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Women Learn Civics by Practical Work, She SaySy Not by Theory Alone 
A FEMINIST in the best sense of 
that much abused but expressive 
word is Mrs. Edward Young, mother 
of six children, head of a busy house¬ 
hold, yet actively interested in the af¬ 
fairs of her community, not only as 
they react upon her own family, but as 
they affect other women and their chil¬ 
dren. A born home-maker, Mrs. Young 
carries her home-making instinct out¬ 
side her own four walls, and as a result 
many other families benefit by her 
alert, energetic, good-humored insis- 
tance on applying the virtues of the 
good housekeeper to public as well as 
private life. 
Some years ago, when the six little 
Youngs were even littler (in fact, sev- 
■ eral of them are now considerably 
taller than their mother, and the oldest 
daughter is working as a trained dieti¬ 
tian) Mrs. Young was pitchforked, 
more or less, into public life, and has 
remained there ever 
since. Just now she 
is chiefly known to 
New York women as 
a very busy and very 
effective speaker for 
the work of the Com¬ 
mittee of 21, on which 
she has served for 
the last three years. 
But the story of her 
public activity goes 
back much farther 
than that. 
I found Mrs. Young, 
one of those bleak 
gray days which 
passed for spring on 
the calendar, “rest¬ 
ing” at home for a 
day, between a flying 
trip to Albany in the 
interest of the school 
bill and an equally 
urgent call to a 
Grange meeting in 
the opposite direction. 
“Resting” means 
about as active a 
twelve-hour day ' as 
even a farmer’s wife 
can put in, but be¬ 
tween hurried visits 
to kitchen, telephone 
and upstairs regions, 
she found time to sit 
down and chat in the front room of the 
comfortable old house in Milton, Ulster 
county, where Mr. Young’s family has 
been established for generations. 
“I frankly admit that at times I 
neglect my family—and I don’t think 
it hurts them a bit,” stated Mrs. Young 
gravely, but with a twinkle in her eye. 
“They’ve learned to be ever so self- 
reliant, and then, too, when I do come 
home, they appreciate me all the 
more! 
“But, I must also admit that I’m 
just a wee bit tired of doing so much 
outside work, and that when this school 
bill finally goes through—as it eventu¬ 
ally will—I mean to stay home and en¬ 
joy my family a little,” she added 
seriously. “The school situation, though, 
is one that needs the active work of 
every one of us, and having been the 
oldest of twelve, to say nothing of rais¬ 
ing six children myself, I have had 
plenty of opportunity to see our school 
system at close range and to understand 
its defects and its virtues. It has both.” 
Mrs. Young, though ■ long an active 
worker for suffrage, assumed her first 
public position in 1912. As might have 
been expected, because of her special 
interest in the subject, it was as a 
school director. 
Her Experience as a Law-Breaker 
“It was rather funny the way it 
happened,” said Mrs. Young, with a 
reminiscent chuckle. She evidently 
enjoys a joke on herself as much as 
any other sort. “As a matter of fact, 
not being a voting citizen, I hadn’t 
any right to run or be elected. But I 
didn’t know that and neither, appar¬ 
ently, did the men who put me in. 
“You’ll remember that the law pro¬ 
viding for directors of schools to meet 
every five years, was passed in 1912. 
I was nominated by the Republicans. 
The Democrats refused to nominate 
another candidate. So—and this is 
where the trick came in—I was unani- 
By GABRIELLE ELLIOT 
mously elected. Then when the legality 
was questioned, I couldn’t be removed 
because I really had been appointed by 
unanimous public opinion. On legal 
advice, I attended the director’s confer¬ 
ence, a bit in hope, I confess, that my 
right to do so would be challenged, so 
that I might have a chance to argue 
the point. I was the only woman there, 
but was heartily welcomed and didn’t 
have to defend myself. I’ve been a 
director ever since, too.” 
At this point two junior Youngs 
joined in the interview; one a twelve 
year old boy, and the other the sturdy 
eight year old girl, just hhme from 
school, who appears in the picture as 
the baby of the family. They helped 
to study seriously over the collection of 
the snapshots and to decide which was 
the best to appear in the American 
Agriculturist. 
“I’m a very strong 
supporter of the 
Home Bureau,” said 
Mrs. Young, when 
this important ques¬ 
tion had been decided. 
“To my mind, it serves 
as a central point on 
which all women, no 
matter what their in¬ 
dividual interests, 
can focus. I think 
there are too many 
organizations now-a 
days, and a small 
community cannot be¬ 
gin to support all the 
good ones. Under the 
Home Bureau plan, 
small groups can 
come together accord¬ 
ing to the subjects 
which interest them— 
civics, flower raising, 
literature, dressmak¬ 
ing—a nd yet the 
strength of the whole 
is beMnd each branch. 
Thus the women all 
get what they want, 
yet they pull together 
and not apart. 
“The part which 
women should take in 
politics is now very 
much in the public eye,” went on Mrs. 
Young, after a little excursion to attend 
to some household emergency. “I be¬ 
lieve that many women, in saying they 
are interested in civics, mean politics, 
“But women really cannot take their 
part in political life as yet. The 
system, or technique, you might call it, 
has been too long developing to be 
grasped over night. Yet, I certainly 
agree the women should learn to take 
their share of political responsibility. 
