The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-07-20
HUTCHINSON RIPS
UP OLD TRADITION
Women Should Not Keep House
Physician DecIares-Dishes
Should Be Made Of
Paper.
From the Boston Post

Smash all the dishes!
Down with 'homelike kitchens!
Fire all the seryants!"
Kip out all the walls of the home!"
Build houses Of glass!
DO away with foolish diet fads!"
IN one breath did DR.. Woods Hutch
inson. the writer and hygienic expert.
shatter all cherished New England
home tradition. a few days ago.
The woman in the home is slave
ana her methods are no further adj
vanced than when the Mayflower first
brought her TO Plymouth In 1920, he
said
Startling substitutes for her short
comlngs did the hygiene expert adj
vance. Not until she follows his adj
wee and adopts his suggestions will
she be an intelligent homemaker. he
averred.
Too Much Time in the Home.
The present day housekeeper and
her hired girl are surviving types Of
the slave status" the doctor declared
with considerable emphasis. in the
flrst place the modern woman still
spends too much time in the home. She
will never be able to give intelligent
consideration to her homework as long
as she confines her interests to it's four
walls If women do not want to do
things outside, they should be COM
PEELED to-"
But what about the dshwashing
and all the routine duties that keep
women in the house?" the doctor was
asked
"Ah, that is just the trouble. There
shouldn't be any dishes. The dishes
should all be smashed, or, if you want
to show them off, put them in a cabinet
and lock them up.
China dishes that must be washed
after every meal are impractical and
unnecessary. We should break all the
dishes and substitute vanished or par
affined paper plates, that can be
burned up after each meal.
Women havn't vet learned that the
kitchen is laboratory. l have heard
housekeepers say, oh, / like a big,
coy kitchen. 1t is so homelike!'
Nov, the model kitchen is small
thing she wants without getting up
from her chair. The floor should be OF
tile or cement, and the walls of tile, so
that they can be cleaned by turning a
hose on them.
Should Have Communal Kitchen.
This house kitchen" DR.. Hutchinson
continued, Should only be used IN pre-
pairing the minor part of the meal.
The big staples should be prepared in
a communal kitchen. The meats and
The coarser vegetables can be prepared
homes for the housewife to choose
from.
THE greatest trouble with the worw
en- of today is that they have MT
standardized their work. The day Of
the general worker is over. When
women begin to do their work with
brains, instead Of hind feet they will
find that housework is simple and fas-
cinat1pg.
Girls should be trained to do one
branch of housework, and one only. AS
soon as she had finished her specially
in one home she would pass on to the
next, and another girl would come in
and do the work for which she had
specialized.
LAS for the general housekeeping,
that should be done by q squad Of
house launderers. who, with vacuum
cleaning machines could rid the house
of every grain OF dust in a few min
utes.
There should be no servant class"
the doctor further declared. "If we
should substitute instead skilled and
trained class OF workwomen and WORK
men. the name servant and it's attend
ing stigma would be banished.
To simplify household labor further
and to preserve health in the home,
DR.. Hutchinson advocates the ripping
out of partitions that divide the house
into various rooms.
With the exception Of the compact
laboratory kitchen. the whole floor
should be free from obstructing walls"
he stated "Of course, one could have
movable partitions to set up at ones
will, but there should be no built in