The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-11-03

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all the wealth possible is TO under
stand the best possible use of what
we have. This is of tremendous i'm
port to women and opens for them
field quite as large and valuable
as that of mans. Most of what is
acquired in the world is expended in
the home or its interest. Women thus
become the main directors of these
expenditures.
OF Equal Importance.
"A leading economist says that two
things are of equal importance in the
practice of economy to increase the
income and to diminish the expendi-
lures and that the last contains pos
7 sibilities of comfort of quite as high
order as the first. There is no higher
economic function than determining
how wealth shall be used.
Men, already at their tasks, ac-
knowledge the need of constant study
to keep abreast of the times and in
line with competition. No less ade-
quate education is needed by those
who control consumption. The ex-
perience handed down from mother to
daughter no longer fits the changed
condition of woman's activities. There
are government bulletins, magazines
and articles which no home-maker
can be without, Too busy? Here
again we display crying need for
revolution lest we spend our money
for that which is not bread.
We have to acknowledge a less in
telligent power to determine what is
good durable, desirable than women
Of former years. So long as women
wove their dress material they knew
its value. How many women stop to
consider these things today? Must
We not confess that instead we ask
| is it the latest style?
Fashion Seizes on Frailty.
Fashion has been quick to seize up
on this frailty and the styles change
frequently enough so that dress
shall not be sorely taxed in wearing
capacity before it is discarded for a
later mode thus aiding the manufac-
turer of shoddy goods and binding
women to the great blunder of such
waste
I'VE cry out against it, but it is in
our power to prevent it by concerted
action for consumers control produc-
ton absolutely. Once the demand
yield. We shall learn to pay fair
price for good articles, not as a lux
ury, but as the only thing We can af-
ford to buy
DO you know whether your laun-
dry work is better done at home or
outside, if you can afford to pay ex-
actly twice as much for a less nutri-
tious loaf of bread than to make it,
did you select your steak for dinner
instead of beans or peas or cheese or
eggs because the family like it bet
ter or because the meat is better for
them at their age or occupation or
because the. tradition of the family
is meat for dinner a well made pea
soup followed by fish or egg course
or thoroughly well baked dish of
beans tall day is not too long will
send yauf family back to their work
with clearer brains"
{ Leave Some Things Und0ne.
The speaker advised to leave some
things undone to procure the atmos-
phere of restfulness and comfort in
the home and 10 control their lives
and environment rather than be con-
trolled by them. She cautioned
against the making OF elaborate dish
es which consume time and strength
TO the detriment OF health. The more
We combine and mix materials the
more indigestable and unwholesome
they become. Plain, simple food we'll
prepared is what our grandmothers
reared fine families on. The cheap
cut OF meat well prepared would re-
duce the eXorbitant prices and would
be more wholesome than the choice
cut. Perhaps too much time is given
to the matter of eating
To be we'll dressed should mean
less attention TO the subject since
once attended to, one is free from the
thought 70 being ill-dressed In the
same way to be well fed, that is, prop
erly fed, is to be relieved of much
which attends that American disease
Indigestion. Disease decreases as the
home is properly managed. Prob
ably not 25 percent in any community
are doing full days work because
OF i'll health"
Economies in the Schools.
The speaker then turned to econ
omics in schools, which Montpelier
is very desirable of securing. The
education of girls she said should
difer from the education OF boys. The
opportunities for equal educational
advantages have been generously OPP
ened and women have availed them
selves so creditably as to have silenced
the question of ability TO cope with
men intellectually. The boy from the
masses must secure an education
which will fit him for work unham-
ihomes demand efficiently trained
. home makers, who should understand
the Importance of and find a pleas
ure in their work. Here is a field
for the annlicQtion Of science II iS