Heroines of Service (Hardcover)

Text extracted from opening pages of book: HEROINES OF SERVICE Mary Lyon HEROINES OF SERVICE MARY LYON .'. ALICE FREEMAN PALMER .'/ CLARA BARTON .'. FRANCES WILLAR'J v. JULIA WARD HOWE .. ANNA SHAW .\ liARY ANTIN ALICE C. FLETCHER .-. MARY SLESSOR OF CALABAR .-. MADAME CURIE JANE ADDAMS BY MARY R. PARKMAN Author of ** Heroes of Today, etc. ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS NEW THE CENTURY CO. 1923 Copyright, 1916, 1917, by THE CENTURY Co. Published Sept& mb& r, 1911 Reprinted April, 1918 Reprinted August, 1918 Reprinted July, TO MY MOTHER AND ALL WHO, LIKE HEK, ARE TRUE MOTHEKS, ANB SO, TRUE HEROINES OF SERVICE, FOBEWOBD From time immemorial women have been con tent to be as those wlio serve. Non ministrari sed ministrare not to be ministered unto but to minister is not alone the motto of those who stand under the Wellesley banner, but of true women everywhere. For centuries a woman's own home had not only first claim, but full claim, on her foster ing care. Her interests and sympathies her mother love belonged only to those of her own household. In the days when much of the la bor of providing food and clothing was carried on under each roof - tree, her service was neces sarily circumscribed by the home walls. Whether she was the lady of a baronial castle, or a hardy peasant who looked upon her work within doors as a rest from her heavier toil in the fields, the mother of the family was not only responsible for the care of her children and the * vn FQBEWOBD prudent management of her housekeeping, but she had also entire charge of the manufacture of clothing, from the spinning of the flax or wool to the fashioning of the woven cloth into suitable garments. Changed days have come, however?with changed ways. The development of science and invention, which has led to industrial prog ress and specialization, has radically changed the woman's world of the home. The indus tries once carried on there are now more effi ciently handled in large factories and packing houses. The care of the house itself is under taken by specialists in cleaning and repairing, Many women, whose energies would have been, under former conditions, inevitably mo nopolized by home-keeping duties, are to-day giving their strength and special gifts to so cial service. They are the true mothers not only of their own little brood but of the com munity and the world. The service of the true woman is always womanly. She gives something of the fos tering care of the mother, whether it be as nurse, like Clara Barton; as teacher, like Mary viii