Learn Citizenship by Doing 
“I believe therefore that each woman 
should have some one definite interest, 
such as the school situation. By study¬ 
ing it in all its aspects and by working 
to improve it, a woman makes herself 
a better citizen. It is the old idea of 
learning by doing. She not only im¬ 
proves the schools, but gets a thorough 
training in civics and politics at the 
same time. I’m a great believer in the 
ability and high purpose of my own 
sex, but I would urge all women to 
begin in a simple way, near home to 
study their own community, and thus 
gradually to work into the more compli¬ 
cated scheme of things in county, state 
and nation. 
“Well, there you have about all I 
can say. As a farm woman, I don’t 
feel that I’ve had any sort of ‘career’ 
or any great success that would inter¬ 
est other women. My aim has been to 
be, if possible, a successful home¬ 
maker, but I can assure you I’m de¬ 
cidedly conscious of my limitations!” 
The interview was over, so far as 
Mrs. Young was concerned, but there 
seemed still a good deal to be said 
about her garden, about her church, 
where she is an active worker, and its 
Sunday-school, about the school where 
her children go and where hot lunches 
are now under discussion, and of course, 
about hospitable Mr. Young, sick at 
home with the grippe, but still willing 
to have a strange visitor welcomed for 
the day, and the four boys and two 
girls who make up the next generation. 
In the midst of it all, a mud-splashed 
Ford honked at the gate and soon 
rattled off down the precipitous hills 
with which that part of the Hudson 
River shore is blessed, carrying the 
visitor back to the little Milton station 
a mile or so away. 
The Brown Mouse 
{Continued from page 475) 
reader fanned this spark to a flame; 
science, too, had at times been his chosen 
field; and when he had built a mouse¬ 
trap which actually caught mice, he saw 
himself a millionaire inventor. And all 
the time, he was barefooted, ill-clad 
and dreamed his dreams to the accom¬ 
paniment of the growl of the plow 
cutting the roots under the brown fur¬ 
row-slice. 
As for this new employment, he saw 
no great opportunity in it. Of any 
spark of genius he was to show in it, 
of anything he was to suffer in it, of 
those pains and penalties wherewith 
the world pays its geniuses, Jim Irwin 
anticipated nothing. He went into the 
small, mean, ill-paid task as a part of 
the day’s work, with no knowledge of 
the stirring of the nation for a dif¬ 
ferent sort of rural school, and no sus¬ 
picion that there lay in it any highway 
to success in life. 
But, true to his belief in honest 
thorough work, he examined his field of 
operations. His manner of doing this 
seemed to prove to Colonel Woodruff, 
who watched it with keen interest as 
something new in the world, that Jim 
Irwin was possibly a Brown Mouse. 
But the colonel knew only a part of 
Jim’s performances. He saw Jim 
clothed in slickers, walking through 
rainstorms to the houses in the Wood¬ 
ruff District, as greedy for every mo¬ 
ment of rain as a haymaker for shine; 
and he knew that Jim made'a great 
many evening calls. 
But he did not know that Jim was 
making what our sociologists call a 
survey. For that matter, neither did 
Jim; for books on sociology cost more 
than twenty-five cents a volume, and 
Jim had never seen one. However, it 
GUESS WHO THIS IS? 
HE is a good cook, a good dress¬ 
maker, a good housekeeper, but 
more than that. She knows how 
to raise flowers, vegetables, chick¬ 
ens and bees; how to milk, churn 
and can; but she knows more 
than that. She is a shrewd buyer, 
a careful executive, a good all¬ 
round business woman; but she is 
even more than that. She is the 
wife of the most important man 
in the world and the mother of 
the men who have made America. 
She is the American farmer’s wife. 
was a survey. To be sure, he had long 
known everybody in the district, save 
the Simmses—and he was now a friend 
of all that exotic race; but there is 
knowing and knowing. He now had 
note-books full of facts about people 
and their farms. He knew how many 
acres each family possessed, and w'hat 
sort of farming each husband was do- 
i.ig. He knew whether the family 
atmosphere was happy and contented, 
or the reverse. He knew which boys 
and girls were wayward and insubordi¬ 
nate. He made a record of the ad¬ 
vancement in their studies of all the 
children, and what they liked to read. 
He knew their favorite amusements. 
He talked with their mothers and sisters 
—not about the school, to any extent, 
but on the weather, the horses, the auto¬ 
mobiles, the silo-filling machinery and 
the profits of fai’ming. 
Really, though Jennie Woodruff did 
not see how such doings related to 
school work, Jim Irwin’s school was 
running full blast in the homes of the 
district and the minds of many pupils, 
weeks and weeks before he called them 
to order on the first day of school. 
{Continued next week) 
Mrs. Edward Young is the 
first of a group of prominent 
farm women, each working out 
her home and community prob¬ 
lems with typical American re¬ 
sourcefulness, to be interviewed 
by the Household Editor for 
the readers of the American 
Agriculturist. 
Mrs. Thomas Powell of 
Long Island will be the next 
home-maker to talk through 
the pages of the magazine. 
