The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-02-19
z HOUSEWIFE WE USED TO
KNOW 10 NO MORE.

But the housewife We uscI 10 KNOW
Aas gone, Just rs the home We used 10
know has gone. Old-fashloned home life
is now only to be found In tho quiet
purlicus OF Brooklyn. The homes have
been ansformed. and between 100000
and 100000 women who used to work
in them without pay are now working
In factories and offices with pay. And
yet besides being breal-winners most
Of these women arc or Will be homo
makers-only not according to the old
methods.
Every manufacture. except the last
stage IN tho process of preparing food.
IS now performed outside the house,
hold. I have a most affectionate mem
org OF my grandmother's kitchen. with
its candle moulds and It's big loom for
weaving. 1t was n tremendously inter-
esting place. Modern housekeeping may
be more refined. but its duller. IL Is
characterized by endless repetition ana
petty detail; Il lacks sweep or action
No woman Of ambition and energy can
DO satisfied with taking care or FOUR
room Nat.
"what Il tho answer Just this
that the new housewife must DO
the housewife Of the communasy'
the municipal mother.
'.Ier forer,inrcrs are already with US.
They include settlement workers. rae
tory inspectors, school and district
nurses. .instltut onal dletitians. laundry
MANAGERS. Women are eagerly cooper
a,,ns to make us change our opinion OF
their .phero and capacity. There Is
much more work for them to do which
women will be allowed TO keep the
/, streets of New York as clean as women
are already keeping the streets OF Nun
.ch. When 30 women arc permitted 70
clear the dust from the public Streets
100000 women will be saved the drudg-
cry Of trying to clear their homes or
dust
A TRAINED HOUSEWIFE WILL
SCARE TIE LANDLORD.
'Tho t.mo ~ coming when trained
Housewives will not stand for the ma
ter1al cond. tions and appliances which
the landlord OF to-day thinks good
enough. Men who can buy or mortgage
the land run up ramshackle. delighted.
.nsect.infested dwellings. In which wom-
en- have to spend their lives. The future
housewife will insist that her domain
bo at least as convenient as the office
o, the business man OF to-day. And
that means that We shall have trained
women designing, contracting FOR and
constructing houses.
~ believe that the greatest dan
ger In modern marriage 10 the
comparative inability OF the mar
s1sd woman to work outside her
homo, an inability due to domestic,
trSditonal OF vocational tyranny.
"The drudgery OF the homes will lose
them their women. and the women VII
bS rcgained only by doing away viii
the drudgery. We must cultivate house
hold efficiency. But VIC can't get !
without training, and We can't get IN
training now IN the schools. Ever!
high school should teach tho new hous"
work; every woman's college should
specialize In science as applied 70 per
sonai and public health. Then. adapt
Ing Spencer's famous remarks on edi
cation, future chror!clcrs cannot Loo
back at our womcns colleges and say
"-Jo instruction seems tp have beet
i:lveu In the care OF children. Ev.denu
all these young. ladies were destined I
enter a nuInely"
mo housowif, cnl Zoe !l=al unlo'
ne develops s,.ou,.h' "hi.'cnty.' !es'
Grated Miss May Is. Nan .Arsialc, hea
ot the cookery department at TeacAel'
College. ut is said By Il high aut"orl'
that the economic waste of the house
wives OF America yearly surpasses u
waste OF public resources.
'tOne good gesllv ot a wom~Hi seen