New-York tribune., 1910-07-26
WOMEN OF TOMORROW
They Have Their Work Cut Out
for Them, Says Mr.. Hard.

u,,,o ..rop,nn of to-morroW''-poor things!
u-il, he required to master two profes-
sions The men learn one and earn ther
living Inv it The women must be skilled
workers In the trade by which they sup
mort themselves until they can be married.
and they must be taught domestic science
as a safeguard in case they should De
married William Hard, in an article In
the August number of 'Everybodys Maya
zine" explains the why and the how
Every census shows increase in the
proportion of unmarried women between
twenty-five and twenty-nlne- This means
longer wage-earning period for women, ana
a longer wage-earning period means
longer and more careful training.
The girl of to-morrow-and even of to-
day in the cites-must take lessons In her
trade If she is to be a salesgirl in de-
partment store she takes a course IN the
science of selling goods-such a course as
Is being conducted in Boston by the
Womens Educational and Industrial Union.
If she is TO be milliner or dressmaker she
goes 10 a city trade school for girls and
studies designing, theory of color, the
source of the materials she uses and tries
to decide between art for arts sake and
art for fashions sake If she is TO be
edge, she must go 10 a professional train
ing school and learn the technique of i'm
parting knowledge
AT the same time, she is learning the rules
of her trade it is taken for granted (by
Mr. Hard) that she has not neglected her
brothers friends and that sooner or later
every Jill will find her Jack. 1t behooVeS
her then to learn to keep house for him,
however far into the rosy misted future she
may have 20 look for the opportunity 1t
will not do at all to so out into the kitchen
and watch mother. Mother says, Take
some sugar and butter, an egg or two. ana
add enough flour and milk to make 1t thick
enough" Mother makes good cake, but jill
must learn why good cake results from
mothers processes. Chemistry ana phyS
and physiology come into the problem she
must go UP to the domestic science school
and study these things. When she gets
there she finds it is not enough for the
young housewife of tomorrow to know why
cake is cake. She must know why Ice
with bread. and the chemicals found IN in
each She must know why baby should
not eat cake and just what he should eat.
She must know how to make cake for two
or cake for ten or how TO provide cake for
New York City what it would cost and
where best to buy the materials
In the same way she must study the sci
ence of sweeping. of washing, of fitting out
kitchen and decorating her table She
will then turn her attention TO the needs or
her community and study city sanitation,
social reform, school Fairgrounds and pure
food bills.
With so much to learn, no wonder the
girl of tomorrow will marry late. Her
grandmother married at seventeen, but in
her times a girl of seventeen knew enough.
To-day a girl cannot even begin her tech
nical studies at that age. Moreover, in
these days of the high cost of living not
many Jills find Jacks who can afford to
marry before twenty-five or thirty. So
Jill is forced to wait-and study. She may
go to college If she does she hears the
cry on every hand college girls marry
late" But. fortunately for her, here comes
Mr. Hard to her rescue and vaiantly pro-
claims that college is not a cause; it is a
symptom" and all the girls of tomorrow
college or non-college-have equally good
chances of marrying late.