The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-05-23

The home is the last of the great
| industries remaining without scien-
tific organization. Every other di-
vision of the work of the world, re-
marks Christine Frederick, author
of The New Housekeeping, writ
ing in the Review of Reviews, has
become more Or less emancipated
from personal drudgery, from the
ancient apprentice system, from un-
standardized work and pay. For
this reason those who formerly en-
tered the ranks of household work
ers are now attracted to other occu-
patisns. In the United States fam
| lilies employing servants number only
eight per cent. of the population,
which means that the average Amer
lean woman does the bulk of her
own house work. She is beginning to
realize that mere feeling, shaving de-
yotion, and manual work no longer
entirely solves her problems
The old home which manufactur-
| ed for all its needs within its own
walls, demanded chiefly labor and
manual skill. The modern home de-
mands much less manual Skill but
vastly more mental and spiritual
qualities. The oldfashioned woman
| no matter how attractive in ro-
mance-cannot compete with the re-
quirements of today. She is only a
housekeeper and her housekeeping
is far below modern standards. -.
| THE efficiency idea is a truly Am
erican ideal AMI solution. 1t has
caught the need Of mans world with
genius and effectiveness; AMI be-
cause American men and women are
really close to each other in spirit
/ necessarily SIX million women work
side by side with the mem, the eff
! ficiency idea is probably going to do
| for women exactly what it is doing
/ for men. In fact, it is a splendid sign
! that the sexes are joining their
/ spheres and making toward the real
! ideal of comradeship, when the same
i both.
i IF the home is to survive it must
do SO on reorganibed basis. No in
] dustry founded upon admittedly I'M
willing, uninterested millions can
continue to operate; yet everybody
admits the tremendous discomfort
among home women. AS at present
operated, American housekeeping is
distasteful to admittedly the Iveliest
and most intelligent portion of
housekeepers and is only injured in
a dull way by the masses of women"
The New Idea of Housekeeping
More than ten years ago Charles
and Mary Barnard started a house
hold experiment station at Darien,
| Conn Professor Barnard, himself
technical engineer, was the first to
study domestic tools and devices
from the point of view of the trained
mechanical student. He believed
that there was too much guess work
in housekeeping, and spent much
time in developing data, especially
on the use of the newer fuels and
1abor-saving appliances. Next Mrs
Mary Patterson, in Colonia, n. j.,
under the auspices of the New Jersey
Federation of Women's Clubs, caus-
ed widespread comment and inter
est by equipping an exhibition kitch-
en-, laundry and dining room with
many of the most modern devices for
saving labor.
IT was her purpose to demon
strate the increased efficiency which
is possible in a home where machin-
lery-eIectric stoves, vacuum clean
Iers, incinerators, etc, are used to re-
place the time and labor of servants.
Numbers of women and men visited
her home before she dismantled the
exhibition; and her inspiring person
al message to these visitors on the
art, as we'll as science of home-mak-
ling, did much to advance the rapid
1y growing welcome for more scien-
Itific management in the home.
Frank Gilbreth, the most famous
of the pioneers in motion-study, (the
man who revolutionized bricklay-
ing1 began to be interested IN the
application of motion-study to the
home and wrote and made several
addresses about it.
Martha Bensley Bruere, in a
book which generalizes the EMERGENCY
idea mainly in its application to the
family budget, cooperative laund-
''ries and marketing, continued public