The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-10-22

women You need to be r~e-educated.
She says you need re~-education:
II you are a girl who does not look
orWar TO housekeeping and home
making as the most desirable pTofas-
sion you could pursue.
ii YOU would rather be a voeful
failure as a s~tenographer than a
wonderful success as a cook.
II you are q matron and do not re
gard the menage Of your household
affairs as an i'm Important career and
your several maids, not as interiors;.
but as assistants inthe details of max
ing a success Of your business in life.
h kind of education Mrs. Clark
advocates Is a sort Of regenerating
gospel of work when, She believes
eventually will spread, through the
land n solve all industrial problems
not the least Of them, the question OF
domestic service. She has been dis
cussing her plans for several months
with some OF the braineSt men and
women in America, and as d result
has formulated and become president
Of the Servants Club.
The plan is that his club shall be
wider in scope than any ever organiz-
ed and its service as broad as the
needs Of all American Womankind.
Mrs. Clark, wonderfully practical
n absolutely democratic, for some
time past has been distressed at what
seems to her a mistaken standard
and snobbish lack Of real democracy
in America, especially among n
BY these mistaken standards Mrs.
Clark feels that American m
like a blind Samson have pulled down
a destroying temple, not alone on their
own heads, but or the heads of all
society. The mistaken standard IS
their attitude toward work and the
destruction they nave wrough, is in
d~ustrial Ve~XatiOn.
Dream As a Bride.
The average young girl, Mrs CLARK
points out, no matter what her status
socially or financially. has but one
Well pronounced ambitiOn-never to
do any work. Each of them lives in
the bride of some millionaire prince,
and with rings on her fingers and bells
on her toes. she is to have music
wherever she gOeS-the wonderful
music of limitless luxury and never d
task from morning till night.
Mrs. Clark sees in this tipa
for work-the work Of housekeeping
principally-the most serious matte,
ailing the marriage market OF the
United States. A young man under
stands hat a girl would think him
perfect brute if he suggested that she
begin housekeeping just as thei'
parents did, she undertaking the en-
tlle WO1h VI l1lO IiONCSb
ment just as her mother and hi
mother did. AS he, probably, hasn'
sufficient income for any other arran
cement he doesn't suggest marriage
at all. Or IL he does, h chances arr
that he is dragged off to the pursator9
of boarding house life-his wife viii
not keep house without servants ant
he hasn't the price.
SO all YOU girls, Mrs. Clark feels
must be educated out of that notion
and into the thought. that, to D.
married n maintain a home /
the best that life can bring you. Ais
YOU must be educated into the con
ception that no human creature wa
born to be idle-that the greatest lif'
is the life Of service and the create
the service the greater the lie tina
. the woman who is giving nothing II
exchange for being supported is
leach on society and OF no more Us
in the world than the pet cat tina
purrs over her saucer Of cream, yaWn
and returns to nap on her satin pll
low Girls also, according to MRS
CIarL's ideas, must be Impressed VII
the dignity of home
must be brought to understand ina
since the very foundation of the nauol
rest on the stability Of the home. to D
a successful home maker IS z vast
important and honorable calling
l The Servant Problem.
2 Having reached that point, the clu
: Organizers believe the next ste
would be easy Of accomplishment
= understandings the dignity of hom
\ mal,jng women would inmedlatel
r attach a new dignity to the position
f If those who assist them in maxim
their work a success. to the END ina
s the parlor maid. the kitchen mald an
the nurse maid would be brought mt
tI,n F., ~ relation to the mistress c
NJ rOessliage as that neld by the cler
!, tho office and the salesman in IN
shop to the head of the bushes
F concern.
! Another line Of educational work
- rbou girls who desire to ear
s ,ha;r own way. that with modern II
e ventions and surroundings houseWor
has been robbed Of everything AKIN
drudgery; that il IS less haf9 Wa
standing behind a counter al Gay dii
$3.50 conduciye TO good health tina
!, nffice work: and that. provided VII