Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-09
MRS. WOODROW
TO WRITE FOR
TELEGRAPH
IF Girls Are Going to Take
the Plunge Into the Pool of
Matrimony, They Must
Equip Themselves to Swim
Even Under Difficult Cir
CumStanceS
BY Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

1t is my privilege TO write of things
that arc real and vital in our lives
things that come home to all of us. OF
course, L can only look at u question
from my own angle, and it may not
be yours. Yours may be the better
and more illuminating. 1t is no fun
throwing out words into cold, empty
space. 1 want a response. 1 want to
find out what we all think, and why
we arc thinking of.
Won't you write and tell me where
you agree with me, and where you diff
fer, and why?
MRS. WILSON WOODROW.
Today the art, or the science, or
the business of home-making is about
as complicated as intensive farming.
Preparedness is the watchword of
the hour; not merely as regards mill
tary matters on that more intimate
battlefield, the home.
Why muddle along in anything?
If you girls have chosen the pro-
fession of marriage and home-mak-
ing, why take the plunge, hoping that
the water is not very deep and that by
some miracle you may be able to keep
your head above the surface?
Why not, before you dive into that
untried pool, equip yourself to swim
oven under difficult circumstances?
Romance is a very beautiful and
wonderful thing, but it's merely the
jam on your bread and butter. Just
jam without bread and butter is a
duet which not even a child with u
sweet tooth would care to contem-
plate. You, let us say, are girl who
has no longing for economic inde-
pendence or any other kind. And, be-
lieve me, you have just as much right
to your tastes and inclinations as the
girl who feels that she must be out
in the world earning her own money
and spending it in her own fashion.
But If you have chosen home-mak-
ing as your job in life, for heavens
sake make a success of it!
Workers Deficiency
Depends on Quality of Food
Self-interest, if nothing else, should
prompt you to do so. Your material
comfort is dependent on your hus-
bands earning capacity. Your hus-
bands earning capacity is very largely
dependent on his health and we'll be-
ing. Workers build their mornings on
their breakfast; the efficiency and en-
thusiasm and concentration we bring
to the day depends mainly on the
quality of our eggs and coffee.
The good, old days of leaving a
few orders with the maid, and re-
Gurning to the sofa and the last new
novel, or starting out on q shopping
expedition are gone.
The maid is the vanishing lady of
the present. The munitions factor
les have swallowed her up. And when
she no longer makes shells some other
big industry will engulf her; and what
is left of her order, the remnant of q
once great army, will work in five or
six hour shifts, two or three day, and
no one but plutocrafts can afford SER
wants.
The day is not far distant-but that
phase Is an absurdity in these speed
up times. Tomorrow, my sisters, a
maid will be as much a symbol of wild
extravaganza as peaches in Decem-
ber or an aigrette.
A young fellow told me not long
ago that he had solved the problem
of the high cost of living. He and
three other young men had rented
and furnished an apartment. Each
paid so much a week into general
fund for rent, food, etc. Each got his
own breakfast, the earliest riser MAX