The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-31
CURRENT HELPS
MANAGEMENT
OF HOME
Domestic Work Runs on
Schedule With. Electrical
Devices Aiding.

Just for an experiment., OBJ
served the business analyst, II
should like to see woman like my
wife, one who is a good house.
keeper, try her hand at managing
the production of a small factory,
one where the results of the ex-
pertinent would be quickly forth
coming. I'm commencing to realize
| that woman is Inherently a far bet
ter manager than men generally
have credited her with being. How
she has contrived to conduct house
hold operations on even an APP
proximately accurate schedule, with
the uncertain tools she has had to
work with, beats met! he conceded
ruefully.
AS bungling as a lot Of women,
was his pet condemnation for a
group Of factory workers whose
plans miscarried. Consequently an
explanation Of his radical change Of
views was requested.
Wife Was Standard.
"Quite naturally, of course. (
judged other women by my own
wife. That's why I have considered
that as managers women were bum
glers and had no conception of
to do certain piece Of work. Time
and time again, for example, my
wife has said that Sunday dinner
would be served at special time,
and often I have missed a final
round of golf in order to be home
on time. But only rarely was din
ner served at the appointed hour.
Another evidence of bungling /
have noticed occurs in estimating
the time required to do fall or
spring cleaning; sometimes as much
as q week and more over the
specified time was needed before
the curtains were up and tninga
were running smoothly again. So
could only conclude that women
were just naturally bunglers.
Then" he continued, "I had my
eyes opened I saw that woman
was, perhaps as good, or even a
better manager, than man. For
I'll tell you that IL man were COM
PEELED to do with the uncertain
factors that woman has had to con-
tend with in keeping house, he
would always be exceeding his es-
timated time"
How was that discovery made?"
he was asked.
Bought Electric Range.
II bought an electric range, and
its introduction into our kitchen
served to acquaint me with the
fact that my wife Is a much bet
ter manager than I had credited
her with being. You see, with the
electric range the heat is con-
trolled to nicely, and the cooking
time is not influenced by climatic
mn ,a1&
temperature or discrepancies in the
quality of fuel. And with the
range came a chart showing the
exact time required to cook this or
that article OF food. Bread is baked
in the same time on a damp,
muggy day as on dry, crisp day:
the cooking time for roast of
meat is computed according to the
number of pounds; and thus it
goes.
For the first time in our mar
ried life meals began to be served
habitually on time. / realized how
unjust / had been in Judging my
wife: / saw that It had been the
uncertainties attaching TO cooking
with fuel, not any skortcoming on
her part as a cook and a manager,
that had occasioned the failure to
keep to the schedule ard serve
meals on time.
Then 1 put electricity to work
at other household tasks with
equally gratifying results. Our
household runs like clockwork now
and my wife has my vote Of con-
fidence as being the best little
manager in these parts" he con-
cluded, returning to his study Of
overtime records.