The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-04-14
REVOLUTION
lIHOuSGkGGping--- methods To
Take Place Of Individual
Efforts

Miss Susannah Usher has been ex-
pressing to the New York Times her
views on the subject of the new house
keeping, which, she says, will be SO
wholly new as to be startling, and will
soon be here.
Last year Miss Usher conducted a
widely noted course in marketing at
the New York Teachers College. This
year she is going deeper into the great
subject of food supply, making an ex-
tended and in many ways unique in
vestigation into the relations between
the vital details of transportation,
sanitation and cost, and, meanwhile,
teaching in Boston
"The home, which in the past has
been restricted and hampered by
housekeeping details and machinery"
says Miss Usher, twill be freed Of
them, which will immensely benefit
it, while, at the same time, the re-
moval of housekeeping machinery and
executive details to quarters properly
equipped, not only with the right ma
chinery, but with talent trained to
manage them on large scale, will re-
suit in startling savings, vast i'm
provements, and general lift of living
standards.
Before all this is done many pre-
JUDGES must be conquered. many su-
.perstitions, many long-ingrained tradi-
tions must be vaneuished.
"a thousand times, and probably
1000 years ago, it has been shown that
food can be as well or better prepared
in large as in small quantities, but the
prejudice in savor of 'home-cooking'
persists, ruling this and other lands
with despotism always marked by
waste-of money, of food values, and,
worst of all, of wOmen's time-so
great that it has been and is handi-
cap upon the race,
THE revolution which will wipe out
the old home of the onion and the
washboiler, the old home of the over
worked woman, held down by the in
efficiency of her surroundings, her
training and her traditions, and re-
place it with the new home, for which
things may be done at wholesale, by
wholesale doers, seonomicailyfi per-
fectly, promptly, win not be destruc-
tive of anything worth having
"lt will be preseryatiye of much
that is worth having and much that
had begun to go, because the older
plan failed when confronted by mod
ern conditions.
ut may have been idylliC to go to
the grocer's and there buy pound of
nails to nail few boards on ones
house, to the dairy to buy six ounces
of fresh butter and pint of cream,
to the bakers to buy four breakfast
rolls-or it may have been idyllic for
each individual to eyaporate sea wat
or in hollow in some rock to get
his salt, to worry at crude forge,
hammering to get lis nails, to go out
to the COW and get the milk and later
churn and knead and mold in order to
get butter; but those individual and
therefore infinitely multiplied process
demanded energy which is now put to
other purposes. More of the same
sort is what is giving us the things of
civilization which we value.
1T may have been revolution
for nails, and so on; but we did not
note it; il revolution was required
to change our housekeeping from re-
tail into wholesale, that. too, has hap
pened.
1--WE are entering the period of read
Justment. Out of it will come q bet
ter, less interrupted, less cramped
family life than we have ever known
before.
I'm the old days good cook was a
county wonder Her fame spread far
and wide Was that because in those
days of individual home-oooking, which
is so loudly lauded, there we're many
fine home cooks? is it not certainty
that it rather was because there were
so few? And the best of them could
not approach in her best moments
with her best material the best which
is turned out today by wholesale
cookery.
mo; the individual cook cannot
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