The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-31
Young Wife Il
GRANDMOTHER
Equal Plus!
Copyright. 1917. by The. Press Pub
fishing Co. (The New York Evening
Worldly
By Sophie lrsns Loeb.

Worldly
By Sophie lrsns Loeb.
Always before us il the theme set
ting forth what wonderful house
keeper grandmother was: about her
innate frugal faculty IN the interest Of
her family. This woman, who saved
and shaved for her household, hns been
held up as the great ideal of the
worth while woman for many a year.
And always before us Is the hus-
band forever holding up to the wife
the great example of his mother, her
management, her sacrifice. etc, etc.
the very man who, IL he had to put
up with the Inconvenience his grand
father knew, and with the arduous
way of doing things rs they were
done in days gone by. would be the
first to rebel.
l spent part Of the weekend with
friend-Mrs. G. She lives in the coun-
try in wonderful colonial place that
she and her husband built Happiness
Is the keynote of this home. Every
room in the house speaks of content
ment, beauty. Everything has been
considered with consummate care. In
a word. the place Is a joy.
1t is run in the most intelligent
manner Everything Is in it's right
place, and nothing seems to be for
gotten for the welfare OF all who come.
Ah--but yon will say--doubtless
there IL plenty OF money. or hard
working woman who had nothing else
to do but think of household matters
"a drudge, perhaps There you are
mistaken. gentle reader.
She is young and beautiful. But
behind her lovely skin and eyes there
Is a brain whose prime business is to
be busy. She has done her bit all
along the line. For when she began
it was not so easy. She had to do her
own housework, and it, took some
managerial manoeuvres to make ends
meet. Although at that time they did
not have much of this worlds goods,
there was courage. and love and joy in
doing. A true Fhelpmate for her hus-
band is this dear little woman. who
now is properly enjoying the goods the
gods provide--for she has helped pro-
vide
As sat In the lovely sun parlor and
watched her pretty fingers busy with
knitting needles, I marvelled at her.
! could not but reflect that this is the
dawn of u new era of housekeeping:
when women do not need to grow old
to enjoy the best that life can give
that each young housekeeper has it
within herself to leave grandmother
far behind in the matter of getting
more out Of life.
She Is the woman who works while
she waits-fOr better things. There
fore success Is there all the time. For
example. my gracious hostess, Mrs. G.,
was not content with having beau
tiful and smoothly regulated home in
which to live happy evei- after. All
her broad acres are not merely to look
upon.
It Is real farm, and is being de-
veloped into model one. It is OPP
Grated on a purely business basis, and
the work of the farm is helping to
pay for all of the endeavor put into
the place. What real satisfaction she
must have as looking over her per-
fectly appointed table she says, "All
this food Is from our farm"
Mrs. G. uses the same interest and
energy in watching the churning of
her butter as she does in entertaining
q popular celebrity. She is the home
manager of the hour, and her proto-
type is fast becoming familiar.
Woman is no longer growing old in
the service of her family. Why? Be-
cause with new work saving inven-
tons. telephones. electricity, she is
able to conduct her home with far
less effort than grandmother She
may keep herself youthful as a result.
BESIDES she is learning the joy of
country life.
The young housekeeper of today is
far in advance of grandmother. She
who TAKES ADVANTAGE OF HER
OPPORTUNITY is the one whose
home Is sought as the ideal.
Missouris gold dust twins in the
senate are not cleaning up much there,