The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-29
WoMAN's CHOICE OF WORK.

My neighbor and I we're talking
about the notable work of many of the
women of today, of laurels won in the
field of ant and letters, and we drifted
on into sculpture, and touched upon
the wonderful work of Melva Beatrice
Wilson of New York, and of her next
four years. engagement upon the great
sculptural frieze of the Cathedral in
ST. Louis, says writer in the Cleve-
land Universe" AS we chatted, sud-
denly my friend said, Dear me, if
only some of these brainy women
would just put in four days in design
ing a practical range, or cook stove
=" she smiled. "Oh, don't think me
skeptical of womans achievements,
nor that l don't take pride in what
my sex accomplish, but l really do
wish women designed our house fur
neutrality-suspicious. we might have
something about the house more to a
woman's idea"
So, perhaps, we might. / had often
considered about the unsatisfactory
ness of our ordinary household
goods" but had not thought far
enough to search for causes. When
we come to think, sure enough the
plan of mostly everything used in the
house emanates from the masculine
mind. From attic to cellar, mans
inventiveness holds sway. There's the
old fashioned, top heavy dresser-I dc
not mean the modern toilet device
with it's bit of mirror just right for a
man to shave by-but the old time
relic used for the kitchen regions
down to the fantastic china cabinets
of today, pray, what woman's heart
were they wrought to please? Ant
take all the abominable, adjustable
combinations, and scarecrow chairs
and find one wherein weary woman
may rest?
But, concerning the stove and range
question. Now, if a clever, brain!
woman set her heart on drawing the
plan of a perfect cook stove, would
she not allow enough main top to per
NIT the placing of two kettles oyel
the fire at one time, to boil? AS thu
present stove or range goes, one kettle
only may occupy the place of impor
lance; all the others must take {
back seat. You may fry along thu
front while your water, or vegetable
kettle is boiling, but no matter hoV
great your hurry, no two kettles ma.
be set to boiling at one and the SAM
time. There may be found in you
kitchen de luxe the ideal cooking az
paratus, that possesses all the desiI
able points, but SO far, trying eithe
range or stove, my search for then
has been futile.
And coming to the laundry. Go int
many a Mushroom and note the wash
ers and wringers in operation. How
often one notices a bulk of rubbish Il
one corner and after asking what it is
learns it is one sort or another wash
ing machine. 1t proved no good whel
put to a practical test-at least
proved so to the woman who tried t
operate it, because she did not hav
a mans strength to bestow upon il
and it was a mans invention. Their
are exceptions, surely, but sometime
before a woman arrives at the righ
ones she is tired out and disguise
and gives up the struggle. AS fc
wringers-well, / once thought woul
write a story anent my trials an
tribulations with wringers. Two pc
ished beneath my hands-or the hand
of my helpers, and the third is sti
upright and in good condition, becaus
it is never in use. Not a great Will
ago, Aunt Judy came up to perforl