The President of the United States has celebrated the recent ratification of the Constitutional Amendment enfranchizing women by giving to a woman one of the most important posts at present at his disposal. He has appointed Miss Mabel Boardman one of three Commissioners who administer Washington, Washington, or, rather, the Federal District of Columbia, does not belong to the State of Maryland, in which it is situated, but is under the control of the National Government, its three Couimissioners, one of whom corresponds to our Child marriages are taboo in the civilized world, and the age at which the mother begins to bear children is greater than it was even two generations ago. This fact is in harmony with progress, for it was scientifically proved by Francis Galton that "in most physical qualities the children of mature parents tend to come out best: (and that) the children of elderly mothers show a tendency to superiority throughout."
The maturer minds who are now the mothers of the race, while being better fitted for their home duties, realize their inability to meet the larger problems radiating from the home. They know well what benefits would result if sanitary science, for example, were given full sway in the community. They know the dangers of bad air, insufficient light, damp cellars, accus mulated refuse, bad plumbing, and congestion without fire protection. They know, as does Miss Jane Ad-'Gaius that "one half the tiny lives that make up the City's (Chicago) death rate might be saved by a more thorough application of sanitary science'. Yet till recently they have been powerless to exert internal influence upon the municipal. state, or provincial bodies which legislate.
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