Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1916 — WOMAN SHOULD SEEK THE MAN [ARTICLE]

WOMAN SHOULD SEEK THE MAN

This Is the Belief of lowa’s Skirted Blacksmith. Ames, lowa. —Miss Tura A. Hawk probably is the only college grad uated woman blacksmith in the country. She has taken a course in the blacksmith department of lowa State College and carries a diploma stating she is eligible to work at the trade. In college Miss Hawk nas taken her turn at the forge, handled white hot iron, welded, riveted and repaired just like men. But. her idea of the profession for women is wifehood and motherhood. Here are the woman blacksmith’s views of life: “All the issues of a woman’s life are centered in the home. “Is. it ally more than fair that a should be permitted to ask the man of her ideals to help her find and operate that home? “Must woman, because- of custom, wait only to be chosen by some man who’ is not her ideal or else never efater her life profession? “Every woman, if she is to live up to her ideals, must do one of two things—get the special man she de sires or live an unmarried life? "Marriage is an episode in a man’s life; marriage is a woman’s life. "As the situation stands today a girl may see the man who is her ideal, but must stated in line and hope and pray he will come and choose her. "If he doesn’t she must accept the man who does come or never enter her chosen profession—wifehood and motherhood.”