Hale High School - Pompositticut Yearbook (Stow, MA)

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Woman s Place m American Progress We hold the se truths to be self evldent That all men are created equal that they are endowed by the1r Creator wzth certa1n unal1enable r1ghts that among these are l1fe lmberty and the pur su1t of happmess For many years after th1s statement was wrmtten mto the Declaratlon of Independence th1s equahty was not beheved to extend to women G1rls were not allowed to attend school nor women college They could not enter profes s1ons such as law and med1c1ne and above all they had no vo1ce 1n the government exther nat1onal or terr1tor1al As years passed however women came to take a more pronnent pos1t1on 1n Amencan llfe When the country schools of the Un1ted States developed g1rls were gwen the same 1nstruct1on as boys At Troy New York Emma Wmllard after undergomg r1d1cule and persecutmn es tabllshed a c1ty endowed school that gave women the same educat1onal advantages as men W1th1n a few years Oberlm College opened 1ts doors to both men and women The effect was natlon wlde Even before the C1v1l War women were workmg hard for the 1mprovement of cond1t1ons 1n our country On a March mormng 1n 1814 Dorothea D1x V1S1ted the House of Correctmn at East Cambrxdge Massachusetts and went home that mght so shocked and terr1f1ed at what she had seen that she could not sleep What had shocked her so was the ghastly cond1t1on of the msane at the Ja1l They wore shackles the1r cells were dark a1rless and unheated and the walls shxmmered w1th frost Many wardens beat the mmates 1n order to obta1n sllence research she took her f1nd1ngs to the members of the Massachusetts leg1slature When con fronted wxth the shockmg evmdence they quxckly prov1ded for the f1rst hosp1tal for 1nsane patlents at Worcester From Massachusetts she went to Rhode Island Mame and then made her way throughout the Unlted States workmg unceas1ngly unt1l the phght of the mentally 1ll was vastly 1mproved On January Z1 1901 one of the most sensat1onal women 1n Amermcan h1story walked down the streets of W1ch1ta Kansas smgmg Onward Chr1st1an Soldlers She had a hatchet 1n her hand and when she reached Jlm Burns saloon she rushed 1n through the swmgmg doors As customers fled and the bartender ducked Carr me Nat1on threw beer bottles at the mlrrors and smashed 1n the heads of whlskey barrels w1th her hatchet In a few m1nutes the place looked as 1f xt had been struck by a cyclone By her f1ery and spectacular crusades she helped arouse the 1nd1gnat1on that made nat1onal proh1b1t1on posslble seventeen years later Dorothea D1x and Carr1e Natxon are but two women 1n a f1eld of thousands who have been and are workmg 1n the f1eld of soclal reforms Jane Addams as head of Chlcago s Hull House and Clara Barton founder of the Amer1can Red Cross devoted the1r 11ves to th1s cause day a vast number of women are employed 1n varlous flelds of welfare work The Umted States has produced many great wr1ters among them several women Harrlet Beecher btowe became natlonally famous for her 1nsp1r1ng novel Uncle Tom s Cabm whmch dep1cted slave llfe Everyone has at one stage or another read one or more of Loulsa May Alcott s books descr1b1ng the lxfe of average Amerxcan of the day These and a host of contemporary wr1ters have helped put our country on the hterary map , -O O . . ,, . . . Miss Dix set out immediately to better the condition of these mentally ill. After much , , . . . . . . 7 Y . . ,, . . . .,, E. . , . . . , . , . . . i To- . ' - - ' so Q ' 19