The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-01
The New Woman.

Just what constitutes the difference between the
woman and her predecessor. When the ad-
vocates of radical femlnism are themselves IN
terrogated they seldom give forth a clear note
thousand reasons are given why the woman or
today must differ from the woman of yester-
day. if she is to hold her own. But may not the
whole matter be summed up in just this: that
the new woman differs from her predecessor in
Just the same way and for the same reasons
that the new man differs from the of the
past? And is not that difference simply one of
technical training?
The new store-keeper uses the double entry
bookkeeping system, purchases scientifically,
uses a cash register, advertises and studies his
business profession, where the old store
keeper kept his records on scrap paper in his
pocket, bought in hop-scotch fashion, stored his
cash in cigar box and let the spiders play in his
windows.
The women who belong to the time that has
already passed do their work in that same old
fashioned, uneconomical, ht-and-miss manner.
Theirs is the rule of thumb and a general method
handed down from the extinct handcraft period.
Like the Chinaman, they do their work the way
they do because it is the way their ancestors
did it.
But the will apply to her own
functions the same technical methods that have
proved so successful in business and science.
And in so doing she will find her don1'Iin open
out to such lengths she will find che has all along
been living in the midst of an unsxplored world.
The efficient housekeeper WILL no longer pre-
pare for the table what fashion dictates de-
PRAYED paates demand, but will understand the
chemistry of food and make dinner to give the
maximum of nourishment and strength to the
partakers. Who tell how many persons have
failed in business we'll in health because
of the concoctiOns unloaded into the stomach
prepared with other purpose than the graft
fcation of an appetite long warped from the
normal through gastronomic excuses!
She will learn something of the nature and
uses of fabrics which play so important role
in every home. Carpets, curtains, laces, dress
materials and elther are almost an unknown
quantity to the average homemaker. She is at
the mercy of the INSCRIPTIONS salesman who
chooses to deceive her. If the men who make
and handle these things knew as little about
them as the women who buy and utilize them
every textile industry would go to pieces in
fortnight Tho women will say eve shall
learn as much about the uses of these things as
our husbands know about their manufacture"
The new housekeeper will take a pride in
mastering the difficult art of home decoration,
IacCOr CnaC plays q more important part IN the
shaping of human lives than it is given credit for
To 80 arrange pictures wall paper, draperies and
all the other items of decoration as to surround
growing boys and girls with harmonies of line,
color shade and masses is to achieve triumph
which few fitted for.
Domestic hygiene is another dark Africa to
too many housewives. They expose their fam
lilies to disease through ignorance and then pay
the penalty by long nights of nursing and end
less years of anxiety. A slight knowledge of the
elementary principles of ventilation, heating
garbage and wastes disposal and similar mat
tiers would smoothe the wrinkles from MANY a
face.
And who shall imagine the limits of the pos
sibilities in children, which must ever remain
womans chief vocation on this planet? How
many women know how to feed child, how to
correct it of its bad habits how to feed and care
for it, how to develop it in natures own methods
and, in short to present the world with MASTER
piece along which Angeles sculptures are as
the efforts of tyro-a completely developed
boy or girl
Lastly, how many women are versed in the
ancient and honorable art of right entertaining
and hospitality? What the sun is to the sideral
universe, that is to human society," 1t is one of
the most difficult arts in the world an art of
which any woman may feel proud
All this is but to say that any woman who
aspires to enter the public sphere will if she but
look about herself discover her own private do
main to be far better training school that the
mart or the office.
Democracy of an Efficient City Government
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