The Washington herald., 1921-10-10
BUSINESS WOMAN,
DESPITE TRAINING,
MAKES GOOD WIFE
Dorothy Dix Says Many
An Office Girls Do
mestic.
By DOROTHY DIX.

Ons' and when every other woman
you meet knows all about running
"a onice' and nothing about run
"'us home" exclaimed an irate
o gentleman the other day.
WHAT'S going to happen to a
mans stomach when his wife has
spent all Of her time learning how
" make pot hooks instead of ma
nIpuiating pots in the kitchen?
"nst sort of a home body is a
~oman going to make who has
zen In the habit of putting on her
nat In the morning and going
uo"htown to business like a man?
"hat interest is a woman going to
axe IN making pies. after she has
oeeh accustomed to pulling off big
Paues as a crackerjack buyer, or
mas had the whole affairs of an
oHiee at her fingers ends?
Cynics may sneer all they please
II the pictures of a domestic little
VIE meeting a man at the door Of
an evening when he comes home
from hard days work, and set
ung MIN down to a dinner that
means love and thought and work
ana skill. but that is the ideal Of
nome that nine men out of ten
cheFlsh. 1t is what they look for
ward TO attaining when they get
married and 1t is what they are
not going to get when they marry
women whose whole training has
Deen in offices instead of the
kitchen.
No wonder there is so much di-
Norce, and there is going to be
more. as more men with dyspepsia
induced by their wives bad cook
lEs commit deeds of violence upon
lhe persons who have lured them
10 their DOOM What this country
needs Is more girls who are learn
ing to make the kind of bread that
mother makes, and who are fitting
themselves to be wives instead of
lawyers and doctors and female
financiers."
Wrong. all wrong" replied a
woman who had been listening to
the old mans arraignment of the
any woman makes any man de-
pends altogether on how much she
loves him, and. therefore. how anx-
lous she is to please him. and not
upon how much she knows, or her
previous condition of servitude be-
fore marriage.
The so-called domestic woman Is
often the most undomestic creature
on earth, while many a woman
whom fate dooms to live in a trunk
and lead the life Of a tramp has o
soul that grovels and worships be-
fore pots and pans It's the woman
and not her environment that de-
cides the kind of housekeeper she
will make.
of course, expert knowledge is
2 valuable asset in any calling and
] am not denying that il is highly
desirable that every girl should be
a good free-hand cook when she
gets married and takes her hus-
bands stomach into her keeping,
so to speak. II mothers were worth
shucks and did their duty by their
daughters, every girl would have
mastered at least the rudiments Of
the fine art of cookery by the time
she was IL years old. and long be-
she would have acquired the frills
and be able to qualify as a blue
ribbon chef
Unfortunately, most mothers are
too lazy to teach their girls how
to cook, or too tender to them to
make them do any housework, so
the average girl, whether she goes
into business or goes into society
is equally ignorant when she mar
ries of all the things she ought to
know about home-making. 1t is
then I'D to the individual woman
to prove herself. Anybody who
can read a cook book and who has
the desire to do so can become a
skilled cook in three months Any
woman not a congenial idot can
keep a house clean and orderly.
Any woman who can add two and
two together can run a budget, and
therefore. as between the unframed
home girl and the trained business
Girl. the business girl is the best
Let for any young man who wants
a thrifty, domestic wife.
she is accustomed to bringing
all of her intelligence to bear on
the problem in hand. and when
tbat problem is learning how to
ION house she will master it.
s. has been trained to be orderly
and efficient and prompt, and be-
! i've me. those qualities count for
| inst as much in a home as they do
g. an office. She has known how
hard dollars come by having earned
IN herself. and she will not
waste her husbands money.
she will make a home-loving
/ "a WI
-, desire is the thing we haven
III 4 little two-by-four fiat and
rsaI kitchen. with real food in
:, 70 cook looks like heaven itself
20 a girl who has lived in a hall
Sodroorn and eaten out of paper
SsCs and tin cans and plugged up
| tbe keyhole so the landlady could
80 smell the odor while she
IooI,s5 messes over the gas Jet.
..C'ooking is a great adventure to
.ucb a girl. 1t is the pursuit Of
| GO Of the fine arts, whereas all
S1n,astic labor is anathema. to the
Lung woman who has had to uu-
| yorstndy mother in the kitchen all
| - ber life. and who marries to get
avay from the gas range and into
astaurants. / have known two o.
.t-se men who married their cooks
order permanently to retain
+bese household treasures, but /
bava never known a single case IN
,vbich the cook didn't cease to
W. and put some other woman
- her lob as soon as she got her
inarriage certificate framed.
..paIfeye me, the man who mar
10. business woman stands just
as GOOD a chance of getting a do
,t. ,rife as he would II he mar