The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-11-18
GOOD HOME MAKING
Direct Bearing Of WOmer'S Work
on Town Sanitation.
HOW ONE AFFECTS THE OTHER

Penalty For Bad Conditions 10 Paid
BY the Whole Community IN some
Way-What Wonen Did FOR New
Jersey Town.
one of the most important factors IN
the line OF town improvement - II'
work that women can do. MIEIns 81
good homes can affect to II iIlEr cA-
tent the problem oi municipal house
keeping.
The condition of the school when
children attend is nauilrSllN ~ the
line Of a mothers closest inlri1l
What sort Of children come toe ucr
in the public school! Are their homcs
the kind that make healthy cnndr"n:
If not. is there something wrong IN llc
housing or industrial conditions 81 me
town undrrlccdiug. oNrrcr"Ndlng or
Inadequate play space: Ihr prndIl\
for bad conditions is paii by thc VII 'lc
community in one fashion or another.
lust as we all share together whatever
beauty exists in well planned town
or village.
II your town Is smoke laden, If its
streets are fun Of litter ana diri II
every vacant lot is a repository Of
rubbish. the individual du,tpan and
brush will be OF litjl" avail. Even
though your house may b" "A model
one in every matter pertaining To
health and though You sci your ch.l-
drcn the highest cNaluplc II may prom
YOU nothing You cannot tell at what
moment your children may suffer in
health because ot som" disease breed
ing district that you did not feel it WAS
your business to know about or when
your CROWN boys ma! com" in con
tact with drrravity bred Toy under
feeding and ovcrcroWdiug.
So IN the final analysis We ind that
everything that has T." de- with town
raEitaiion ms a direct bearing on the
individual household "" Snow that
tuberculosis breeding SluWs ar"
menace To those If IL fortunate
enough to be- living in pleasant and
well Ventilated homes. II has boon
demonstrated time and again that
clothes uadr under ius1nitary cundi-
tionS in sWcatShops are disease car
ryIng agents So it Is increasingly dif
iicult to tell where the business Of the
home ends and somebody cl~o's bust
ness begins one thing i sure the
relation between mum. ipal houSckcep-
ing and good home making is II close
one.
Nine wears ago the Pennington
Woman's club was formed in New
Jersey. II began with only twenty
eight active and five associate mem
bcrS. Al first like 50 many women'S
clubs which are not formed for me
specific purpose of remedNiug some
abuse tn" work was purely OF Il self
culture Kind Eut. unlike the club
before dcecrib"d. the ladies found
some work they liked better They
realized that there was uu rao =
room in town. SO they hired one at a
cost of $500 IA year ANA $50 'u" hiIrd
work That library. So m"G"slY he
gun. has now over 4uuD VoluupS and I.
Librarian: also II building lot has t,cu
left it and legacy for a library
building. Some years ago village
Improvement committee was appoint
ed. Beginning with the railway sta.
lions. which were untidy. the com
mittee by vigorous action cleaned up
the town. -Four hundred dollars was
collected for "A drinking fountain.
which was presented to the town. In
the rear of the courthouse was
large lot belonging to the county. in
closed in tumbledown fences over
grown with weeds and used generally
for "A dumping ground for wornuut
carts. \ resident of the town gave
the committee 500. and with this as
a foundation it began soliciting funds
to improve the lot. rkiugncn gave
a days work; carts and horses We're
loaned: fertilizers. seed. trees and
shrubs were given. The woman'S club
kept the park in order until three
years ago, when the VILLAGE trustees