Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-01
THE TROUBLE WITH
YOUNG WIVES OF TO-DAY

winifred Black; They are taking
the Chicago nigh school girls to the
stock yards nowadays to learn how
to cut meat to the best advantage.
Chuck steak is better than tender
loin if you know how to cook it,
they say at the stock yards, "and a
pot roast will beat an oven roast all
hollow if the cook is all right.
Quite true, perhaps. | always seem
to catch myself preferring tenderloin
and the oven roasts myself, all other
things being equal, though there is no
question that "chuck" steak well
broiled is better than a tenderloin or
meats, friend TO leather; but l Won
der if knowing these things is going
to help the wayfaring man, though a
wiseacre as TO his meals? There's
no getting round it at all--the Amer
lean housekeeper is lazy; not incon,-
petent merely. just plain LAZY, and
getting lazier every day. Did you
ever notice the office boy? Give an
office boy more to do than he can
do and he'll be up and coming
wideawake and right there every
minute Put him into another office
where there isn't enpugh to do to
keep him busy and he'll groan if you
ring for paper weight and moan if
you try TO drag him from his thrill
er." That's what's the matter with
the american woman when it comes
TO housekeeping-her job is too easy
and she won't do it, It doesn't seem
worth while somehow. No fires to
make, no ashes to dispose OF. no
laundry in the house, electric irons all
over the place-why mot have il
little easier and run to the delicates-
sen and get dinner instead of both
ering with it at all2 ,The old fash
ioned houseSeeper had TO get her fire
started, Just so far hhead anyhow
OF she wouldn't have any over for
biscuits, so while she was waiting she
did other variously useful and inter-
esting things. Basting the roast, for
instance, and flavoring it. I've eaten
pot roasts at my German friends that
were worth eating and Remembering,
too, but they weren't cooked at the
last minute as an afterthought when
mother got home from the matiteo
The mushrooms that made that gravy
were in soak for ,wb eaonrs JeiJr,
The roast went Z, the pot and sJi e.
b.dy siid some wo~S on the ain j. 2
ihat case. the rneA-l :..ss.bcI a. dsi
flavor The average cook will not do
The things that mean trouble and
Lrains. II hurts to make your lroin
work when you can make somebody
else do the work with his digestion.
The house mother must be there to
see to the general plan or some
body will see that something is slight
ed. am afraid the average Amcri-
can woman is too willing to let her
husband drudge all day at the Office
for her and won't hear of drudging
one single hour at home for him any
day at all wonder why? What
il the everyday woman's husband ran
mis- work as the everyday woman is
apt to run her house, hit or miss,
maybe and maybe not; no time to
bother-the matinee, the moving pic
ture, the new hat, the beauty parlor,
the back fence gossip "Goodnessl
John will be here and he'll die if the
table isn't set. What on earth shall
get to make him think it's din
ner?" That sort of thing-how often
would there be money enough in his
envelope to pay the rent? We aren't
here merely for ornaments girls Of
the high school. Life is something
bigger and better and more fun than
any mere game. Let's learn how to
live it before we drag some foolish
man into harness, where he has to do
all the pulling Pot roast, chuck
steak-cheap cuts Gust as good -
that sounds fine-and it Is true in a
way, too, when the cook sits on the
other side of the scale and brings it
down right. Industry, earnest inter
est in household affairs, a real love
Of home, real care for comfort
these are important things to teach
too do hope some of the girls will
get the fad Of studying them.
Love has received a black eye in