South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-06
Bla11es Husband for
Wife's Extravaganza
Woman Should Be Mans
Partner in Business of
Householding.

Mrs. Theta Quay Franks whose
Efficiency in the Household" has
just been published by Doubleday
Page d Co, in an interview recently
enlarged upon her opinions as TO the
causes of the prevailing inefficiency
CT American housewives and com
pared their household methods with
those of England. France. Italy and
Germany.
Mrs. Franks believes that the hap
hazard training of American girls is
largely responsible for their lack of
experience and method in household
affairs. But she is convinced that the
husband IS also largely TO blame be-
cause through lack of fran6ness he
leaves his wife in the dark as to their
financial condition. She says
1t seems so unfortunate that sc
many young girls are brought up with
absolutely nc training in the art and
science Of hume-making that they are
allowed to feel the management of a
household is monOtonous and unin-
teresting. It should be the natural
ideal of every woman's heart.
The American woman is not
wholly TO blame for her eXtraVagance.
She ought to be her husbands bust
ness partner, but that is almost the
last thing many an American hus-
band is willing to allow her to be. our
men are such poets when they marry
For their business they reserve all
their orderly, efficient tendencies, all
their stern practically. and they treat
their wives with the most exacting
tenderness and generosity don't
think it's altogether good for US
Many a woman is extravagant out Of
sheer ignorance of what her hus-
bands income really is"
OF course the average housewife is
familiar with the old saw, IAN ounce
OF prevention is worth a pound Of
cure" She can do quite a number of
things TO keep her house air from be-
coming as dust-laden as it surely will
II she does not interest herself in
these simple devices
When wind is kicking up"
great clouds Of dust, let her close the
windows while the agitation lasts. 1t
VIII serve the double purpose of keep
ing out lot of flying dust and caus-
ing what dust is in the room to settle
and so be easy to remove
Let her train the various members
of her household to sneeze and
cough into their handkerchiefs. Then
the moisture resulting from such ex-
ertions will not be sprayed into the
air, nor, in the case If illness. more
VI leSS uedulN germs ACCOMPANY the
spray and later become floating bac-
terial dust
Let her set her foot down on any
of the family brushing his or her
shoes or clothing in the house. Dust
IN its most disgusting forms is
wrought into living rooms on shoes
and clothing, likewise swarrns of
germs, and though a son runs a
whisk broom over his coat in the Sc
clusiOn Of his own room. bacteria
nevertheless will escape through the
keyhole and travel from room to
room all over the house. This is an
other trait of dust that scientists have
laboriously discovered
Let her insist on every member of
the family Kidding the shoes especiaI-
" of as much dust as possible before
entering the front door.
Let her furnish her rooms taste
IulIy, but simply. Then there will he
fewer articles to disintegrate SLOWLY
put gradually into dust, or to catch
and hold dust. Excessive furnishings
such as draperies, always mean an ex.
cess Of dust.