Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17
THEY WILL COUNT
A W0MAN'S STEPS.
STUDENTS OF HOUSEHOLD ECON
oMr TO DETERMINE THE DIS
LANCE A WOMAN WALKS IN
HER DAILY TOLL.
Mans work is from sun to sun,
Rnf Wnman.s work Il ncr-nr 1nrn

- an Oiu saw tndJ is ldmlllar TO every
one. Moreover, such sayings as these
kave been handed down from prehis-
taric times, SO that there has been no
excuse for any man to doubt the as
sertion that the average woman works
hard for every comfort that she re-
ceives. While this fact may have been
spread broadcast over the world since
the days of Adam, however, there must
have been men who have doubted its
truth, for it is now announced that
the members of the Household Econo-
mic Association have set out to solve
the problem:
How many steps does a housewife
take in a day?
If the members OF the association
expect to answer this question with
any degree of accurateness it viii be
necessary for them to spend more thar
one day in the discussion of the sub
iect. In fact, the conducting of an
investigation by the Society of Physical
Research would be a simple matter as
compared to the solution off the prob
lem that the students of domestic
economy have set for themselves. How
they expect to go to work to figure
out their results Is a matter that of it.
self would be a subject of more than
general interest.
OF course. there can be no question
but that the women who are engaged
in this investigation will be able to
prove that the road travelled by the
average woman is not a smooth one.
OF course, there can be no question
but that the average walks
miles enough in a single day TO make
an athlete in training turn green with
envy, and the only question is, How
ere they going to prove 1t?
A Hard Day.
It is a we'll known fact that 1t takes
about twenty-six hundred steps to make
a mile, and it is upon these computa-
lions that all figures must be based.
For instance the woman who has no
servant to aid her rises from bed in
the morning to be confronted by a
score Of problems that must be solved
during the day. In the first place there
is breakfast TO be prepared and 20 do
this the fire must be lighted, the table
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attended 10. To enumerate them would
be to make this article uninterest!Dg
reading for a man and unnecessary for
a woman The only fact that Is OF i'm
portance is that during the work of
preparing breakfast She has taken a
thousand or two steps and in the time
when male members OF the house
hold have been soundly snoring in bed.
When breakfast is ended there are
dishes TO be washed and the house 10
be put TO rights for the day. Much
OF the work that is done during this
portion OF the day might seem "fus8y
to the average man. but II II was not
JULIE LuC 1F[i0SC man HOSl1 UE %4As 4
first person TO notice the untidiness OF
the house.
The touch here and the touch there,
the use Of the broom and buster, all
have their place in the well regulai-
ed household and without them the
well-regulated household would soon
become nothing more than a myth.
What, then, with all this putting 70
rights and making of beds the woman
has Travelled a mile or two more with
out the casual. unfhinking mortal hav-
ing realized that she has walked SO
far.
In the afternoon It is the same story
over again. Lunch must be prepared, |
and by the time the luncheon dishes
are out OF the way il is time to think
Of dinner. 1t Is long after DARK. there
fore, before the woman has ceased her
toll. and IL the members OF this asso-
citation are prepared to decide Just how
many miles she has walked between
sunrise and sunset cmfwy fwyp fEypp
sunrise and bed time they viii have
accomplished a labor that no mere man
would eve have dared TO undertake.
Scientific CaleuIaffon-
The members Of the Household Econ
omic Association have entered upon this
with AL seriousness. however. They
have by no means undertakes this labor
a. ; mere course Of mental gymnaztscs.
actual purpose 81 the examination il
q show. Y possible. how often two steps