The Alaska daily empire., 1914-12-01
HAN AND WoMA
 WHO'S M70 IN HOME

on Che eyo Of another session or Congress, the fight is being renewed for the national eplranohisemene or women Some os tho press stoil is interesting. especially Interesting in Aiaska. where DO flight was necea. sary to give woman the ballot.
 Here is 9 sample Of the antisufi- roee talk which appears in the sum day page Of an Eastern paper
 An tbls talk from the female side Of tho house. about women being neeo- cd to do our municipal state and na- tional housekeeping, is just 30 much empty cackling remarked the phi- osopher at large.
 Let the ladies attempt the colossal job Of running of the government for us when they haven't as yet qualified In tho by 4 job of running our indi- yidual homes? Sounds like 9 joke!
 Examine her with Q sold, bargain counter eye. an eye unclouded by zen, timent. and you'll admit that as Q business proposition woman is a lail- ure Why the most casual student of homo life knows that she has failed in what for countless generations has been her own peculiar sphere that in no division of the field of labor is the work 80 disorganized, so inefficient as it is in the Kitchen patch.
 And noto this" (the philosopher at large waved an impressive fore anger)-note this carefully; wherever you find any order in the chaos, any efficiency. any economy of time oi labor brought about by organization it is man who IS responsible for it.
 Yes. Sir man has got to work straightening out the kinks of home lie. Just see what he has accom- plished already
 "The loom and the spinning wheel used to stand in grandmother's kitch- en. Can't you see grandfather wait ing until far into winter for bis home spun suit. just as now l often have to wait far into the night for my dinner3 And when the cloth was at last WOW en. can't you picture grandfather all weary from his days toll, waiting un, ti the dishes were washed, the pots and pans cleansed. and tho children put to bed, to try on his new suit back in those good old days2 Hard on grandfather hard too, on grand mother
 Man came to the rescue. Give me those looms aud spinning wheels said he. and he put them into fac tories And now, by spending ten or fifteen minutes and as many dollars on Saturday night you and have our ready-to-wear suits.
 And graodmother's knitting need- les were taken out of her reluctant hands and In his factories man woye his own underclothes and socks, nit tens and muiflers. Then man began to take mothers dress patterns and dummies from her, and over his store counters gave her gowns and shirt waists and lingerie ano neckwear end bonnets.
 "The old oaken bucket is still very beautiful in song, but did grandmother love it when she ploughed through the snow or waded in mud to fetch oyery drop of water for the house hold Man built reservoirs and laid pipes. and now grandmother cheer fully huns How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, as she turns on the faucet and fills the bath tub
 Grandmother used to save the tell ow and make candles, or at httle later day. m the lamps, clean the chimneys and trim the wicks. Now she turns on the gas and strikes match; or if truly up to date. she eliminates the match and merely switches on the electric light. Ant where, let me ask you, are the coa scuttIe and the ash barrel? Man has kicked them out of the home ans handed woman the gas range and the electric heater
 And what of the wash tub. tho clothes wringer and the flatiron2 Maj travelled an the way from China t' ] take these out of woman's hands, an' now innumerable Ching Lees aide' ! by countless steam laundries are do mg her washing and ironing.
 "But man did not pause here in hii reformation He pushed his way oy CT the Kitchen threshold and said
 Here too. ] will help you. Then h went back to his factories and botue' her pickles. preserved her fruits, can ned her vegetables, jared her Jams soused her mackerel stewed her plun pudding prepared her breakfast food and bakes her bread, cake and pies.
 eAnd that day of fume and fret of disruption and chaos-the Quar terly housecleaning day Man has to ken that too in hand. The house hold gods now repose in unruifie'