Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-22
s DOING ONES BIT
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
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The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer
~ HIS terrible war has added many
new words and phrases to our
vocabulary. The one that think
best IL the one which is on the lips Of
every EI ylish man and woman today.
u Is: 81 AN DOING MY BIT"
There could be no, more inspiring
motto than that to live by, or fight
BY. One could wish no nobler epitaph
70 be carved on ones tomb when one
died, for IL means that one had done
ones duty wherever one found 1t, and
filled Nonss appointed role in the
world. .a
Most Of us live little humdrum
lives. There comes 10 us no opportu.
nifty to do any great. heroic, specta-
cuiar act, 90 we drift unconsciously
into being slackers because Il does
not seem to US TO matter whether we
do well or I'll, or even perform at all,
our small tasks. -. ....
This Is particularly true Of home
keeping women who, Of all workers in
the world, work under the most dis
couraging conditions. For II Is their
They spend their days and their
strength cooking meals that are eaten
and forgotten AZ soon as cooked; In
sweeping floors that must be swept
over again In the next hour; IN darn.
ing holes In garments that are rent
again In o day; In washing little faces
and combing little heads that are dirty
and tousIed again IN five minutes.
Such woman can point to no yisl.
bic thing with pride. as can the car
penter, or the writer, or the artist,
and sax, This thing have wrought.
She cannot even jingle In her pocket
the money she has earned by her long,
weary hours Of toll for Of all workers
she q the only laborer now left on
earth who IL expected to work and be
thankful for the privilege Of working,
Tor such board and clothes as her lord
and master sees cit to give her.
II IL no wonder that such women
say enviously 10 their sisters who are
out IN the world doing things that get
their names IN the papers and bring
them An Independent incomes, I wish
that could do something worth
while
Nor q Il strange that such women
lose heart and courage and so about
their daily grind Of HOMOGENEOUS duties
without enthusiasm or interest that
they Degenerate into lazy, shiftless
houseketpers who feed, their families
out Of cans and paper bags and care
less mothers who raise their children
II the streets.
Every domestic woman IN the land
should hang this motto: Il AN DOING
NY BIT where she can see Il every
time she raises her eyes from her
work. II win be an inspiration to her.
II will make her feel that every time
ohe eweeps q floor she ID doing her
part fl the great work Of sanitation;
that every time she markets thriftily
o. make over an old garment 50 that III
IS Is good a. new. she IL solving prae-
ocally the problem OF the high cost Of
living with which learned economists
are wrestling n vain; that every time
che scalds out the baby's milk bottle
properly she il reducing the infant
mortality rate.
II would make her feel. that when
nhe made comfortable cheerful, hap
BY home that her husband and chil-
fren liked to stay m, she was doing
more TO stop drunkenness and vice
than q dozen loud modified reformers:
chat every time she taught her boys
and girls self control and obedience.
ehe was fulfilling high patriotic
duty BY making good citizens FOR the
c0untry. and that when she raised up
4 family Of honest, intelligent, indus
Irious men and women she shared
with God himself In the great work OF
creation.
That il her BIT OF the worlds work.
and Il 4 the one most important piece