The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-09-18
DO WOMEN WASTE
THEM YES?
They Have not Learned Economy OF
Time and Energy.

Courtesy Of Pictorial Review E.
The following is quoted from Mary
Roberts COOLIDGE lPh. d. article
in Pictorial Review:
Necessity" and duty" are indeed,
terms whose meaning needs constant
revision. a woman whom IA profession
al expert in laundry work has taken
for a text: washing is a necessity
but ironing is a luxury. From this
she proves that nearly half the cost
both in strength and money Of
this item Of living, lies in the tyranny
Of starch. No one will dispute that
sanitary cleanliness is a duty; but it
is equally true, though seldom men
toned, that pernickety nicely is sim
ply habit OF unconscious self-ndulg-
cncc
To the domestic woman who is try
ing to keep within the limits Of her
physical strength. nothing is more
dangerous than the idea that change
is all the rest she needs. Cheating
herself with this faacy, she knits
shawls or does embroidery in the ev-
cning because she is too tired to read
and doesn't want to go to bed so
tarly. The very fact that she cannot
keep still, does not like to be alone,
and does not know how to enjoy real
leisure is an Invaluable sign that she
is overweight.
Two busy women meeting each
other on street car presented
each a book, explaining that they had
$50 little time to read" but after
this exchange Of courtesics they did
not relapse into the books they pro-
cccdcd to entertain each other with
pleasant and cphemcral matters. frit-
. term" away their nervous energy in
polite lvacillcs and wasting the hour
that might have fed the mind and
soothed the spirit When men wish
to read they do 10 turning an obvious
eye upon tint passing friend; and if
they do not they frankly say so and
without conjunction fll up their
leisure with the amuscmcn.s they pre-
fer. They don't pretend they don't
make polite excuses, they don't re
sent the other fellows preferences.
Women. also, must learn not to waste
themselves in futile surrendcrs and
unnecessary poitcnesses.
In one respect all men and women
are equal; they have twenty-four
hours in day-no more. no less.
Since no woman knows when she is
to die she may assume for all practi-
cal purposes that she has the full
three score and ten years in which to
do her part. How reasonable, then,
it would be to map out for every day
n minimum program Of this that
must and this that should certainly
be done; and then to pick from all the
horde Of insistcnt and alluring things
those which would be most cxhilirat-
ing or most useful--thosc that would
give the most permanent satisfac-
tons
In the industrial world much is
said nowadays about efficiency. One
Of its obvious elements is convenience
"A principle which almost any house
keeper will tell you she has thorough
| ly mastered for herself. Yet any
pert could point tremendous deal
of lost motion here and there because
she follows tradition rather than rea-
son. In n hospitabe household that
has from six to eight persons there
is always good food, sufficient cloth
ing, light, warmth and the latest
books and magazines. All of this fam
lily have the praise-worthy habit of
bathing frequently; yet for twenty
years they have contented themselves
with one bath room, and one lavatory
and probably on every morning of all
those years some member Of the fam
lily has had to wait his turn. But no
one has stopped to figure out that
second bath room at cost of n few
hundred dollars would have relieved
this inconvenience and prevented a
vast amount of nervous Impotence.
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