San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-23

The united wisdom and work of Chicago's
organized womanhOod directed upon Chicago
homes will mean better knowledge of sani-
tation and hygiene as applied to home archi-
lecture, ventilation, drainage, light, heat,
diet, and dress adornings. If the best and
broadcast natured housekeepers or, as l like
q thousand times better to call them, the
homemakers of our city, could put their
heads together over this problem of the mod
ern homo as their husbands do over the prob
lem of rapid street car transit and the bridge
question, | believe that such an impetus
would be given to invention and such encour-
agement to enterprise that the following i'm
provements would be wrought out within
ten years:
Hot water and steam heated air supplied
to every house as gas is now from common
reservoirs, public laundry system, SO con-
plete as to drive the wash tubs out Of every
kitchen, EarisLing forever the reign of
steamy, sudsy, indigo blue Monday, and a
caterers system so complete a. to send the
cooking stove into perpetual exile. If men
had these problems on hand, complicated
with the urspeakable servant girl problem,
they would have solved them by q syndicate
long before this, putting no end of money in
their purses and no end of misery outside of
homes four walls. believe that as the boy
in his first composition answered the ques-
ton, How have pins done the most goodq'
with the words, 'By not swollerin of 'em,"
so the servant girl question will ere long be
answered by not having servant girls. The
relations of the maid of all work to the aver
age household are abnormal, if not to degree
inhuman They ought to be abolished, and
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the wage worker on the one hand and the
growing tendency Of the employer to look
upon this woman as q convenient Celtic
apparatus on the other Invention, enter
prise, and associated effort, stimulated by
the united wit ard wisdom of united house
keepers, will lead us out of this wilderness.
often think, when rejoicing in the home
like amenities of q vestibule train, with its
day coach, dining car, and sleeper, that if
George NJ Pullman could be induced by a
council of women to give five years of his
wonderful BRAN to this problem of house
hold comfort off the rails, counseling with
the housekeepers, as he would be wise enough
to do, he might crown his splendid life by
carrying into the average u,lle the same
wholesale comforts and eleSancies with
which he now regales gne travelling public.
Only III tlaC case we uluSU peUlJlOn MIN 10
spare US the diffusive atmosphere of that
horrible smokers annex. He wound have
his house porters who would come around
regularly and set everything to rights, build
fires in the open CRATE, just for the beauty
and coziness thereof, and clear up the house
generally, his pneumatic tubes through which
to send the meals ordered by telephone, and
walters detailed, SO many to the block, to
serve and gather up the fragments of the
same, at far less cost than now, taking the
wholesale contract by the year, while the av-
erage excellence of viands prepared by ex-
perts would be far higher than at present,
with proportionate increase in the health
and happiness of the families thus served
To preserve the individuality, the privacy
and sanctity of home while diminishing its
cost and friction is the problem that women
in council must set themselves to solve
Notable homemakers, ready for the next
thing, and not afraid Of it because it is the
1ext. and not the last, Should be organ