Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-07
GIRL OF THE FUTURE
HER ASSURED POSITION WILL MAKE
LIFE PLEASANTER


Mrs Ruth G. D. Hayens gave a bright
bslk 1l "The Girl Of the Future" at the
Church Of Our Father. She made a pro
test a'ainst the old idea that woman
must Do a household drudge
'Ile married girl Of the future" she
said, will be set free by cooperative
methods, half the families on a square
enjoying one luxurious. well appointed
dining room, with expenses divided pro
rata among the families who are its pro
prletOrs Another section of hOusekeep-
ing Will be simphhed by the girl Of the
future-cooling. 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 win abandon these means
Of suicide and adopt a wholesome, nat
ural diet, largely Of the fruits which
come to as Ia such orderly succession
and generous abundance, ready for use,
an economy Of time and labor and money,
and especially Of health, which is beyond
present computation
'Houseclealing win not be a buga-
boo TO the girl Of the future. 1t 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 win be cleaned sldllfully and
thoroughly by companies organized for
that purpose It viii be the work Of a
day, not the dread Of months and the
labor Of weeks. Its results viii be a
sense Of freshness and immunity from
disease instead of bacllache, nervous
prostraion, collapse and an influx Of pat
emit medicine
The girl Of the future then will select
her Town aYocatiou and take her own train
ing for it. IF she be a house worker, as
majority prefer to be, she win be 50 val
uable on that line as TO command great
respect and good wages If she be an
architect or Jeweier or an electrical en-
gineer or a steam plow driver she viii
not rob "A cook by mutilating a dinner or
a dre- maker bv amateur cutting and
sewing or milduer byerecting her own
bonnet, not bit sooner than she will
buy pine and birthstone and make her
own matches and omharrass the original
Blue Hen
Matches are satisfactory already.
Cooking viii be when cooks choose their
profession for love of it and are trained
and PAID and honored and people are
fined who cook without knowing how.
The dressmaker by choice and prepare
ton will be an artist. and the girl Of the
future win not come apart at unseason-
able times in public places.
so twill be seen that, although mi
nority Of the girls Of the future viii
sometimes choose and prepare to be law
yers or astronomers or civil engineers,
instead of housekeepers. the home Of the
future and the husblnd-and in this case
be spells it with q big Twill not be left
10 the mercy OF incompetent and exas-
peratng servants. Not at all. The sew
ing girl of the future VIII not be a serv-
ant. except IN that general sense in which
we are all servants in just 80 far as we
serve humanity We are servants in too
small a degree, every one of us. The
house helper viii not be incompetent,
because the development and training of
woman for her best and truest work
K
maid Of homework because she loves it
and is better adapted 10 it than to any
other employment She viii preside in
the kitchen with skill and science, and
you viii not pay her So a month and ask
her 70 take as part of her wages a dirty
wooden pgtticoat and pair of mismated
shoes, importunate for repairs; neither
will you underfeed her and offer her a
precarious ironing board across two
chairs for 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-
sional 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 up and
around a 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
cNeAy fanny VI ll5 future VIII De pro-
Queer of some kind and in some degree.
The only one who has the right Of ex-
emption Is the mother, for a 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. inidelity, 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. If 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
material producer. and then the produ-
Ger in the kitchen viii get such remunera-
alton for her skill as win forbid her to
bethe hopeless. Sinking. migratory crea-