The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
In Present Days Of High Cost Of Liv-
ing Some Of Them Have Learned
to Help Earn Living and
Not Neglect Family.
USE MODERN METHODS
Household Work No Longer Drudgery
and It Leaves Leisure Time for
More Interesting occu-
pations.

of living is a thing for very serious
thought, says Mrs. Jean Palmer Nye
of Shenandoah, Iowa, in the Spokane
Spokesman Review. Many women
are working today who would not
be, had conditions remained normal
On the other hand, there are more
women who are wearing good
clothes today than ever in the his
tory of our country. There are more
women who have found that 1T is a
possibility to help in the actual work
of earning the living without in any
way neglectfng the family
Were we to go back to our grand
mothers days we would be knitting
the stockings, making the soap and
salve, and insisting on the old
fashioned way of hosting the water
from the well with buckets for the
family washings. And the women
would do this while men were away
at their own legitimate or illegitimate
work.
It is not the fact that living is high
that is spelling the American home.
Never was time when women
were profiting more by the conditions
as they are than at the present time.
Women are learning to put their very
UeSL luOuSuL lutO SfCi lhihS IhlI q
woman can do.
There never was time when
women, using modern methods Of
work, could do better work in the
kitchen. 1t has ceased to be a
drudgery, il one puts sef-expression
into it, as large numbers OF Ameri-
can housewives are doing. Never a
time when sewing in the home was
SO carefully and skillfully done. as
at the present time.
Note that am not speaking of the
class of women who have never been
satisfied with other than a butterfly
existence, demonstrating that most
wonderful things may evolve from
tia drabbest kind of a chrysalis.
With butterfly, beauty escapes con-
finement With person upon whom
has been bestowed the best gift OF
the Almighty, a reasoning, thinking,
2ever-satisfied mind, capable of won
derful development, there may come
forth from the grayest, most dubious
beginnings, that which will seem per-
fectly unexplainable; yet when we
think of the great reservoir OF supply
behind the mind of man, or woman,
st is all clear. The mind of man is
a tiny bit of the mind of God, given
for demonstration, for cultivation,
illumination and inspiration, as we
may be able to realize 1t. There
never was a time when these things
were more in evidence than now. vi
course, it is a time of Lpheaval,
time of learning new things, but Cod
IS behind it all.
If women can find the right medium
of affiliation between the picture show
and other outside magnets for the
children and older people IN the home
as well, she will have much more 10
her credit than would be If the family
were called in at dusk and not Al
lowed any intercourse with the out
side world We have advanced beyond
that point in the history Of the world.
The picture show is yet in its In
Fancy. 1t is great educational fac
Tor in our national life, If we wish to
make it So 1t is a source of pure
pleasure to a mother who has much
of entertainment in her life to take
her child by the hand and with it
enjoy a picture show production that
has cost thousands Of dollars, yet for
a small sum she sees the picturesque,
the most wonderful in her own and
other lands; becomes familiar with
the faces of people who are doing
things, and with what they are doing.
Has touch of color and sentiment
added to her life, for which we all
hunger. And all for a few honestly
earned, willingly earned cents. To
be reasonable in our attitude toward
all things is to be sane.
And, to finish, the great mass of
Americas educated women are the
finest kind of boosters, never knock
ers, or any good thing.