East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-18
CATECHISM FOR BRIDES
TO ANSWER BEFORE THE
PLUNGE INTO WEDL0CK
BY LUCILLE F.. SAUNDERS.


Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Aug. 1S,-(United
Press. Qualifications for brides
have taken change for the better.
The old fashioned girl who thought
she could get past the gates of matri-
mony with hand embroidered trous-
eau and a superficial knowledge of
chatting dish receipts will find that she
has lost her claim to q steady matri-
monial job.
This is Miss Florence A. OTIS view
of the n@w generation of girls. And
Miss Otis ought to know for she has
just recently been made head of the
new department in the school for wo-
men at the University of Cincinnati
and is to begin spreading her particu-
lar brand of gospel through the class
rooms of that municipal educational
enterprise within a few days.
Home making is becoming a pro-
fession," Miss Otis said, as she sat up
in her apartment near Columbia uni
versity making plans for the coming
year. "The modern girl doesn't like
to be tied down. She wants independ-
ence. If she studies home making
thoroughly enough, she is always pre-
pared to take care of herself in cases
of emergency.
Happier husbands should go hand
in hand with housekeeping that is on
a scientific basis. The modern man
is going to have little cause for COM
plant, because we intend to give his
future bride a five years professiona,
course in the complicated art of being
a wife"
Here is the imposing catechism Miss
Otis says the college graduate bride
should be able to answer in the af-
firmative before she steps to the altar:
do you know all about good food
habits?
do you know the fundamentals
of general hygiene?
Can you design your home and it's
furnishings tastefully?
Can you organize your time eff
eiently?
Can you spend your household al
lowance for food and clothing INTEL
ligently?
If you are going To have hired
help, can you manage them?
DO You understand the psychology
of children, what books they should
read and what should be their enter
tainment?
IF you know all these things are
you going to bury yourself in eff
cheney and business management to
such an extent that you forget to be
attractive to your husband?"
"Home economies no longer means
mere cooking and sewing" Miss Otis
explained. The more practical and
well organized the home, the more il
appeals to the girl. BY opening up
new spheres of home e-making, we do
not mean to minimize the importance
of the home. We will teach the young
wife how to be more economical and
bring her what is needed for a soun...
healthy body. There should be fewer
dyspeptic husbands as college degree
wives Increase"
The department of home economics
which Miss Otis goes to take charge of !
n September will begin turning out
,ood specialists and nutrition experts |
n its first year. Among the new de- |
Dartures will be animal experiments
ion. such as testing diets on rats. The !
will also try out the effects
If foods upon themselves. They will |
pend half of their elias slime in hos /
'ital kitchens and milk stations
Next year. when a study of textiles
5 inaugurated, the young women will /,
20 to the department stores to learn
irst hand the value of materials, fab
ic tests and designs.
"Our future wife certainly won't be
nying shoddy woolens," Miss Otis as
ured
Architecture. Interior decorating.
gardening and a number of
ther courses are planned for later or
ollege graduate homes of the future
ill have their own consulting experts
ght at the helm in the kitchen. And
hubby shuffles off this mortal coil
n short notice or tangles with an au-
,mObile and is retired TO the wheel
hair brigade. his mate will be pre-
ared to keep the domestic craft from