Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-05

tasks in the home.
Don't Know What's Going On
WOMEN have to great extent remained deaf to
this most tremendous compliment in the his
tory of the sex question. They still squirm at the
mention of kitchenette, and men, to great ex-
tent bewhiskered and specialized old chaps with
degrees, are back of this sly, steathy movement to
establish the home arts on healthy basis again
They still doing a good deal of thinking for us
which we don't suspect, solving problems that
the learned editorials in the evening extras never
touch upon.
The so called servant question was, or is, a con-
dition born of this transition period, during which
women IN various ways were being educated to a
point sufficiently high from which they might look
at the question of home making and keeping in it's
proper light, bereft of all degradation all gate
tradition.
We have at all events reached vista when we can
realize quite clearly that the domination of our cook
was one of the most side splitting Jokes on us as
women 1t is true she could hit at through our
husbands by means of cold range and no dinner;
but while she remained master of the situation it
argued a lack in our equipment Highbrows which
were earnestly striving to be under the drawing
room teachments of Swamis and Babas 'egion
1t only in the South where servants we're
overpenty that girls grew without that dreadful
feeling that kitchen work almost a deflement,
something the performance of which could never be
admitted Southern women VIGOROUSLY ipdolert
nevertheless did such tasks caring for old china
silver, and linen: Fine laces were washed by hand
and when the Mammies were down with miseries. the
Missiles visited and cared for them in their cabins
Undoubtedly the feeling against housew ork is
stronger among the poorer and less educated women
who throng into mills and shops to make livings
fancying that in this way they preserve their LADY,
hood, rather than by taking domestic positions
where Science like giant fairy makes the various
tasks of home a never ending delight when looked
upon in the right way But even the physician who
wishes to be popular now writes earnedly upon the
evil effects of house toll on the health of women
and the blight it is to good looks 1t is this unwhole
spirit that has created and maintained the
omnpresent servant trouble.
While the work is looked upon slavery and
cassed among the unworthy arts it will always make
for discord Yet there form of service in which
take part from the loving care of baby to
the nursing of the sick in the hospitals that cannot
be cheapened and smirched if looked at from the
same viewpoint The reiteration of certain tasks
the washing and rewashing of dishes, is no more
monotonous, if as much SO, than the click of the
typewriters keys or the saleswomans waiting upon
customer after another
Dignity of Homework
INDEED few tasks have the dignity of homework
well done. Few duties can be made so lovely in the
absolute perfectness and ceanness that rewards eff
fort and nothing that woman can do in the world
outside ever have the sentiment and charm.
A Physical Culturist sometime ago. during the
boom of that cult voiced one of the most charming
and at the time practical ideas that ever ema-
mated from female brain-with all its missing ounces
1t gave a thought to housework which we who
perused literature specially manufactured for u.s. had
grown to think sordid and unpleasant mixup
of complexion hints lobster receipts, and
failing bug destroyers.
This prose poet of the pantry had fascinating
program for the housewife who would carry the
Uplift into the daily grind. She wished, it is true
to make Physical Culture popular with the masses
and, with the unerring aim for which our sex is
famous almost succeeded in making housework an
put forth her plan.
1t this Every task, the simplest had
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