Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-24
HOUSEWORK TO
BE THEFASHI0N
Mrs. F. A. Pattison Fitting
Up House ct Colonia.

Install modern labor saving de-
vices in your homes II you would
solve the vexatious servant girl prob
lem, If you would eliminate TO a
great extent the dreary drudgery of
homework, II you would see re-
stored to robust health the daily
increasing army of neurotics. and
remedy wasteful extravaganza and
reduce the high cost of living.
To prove that this proposition is
not chimerical, or visionary, to prove
to the world In general and to over
burdened housewives In particular
that the enforcement of the idea
will be beneficial in results and wide
in It's scope, embracing all that Is
good and true and beautiful, the
Committee on Household Economics,
OF the New Jersey Federation Of
Woman's Clubs is today arranging
for a practical demonstration.
Mrs. Frank Amber Pattison, pres
ident OF the Federation, has grace
iously offered the use of a house adj
Joining her beautiful home in Colo
MIA, N. j., about two miles west OF
Railway. Carpenters, electricians
and decorators are now engaged In
making this a house beautiful, SO to
speak, installing the most modern
l~abor-saving devices. 1t will be ready
for occupancy within a month and
the results will be watched with In
terest by club women all over the
country.
Mrs. Pattison is enthusiastically
confident of the outcome, and has no
hesitancy In predicting success. In
discussing the scheme today Mrs.
Pattison said:
Readjust The Home.
TT will e a readjustment OF
home conditions by the adoption and
application of scientific methods. 1t
will make for happiness and give the
overworked housewife more leisure.
My associates and / appreciate the
magnitude of the task we have vol
unfairly assumed, but we go at 1t
cheerfully, realizing that its success
means so much to ~womanfolk. II
we can arouse interest-and that is,
30 to speak, the fly in the ointment
women will be convinced h a the
ideas we are seeking to promulgate
are correct.
"Realizing that we could talk,
discuss and write papers on the sub
iect until doomsday without any real
results, we determined to demon
visibly the practical value of
The proposition. One result, import
il not the chief, will be the solu-
ion OF the servant girl problem byI
eliminating from the servant cll2gs
he present undesirables and those
voefully ignorant Of their duties. 1t
viii introduce the specialized Ser-i
anti
haHhcal deYtces will also reduce the
MISUNDERSTANDING in the large es-
Adjustments of the Weather class,
for those whose menage is more
modest and where one maid is suf1-l
lent. the work Of three can be OBJ
precious time saved and
cleanliness be supreme. In a way
The underlying principle OF the
scheme is Ere. grouped into
four classes.
Electricity VIII Save.
There is first the coal tire, which
gas and its various applications;
which Is very practical, especially in
IuTdi uOIlcHs dAQ aA1d1Iy tAClS Is
electricity. This last, ! am con-
WINGED, will prove In the future the
salvation of the h0usekeeper. We
propose to go into the most minute
details as to the relative costs of
these various systems; also to take
up the question Of ~diatetics, and
while engaged In the practical work
we will also give attention to the
aesthetic side of the question.
I'VE propose to make homework
the fashion, and when our little
plant Is running we will arrange for
pilgrimages from all over NeW Jer-
sey, New York and from Philadel-
phia.
why should not homework be
reduced to a science? No reason at
all. The trusts ana corporations of
the present day are made possible
because OF the adoption OF scientific
principles, And If 1t Is true of bus
mess, why should 1t not be true of
our homes?"