The Alaska daily empire., 1915-02-25

and woman and children who, to-
 gether produce che means of liyl3g
 and transmit tho Inheritance of the
 ages But now the home ig no long
 ar the center of production and lae
 world relation between parents ane
 children has been broken. My boy
 cannot como into any consciousness
 of his work ID Che world by working
 with me; my work is too technical
 lt is the same with the girl. Once
 the girl could heg'n her apprentice
 ship by ronQing errands for her moth'
 or and later on could learn from her
 mother weaving and the making of
 things Of beauty and the expression
 Of horself iu social service. But thlngs
 of beauty are no longer made in our
 homes We don't weave at home; our
 clothing Is not made In the home. A
 great deal of Che cooking Is done else
 where Most Of the work that is cone
 in the homo is drudgery
 Yet is the girl is to have her herl-
 ,ago Of womanly instincts she must
 stil set it in the home. The school cannot give it to her. We school mon have always looked at the question
 from the utiitarian point of view. We have assumed that if we could teach the g,rl to cook and sew better than she could learn at home, VIC were do- ing a job But we find the important thing Is not the work itself but the social relations Involved in the work
 Forty girls in a hollow square with a nrrseclad cook in the middle learn ing to cook on little gas stoves, may learn more about cooking and It's re- lations to physics and chemistry than they could learn at home; but what they learn no more gets down Into their souls SO as to make them fun- damentaliy loving ln their attitude to- word domestic activities than If they were learning about Arcturus. Learn-l ing specific things Is not particularly important. The fundamental thing that lhe girl ought to learn Is the kind Of cooperation needed In the fam fly; tie significance of the act Of eat. ing together; the significance of thel setting of the table and of the selec- ton oi the food; and the significance of the food from the point of view of tho family income.
 @ The next group Of points re- lates to the fact that because the home has always been Q thing by itself, that is, a unit 1t has never had applied to it those measurements that have created modern science and business. Everything Is business than can be by tho pound bushel. hour pr dollar. But woman has never been and her work has never been measured. There is no such hing as getting it done. She gets ID and works as long as she can and hen retires. Her work is an endless ,haos. as mans was until ho began Q measure it.
 We must find some way 10 measure yoman's work, corresponding to the say in which We ere measuring mans york. Somehow 1t much be standard. lzed. expressed in terms of definite accomplishment. and 1t must be com .ensated
 It must be measured, too, so that 'omen may learn to keep step. l now of nothing, unless it be tho shape nd color of woman's hats. that so ifferentiates them from men as the let that women don't keep step; men Q. By keeping step, I mean compar- ? tive endeavor the sinking Of all the c idividual differences that are essen y al and tho emphasizing of al those 1 .diyiduaI differences that make for over. Man in the history of the race as had to keep step. But woman - as been in the house and has not ld to- She has had to keep her own 1use and look after her own children, o lt other homes have not been her M lsiness. She has set her own stand O 'ds regardless Of the standards of her women But if women are to i' How their work out of the home in-
 realms where men have gone, wo- on must learn to keep step. Hund- ds of thousands of women are be- g exploited, are working for less an a living wage. because women In we not learned yet to keep step pl seping step means compelling other Of oplo to keep step.
 (3) The last point concerns a con- lion of modern life that B not pe- liar to women. In this age of ma inery, most work is routine work no q tends to become a deadening or Ind. Nearly all of us find that our ch ,rk grows dull and monotonous. We .e our zest and freshness and for that these are wonderful days we living in. We are changing the rid more rapidly than 1t has ever fr m changed before. Within oui own SO le we have seen the development oe'
 the telephone and Of the slctrlc co' lly car We can remember when Tn old horse car strained no State ug' eet hill and the messengers got out ula tighten the load for the horse; when els re was no wireless; whom airships, u amed of for so many centuries. snl -e- still considered wildly impractl .le. Our every day life is full of rgels to stir the imagination. Some 2 way must be found to awaken
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