The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-02
SS <ezs. Co.
WITH Eagle
BUSINESS METHODS IN HoUsEwoRK.
An Outline of the Plane Along Which the
Improvement May Tend.

en- OuIIlno OF the 1lane ALONG hAiCh bhO
Improvement May Tend.
The place women are taking in the bust
ness world is to have a similar effect upon
the money transactions in housekeeping.
Half of the women in active business life
today, though they may be neither wives
or mothers, are the mainstay of homes.
To the business woman we must look to
place our system of housekeeping upon
businesslike foundation. The house mother
must depend more upon outside help and
also do more for herself.
To meet this condition of things the mar
kets provide every year greater supply OF
food already prepared for the table
The cooking schools and the constant i'm
provement in kitchen utensils are doing
much to make housework attractive to in
telligent women.
4 hundred years ago the average Ameri-
can girl was ready to work in the house Of
her ueighbor, upon an equal footing with
his daughters, for fifty cents per week. To
day the independent American woman
cannot be a servant, subject to the dircc-
ton of one who knows even less than she
does how to cook or to keep house. She
might be her own mistress and yet serve
her neighbor.
usaaey under many masters in other
branches of business might resolve her
self and friends into a working force, and
supply wholesome, attractive food to the
community in which she lives.
On the other hand, each member of the
family must be trained to serve himself to
a greater degree.
Thus the family circle could be kept
often arises from the introduction OF out
side elements by their servants or rela-
tives.
The near future will demand level head
ed, well trained business women to supply
food to communities. The average baker
is not a success from a hygienic stand
point Women's exchanges are as yet not
possible in small towns, but there is no
town of 1000 inhabitants that would not
give good support to a woman who was
ready to supply wholesome, well cooked
food at fair profit.
Bone, muscle and brain depend upon the
food. Educated brains must study the
question of food supply, and arrange
proper combinations of food for all condi-
lions of mankind.
Girls who didn't like to study books have
who have failed because of unsystematio
work elsewhere have taken orders for cook
ing, and then rallied at the partiality of
women's exchanges.
The New England kitchen, which was
started as an experiment in Boston by
some scientific women who had seen sim
liar institutions abroad, has found place
for itself and demands come from all parts
of the country for similar establishments.
The difficulty now is to find well balanced
women who will take the training neces-
sary TO conduct such business properly.
Even with washing, ironing and sewing
done outside, there is much left for the
house mother. But if she can buy soups
salads, desserts and bread, the remaining
burden of the housekeeping will be lighter
than if she strives TO direct a servant to do
these things for her.
Are there not women who have had a
business training who can undertake this
missionary work for their sisters?-Anna
.Barrows IN Homemaker.