Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-04-08
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ROME KALKS
A Modern Housewifs
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m HE luncheon bell had sounded and she was hurryfng down to the
dln1ng DON goWned Il a very dainty blue silk dress.
" dropped s'i M Just got up she said to q friend VINO had unexpectedly
The late riser is not a society woman, but a very practical wife and
strangers, who mends and patches her candrens clothes, who IS an ardent
suhrasist, Il member # womens cubs. IN owner of a farm IN the Bark.
shHes, a canoefst and a camper of n o mean abihty-who, in a word. is a
modern woman very much alive and interested in all the dotngs If thu day.
She hr husband are not poor in the extreme III OF the word
ot neither are hey wealthy. ut she doesn't keep house n the wy
mos "omeh III nr Tcumsance woua. h gets pore ont Of life than
the old-ume method If housekeeping would give her. Sue employs two
maids She gives the children private Instructors She has furnished
ne part OF tn house the family reserve or themselves most arthticalIy.
sui SIT Doesn't slave from morning until night, overseeipg the cooking
and busting and sweeping. She plans the work Tor her maids and holds
then to doing it. In order that she my live In this way-wth helm
about the houseWork and leisure for the things she wants-she ren hose
rooms she does not need. She patches and mends and does the eyouua
things. And the rest If her time and mind she gives to son of The bp
work women are doing.
She doesn't feel she al afford to buy o II the artistic draperies
snd snlan pieces of furniture she desires. So she Uses some of the money
hnd Leisure she hs secured, to study various crafts. and o make the home
furnishings she wants.
Her club and other activities bring her in contact with all sorts O.
th1ngs-and SO she is a bright, interesting and entertaining womau-a
vastly different woman from what she would be, If she simply looked
after Ter home and did nothing else
But, If she doesn't feel like getting up in the morning. se doesn't
get up. If her engagements keep her out at the dinner hour se STAYS
bel husban oes o consider he Is a injured ma The two are a
devoted couple thoroughly enjoying the same interests. He delights in
her brightness, Ter aItveness, II one may 8 o call It. When she doesn't
get up In the morning. 10 takes Ter breastaaf hs her o a tray. They are
lovers and chums.
But many women would hold up their hands In horror at this pethod
Of housekeeping, and consider that their homes we're eoing to the doss
II run o n this plan. But. afer all. isn't this better than putting mes
nose to the grindstone and eternaIy keeping 1t thereY Isn't he really
n more companionable wife and mother than If she let the housekeau,yz
subordinate and leaves herself free for better things. Yet this Is a
decided change from the old idea of housekeeping, when re we're
posed Ito stick right by the wheel and never relax u grip or N watch
fulness. And many women would yet consider that with two children.
two maids and a large house to look after, she ought to be ID bright
suffrage meetings and club gatherings, that she ought to be right on the
Sob of housekeeping every minute Of the day.
But there is mor tran way to look at the housekeeping ron
siuon. and this is ne oft the newer views some women are taking of 1t.