Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-06-08
GIRL OF THE FUTURE
HER ASSURED POSITION WILL MAKE
LIFE PLEASANTER.

terfal Producer and Many of the Ills Tha
vex the Spirit of Today VIII Cease to An
noy-A Happy Prospect
Mrs. Ruth G. D. Ravens gave bright
talk on THE Girl of the Future" at ths
Church Of Our Father. She made pro
test against the old idea that woman
must be 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, well appointed
dining room, with expenses divided pro
rata among the families who are its pro-
| prietors- Another section of housekeep-
ing will be simplified 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 wholesome, nat
ural diet, largely of the fruits which
come to us in 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
'Housecleaning will not be a buga-
boo to the girl of the future. 1t was
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
day, not the dread of months and the
labor of weeks. Its results will be
sense Of freshness and immunity from
disease. instead of backache, nervous
prostration. collapse and an influx of pat
emit 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-
gineer or steam plow driver, she will
not rob cook by mutilating dinner or
dressmaker by amateur cutting and
sewing or 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 Hem
Matches are satisfactory already.
Docking will 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 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 mi |
nority 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 in this case
be 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 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 a degree, every one of us. The
house helper will not be incompetent,
because the development and training of
for her best and truest work
will have extended to her, and she will be
maid of housework because she loves it
md is better adapted to it than to any
,ther employment She will preside in
the kitchen with skill and science, and
you will not pay her So month and ask
her to take as part of her wages dirty
woolen petticoat and pair of mismated
'hoes, importunate for repairs; neither
will you undeffeed her and offer her a
,recarious ironing board across two
hairs for bed
1.-The service girl Of the future will be
,aid perhaps double or treble her present
wages. with wholesome food, cheerful
Dom, an opportunity to see an occa-
ional cousin and some leisure for recre-
Ition. At present this would be ruinous,
nd why? Because too frequently the
amily has only one producer. The wife
3 the consumer, producing only more
consumers. Daughters grow up and
round a man like lilies Of the field.
hey toll not, neither do they spin. And
et say unto you that even Solomon in
II his glory was not arrayed like one Of
hese.'
"As began to say, every member of
very family of the future will be pro-
ucer Of some kind and in some degree. :
he only one who has the right of ex-
mption is the mother, for child can
ardly be born with cheerful views of
wing whose mothers life has been for
g sake double burden. From this root &
pring melancholy. infidelity, insanity,
uicide. The production of human souls {
J the highest production of all, the one I
which requires most preparation, truest
7orth, grayest care and holiest consecra-
ion. If the girl Of the future recognizes
his truth, she will have made an advance
indeed. But apart from this condition
very member of the family should be a
Material producer. and then the produ-
er in the kitchen will get such remunera-
ton for her skill as will forbid her to
9 the hopeless. shirking, migratory crea-
ure of today.
much might be said of what the girl
the future will not do, but time for ?
ids. She will occupy desirable positions
nd owe her success to her fitness and
yorth. She will hold and enlarge her y
lace in the professions. She will almost :
lighter occupations. She will a
II majority of the government Offices.
he will be chief of division, head of bu- q
sau, consul. superintendent Of industrial 8
,hools, director of insane, inebriate and a
rphan asylums. She will be on the civil tt
,rvice commission, immigration boards,
cards Of health, Inauguration commit a
YES, college faculties, in senate and n
ouse, probably o, ,he supreme bench, b
ossibly in the cas.uet, perhaps In the II
residents chair. Washington Star. Y
He Didn't Bring IL Home.
After the return Of the drummer from
is travels his young wife explored his &
nip with an expectant face. Failing to "
nd that Of which she was apparently in a
arch, she turned to him and said: