Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-08-30

brought; domestic service is doomed it is in
consistent with modern of citizenship and ra-
tonal human relations.
Domestic service, like the United States senate
and the vermiform appendix. relic of outgrown
condition Of things, of time when the aim or lire
was to be waited upon and a mans Importance was
gauged by the number Of those who waited him.
The democratic ideal is quietly curing this morbid
idea. Our notion of the greatest man is coming 10
be the who the most and not the one with
the most servants.
At the close the twentieth century the cardinal
element every chd's education viii be to teach
him how wait himself
Already find it difficult to get good help"
The maid of all work becomes more and more ex-
acting. demands and pay, and often it is
impossible to procure one at any price
We have tried domestic. We have chosen
which cali inferior But even the negro is
being spoiled" by education and consequent self
respect; and while the Chinaman is an domestic
he knows it, inwardly despises whom he serves and
charges much that he will always remain the lux
ury of the few.
In South Africa progress is being made in
training balloons to work, even to run locomo-
tives; possibly they might learn housework
Attempts at communal life have been made in the
effort to solve the servant puzzle Apartment build
kitchens.
More and more food is being prepared and sold
from the grocery ready to eat
The only place where there is servant problem
is the home of the poor where the wife does Ter
own work And. women are showing growing lis
taste entering into marriage that implies that
They to suspect that the man Is uldEhyAhs "
obtain housekeeper to whom he need not pay honest
wages ta.f
The solution of the difficulty is in two directions,
which are coordinate One hope is in the inventive
genius man; the other in his growth in democracy
spiritual simplicity and greatness.
In the electric house a hundred years from now
will be little work to do. The house then
will far ahead of ours now as the present day
steam heated, electric lighted and vacuum cleaned
apartment Of the house where WfitrieI
was a boy. The home of the future will be servant
less ~.
But at the same time people will learn gradually
the dignity of helping themselves and the pettiness
of being helped
Society has invented football, tennis golf boxing
calewalking dancing. ana automobiling to keep
people from dying fat and atrophy.
The simplest and most scientific form OF exercise
taking, care of yourself.
Tolstoy says that to teach children to pick up
their own toys and generally to look after
themselves absolutely necessary If we would nave
them understand the meaning of brotherhood"
Herbert Spencer says the same regime is necessary
in education
It's all in the way you look at it. A man who
thinks it no disgrace to lie his back in the mud
automobile and get grease on his hands and
UP to his armpits need not.thnk it beneath him TO
fry eggs and bacon
And a woman who can stand hours at re-
ception or travel miles afternoon in art gal
lery need not think lowering herself by comb
ing her own hair, putting together her own spring
hat, and buttoning her gown-also having her
gowns made so that she can button them herself.
Fashion determines all Fashion is being forced
toward simplicity. And If only thought so i
might be quite as much the thing for gentleman 10
polish his own shoes as to steer his own auto. and
for lady to make her own shirtwaists as to en-
broider castles and duck ponds on canvas
when Adam dove and Eve span,
Who the gentleman?"