal they now knew. But the settlers refused, and the fight went on, until at last, broken and routed, the Indians fled back to their mountain.

So terrible had been the slaughter in their ranks that never again did they dare to disturb the peace of Fort Star. The settlers prospered and built a town, which they named Ninety-Six in honor of Catechee. To the end of her days the Indian maid lived among her white friends, beloved by all, but most by the children and grandchildren of her old playmates, who never tired of hearing the tale of Catechee's brave ride.

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THE OUTLOOK, May 9, 1928. Volume 149, Number 2. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Single copies 15 cents each. Foreign subscription to countries in the postal Union, $6.56. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., and December 1, 1926, at the Post Office at Dunellen, N. J., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1928, by The Outlook Company.

From Publisher- To You To the average American who has been reflecting recently on the outcome of the Sinclair trial, and who has also been considering Sinclair Lewis's opinion of、 us, and H. L. Mencken's remarks about us-with perhaps a sidelong look at George Jean Nathan's gibes at us-to this average American there has seemed of late to be but little hope for the future. There might be money in writing about us or belaboring us. But there was precious little credit in being one of us. And taken altogether we were Democracy.

Now comes a ray of optimism. Count Sforza, who writes in this issue on "The Future of Democracy," believes that, no matter what passing inconvenience may attach to popular government, in the long run the people possess a sort of self-protective instinct which will work out for the best for everybody concerned. According to him, to attack democracy is merely fashionable. In the end Jefferson will be proved to have been right.

IF this is true, it may be the beginning of better things. For Mr. Hamish Miles, translator of "Disraeli" and an English man of letters, has recently called Mr. Nathan's attention to the pleasing fact that the virulent enemies of American literature in England whom our RearEnd critic has been valiantly assailing are merely creatures of Mr. Nathan's imagination and don't really exist at all -except as bogy-men for Mr. Nathan.

Again, to those who know the facts, Mr. Mencken's editorials on our foreign policy seem to be increasingly devoted to knocking down straw men who are filled with iron plates of Mr. Mencken's own contriving, so that they fall with a fine crash, but who otherwise are simply creatures of his imagination. IN brief, the happy suspicion is finally possible that the whole assault on the Babbitry has been really just an invention especially contrived for the edification of our Super-Booberie who have swallowed it all at $5.00 a year. It hasn't been so at all!

Maybe there is some hope for the common man, after all, as well as a sufficient number of the Super-Booberie to keep Mr. Mencken and Mr. Nathan in sharp-toed boots. Mr. Sforza gives us a pleasant moment.

Francis Profus Bellamy

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