Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-17
.!CQNVEN|EACEs OF HOME
CITY NOT APPRECIATED
Many Women Overlook Good Things
OF Community to Find It's
Difficulties.
ADVANTAGES FOR RESIDENTS
Houscholdcrs Get Electricity, Water
Gas and Other Utilities, While
Municipality Gathers Garbage AMI
Cleans Walks.
ny LoRIir.ro e.. LYNCH.

BY LORET"FO &. LYNCH.
II Is "A strange phase of human ma
ture that prompts us to overlook AL
the good and great things about our
community and be ever ready to find
fault. Two housewives from far re-
moved parts of our country met the
communities.
ou I'VE housewives get very little for
to her next door neighbor.
But the nelghbor had lived in an
TT.her country before she took up her
before answering.
III you ever lived in another coun-
try you would feel you We're receiving
so much here you would never criticize
this community"
Have you. Mrs. Housewife. who com
stopped TO think about the great num-
her Of good points OF your community?
supply has been pipcd right into your
home. You may use the gas at a mo-
inent's notice for cooking. for light
Electricity Great AsHct.
The same is true Of electricity. You
did not have to stand all the expense
?i bringing 1t TO your home and for
triiie you can use your electric cur
rent 10 make golden toast right at the
table or you can use rs kindly cur.
or ache OF humanity.
Then there IL the water supply you
enjoy. AT moments notice water
washtub or bath. Your community
takes means to insure TO you not only
v constant supply 81 clear, sp spark ing
keep testing il for is; purity.
When there seems TO be danger of
your water being interrupted or wan
tonly polluted. your community con
tributes the means with which TO de-
fend M %a,sr fnpniy by , an armsd
the community provides Il means Tor
It's disposal SO that it may not lie
about and cause an unsanitary condi-
ton.
Few Crude Methods.
How many thousands OF house wives
today not IN your community must
depend upon the most crude OF meth
DDS for obtaining light and hca. and
water.
Then. there is the disposal OF gar.
baEe. Have you ever campcd and had
each iignt TO bury the days garbage
and refuse: 40? Well. try IT some
prectate what your community does
for you, in dispos!ng Of Your garbage.
Another thing We sometimes iIr-
get Is nc amusement and charities
few of US would oc able 10 hire ina;
wonderful park band that t-cat.s-0ur
hne music AT Intervals during the
summer.
Perhaps you have been noticing how
much better Mrs. Browns little son is
her--sne IS the woman who lost her
SbaLd during the epidemic last Win
ter. Now she scws Tor US and mends
our clotaes and minds our babies when
Ne want 10 20 Il the thcater.
Improve Child's Health.
And when the school nurse whom
thu community employs to look after
the health o: the future Gencrationv
when she sad Willie Brown MAS back
ward in school because he had enlarged
tonsils ana an accno!d growth. what do
You suppose Mrs. Brown did?
EiFst she vent 10 private physician
Operation. While i was but con-
ssrvattve price. Mrs Brown could not
Bu; asr.ii the community came TO
her i'd The community made prov!-
sion for her And While Brown had
the services OF surgeon and good
bed for Il week because he lived in
his community
Then again, in winter. when the
snow has fallen the community takes
that the milkman may bring milk 10
your door
Cost /. But Little.
"Bu, pay for all this" say you.
Perhaps you do: but such tribe for
so much. Should you ever be favored
with the occasion TO talk TO some wo-
man who has Kept house in Russia
and paid comparatively large tax,
ask her what the community d!d for
large tax her family laborcu
to earn. Nothing, or practically moth
ing.
does 20 help the household may be I'm
proved in many ways, but when we
consider how little other communities
do. let us be glad for what we have
and always keep hopeful for the ru-
ture.