The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
OUR DOMESTIC APPARATUS.
ENJOYS from Sweden Say Women Here
Have "Cinchb

Have "Cinch.''
Is the washing machine acting as if
it weren It a gift of love, is the kitchen
stove all wrong, and the days work
arduous? Do You feel, Mrs. Housewife,
that you we cornered the market on
hard luck and that 'life'' and ella
bor' are as synonymous to you as if
you were the original protesting 'hoi
polloi?"
Listen to what Miss Sara OLSON, en-
voy extraordinary of the Royal Swed-
ish Railway Administration and Do
mestic Science expert, says about it:
You American women have a Won
derful time-all the women in Ameri-
ca. -
Miss OLSON and Miss Stina Fred
erickson are in Chicago, collecting the
hundreds of electrical appliances and
| small kitchen conveniences which, they
say, make the life of the average Amer
lean housewife one long sweet song.
When they leave for Stockholm, crates
enough to sink a submarine will follow
them, filled with household articles to
be exhibited in Stockholm, at an exhibit
ton which viii be attended by
women- from every part of the Swe-
dish kingdom. The washing machine,
the mangle, a motor for mixing dough
and other culinary devices and ma
chimes of weight were among those
things which reused most the admira-
tion of the visitors.
Then when I think of your percola-
tors, your grills, electric irons, chatting
dishes, curling irons and other appli-
anees, | think your women are having
a good time all the time Miss OLSON
continued. ''Our Swedish women work
from o clock in the morning until 10
O'Clock at night. There is hardly such
thing as a servant for any one except
the very rich. The average woman
does all the housekeeping, cooking.
washing, mending for her family, and
an hours rest is thing unknown.
That s why we are gathering the things
that make life easier for the American
woman.
Apartments as a labor saving aid
were also observed by the women en-
voys. Miss Stina Frederickson has
been teacher of household science in
Stockholm factories for several years
The Swedish women mostly have
houses. more compact housing plan
like that of America would save them
much work. And more women would
leaNe the factories TO make homes of
their own and work for others if there
were the aids to homework in Sweden
that there are hereo declared Miss
Frederickson.
'tBut even if they do not have the
aids to housekeeping that American wo-
men have, Swedish women have one adj
vantage over the average American girl
who works few years before she has
home of her own, Miss Frederick
son says. Every factory in Sweden
has domestic science kitchens, where
girls are instructed in household arts.
'sThat is one thing we have which
YOU do not have. We not only have
kitchens in industrial establishments
but city kitchens where girls of twelve
who have left school must go to learn
cooking and housekeeping, said Miss
Frederickson.
Miss OLSON is also studying dinners
on trains to make a report to the rail-
way administration of Sweden. The
two women have been to San Francisco.
They will remain in Chicago for few
days at the Virginia hotel, where they
are receiving catalogues from Chicago
houses eager to show Sweden a thing
or two about how to work while one
sleeps Chicago News.