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MRS. PEATTIE'S CANDIDACY

Progress of Her Campign for Member of the Board of Education

Letters From Women Indorsing Her-What the Committee Is Doing to Elect Her.

Qualifications for Coting- Something About the Canddiate-indorsed by Two Conventions and One League.

The current issue of the Woman's Weekly, the official organ of the Woman's club of this city, prints several letters from club members in support of Mrs Peattie's candidacy, among which were the following

This year the women of Omaha have an opportunity to be prepresented upon the school board by one of their own number, whose ability and public spirit are unquestioned The schools are neither republican, populist nor democratic, so the question of political affiations need not ender for a moment into consideration Our schools are the great national nurseries of the republic , and fitness for the position of school director is the only question that should concern us With all due respect to the present board, whose members perhaps devote a short time every week to the general necessities of the schools, put off until the last moment for action, it certainly seems as if a woman would know better how to arrange details, which are, after all, the most fair reaching in their consequences

If the management of the schools had been in the hands of the women, is it to be supposed that at this present stage of civilization, with all the talk about herms, bacilli, etc, ad infintum that the women would have allowed children of all sorts of conditions of men, in all stages of cleanliness (I really want to rush into medical terms here, I know so much about it that it is a pity I do not know a little more) with eczema and what not-to drink form a common cup It is inconveivable that this matter should have been neglected so long A woman would see that her children were surrounded by the best possible conditions of health and morals Men have apparently more importat business in life than looking after children but a true mother will hold that ot be her most important work, to which all other aims must subserver.

I once knew a lady who devoted her self entirely to her children She said servants could do the work of the house, but her children were too precious to be left to the care of hirelings Teachers, who take the mother's place a few hours every day, should be selected with the greatest care Only women can judge women in many ways There seems to be a mental obliquity of vision in a man's judgement of a woman's fitness for may positions

I hope the time will come when women physicans will have the general women physicians will have the genral oversight of the health of school down with contagious disease shall be detected at once before other children are infected A medical supervision should be exercised over all schools, and very great attnetion should be pait to sanitary regulatoins. The city empolys a man to run around and look after the cows, but children are heard with very little attnetion t the places from which they come, bringing with them germs of disease and death

Perhaps a woman on the school board will inaugurate new conditions At any rate, the honored memeber of the Woman's club who is a candidate fro the position will bot be a nonentity Let the women of Omaha see to it that she is elected

AUGUSTA B. HENDERSON

Primarily, because women should have a direct voice in school matters The larger part of the teachers are women, but the authority under which they work is vested in men, now entirely One woman will be but one if the schools governing power, and that is little enought. Observation of the worlds affaits goes to show that what men and women do together is better doen than what either do alone. Men need womens capacity for minutes and painstaking detail-for keeping corners clean and beautifying the affairs of life; women need men capacity for broad dealing the carrying, out of plants in the mars

Secondarily, because Mrs Peattie, having had a large experience in public life, is by that fitted fro such a position Her philanthropic work in the city and her writing prive her a humanitarian and a follower of of the two great commandments on which hang all the law and the prophets

There need be no thirdly Vote for a woman as a member of the school board, because I believe women should have a direct voice in that matter which is beyond everything else their work, the education of their children Vote for Mrs Peattie because her nomination gives us the first opportunity gives us the first opportunity to sustain and carry into effect that belief, and because she is a woman calculated to occupy the position with credit

HARRIETS MACMURPHY

In the nineteenth centry it seems quite superfous to suggest that women who are candidates for office do not need to subscribe to articles of faith It is highly desirable taht they be good, moral citizens, but it is hardly fair to require more, since no similar requistiion is placed upon men hoping for elction We allow and believe that the more conscientious and faithful the individual, the better will all be performed. This is written for those who question the property of any woman being on the school board until church affiliation has been investigated We are happy to note municipal league We are gald taht she is to speak before the congreational club nect week In the past we have noted from time to time taht when the various church and parlor gatherings have watned a draqing card, they have gladly availed themselves of the talent of Mrs Peattie, Will they show their apreciation of her now? We fed sure that the gallantry of the members of the baord of education is such that they will welcome a ladyto their number Vite for Mrs. Peattie H S Towne

NOT DONE

MRS. PEATTIE'S CANDIDACY

Progress of Her Campign for Member of the Board of Education

Letters From Women Indorsing Her-What the Committee Is Doing to Elect Her.

Qualifications for Coting- Something About the Canddiate-indorsed by Two Conventions and One League.

The current issue of the Woman's Weekly, the official organ of the Woman's club of this city, prints several letters from club members in support of Mrs Peattie's candidacy, among which were the following

This year the women of Omaha have an opportunity to be prepresented upon the school board by one of their own number, whose ability and public spirit are unquestioned The schools are neither republican, populist nor democratic, so the question of political affiations need not ender for a moment into consideration Our schools are the great national nurseries of the republic , and fitness for the position of school director is the only question that should concern us With all due respect to the present board, whose members perhaps devote a short time every week to the general necessities of the schools, put off until the last moment for action, it certainly seems as if a woman would know better how to arrange details, which are, after all, the most fair reaching in their consequences

If the management of the schools had been in the hands of the women, is it to be supposed that at this present stage of civilization, with all the talk about herms, bacilli, etc, ad infintum that the women would have allowed children of all sorts of conditions of men, in all stages of cleanliness (I really want to rush into medical terms here, I know so much about it that it is a pity I do not know a little more) with eczema and what not-to drink form a common cup It is inconveivable that this matter should have been neglected so long A woman would see that her children were surrounded by the best possible conditions of health and morals Men have apparently more importat business in life than looking after children but a true mother will hold that ot be her most important work, to which all other aims must subserver.

I once knew a lady who devoted her self entirely to her children She said servants could do the work of the house, but her children were too precious to be left to the care of hirelings Teachers, who take the mother's place a few hours every day, should be selected with the greatest care Only women can judge women in many ways There seems to be a mental obliquity of vision in a man's judgement of a woman's fitness for may positions

I hope the time will come when women physicans will have the general women physicians will have the genral oversight of the health of school down with contagious disease shall be detected at once before other children are infected A medical supervision should be exercised over all schools, and very great attnetion should be pait to sanitary regulatoins. The city empolys a man to run around and look after the cows, but children are heard with very little attnetion t the places from which they come, bringing with them germs of disease and death

Perhaps a woman on the school board will inaugurate new conditions At any rate, the honored memeber of the Woman's club who is a candidate fro the position will bot be a nonentity Let the women of Omaha see to it that she is elected

AUGUSTA B. HENDERSON

Primarily, because women should have a direct voice in school matters The larger part of the teachers are women, but the authority under which they work is vested in men, now entirely One woman will be but one if the schools governing power, and that is little enought. Observation of the worlds affaits goes to show that what men and women do together is better doen than what either do alone. Men need womens capacity for minutes and painstaking detail-for keeping corners clean and beautifying the affairs of life; women need men capacity for broad dealing the carrying, out of plants in the mars

Secondarily, because Mrs Peattie, having had a large experience in public life, is by that fitted fro such a position Her philanthropic work in the city and her writing prive her a humanitarian and a follower of of the two great commandments on which hang all the law and the prohets

NOT DONE