The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-05-24
MUST GET OUT OF THE RuTS
THAT THEIR GRANDMoTH-
Err TROD.
ORDER HEAVENS FIRST LAW
Homes Must Not Be Run in a Hap
hazard Way, and Brains Are as I'm
portsnt In the Kitchen as In the
Conduct Of Business.
Try Margaret B. Foulks.)

cry, fertilizer and seed, Will he ii
studying the latest methods of get
ting the best results from giveI
amount of ground with the least la
Dor lost, what are you women Of the
farm doing? Are you, too, awakine
TO the wonderful possibilities of farm
| life? Arc you studying the marvel
Gus improvements being made in the
homes 81 over our land? While your
husbands, fathers and brothers are
trying fertilizers, new implements
and new ways of growing farm pro
iucts, are you staying right on In
the same old rut your grandmotEers
trod? Have you gotten SO busy with
the every day duties that you have nc
time TO study Home Economies" to
watch for and try new recipes, new
cooking untensils and new ways OF
doing the same old duties?
When l make the statement that il
il the women who rule the farm. the
community, the nation and the world
you nav think this is going to be a
suffragettc talk, but I am not going
to discuss women's rights at all, but
women's business. Whether Or n0t
1T has ever been recognized as such,
the fact remains, home making is a
business, the success or failure OF
which means more to the nation than
any business of the world today.
When wcmen wake up to the fact
that home making is the greatest as
we'll as the most interesting of all
business enterprises there will be
more daughter son the farm and less
in the factory, the store and the Of
fee. want you farm women Of Ten
nessee, Il you have not begun. to
start tight now to run your homes
on a practical business basis.
The OLD saying that "the hand that
rocks the cradle rules the world"
might also read "the hand that feeds
the family rules the world" If |
should ask any of you the question,
which L the most important, the pro-
duciug Of fine corn, fruit and stock
or the making of healthy, strong
homes and muscles, good dispositions
and morals, I have no doubt Of my
answer. Well that is just what
"Home Economics" and Domestic
Science" is teaching in our colleges.
public schools and magazines today
II is teaching the making Of homes
in which all lives can be strong and
pure, physically and morally. I
A man would be laughed at Il he
should buy farm, factory or a de-
partment store and start to run II
with absolutely no knowledge Of how
It should be done, but how often
does woman do this very thing
when she starts home. l wish
when our farm homes start their
spring cleaning this year, It might
not only DO the dust and dirt that
il ecttcn out and kept out. Let US
get ont Of our homes and our lives,
all tHescAEeless. haphazard and incon.
venient waysf summing this business
we have chosen as oas6 life profession.
Let US put in along with the clean
curt, ms and carpets some new lGbSrd
saving devices, cooking utensils,
books and magazines that will help
us find the easiest and best way to
run each part of this business.
Order is heavens first law in our
homes Order is only another name
for system and that is what every
business must have, be it large or
small, to be success. There may
have teen time when to make our
own clothes, cook our meals, wash
our dishcs, and dust was considered
menial and as not recurring thought
and Study, but, that time IL past, and
over all doors to the modern home
from living room to kitchen, is being
stamped the word DRAINS" VIII
you, when your house cleaning is
done, stake stock" as the merchant
does in bis store, see what you have
and wat you have not. What foods
and fuels does your farm supply and
what Won must buy? How much Of
the farm income can you spend, and
how many have you to spend for? Let
'.s make up our minds to put aside
some part of this income or II pos
sible. to make an income for bus ing
each year something that will make
our business more attractive, to
maze IL run smoother and with less
labor and to lift it on a higher plane.
You who are at the head of the home
know just what work is to be done,