The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-21
MORE HOMES Is
PLEA OF WOMEN
Good Housekeeping in a
Good Home Essential
To Happiness.
FEDERATION SPONSORS

wife" says Mrs. John Dickinson
Sherman, president Of the General
Federation Of Women's clubs. "And
his wife must be skilled home
builder" Underlying Mrs. sherman's
manifold activities is one constant
aim: she wants to have more homes
and better ones.
"Since the Inauguration of the
first woman's club" says Mrs. Sher-
man, "the home has been the center
of the clubwoman's interests, no mat
ter how far-fung were her other &C
Invites. Home-making is the most
important industry in the nation
the industry for which, in the last
analysis, all other industries are OPP
Grated.
ITO many American women have
forgotten or have never learned the
many needs that home must full
fill. The housewife must manage her
duties scientifically, so that she will
have leisure to make her home at
tractive and to keep herself abreast
of the worlds affairs Home-making
is more than housekeeping; but no
woman can be a success as a home
maker if she is a failure as a house
keeper, whether she keeps her house
with her own two hands or with a
retinue of servants"
Investigating Domestic Equipment.
Accordingly, under Mrs. Sherman's
guidance, the Federation of Women s
clubs has undertaken several move
ments to raise the efficiency level of
the American home.
successful house keeping" says
Mrs. Sherman, "like any other sue
cessful industry, requires a perbodi-
cal stock taking of methods and ma
terials. 1t is only when we know,
automatically and completely, what
goes on inside the home that we shall
able to determine what the Amer
lean standard of living really is.
Without the information any at
tempt to raise the standard will be
simply cropping in the dark.
"Our federal census makes a rec
ord of every piece of farm and fac
tory equipment that is used in the
country Every scythe and pillow in
use on the farm, every oil can and
button machine in the factories is
recorded in the government files.
But concerning the equipment that
goes into the home we have no data.
This condition must be changed, for
rakes and hoes are no more impor-
tant than sinks and bath tubs and
washing machines.
Without an adequate record of
what is to be found in our homes it
is difficult to know whether our
housekeeping methods and equipment
are the best that are available for
us; whether the doctrine of thrift ex-
tolled by US to our children in the
use of money and materials is repud-
lated in our expenditure of needless
labor and bootless use of time. We
cannot hope to keep pace with mod
ern life as long as we are impeded
by out-of-date housekeeping meth
DDS.
''As first step toward including
Information concerning household
equipment in government records the
Federation OF Women's clubs is in
stituting thorough investigation of
the equipment in homes. Later it is
to be hoped that the federal agencies
will take up our work where we have
left off or enable us to work hand in
hand with them"
Teaching Girls by Models.
The federation has also interested
itself in the erection of model dwell
ugs on college campuses for the pur-
of educating young women in the
8 of building and furnishing.
We have already established one
UGH dwelling at the University of
Oregon" says Mrs. Sherman, "and we
are putting up another at the agricul-
tural college of Iowa at Ames. The
the instructor. The federation erects
the house and supplies the furniture,
much of which is obtained free from
local merchants,
"Some of the girls live in the house
all the year. The residents change
from time to time, in order to extend
the opportunity to learn house-keep-
ing to as many as possible. Our
aim is to set up such houses at all
agricultural colleges where young wo-
men are educated. Eventually / hope
to see similar model houses standing
on the campus of every college and
university in the country where girls
receive instruction"
Mrs. Sherman attributes a great
many faults in the younger genera
tion to the lsxity of their home train
ing. "I've heard modern young girls
arraigned until / am tired of it." she
says. fundamentally they are no
worse than any other set of young.
/ know that when l was a girl my
parents thought / was headed straight
down the path of destruction. 1t is
the universal, unchanging attitude of
the old towards the young.
Little Parental Control.
"Thare is too little parental con-
trol-that is where the trouble lies.
This tendency toward allowing chill
dren TO express themselves has been
carried entirely too far. In the mud
die of modern life, it is hard to know
right from wrong even when we have
been trained since earliest youth to
sense the difference between them.
Whom that training is left entirely to
chance, it is hardly fair to expect
children TO find the middle of the
road for themselves.
They need more religious gtrain-
--hg, these youngsters of today They
must be grounded in the basic truths
which all of us must be taught If we
are to live our lives Clearly and with
consideration for each other. And
they need more sympathy and coun-
sci for their parents. A woman has