Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-22
Everybody Does
Kitchen Work
By ADA PATTERSON.

All 81 tHCu oi kltCHcn Work. i
hate itp
She is a pretty, blue-eycd girl, but
at this moment she didn't look pref
ty. Her eyes seemed black instead
OF blue, She looked down at the
hands redeemed by their association
with hot water and the dishpan. The
girl wasn't having an attack OF the
blues. So delicate hue would not
fairly represent her mood. She was
in the blacks, fathoms deep in them.
She was plying herself--and pity
ing herself most OF all because OF
those reddcning hands.
YOU'RE wasting time ! told my
unhappy little friend.
Wasting timer haven't sat down
for five minutes today, before this"
The blue eye flashed Indignantly.
I am thinking of your hands, as
you are"
They'll get all chapped," she
moaned.
They will" / agreed, If you don't
thoroughly dry them. You might be
doing that while we talk. Nothing
invites chapped hands as cordially as
half drying them"
She sulkily went to the bathroom
and returned with a hand towel. And
softening lotion or cold cream" !
said you remember that Nine. Lima
Cavalier says the best time to apply
cold cream or softening lotion to
the hands is directly after you have
washed them"
She made another trip to the bath
room and came back with bottle OF
rosewatcr and glycerine.
"Now take care of those hands
while we talk. Did It ever occur to
you that everyone in the world does
kitchen work." :.
How can you say such thing%
That beautiful girl in the movie | saw
last night? Do you mean to say she
does kitchen work."
"Of kind, she does, And it's hard
kitchen work. The hardest is getting
her job. And when she has got it
there Is hard painstaking exhaust
ing work, the kitchen work of her oc-
cupation to be done every day.
The pulse of every girl outside New
York beats faster when she hears the
name Broadway" The girl who lives
in New York knows it too we'll for
that. She knows its beauty is that
Of a night blooming flower. By day
il is slant, ugly street, irregular
buildings, crowded with hurrying per-
sons, most Of them unattractive. This
motion picture actress has had to
thread her way through these crowds,
has had to visit the cavern-like offices
in the big buildings, the oldest OF
them as i'll lighted as some East Side
tenements. She has met rebuff and
insult.
I'D rather die than make the rounds
of those Offices again" an actress said
to me. u never know whether ] am
to sit there for hours, until I'm faint
with hunger, or whether ! will be
bundled out Of the place as though
| ! were tramp. Sometimes ! am so
heartsick and disguised that | can't
60 back for a week. 1t takes that
long to get over my nausea of it"
isn't that kitchen work? And
when at last she has her job, which
she calls an engagement, she has
weeks OF rehearsal in the back part Of
a theater, reached by an alley, The
big, dim stage is less cheerful and
comfortable spot than your barn. She
rehearses all day, and as the open
| ing OF the production nears. she works
part or all OF the night. She doesn't
work all the time. She would be glad
if she did. But, having rehearsed her
own scenes, she has to sit hour after
hour while other rehearse theirs,
Every actress loathes rehearsals. They
call it the prose of the stage, or some
thing worse. The little girl, half cry
ing over her red hands, hates kitchen
work no more than player hates
the weeks of preparation for the
play.
But every occupation, be it art, pro-
fession, business, trade. has its
kitchen. The sculptor. before he
puts forth his dream in marble, must
work in mud He calls il making the
first cast. | found a woman sculptor
weary after such day and asked her
for advice to girls who wanted to be-
come sculptors.
She looked at the soiled, tired hands
as my little friend in the sunny
kitchen had looked at hers,
Tell them to get married" she
said, "and let man work for themH'