Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

- AtAAa IN ~ W
H etts School OF Technology 10
&GS the housekeepers OF today and
TOMORROW. Chops Of the future will come
from the butchers through a pneumatic
tuoe, she told a grOup of eager listeners
IN the New York Teachers college. We
snail have a receptacle travelling through
the air like the little thing that brings
your change In the store. and when YOU
press a button It will bring more bread
or deposit a soup plate before each one.
You laugh, and yet you are advanced
students OF household economies. You find
nothing funny in such an invention in a
store, but II provokes your mirth to think
OF II utilized In the home. II any mine.
factory or store we're run with the loss OF
time, strength and labor found in the home
1t would go out OF business"
Mrs. Richards then traced very interest
ingly the course Of events which has trans
ferred the work Of women to the fac
tory.
The result Of taking Industries out of
the home" she said, rs that nothing has
been left but the drudgery, the dirty,
heavy. unskilled labor; the washing Of pots
and kettles, the %scrubbing of floors. Any
woman would feel pride in a beautiful 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 will be a re-
hinder Of her skill and industry. On the
other hand, nobody can feel pride in wash
ing a lot of dishes, which are going TO be
dirtled again at the next meal: I'm scrub
bins a floor which will be tracked up in
five minutes later; in cooking a meal which
half an hour later will be gone. The only
work left to woman in the house is this
oorf ~ uyorIr u.htch L. 1890 A.. -LloA
is perpetually recurring. in which she never
has the feeling of anything permanent ac-
complished. 1t is peculiar, the effect this
kitchen work has on intelligent, trained
w~omen-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
kitchen door as tightly as possible and
Stunned all discussion of its problems. The
things seemed horrible to them. They kept
II out of their thoughts as much as pos
sible.
Now, this condition is steadily growing
worse instead of better. When man bega an
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 leaving the home also
Women are charged TO make the clothes
for their families. Who would wear them
II they did? What man would wear clothes
made by his wife? The little boy will wear
them as long as he is at home, but when
the homemade boy, and he comes home
crying and won't wear the trousers mother
made any longer.
1.-THE homo Of the future will be a neat,
compact place, containing no more room
than can be adequately kept up in good
shape. We demand the shop stamp; we
he gets into school at the age of s it Is all
over. The little ready-made boys jeer at
demand neatness. style. To get them we
have got to sacrifice unnecessary space.
This home will be ventilated in some way
so that We will not need to open windows
1t Is the window, open for ventilation,
which admits the dust and coal smuts
which create eternal cleaning. There will
be apparatus which will wash and sift
every particle of air admitted to the house,
SO that It Is all pure and clean. and this
air will be either warmed or cooled to the
exact degree desirable. There will be no
more difficulty in cooling the house Of
the future in summer than in heating 1t
in winter. THIS house of the future will
be fitted throughout with electric contrfv-
buCeS. we SNAIL COoh am Wdiih
with electricity as unthinkingly as We now
light the house with II. All the work, also.
will be done by little electric machines.
worked by the pressure of a finger. The
house will be cleaned by a little cleaner,
cheap enough for every family in ordinary
circumstances to nave!
Now. to create this state OF affairs
women have got to demand it. A great
mary Of these inventions exist today. But
tho call for them is so slight that II doesn't
pay to put them on the market. There Is
in women a ceep seated fear of anything
new. We have got to get rid of that type
OF women before we can have the modern,
up-to-date, twentieth century home. My
hope is in the rising generation. I don''
hope much OF the old housewives. They
were trained to be afraid of everything
new"
Vassar Girl sufraEette.
Miss Inez Milholland of London, Eng
land. now a senior in Vassar college, APP