Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-24

possible and impossible solutions TO the
problem comes the suggestion of this
young woman. demanding fair consldera-
ton:
Why aren't all the unmarried women
in the country enrolled, subject to a
selective draft, as home helpers to their
married slsters2
An advanced and daring scheme, you
say Yet, stated as 1t was, it sounded
quite national Why not make the United
States safe for family life by this expedlent
drastic though it may be? Is not this
cause as important as the cause for which
our husbands and brothers were drafted
three years ago?
7 BE FUTURE or THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME
But Of course there are two sides TO
every question. We must take the point
Of view of the single woman as we'll as
that of the married.
Haven't the unmarried any lndepen-
dent rights? Is housekeeping such uni
versally congenIal occupation that they
may all be expected to fall IN with the
plan that is 10 make them housewives?
Maybe YOU, young wife, have an un-
married sister How would you feel about
asking her TO drop all her present life To
IclD give JOul ldIl1IiA q IijOtG CO1tiIOi
home? Do you think her presence as
housekecper would be of enough value
to Justify the sacrifice it would entail?
| OF course, if she could cook and sew land
who of us cannot)? she would Tighten
your work tremendously. You would no
| longer have to give up your mornings 20
marketing, busting and bed-making, nor
/ your afternoons to heavy mendlng and
I fixing dinner for your husband. You
| would have an extra time TO give to your
| children, and to attend to those attractive
/ unnecessary details so conducive to true
/ comfort and high home morale. You and
/ the children would have prettier clothes
and more of them, things would be
/ "freshened up" through all the house
/ You wouldn't be so tired when your
/ husband came home at night.
! But you, unmarried sister, what do
/ you think OF the scheme? Would you be
contented in giving up your present
! pleasures and prospects IN order to make
u happier and more smoothly run home
| for someone? Some one, that is, beside
"the right man," DO you think you d be
glad in the long run that you sacrificed
your own life, and perhaps your per-
sonality, in solid service OF others? Would
the realization of the good you were doing
| be sufficient recompense for the other
more pleasant life you were missing?
Or would you rather marry the first
man who asked you, just to escape this
fate?
Many prominent women writer's have
lately been giving much thought to the
subject Grace SartWell Mason has
written several Illuminating papers and o
novel on woman 5 economic independence
and the problems of the home. But per
haps Zona Gale, the novelist, has come
closest to this particular problem OF
who shall do the housework Miss Gale
has made thorough study Of the situation
as it exists in America, and in her new
novel, Miss Lulu Bett, considers if from
every angle. Her conclusion is that unless
the home is her own the life Of a house
worker is well-nigh unbearable. Miss
Gale pictures, in very real way, a
middle-western all-American family
father, mother, two daughters, grand
mother-with whom the UNMARRIED Miss
Lulu Bett makes her home From the
beginning it is evident that the family
has the best side of the arrangement, that
the sister lot is in no way enylable.