New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-16
THE HOUSE OF THE FUTURE
Feather Busters and Kitchens To Be Ban.
ished from It.

THE Future OF the Dwelling House." as pictured
By Robert Ellis Thompson in Indoors and Out"
strikes the tired housekeeper a picture Of
Elysiurn-a place perhaps, where good housekeep-
ers might be expected to go when they ole, but
which no ever hope to see in this vale of
tears and burdens too great be borne. Yet there
Dr. Thompson wastes no pretty words on the
home as it at present exists From the point of
view of household service, household economy and
ing crticisn1 as might We'll mare the ayeraae honse
keeper vince and the average person Who takes
comfort and pride in his home blush for his sim
IAieaiy- Inc nome. ne says as at present consti-
tuted. IS in harmony neither with the needs of
uon. As for the present relations Of mistress and
maid. they are an attempt 10 carry over into
past The household kitchen is wasteful and anti
Be carried on With n the 81 ebop re 6ea
ing the modern house and preparing food for its
up 20 modern requirements in the matter OF avail
ing Itself OF up to date mechanical facilities.
B9t Dr.: THOMPSON mercifaily. does not leave the
changes that impending in the economics of the
dwelling house-ehanges all along, the line. that
home, to fit it exactly the needs of the
burden of Responsibilities Which interiors With both
their work and their enjoyment
is the Reorganization Of domestic service by the
employment of experts on the basis of simple con-
ITO effect this. house serving companies will
Each company viii have the daily charge of a
Large gr9gP Of homes in the same neighbo5hOGd
workers at hours agreed upon each of them to do
They win be responsible TO the company for the
proper discharge of their respective duties, and
complaint of their shortcomii gs will be addressed
TO its managers. An approach this has been
made already IN some Of the towns Of New-Eng-
land, where of class much superior to
those who undertake domestic service divide much
of the work of the place among them. One attends
TO the lamps. another to the mending and darning.
and on
DR.. Thompson prophesies that there will come
day when the domestic kitchen will be banished
from the house, but day when cooking will be re-
sumed by the sex which is naturally fit to under
take 1t and which kept II in hand in the early
eyes, when dyspepsia was unknown. The Egyptian
monuments, the Bible and Homer all agree that
cookery Is a masculine employment never a fem
mime Women have no gifts that fit them TO be
cooks, and when great job of cooking has to be
zone, as for an army, palace or great hotel
We never think of giving il to women
In short cooking will be done co-operativeIv bv
pen. whereby not only VIII the middlemans profits
De ehminated from the cost of living but the dan
gers or poisoning by improper food will be elm
mated as experts will be employed to do the pIIr-
chasing ~ Nv W pU-
AS the domestic kitchen must 60 so must the
stairease. the treadle worked sewing machine and
the feather buster. The house Of the future viii
ayal Itself Of mechanical devices for the saving
OF iaoor and the greater health Of its inmates and
anis sooo and glorious work is to go and on.