Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-02
SEMI WEEKLY WORLD.
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE GROWING SCARCITY OF YOUNG
WOMEN FOR HOUSEWORk.

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plaint-Hints for tho Household.
An elderly wife, who had advertised in
vain for several months, said:
"The great evil in America, as 1 have
learned it from many housewives from many
cities, is the growing scarcity of females for
housework. The factories, mills, sewing
rooms, offices of all kinds, shops. etc., are at
tracing young women. who consider house
work disgrace. Very many young women
would rather toll from morning until night
for 50 a week and pay for their own board
than do housework, which would yield them
twice as much money. There is entirely too
much false pride among the young women of
the country. They imagine doing housework
b Disgrace They forget the honest toll of
their mothers. In many Instances mothers
arc to blame, OF course. They don't want to
eee the delicate hands Of their daughters
soiled. They don't want them to be drudges
In any family, for fear their chances for suit
able marriages will be lessened All that is
false and pernicious teaching The ability to
do homework as it should DO done should be
tho aim and object Of every young woman
rich or poor But as long as this false idea
Of the humiliation Of doing homework exists
20 long will young women rather work and
starve at doing something else. With the
present custom OF abstaining from house,
work, the dearth of sritable help in the
household has become sn alarming annoy
ance. We find 1t almost impossible to get
any well trained help Families are giving
up housekeeping and going TO boarding.
There are too many ladies with beautiful
hands.
They want TO be taught the dignity of
labor. They want to bo informed that hon
est young mechanics want wives who can
keep house. They want TO know that sewing
girls are not wanted for housewives, and the
entire community must know, sooner or
later, that the great underlying cause for so
much unhappiness In the home circle, not to
say poverty, distress and absolute crime, is
tho fact that young women who marry know
nothing Of housekeeping. Their mothers are
deserving Of tho most severe censurc for this
They connivo with their daughters 10 deceive
prospective husbands, and when the young
women become wives they disappoint their
husbands, homo becomes a mockery, the in
como Of the husband is frittered away nothing
IN saved and chaos comes into that home circle.
have no pity for young women who starve
- hity c@hts uhy ana VINO must board
themselves. II they would shake Off their
false pride, think less OF Mo fine texture of
their hands, leave the mill and factory, drop
tho needle and vacate tho garnet, and take
up respectable housework, thcy would be far
better off. Such young women can solve this
wi.-,o problem themselves.
1.-The supply Of housework girls Is drained,
and the supply of needle girls with beautiful
hands Is flooded. Both must DO adjusted.
and poverty among women will disappear,
but false pride must lead the way. The best
women In the land do homework of some
kind, and no honest girl need DO ashamed of
that sort OF employment. On the contrary,
she should bo proud Of it, because every
sensible man will think the more of youn.
woman II he IL told that she Is doing house
work for living and thus being correctly
schooled for the practical responsibilities Of
married life Then, II she Is we'll married
and does not need TO do housework, she will
know how it ought to bc done and her help
cannot deceive her. She will be independent
and thoroughly capable To caro- for herself
Therefore, to sum up, l would advise sewing
women to drop the needle and take up house
work. New York Sun