The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-06-12
GIRL OF THE FUTURE
HER ASSURED POSITION WILL MAKE
LIFE PLEAsANTER.

] HER ASSURED POSITION WILL MAKE
LIFE PLEAsANTER.
/ In the Family Each Member win BE a Ma.
teriai Producer and Many of the Ills Tha,
vex tho Spirit of Today win Cease to An.
noy-A Happy Prospect.
Mrs. Ruth g. d. Ravens gave bright
talk on "The Girl Of the Future" at the
Church Of Our Father. She made a pro-
test against the old idea that woman
must be q household drudge.
"The married girl of the future" she
said, twill be set free by cooperative
methods, half the families ON q 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 o 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 DO 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. Ifshe be house worker, as a
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 a7steam plow driver, she will
not rob a cook by mutilating dinner or
q dressmaker by amateur cutting and
sewing or a milliner by erecting her own
bonnet, not n bit sooner than she will
buy pine and birthstone and make her
own matches and embarrass the original
Blue Hem
Matches are satisfactory already.
Cooking will be when cooks choose their
profession for love OF 1t and are trained
and paid and honored and people are
6ned who cook without knowing how.
The dressmaker by choice and prepare
lion will be an artist, and the girl of the
future will not come apart at unseason-
able times in public places.
$50 twill 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-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 sery-
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
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 &C month and ask
her to take as part Of her wages dirty
wooden petticoat 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 mas only one producer. The wife
is the consumer, producing only more
consumers. Daughters grow up and
around 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
las ! 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 double burden. From this root
spring melancholy, infidelity, 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-
rer In the kitchen will get such remunera-
ltion for her skill as will forbid her to
be the hopeless, Sinking, migratory crea-
ture Of today.
Much might be said of what the girl
of the future will not do, but time for
bids. She will occupy desirable positions
and owe her success to her fitness and
worth. She will hold and enlarge her
place in the professions She will almost
monopolize lighter occupations. She will
fill majority Of tho government offices.
She will be chief of division, head of bu-
reau, consul. superintendent of industrial
schools, director Of insane, inebriate and
orphan asylums. She will be on the civil
service commission, immigration boards,
boards of health, Inauguration commit
tees. college faculties. in senate and
house. probably on the supreme bench,
possibly In the cabinet, perhaps in the
presidents chair. ashington Star.
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