Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
In yard: also privy in very bad condition;
no sewer; occupied by two families; rent, SIS
Need of Individual Effort

in yard: also privy in very bad condition
no sewer; occupied by two families; rent, SIS
Need of Individual Effort.
| The section in which these investigations
were made is comparatively a prosperous
| one. The property in this and similar dis
| tricts exacts in all instances a rental so
| out of proportion to the capital invested
| that it is exactly twice as productive as a
| better class of property and a landlord is
| therefore, as little inclined to dispose of it
| as to improve it.
This greed of capital is overcome in Eu-
fopean countries by appropriation acts
enabling the government to obtain slum
| properly, which is then improved or de-
stroyed. and on the vacant space breath
| ing ground and play ground is provided for
| the poor.
| Not the government, however, nor, in
| deed, any public body can do for better
sanitary conditions what the Independent
EFFORTS OF individual women may accom-
pish. L recently heard Edward Atkinson
put the matter in nutshell. The New
MoLhan VINO was present was speaking
with pride and satisfaction of the wide
spread interest now being manifest by
womans clubs in every branch of domestic
science
said Mr. Atkinson. Not all the woman
clubs in the world can do as much for the
actual advancement of domestic science as
one woman may by patient and intelligent
her own home
Occupation for the Evenings.
In the matter of sanitation there is re-
CURED for effective work certain informa-
ton with which women are not born, Meth
er do they, as rule, acquire it at a girls
seminary. This includes more or less tech
meal knowledge of location and surround
inss, drainage and plumbing, ventilation,
heating. lighting, furnishing, clothing. food
and drink. all of which involves measure
of chemistry and something of bacteriology
with the rest This sounds worse than it
isl know, for I am studying it, and want
10 tell you that l think other women
couldn't better employ their winter even
lnss than studying the same thing The
Sanitary Science Club of Boston has COM
piled manual which contains the practical
results OF individual members working
along Independent lines of sanitary endea-
Vor, and with this, or some other simple
text book to start one, a woman will dis
cover field for activity in her home that
VIII materially enlarge her sphere, increase
her Importance and extend her successes
indefinitely. For when she has mastered
the sanitary problems of her own home she
VIII be able to assist her negnbor at the
same task. Indeed. through her kindergar-
ten course, she may induce some poorly
housed woman to work with her. and thus
from the beginning her advancement in
sanitary science may count for the good of
TWO homes instead of one; afterWard /
tn!nk L can get her into public office. l
asked Health Officer Woodward this week
II there's any law against appointing
women sanitary inspectors in Washington,
and he could not find any. Then l asked him
If he personally would approve of women In
that office, and he assured me the right
sort of woman would be Invaluable. Thus
there is no telling where the glory of
woman will end, once she adopts the sani-
tary policy of PAULINE PRY.