Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-12
FOR THE LADIES.
LINCOLN.

Are sealed within that horoscope.
Pavond is toll for daily bread,
And thought, to noble issues led,
And courage arming for the morn
For whose behest this man was born.
man Of homely. rustic ways,
YeT he achieves the forums praise
And soon earth 5 highest need has won,
The seat and sway of Washington.
Nh throne of honors and delights;
Disrrustful days and sleepless nights,
To struggle suffer and aspire,
like israel led by cloud and fire.
4 i.eacherous shot, sob of rest,
A martyrs PAIN upon his breast;
4 welcome from the glorious seat
Where blaneless souls of heroes meet;
And. thrilling through unmeasured days,
A song of gratitude and praise;
A cry that all the earth shall heed
no God who gave him for our need.
By Mrs Julia Ward Howe.
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The Homework of the Future.
.Cbops of TIE future will come from
the butcher through a pneumatic tube"
said Mrs. Ellen H. Richards of the Mas
sachusetts School of Technology. speak
ING on Household Labor in the Twenti
9th Century" at Teachers college re-
Gently. I'VE shall have a receptacle
travelling through the air like the little
thing that brings your change in the
store. and when you press a button 1t
will bring more bread or deposit a soup
plate before each one. You laugh, and
yet you are advanced students of house
hold economies. You find nothing funny
in such an invention in a store, but il
provokes your mirth to think of it util-
lied in the home Ii any mine, factory
or store were run with the loss of time,
strength and labor found in the home it
would 90 out of business"
Mrs. Richards then traced very inter-
estingly the course of events which has
transferred the work of women to the
factory.
The result of taking industries out of
the home" she said lis that nothing
has been left but the drudgery, the dirty.
heavy, unskilIed labor; the washing of
pots and kettles, the scrubbing of floors.
Any woman would feel pride in a beau
tiful web of linen, spun and woven by
her own hands. 1t is a finished created
thing; a thing to show ones friends; a
thing to last for years, and always be a
reminder of her skill and industry. On
the other hand, nobody can feel pride in
washing a lot of dishes which are going
to be dirtied again at the next meal; in
scrubbing a floor which will be tracked
up five minutes later: in cooking n meal
which half an hour later will be gone.
The only work left to woman in the
home is this sort of work which is never
done, which is perpetually recurring, in
which she never has the feeling of any
thing permanent accomplished. 1t is pc
culiar, the effect this kitchen work has
on intelligent. trained women - college
graduates, perhaps. or women who had
done competent work in the business
world. | have known such women to
begin housekeeping full of pride and
zeal One year later they shut the kitch-
en- door as tightly as possible and
stunned all discussion of its problems.
The things seemed simply horrible TO
them. They kept it out of their thoughts
as much as possible.
Now, this condition is steadily grow
ing worse instead Of better When man
began to make the cloth he still left the
making Of the cloth into garments-an
equally great branch of manufacture
in the home. But that is steadily eav-
ing the home also. Women are charged
70 make the clothes for their families
Who would wear them if they did?
what man would wear clothes made by
MS WfeF The little boy will wear them
as long as he is at home, but when he
gets INTO school at the age of 6 it is all
over. The little ready made boys ieer
at the home made boy, and he comes
nome crying and won't wear the trous-
CfS mother made any longer.
Moreover, we are getting so we
won't wear the clothes we have made
ourselves A great many of us would
not he seen in Il shirtwaist of our own
making. 1t is good enough. but it lacks
Ihe touch of the garment made by pro-
feSsIonals. 1t isn't the thing. There are
subtle differences that distinguish it.
More and more the generation is refus-
ing to wear clothes made by amateurs.
and demanding those made by profes-
SloHhlS. We establish classes to teach
girls to make their own clothes. and we
Try to bamboozle them into thinking that
II Is better to stay at home and make
thelr own clothes than to 90 out and
earn the money to pay for making them.
But we cannot fool them. The girl says
to herself, Why should | wear these
clumsy things? I'll earn money and pay
Tor some nice ones Which is her right,
and exactly what the man does. A sue
ceSSful business woman never makes her
own clothes any more than man does.
she only makes her clothes if her pay is
50 small that she cannot buy them, and
must take time that should be given TO
rest or recreation to clothe herself.
Now, it is curious fact that the very
men who have taken our old occupations
out of the home, and who wouldn't wear
them. say that women ought not to go
out into the world, that they ought to
stay in the home. Why should all the
ethical speakers blame us for letting
our occupa tons go? How could we help
IL II anybody is to blame, isn't it thu
man who took these occupations 10 make
money out of them as much as the
woman who let them go? He has ac-
cuStomed people to the shop stamp, and
now nobody is satisfied without the shop
stamp
We are trying to give the housework
cone IN the home a shop stamp-that Is
70 make the homekeepers professionals
ny establishing costly courses in domes.
NC science. But we cannot accomplish
The change solely by the education of the
worker We must change the home as
Well, You cannot apply the new ideas ii
'he old fashioned house.
The old-fashioned house had many
large rooms, with many cupboards and
tubbyholes; dark places under the caves
III the attic-an infinitely difficult place
20 keep clean. This large, rambling old
house often had steps to go up and down
between the rooms; the sink was far