Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-13
THE GIRL OF THE FUTURE.
Mrs. Havens Tells of Some of the Things She
Will Do.

| Mrs. Ruth G. d. Ravens gave a bright talk on
| The Girl Of the FutuIe," which attracted
much notice. Last night she appeared at the
Church Of Our Father and talked on the
same subject for the benefit of Wimodaughsis.
Her address was received with much applause.
She made a protest against the old idea that
woman must be household drddge.
The married girl of the future" she said.
twill be set free by cooperative methods, halt
the families on a square enjoying one luxurious,
weli-appointed dining room with expenses
/ divided pro rata among the families who are its
/ proprietors- Another section of housekeeping
will be simpiified by the girl of the future:
Cooking. Good cooks NAV be rare, but all
| cooking is overdone. We are passing danger
ously through the era of annual sacrifice, sweet
ened starch. boiled dough and celluloid pie.
| The girl of the future will abandon these means
| OF suicide. and adopt a wholesome, natural
| diet largely of the fruits which come to us in
such orderly succession and generous abund-
ance ready for use. an economy of time and
! labor and mOuey, and especially of health,
which is beyond present computation.
House cleaning will not be bug-a-boo to
the girl OF the future. 1t was a woman who
wrote that melancholy poem expressing the de-
sire TO die in autumn time She wanted to
ge; away before the fall cleaning set in. The
house of the future will be cleaned sklllfully
and thoroughly by companies organized for
that purpose. 1t viii be the work of a day. not
the dread of months and the labor Of weeks
munity from disease. instead of backache.
nervous prostratIon, collapse and an influx of
patent medicine.
TO CHOOSE HER OWN CALLING.
1.-The girl of the future, then. will select her
own avocation and take her own training for it,
II she be house worker, as a majority prefer
to be. she viii be so valuable or that line as to
command great respect and good wages. If
she be architect or jeweler or an electrical
engineer or a steam-plongh driver, she will not
rob a cook by muIIatlng dinner or dress
maker by amateur cutting and sewing or a mil
liner by erecting her own bonnet not q bit
sooner than she will buy pine and birthstone
and make her own matches and embarrass the
oTiGiaai Blue Hen
Matches are satisfactory already. Cooking
will be when cooks choose their profession for
love of 1t and are trained and paid and hon
Ored, and people are fined who cook without
knowing how. The dressmaker by choice and
preparation viii be artist, and the Ciri OF the
future viii not come apart at unreasonable
times in public places.
TIE HOME OF THE FUTURE.
80 it will be seen thatalthough a minority of
the girls of the future will sometimes choose
and prepare to be lawyers or astronomers or
civil engineers. instead of housekeepers the
this case he spells it with a big Twill not be
left 70 the mercy of incompetent and exasperat-
ing servants. Not at all The sewing girl of
the future will not be n servant. except in that
general sense in which all servants in
Just so far serve humanity. We are sery-
ants in too small degree every one of US.
The house helper will not be incompetent. be-
cause the development and training of woman
for her best and truest WORK will have extended
to her ard she will be maid of Homework
l..
than 10 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
part of her wages a dirty WOODEN petticoat
ard pair of mismated Shoes impor tunate Cor
repairs; neither will you uuderfeed her and
offer her 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. cheerful room, an op-
portUnity to see an occasional cousin and some
leisure for recreation. 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 q man like
lilies of the field; they toll not. neither do they
spin. And yet l say unto you that even Solo
mon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of
these.
ALL WILL BE BREAD WINNERS.
GAS began to say. every member of every
family of the future will be producer of some
kind nd in some degree. The only one who
has the right of exemption is the mother. For
a child can hardly be born with cheerful views
OF living whose m others life has been for its
sake double burden. From this root spring
melancholy, infdelity. insanity. suicide. The
production OF human souls is the highest pro-
duetion of all. the one which requires most
preparation. truest worth. gravest care and
hottest conservation. II the girl of the future
recognizes this truth she Will have made an
advance indeed. But apart from this cordition
every member of the family should be a ma
terial producer; and then the producer In the
kitchen will get such remuneration for her skill
as viii forbid her to be the hopeless, Sinking,
migratory creature Of today.
Much might be said of what the girl of the
future will not do, but time forbids. She will
occupy desirable positions and owe her sue
cess to her fitness and worth. She will hold
and Enlarge her place in the professions. She
viii almost monopoliZe lighter occupations.
She VIII NIL a majority OF the government
Offices. She will be chief of division. head of
bureau, consul. superintendent Of industrial
schools. director of insane, inebricte and
orphan asyIumis. She will be on the civil sery-
ice commission. immigration boards. board OF
health. Inauguration committees, college facul-
ties. in Senate and House; probably on the
supreme bench; POSSIBLY in the cabinet; per-
haps in the Presidents chair.
SHE WILL VOTE.
81 hard needy say that the girl of the future
will vote. She will no. plead for the privilege;
she will be requested to exercise the right, and
no man will ever admit that he ever opposed
1t, even remember that there was a time
when womans ballot despised aud rejected
of men, She will not be told that she needs
the suffrage for her protection, but she will be
urged to exercise il for the good Of her country
and humanity. 1t will be not known that the
Declaration of Independence once a dead
letter. The sixteenth amendment will not con-
tain any law on this topic. No will be-
Eese that time ever was when it was alleged
that the Constitution did not cover this ground.
AL will be of course and for granted.
1T will be incredible that women were once
neither people nor citizens, nor even slaves
whose noses were counted for representation,
and vet we're the mothers. and in SO much the
creators, of men who governed them.
The girl of the future will never dream that
she is doing anything unfeminine, or even re-
markable when she votes