04-12-1995 Women of Achievement and Herstory

      Put this up next to your bathroom mirror to read every morning
to keep your eye on the goal of women's equality.  This is the *true*
way things were:
      (Excerpted from a Home Economics textbook used in Ontario,
Canada, schools during the 1950's.  The U.S.A. texts and lessons for
women were no better.)
      "*  Get your work done.  Plan your tasks with an eye on the
clock. Finish or interrupt them an hour before your husband is
expected home.  Your anguished cry, "Are you home already?" is not
exactly a warm welcome.
      "*  Have dinner ready.  Plan ahead, even the night before to
have a delicious meal on time.  This is a way of letting him know that
you have been thinking of him and are concerned for his  needs.  Most
men are hungry when they come home and the prospects of a good meal
are part of the warm welcome needed.
      "*  Prepare yourself.  Take 15 minutes to rest so that you will
be refreshed when he arrives.  Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon
in your hair and be fresh looking.  He has just been with a lot of work
weary people.  Be a little gay and a little more interesting.  His boring
day may need a lift.
      "*  Clear away the clutter.  Make one last trip through the main
part of the house just before your husband arrives. Then run a dust
cloth over the tables.  Your husband will feel he has reached a haven
of rest and order and it will give you a lift, too.
      (Continued Tomorrow - Shudder ... )

04-12 Anniversaries ...............................................

      B. 04-12-1883, Imogen Cunningham, pioneer photographer of plants
and portraits.

      B. 04-12-1898, Eleanor Touroff Glueck, noted criminologist,
research associate in criminology at Harvard Law School and with her
husband (who became a professor while she didn't) did extensive
studies of the criminal mind and juvenile deliquency.  They published
jointly from 1927 to 1972 and shared many honors.

      B. 04-12-1904, Lily Pons, soprano with the Metropolitan Opera with
a range from middle C to F sharp above high C.

      B. 04-12-1917, Marietta Tree, helped found Sydenhan Hospital in
Harlem (1944), member New York City Commission on Human Rights
(1959), mother of author Frances Fitzgerald and model Penelope Tree.

      B. 04-12-1933, Montserrat Caballe, bel canto soprano of world and
Metropolitan Opera fame.

Quotes du jour ...............................................

      "Under the ban on lesbians and gays in the military, women
suffer the most.  If we're strong, ambitious and hardworking they label
us lesbian; if we resist sexual advances they label us lesbian; if we're
up for promotion in a non-traditional military job, they label us lesbian.
In being labeled lesbian, (any woman) can be thrown out based on little
more than rumors and hearsay."
             -- Patricia Ireland, president of NOW


(C) 1995 Irene Stuber, PO Box 6185, Hot Springs National Park, AR
71902, irenestuber@delphi.com. Distribute verbatim copies freely with
copyright notice for non-profit use. Don't let anyone tell you there
weren't notable and effective women throughout history.  They were
always there, but historians failed to note them in our histories so that
each generation of women has had to reinvent themselves.