Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-24

er, her vocation is the most respon-
sible and serious to which a human
being can be called. Upon the full
fillment of her vocation as a mother
the welfare of the country depends.
To-day's small boy is tomorrow
soldier or citizen, and the measure
of fines he brings to these career:
will depend upon the habits he ac-
quired in his earlier years.
! There can be few holidays for the
responsible mother; her endless du-
ties combine to keep her "on the
job" with the steady, unobtrusive
activity of an eight-day clock.
When her husbands working day
is over there is rest and recreation
for him; he can foregather with his
fellow workmen and settle the af-
fairs of the nation to his way of
thinking.
But for the mother-the pivot of
the home-there is always one more
task.
The theory that the workingman
supports his wife is a mistake. Hus-
bands and wives are mutually de-
pendent upon each other for sup
port, and together they maintain
their dependents, the young children
of the family. The work of each is
equally valuable to the country.
Has the gentleman who, with two
words, "Occupation-None," stamps
tho life of the working woman as
one of elegant, if imaginary leisure,
stopped to consider her money value
! outside of the home?
AS an unmarried girl she was
probably self-supporting; if she
worked in a shop she received any
tn q
she was engaged in domestic service
she received this amount, plus her
board and lodging. If she worked
in factory she got more.
He Must Be Bachelor
o-day the price of unskilled la
Dor has risen to double the prices
IL commanded before the war. Char
women are paid at the rate of 20
cents an hour, which is a few PEN
nies more than streetcar conductors
received a little while ago.
Upon her marriage a girl gives up
this cash symbol of her working
value and transfers her services
from the shop, factory. ETC., to her
home. Much that she would have
refused to do in the service of an
employer she cheerfully performs in
the service of her family.
None" must be a bachelor and an
aristocrat, one of those pampered
darlings of upper tendon who has
all the lowly offices of living done
! for him by such skillful, unobtrusive
hands that he never realized they
were being done at all.
l also strongly suspect him of be-
ing that arch enemy of womankind
the man who first decreed that all
kitchen sinks should be installed at
back breaking distance from the
floor.
We have had kitchen sinks for
fifty years. Yet up to date no archi-
tect, builder, contractor or other
professional man or artisan having
, to DO with the building of houses
has been found who will install one
at a comfortable angle.
The placing of the kitchen sink is
like some curse laid upon the rest
less sex" as a punishment for its
modern activities.
But now that the women who,
among other pastimes of elegant
leisure, number dishwashing three
times a day command the vote -
half the United States, perhaps they
will take the matter into their own
hands. They will elect a candidate
pledged to a kitchen sink reform.
He, or more likely she, will in
stall the sink few inches higher, SO
that women with Occupation
None" may wash their dishes three
times a day in comparative COM
fort.