The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-12
YOUNG men CANT
AFFORD TO MARRY
AN INCISIVE DISCUSSION OF
PRESENT CONDITIONS.
Financial Demands of Modern Young
Women Disgrace to Them-Mrs.
Ellen T. Richards Says Women Waste
Money, Time and Energy in Their
Household Management.

81 really don't wonder at the young
men OF today not marrying,' said Mrs.
Ellen T. Richards at the women S con-
ference of the Society for Ethical Cul,
ture, says the New York Tribune. 'lf
it be true that 5000 year is the least
a clerk, feels he can marry on, then
all I've got to say is, it s disgrace
to our young women.
cit is entirely possible for two to
live on $1,000 year, don t know
that 1 would trust the modern young
turned with a laugh to Mrs. Olleshei-
mer, the president.
"What is the result? The lawyer is
obliged to take cases he does not want.
The young professor is obliged to take
hack work to piece out his income.
Foreigners criticize us because so little
original research is carried on in this
country. One reason is that the young
college professors and teachers have to
stop to write books and give lectures
to pay the rent. They can't spend
their time on research
"Women in Relation to Household
Economics was the topic of confer
! ence, and Mrs. Richards, as professor
of domestic science in the Institute Of
Technology, Boston, and past mistress
in the science of home-making, was the
chief speaker.
! White Women's Burden.
"As white women,' said Mrs. Rich
ards, eve are bound to take up our
burden, and take it up sanely. We
women land here her clear gray eyes
are very much to the front just now:
It doesn't seem to make any special
difference whether we are right or
wrong-we get criticized Just the same.
Still, the fact is, the activities in which
we are engaged do not yield the best
results for the amount Of energy en-
ployed.
"For altho we say, Hands off, to
any man who tries to advise us about
household affairs, the fact remains that
our efficiency is not up to modern stan
,dards. We keep on wasting time,
money and nerves. You all know you
waste your energy.
"Now, to Illustrate. When we give
our slum sisters cooking lessons what
do we teach them7 Well, one thing is
to make up leftovers. Another is to
make their own bread. We ought to
teach them to manage so there wouldn It
be any leftovers, and as for the bread
why I'm a hereto on this home made
bread business. Wouldn It it be better
don't know that it is any more neces-
sary to make your own bread than to
weave your own carpet.''
Then Mrs. Richards took up the point,
What must we keep in the home2
"Where there are children the home
means supervision Of their morals and
manners. Children should have a share
in the family life, even if they are
made to do what the servants are paid
for doing The point is not whether
such services are needed, but of their
effect on the child s character.
"Apropos of President Roosevelt Is
eulogies of the family, one Of our Bos
ton reporters came to me and said: 'Tht
president says the fat must go. Wha1
do you think, Mrs. Richards?'
Sides with Flat Owners.
"This trouble with the fiat goes bacl
a great deal further. If I were real
estate agent I wouldn It want to let my
pronerty to have it used as children dt
use it. The modern child has not beer
brought up to respect the property O.
his family, and he respects nobod,
else's. When such people grow up the,
go to housekeeping with wild idea,
about what things cost, then they over
spend their income, and the young wifi
begins to cut down on the table, am