Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-29
CANYOU RUN AFFAIRS
or ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD
letters Of Inquiry From Many
Graduates Ask What the Future
ssgs;Evs Offers.
pEsponERs OF FOOD WANTED
Few Girls Show Inclination on
Leaving School TO Take Up Re-
sponsibilitics of Making Home
comfortable.
sRY LoRETyro c. LYNCH.

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over our land many letters are COM
Ing to me asking what the future Of
fers for those who become proficient
along home economic lines. Home
economics embrace every phase OF
home -making-house furnishing and
DECORATION. planning meals marketim ~:
cluded sewing, home nursing, care of
babies. laundry work and cleaning,
sanitation and household management
Besides becoming teacher of home
economics, this field offers innumerable
opportunities to trained workers. The
war has brought us 10 an extraordinary
realization of the need for trained home
makers. When the call came for train
ed dietitians in the home for war
workers it was almost impossible TO
I'LL the need
There was a rdiculously small num-
Der of women whose services We're
available as helpers in the homes Of
those of us who gave our time and
energy to other work for which we
were among the few qualified. De-
spoilers OF food wanted So and $50
a month to destroy. by their impos-
sible methods, our all too scare food.
Mistress Of Own Home.
And whether we wish to admit Il or
not, no matter what the opportunities
are nor what the remuneration. down
deep in the heart OF every normal
home OF her own. The great ma
iority of women marry. Only too fire.
quently do girls take this responsibility
upon themselves without any prepare
ton wha tsoever And yet upon its
homemakers does the welfare of any
nation depend
fair wage for his work coming TO a
clean home and well-cooked meal
being the kind OF man who seeks TO
destroy home and happiness?
IT has often seemed strange 10 me
how willingly parents pay 10 have
their girls learn stenography or type
writing, how gladly they allow their
girls to give six months or a year 10
learning dressmaking or millinery, or
any other good trade or profession.
Yet statistics show that the average
girl works but a very few years at her
trade or profession. and then marries.
Yet when l have talked to mothers
whose girls receive no training in the
sometimes even begged these mothers
to allow the girl even six months or
q years training in home economies,
they either look at me In horror. or. If
they have a veneer OF culture. they
smile plying smile at me and make
their--eIit with decided speed Yet
they are perfectly willing to train
they work at for short time and
begrudGe training for what most mar
rfed women work at until they pass
beyond.
81 should certainly hate to work for
that one YOU work for" remarked a
maid who was calling on Mary. Mary
worked for LADY, recently married,
enough TO permit her a two-year course
l1%home economies.
You take these women that think
they know it all because they have
been to college for cooks" she con-
tinued. land girl has no Twin with
them. Now. my madam does drive
US. but you can waste all you like and
she never even knows IT."
'e-a- One Preferred TO Work,
Yet Mary preferred to wcrk for a
woman-wealthy, 10 be sure, but
trained in the art of homemaking.
Mary's employer did not fly into
In ffteen minutes that would be
speedily accomplished II done within
an hour. for Mary's employer knew
and was considerable.
Yet, besides marriage girl we'll
trained in this subject has many re-
munerative opportunities awaiting
her. A woman manages the house,
keeping end Of no less a hotel than
the McAlpin, in New York City Then
there always is an opportunity for
girl to use her talents in a tea room
or pastry shop.
Not long ago ! was asked TO recon-
the hours from II 20 9. making dainty.
artistic salads The remuneration was
SIS for stxday week 4 girl with
little capital Who has worked IN tea
open little reAeaura1, or tea room
of her own KIND. the profits from a
tea room well managed often makes
nne's Income as stenoGrapher or mill
liner look decidedly slim.
~ shall be glad TO advise further any
Eirl or woman who thinks Of study
Ing home economics with q view 10
making her living.
Please inclose a sclr a1drose.a
stamped envelope. @''' esss@'