Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-11-05
HE NEW WOMAN
WAT She Thinks and
Does

uOeS IN
TT is now just about certain that
except in the country and on
farms the food Of the average
American family will ere long be
prepared outside Of the home. The
housekeeping Of the future win be
nothing like so yexatious as that OF
the present is. A number of people In
Brooklyn are solving the kitchen girl
problem by the establishment of an
eating club A building has been rent
ed as clubhouse a competent chef
and manager takes charge of it at 4
good salary. He employs walters and
assistant cooks and kitchen help. He
also prepares the daily menu, sends it
to each household represented in the
club and gets that family's order for
the day. When the family come to
dinner on luncheon or whatever the
meal may be it is ready for them
Each family get the best the market
affords without the slightest worry
and all cooking is removed out of the
home. The walters are paid better
than ordinary ones are. and tipping Is
absolutely forbidden, as it should be
everywhere. Thus each household is
able to dispense with at least one serv-
ant and get satisfactory meals at re-
duced cost There is every reason why
the same system should be adopted
even in villages. The individual fam
lily kitchen and cook are doomed If
housekeeping had kept up with other
things in the march of Improvements
we should long since have had the eat
ing clubhouse, maintained by the CO
operation of individual housekeepers
Intelligent women determined to keep
good tempered can manage it success
fully in the smallest hamlet in this
land. The enterprise has been tried
sufficiently to insure its success. The
only trouble has been that the old wo-
man. undisciplined to steady action.
has grown weary of clockwork regu-
larity and has wanted to go somewhere
else when her turn to manage came
The new woman is drilled to sustained
effort and knows nothing can be
achieved without it.
@H
Have yon among your acquaintance
any of those estimable ladies who
make up their minds finally what they
are going to do in a given matter, then
go all around among friends asking
their advice about it? Do you ever do
this yourself?
There is no reason why women who
enter domestic service should lodge in
the homes of their employers. They
can and no doubt in time will have
their own homes and rooms where they
can go in the evening when their work
is done, returning next morning for
their regular task. This arrangement
will give the hired girl that liberty as
a human being which is now denied
her and will enable the householder
to dispense with one sleeping ROOM
Civilization is certainly coming to this
that all domestic help will be housed
in quarters of their own outside their
employers homes.
HH
I am not absolutely certain in my
own mind that the female who is moth
ing but bundle of irrational emotions,
! which she allows to govern her, has
any immortal soul One school of phi
losophers declares that man has no inn
mortality till he grows and nurtures it
from the seed.
The object that makes me more
weary than almost anything else is the
woman who is an emotional fool Here
side by side in newspaper today
read two items. In one the emotional
fool testified in court that the mystic
led her to steal and commit various dis
reputable follies. But she boohooed and
blubbered in the court and said, i
can't help loving him, though he has
led me into sorrow and disgrace =
] Hypnotic bosh! No human being can
1 hypnotic a woman unless she let's
| down the bars Of her will In the sec
OAu Case LIE 9Th AAe dtluSHtsH u d
sheriff, fell in love- with a jailbird.
let him out of prison and ran away
with him, although be would have pre-
ferred to go alone. Girls like that
ought to be put at hard, regular labor
on a diet of bread, beef and beans, all
lowed to read no novels and made to
study mathematics in their spare hours
-
It is not necessary for a woman to be
fat.
49,
In Kansas the school authorities pro-
mulgated the decree that no woman
teacher should have steady during
| school term and that any lady teacher