Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15
Women S Clubs

The October number of the Federated
Bulletin, just received, has as a cover
illustration an excellent likeness of the
recently elected president, Mrs. Phlllp
| N. Moore.
| Among articles of especial interest Is
| the report of the ninth biennial, ana
here among photographs of several Oh
! the newly elected officers is charming
picture of the first vice president, Mrs;
| Josiah Evans CoWles. AT Doard
meeting of the G. E. w. c.. held IN
Colorado Springs in September Mrs.
| CoWles was appointed chairman or the
| finance committee.
One session of the convention in Bos-
ton was devoted to household econom-
les, and among the speakers was MIS-.
Robert ]. Burdette, who discussed the
| question: What can we do to make
practical living more interesting to
| the home maker?" In the report TINS
| address is referred to as one of the
most effective addresses of the con-
yention, and the following extract un-
der the title of ITO Idealize Drudgery''
appears in the Bulletin:
''What can we do to make practical
living more interesting to the. home
| maker?
"This question, stated in common
| parlance, | take to mean How Shall
We Glorify Drudgery?' Drudgery, SO
called, for there is no drudgery in this
| world if we meet life's duties Win
willing and hopeful spirit.
Practical living for the home max
er infer to be the doing of things that
| Just have to be done day by day Tor
| the preservation and comfort OF the
home, the thousand and one things
| that are not appreciated in the doing,
but that are fatal to home life In the
omission.
mot until home making, the object
sought, is genuinely and fundamentally
interesting can the methods be made
interesting. True, people are occasion
ally interested in methods and care
little for results, If so be the results are
| a success, but those are Isolated ano
experimental cases. Home making Is
not an experiment to be carried on hrsi
in one field and then in another. 1t is
| a life work. and the spirit for every
day must be for every days success.
| There are few general suggestions
that can be made, for 1t is case OF OF
| indiyidualism. AS the stream cannot
rise higher than its source, the prac-
tfcal things of home making cannot be
made more interesting than the indi-
vidual home maker is interesting and
| interested.
1--WE must cease home making by ira
ditional and hearsay methods. SO long
|
home making just as their mothers,
their grandmothers and their great
grandmothers did, they will not find 1t
| particularly interesting or inspiring.
| When they realize that the ideal nome
and the method of evolving 1t has ad-
vanced with. the generations, as mas
| everything else in the world, and pre-
pare themselves artistically, scientific
ally and economically to oversee the
| creation and maintenance of 1t, they
will have solved the problem how to
make it interesting.
| Ito you who are already home max
ers wish to present four points OF the
home makers compass: Slmpllly'
classify, jollify, glorify.
Simplify means to be Independent
and scientific In your work of practical
! living. Differentiate between the es-
| sentials and the non-essent1als, ana
then pray for the courage to eliminate
the non-essentials. Much has been
said about the simple life, and 1t has
resolved itself to a state of mind The
ability to simplify calls for a state or
mind of intelligence plus courage,
which sum will equal interest and su-
preme joyousness in home making.
Classify means to be executive and
administrative, to eliminate irregulari-
ties. Set in motion the machinery that
has a time for everything, a place for
everything and a justified reason for
everything, then oil the machinery with
kindness of insistence, and the finished
product will be one of the most interest
| ing of contributions to your home
making.
"'Joiify is the singing -at-your-work
spirit that eliminates worry: one mlgnl
| be immensely interested in the days
practical living, were it's, sun not
eclipsed by the morning fog of worry
the MONDAY cloud of worry and the
eventide shadow of worry. 1t is doubt
and uncertainty that causes worry
Make yourself master of the practical
things, know your ground, be able tc
say, If others cannot do the things
necessary to this home-making: 1 dc
know how to sdo them. l can do them
I am independent and the worries viii
be turned to gladness. There will be 8
song in your heart, cheer in you'
voice and a radiation of sunshine II
your life and home.
"'GIorify' means to idealize youl
work of common living, to eliminate
Idrudgery. Do not look upon home
making as a fate to which you are
doomed, but a high privilege to which
you have been called. Never consider
the practical things as onerous things
Though often burdensome, they are Of
valuable interest.
ITO glosify these conditions, be not
only interested in the purity of YOU
groceries, but the welfare of YOU
grocer; not only in the cleanliness o.
your meat, but the manliness of YOU
butcher; not only in the perfection o.
your laundry, but the well-being o.
your laundress. In other words, take
no less thought for things done, bu
more thought for the doers thereof.
'In conclusion, simplify, classify, jol'
Iify, glorify practical living, and tht
magnetic needle of interest in the home
makers compass will steadfastly point
to the fixed star of her highest oppor-
tunity, the making of the home"
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Members of Hollywood Woman's clut
and friends were entertained at the
regular meeting yesterday with a musi.
cale, the program, under the direction