Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-07
ITI0T W0MEN ARE RIRDENED WITH MANY
 STRENUOUS DUT ES
:, Household Ccnveniences d c,"sc II, of Additional Labor ,"'' and Worries.

,,,r cleaning, washing. ,iron'
 Ce'A,n1b "r11,bbing, sewing. milking, sss,,ng, pI canning and pres preserving rvls
 pa,sIs' 1s for chickens and garden, some |tnes spa la;ng all the family home
 <. bedding are a 9' few a,,, oI ene minor a,,,o1
 paseaO'i; nU in many sections of the Unit
 elM,p asatos are burdened. In addition
 tse 4'e daily performance, e, or ts tnese :se
 .ns n.snsorbing tasks the average
 s,.v woman is frequently called
 anay ' work side by side with her
 .had in the fields, and to assist T. m
 es s'nds of seasonable chores, in-
 I1'ag ns carrying water for household
 s'IT fro mdistant springs and wells
 S..;uoD M water is one of the heavi-
 .,ssts ,.sus that fall to the lot Of rural
 sn @ and children. One-hfth of the
 shsI sss families visited in the course of
 i'o aaeent nj survey made by the Chil-
 's,s s,s' pureau, United States Depart-
 'u of Labor, in one county in
 s.sern state, and over one-third of
 {. negro families, carried water for
 s necessary household purposes as
 as 30 feet, and number of the ,,nt farms had no water of any
 .a . m their premises, and haG to
 ',nlv their needs from the land
 T ais' wells, In another section in- E,iyated not single family visited
 'S water either in the house or oil ! norch; and only one out of five
 4 if as near as 50 feet of the ',,e Twenty families ill this sec X carried water as far as 300 feet,
 eight families were as far as an kAth of a mile from the nearest Ting.
 s most rural families, according to
 report, the house work, as we'll
 nsny outside chores, has to be done
 the mothers without help of any
 N except what is afforded by the sBof the family. Only three of the nen in one of the counties studied
 "a servant regularly, and the ab- sce of modern household conven- bders her tasks doubiy hard. With
 les handicaps the housewife, and
 exception of sewing machines, ke are practically no conveniences 2 facilitating the womcn's work in
 average rural family ill the i'm Egated area. While the men, as Emle, have planters, drilledrs, leaders, and various kinGs of "ney- 6gled' help ill their farm work. EAing has been done to make tasks V easier. |ihe cooking is usually done on Hall word-burning stoves, the only IAsils being iron pots and kettles, |leh may be used either on the I've or in the big open fire places. D laundry, consisting of wooden & placed on a bench and great (m wash kettle in which the !; llhes are boiled, is usually "down bthe spring. Much straining and i [hhs, and undue fatigue is involved kthis out-of-door laundry. Some les an oldfashioned paddle is used nlead of the modern wash-board, ||hch is still regarded as a luxury in my hmosemoes- --as.y .yhf,fo (oa,tiont my homes. Only one home in this Etlon had plump and sink inside \ kitchen. Many of the mountain homes iii this ae still have their spinning wheels use and occasionally a primitive ald-loom is found. Some of these pnes display a rare collection of Onellade coverlids audF blankets. @ wool was grown on the farm, 9eared from the sheep; washed, s.laed, and spun by the women and N us Of the family dyed sometimes aa homemade madder, indigo, and 'slnut stains; and woven on the loom ~ quaint coyerlids and blankets. 'e use Of old-fashioned implements Vaurnlng and butter-making, and N"phs done by means of home -ae orooms fashioned of short N sscaes Of sedge grass, for house use, n u twlgs boung together with. al .Ory wlthe for the yard, arc among N se ot the primitive conditions dealt m by the report.