| 12-23 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Traditional Family Values
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
"Family Values"
What exactly are the traditional family values?
Let a few writers from the 1800s describe it:
Eliza W. Farnham called the male population of Illinois
in the early 1800s "unequivocally indolent.
On a bright day they mount their horses and throng the little town in the
vicinity of their homes, drinking and trading horses till late in the evenings."
Thomas Ashe, noted: "On
entering the house, which was a long one fitted up very well, the Kentuckyan
never exchanged a word with his wife or his children... notwithstanding
he had been absent several days. No tender enquiry, not affection or sentiment,
but a contemptuous silence and a stern brutality which block up all the
avenues to the heart."
Another journalist commented: "Woman
is expected to daily endure a strain that no man would tolerate for any
length of time. Until what is modestly called housekeeping is recognized
as a noble science that it really is, and is carefully studied, the slaughter
of women by overwork will continue."
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12-23 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 12-23-1657, Hannah Duston, captured by Indians
less than a week after the birth of her eigth child, was able to secure
a hatchet with the help of an English boy captive while they were on the
way back to the Indian village and she attacked their captors. She killed
nine of the ten Indians and scalped them to prove the deed before escaping.
She received 25 pounds from the British general in Boston who gave rewards
for scalps.
B. 12-23-1860, Harriet Monroe, perhaps a minor
poet but a great visionary who championed
freer movement in poetry. In 1912, established (and edited) Poetry,
a Magazine of Verse that drew the leading poets of the English-speaking
world and introduced some of the most memorable poetry of the twentieth
century. It became the principal vehicle for modern poetry of the English-speaking
world.
B. 12-23-1867, Madame Charles J. Walker (Sarah
Breedlove), first woman-self-made millionaire in U.S.
She was black and made her fortune in hair straightener and care products.
Orphaned and then widowed, she had been a $1.50 a day washerwoman before
developing her products which were sold much in the way Avon and Mary Kay
products are sold today. She was a noted philanthropist in black causes.
B. 12-23-1904, Nancy Stevenson Graves, artist
best known for her sculptures.
B. 12-23-1946 (?48), Susan Lucci, actress
noted for her portrayal of Erica Kane in the TV show All My Children
and never winning an Emmy although nominated a record number of times.
Her mother was a nurse.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY:
"I learned to drive,
to leap a fence and ditch on horseback. I taxed every power, hoping some
day to hear my father say: Well a girl IS as good as a boy after all. But
he never said it."
[But this girl continued
to study hard and finally won - over all the boys - a prize in Greek scholarship.]
"[My father] took
up the book and asked me some questions about the class, the teachers,
the spectators, and evidently pleased, handed it back to me. Then, while
I stood looking and waiting for him to say something which would show that
he recognized the equality of the daughter with the son, he kissed me on
the forehead and exclaimed with a sigh, 'Ah, you should have been a boy!'"
--
Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her autobiography. Stanton was the foremost feminist
philosopher and activist of the American women's rights movement. She was
the prime organizer of the first U.S. women's rights convention in 1848,
and the first women's right convention in historical times.
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