Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-10-14
GIRL OF THE FUTURE
usR ASSURED POSITION WILL MAKE
LIFE pLEAsANTER.

Mrs Ruth G.. d. Ravens gave bright
talk on 1.-The Girl Of the Future at the
church Of Our Father. She made pro-
tat against the old idea that woman
must be a household drudge.
The married girl Of the future, she
said. will be set free by cooperative
methods. half the families on a square
enioying one luxurious, well appointed
dining room, with expenses divided pro
rata among the families who are Its pro
nrietors Another section of housekeep-
ing will be simpified by the girl OF the
f,,ture-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 as 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.
DEMONSTRATING will not be a buga-
boo to the girl Of the future. II 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. II will be the work Of
day, not the dread of months and the
labor OF weeks Its results will be q
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, II she be II house worker, as a
majority prefer TO be, she will be SO val
liable on that line rs to command great
respect and good wages, If she he an
architect or jeweler or an electrical en-
gineer or a steam pillow driver, she will
| not rob cook by mutilating dinner or
dressmaker by amateur cutting and
sewing or milliner by erecting her own
bonnet, not O 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 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 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-and in this case
he spells 1t 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 he serv-
ant, except IN that general sense in which
we are all servants in just SO far rs 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 trnest work
will have extended 10 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 81 a month and ask
her to take as part of her wages dirty
wooden petticoat and pair of mismated
shoes. mportunate for repairs; neither
will you underfeed her and offer her d
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, d cheerful
room, an opportunity to see an occa
sional cousin and some leisure for recre
alton. At present this would be rninous
and why Because too frequently tn.
family has only one producer. The wifi
Is the consumer. producing only NOR,
consumers. Daughters grow up and
around a man like lilies OF the field
They toll not, neither do they spin. Ant
yet say unto you that even Solomon ii
all his glory was not arrayed like one o.
these.
As began to say, every member o.
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 tho mother. for child car
hardly be born with cheerful views q
living whose mothers life has been fol
its sake double burden. From this roo
spring melancholy. intidelity, insanity
suicide. The production of human soul
Is the highest production of all, the ON
which requires most preparation, trues
worth, gravest care and hottest consecra
ton. II the girl OF the future recognize
this truth. she will have made an advane.
indeed. But apart from this condition
every member of the family should be
material producer. and then the prodn
Ger in the kitchen will get such remnnera
alton for her skill as will forbid her L
be the hopeless. Sinking. migratory erea
, ture OF today.
| Much might be said of what the rir
, of the future will not do. but time for
, bids. She will occupy desirable position
and owe her success to her fitness AN
worth. She will hold and enlarge he
place in the professions. She will almos
monopolize lighter occupations. She wi
ill majority Of the government Offices
She will be chief of division. head of br
! reau, consul, superintendent of indnstria
schools, director of insane, inebriate an
orphan asylams. she will be ON the civ
service commission, immigration board:
. boards Ct health, inauguration commit