The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-24
There Is Only One Home Maker
Woman

lHcEC H Ohiy oi'C hho''S -'A"er~'
Woman.
If reports that are published from
many sections of the country are true
there is a growing disposition on the
part of the women of those sections
to revolt against motherhood.
They have grown tired of domestic
life; wearied of what they call "monot-
ony," and have sought life outside
of the home, not so much IN the pro-
LESSONS and other activities, which or
late tempt them, but at first in lie
Of ease and idleness.
Many of them become deniZens of
hotels and boarding houses when
flourish i'm towns and cities alike; big
caravansaries where men and women
congregate and live, rather than set
themselves apart in homes of then
own.
These boarding houses have proven
to be hotbeds of domestic dissenSions;
the disturbers of domestic peace; the
schools of idleness; the incubators for
scandal and many other vices.
10 many, this life has its fascina-
lions. ana much of their time is spent
in decrying the customs of former
ages; descanting upon even the cook
cry and general habits of the olden
times when the house mother not
only baked SeWed and knit, but spun
the wool for the yarn for the Knitting
the fax for the thread. and wove the
cloth from which she fashioned the
garments for the family, when she
made her own soap. her own yeast,
moulded her own candles, and woVe
her own carpets, if she had any, raised
the geese that supplied the feathers
with which she stuffed her own DedS
and pillows, wOVe her blankets ana
sheets and tied her comforts, MADE
her own butter churning it with the
old perpendicular 'dasher and wooden
churn: cared for pigs and poultry, and
in extra busy times helped in many
other ways.
Then the housewife was the ;rue
helpmeet the sharer of burdens as
well as of joys, and her huspands
heart found comfort in her.
All the time she cared for the chill
Gren's upbringng, teaching them to
respect the law to obey their elders
and to render such services to her and
their father as was required of them
The manner of living in those days
was simple, almost to the verge OF
the primitive. The breakfast hour was
az a rule, six in the winter and five in
the summer The dinner horn sound
ed promptly at noon, 23nd supper
(there were no teas" in those days)
was by candle light in winter and at
sunset in summer Nine O'Clock, at
he latest saw the last member of the
She waited until everyone else had
,etired and then she made her nightly
'ounds to see that the little ones We're
rfugly tucked in their little beds;
Doked that the emberS in the open
ide-places were safely covered ana
banked with ashes, arranged the brass
enler that there might be no danger
rom stray sparks or popping Goals,
and that in the moEning when she
raked it open, the glowing Goals would
be ready TO kindle the new fire; did
her last picking UP, leaving the house
IN order to begin the work OF the
corning tomorrow; sought her key
basket counted the keys, and then her
DAVIS work was ended. Then followed
her private deyotionS and happy and
restful sleep.
70 the clearinghouse wife the re-
calling of this era-of mothers or
grandmother ways has no attrac-
lions, but on the contrary they are
ridiculed and despised. The boarding
house wife should get to house-keep-
ing and adopt many of the mothers
or grandmothers ways Many of her
WAYS have never been improved upon
-xcept by the introduction of machin-
Try and modern methods as far as
they lessen the labor of those days.
The Young housewife of today viii
do well to learn and practice how her
grandmother lived and did many
things.
From scenes like these old SEQ
tia's granduer springs" and American
history proves that 1.-The hand that
rocks the cradle rules the world
These are the true home builders-the
mothers of our great men. Indeed
there never was, and never can be a
home builder that was not woman.