New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-05-17
GIRL OF THE FUTURE.
HER ASSURED POSITION WILL MAKE
LIFE PLEASANTER. H. -

In the Family Each Member Will Be Ma
terial Producer and Many of the Ills That
vex the Spirit of Today Will Cease to An
noy-A Happy Prospect.
Mrs. Ruth e. D. Ravens gave bright
talk on 1.-The Girl of the Future at the
Church of Our Father. She made pro-
test against the old idea that woman
must be Il household drudge.
THE married girl Of the future" she
said, will be set free by cooperative
methods. half the families on a square
enjoying one luxurious. we'll appointed
dining room, with expenses divided pro
rata among the families who are it's pro-
prietors. Another section of hcusekeep-
ing will be simpli6ed by the girl Of the
future-cooking. Good cooks may be
rare. but all cooking is overdone. We
are passing dangerously through the era
of annual sacrifice, sweetened starch,
boiled dough and celluloid pie. The girl
OF the future will abandon these means
Of suicide and adopt a wholesome, nat
ural diet, largely Of the fruits which
come to US in such orderly succession
I'D generous abundance. ready for use,
an economy of time and labor and money,
and especially OF health. which is beyond
present computation.
'Housecleaning will not be buga-
boo to the girl Of the future. It was a
woman who wrote that melancholy poem
expressing the desire to die in autumn
time She wanted to get away before
the fall cleaning set in. The house Of
the future will be cleaned skillfully and
thoroughly by companies organized for
that purpose. 1t will be the work Of a
day, not the dread of months and the
labor of weeks. Its results will be a
sense Of freshness and immunity from
disease, instead Of backache, nervous
prostration, collapse and an influx of pat
ent medicine.
THE girl Of the future then will select
her own avocation and take her own train
ing for it, If she be house worker, as
majority prefer to be, she will be so val
liable on that line as to command great
respect and good wages If she be an
architect or jeweler or an electrical en-
glneer or steam pillow driver, she will
not rob cook by mutilating a dinner or
a dressmaker by amateur cutting and
sewing or a milliner by erecting her own
bonnet, not a bit sooner than she will
buy pine and birthstone and make her
own matches and embarrass the original
Blue Hen.
Matches are satisfactory already.
Cooking will be when cooks choose their
profession fer love Of it and are trained
and paid and honored and people are
fined who cook without knowing how.
The dress1naker by choice and prepara-
ton will be an artist, and the girl of the
future will not come apart at unseason-
able times in public places.
so it will be seen that, although q MI
norlty Of the girls of the future will
sometimes choose and prepare to be law
yers or astronomers or civil engineers,
instead OF housekeepers. the home OF the
future and the husband-and in this case
he spells it with big H-will not be left
to the mercy of incompetent and exas-
perating servants. Not at all. The sew
ing girl of the future will not be a serv-
ant, except in that general sense in which
we are all servants in just so far as we
serve humanity. We are servants in too
small degree, every one of us. The
house helper will not be incompetent,
because the development and training of
woman for her best and truest work
will have extended to her, and she will be
maid of Homework because she loves it
and is better adapted to it than to any
other employment. She will preside in
the kitchen with skill and science, and
you will not pay her Sc month and ask
her to take as part Of her wages dirty
wooden petticoat and pair of mismated
shoes, lnportunate for repairs; neither
will you underfeed her and offer her a
precarious ironing board across two
chairs tor bed.
The service girl of the future will be
paid perhaps double or treble her present
wages. with wholesome food, a cheerful
room, an opportunity to see an occa-
slonal cousin and some leisure for recre-
alton, At present this would be ruinous,
and why? Because too frequently the
family has only one producer. The wife
IS the consumer, producing only more
consumers Daughters grow I'D and
around L man like lilies of the field
They toll not. neither do they spin. And
yet say unto you that even Solomon in
all his glory was not arrayed like one Of
these
AS began to say, every member Of
every family Of the future will be pro-
Queer OF some kind and in some degree.
The only one who has the right of ex-
emption is the mother. for child can
hardly be born with cheerful views of
living whose mothers life has been for
its sake a double burden. From this root
spring melancholy. intidelity, insanity.
suicide. The production of human souls
is the highest production Of all, the one
Which requires most preparation, truest
worth, gravest care and hottest consecra-
ton. Il the girl Of the future recognizes
this truth, she will have made an advance
indeed. But apart from this condition
every member of the family should be a
material producer, and then the prodr-
Ger in the kitchen will get such remunera-