The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-14

On an drLlCle WHICH appeared IN one
In this article a protested como
established" very interesting fact;
numerically the articles far surpass-
those lost by men.
Our great student of the habits of
mankind" had a wonderful opportun-
ity to expound on the reasons under
lying this sad fact; Of mislaying
things, losing parcels or dropping the
silly, everdangling purse from the
arm However. either the superficial
knowledge, or hypocrisy, which is the
lot Of all the bourgeois experts, pre-
vents him from going any further
than merely theorizing on women.
AS a matter Of fact it is mostly
with the poorer women that it hap
pens thus. Rarely with the women of
high society"
It is the woman Of the working class
who is in a rush all her life; first to
get wherever she needs to go quickly,
! and then rush home to her endless
tasks. Her mind is a kaleidoscope,
working constantly under a nervous
tempo. II one could only look into
her mind while she is away from
home.
Worries of a Housewife.
1t registers something like that:
20, wonder whether the key left
in the corner of the hall was found
by the children as they came to
lunch from school, or probably some
one watched me while I put it there,
and got into the house? / hope the
kids have eaten their lunch, without
me. hope Kate eats, she left with
out breakfast. Goodness! Is it rain
ing? and l hung out the clothes to
dry! 1t is terrible! After all the
morning l spent washing! Well, may
be I'll arrive in time to get 1t off
damp, just for ironing. BY the way
did not yet iron the clothes l washed
last week l must stop to buy
some meat. The children l suppose
are home by now and are hungry
again, after all l left them small
lunch o, if things we're not so
dear! What can l make for supper
that costs little and is decent?
Lamb chops? o, no, they cost
sixty cents a pound, and l would
need at least two pounds. Impossible.
Gracious, it is five o'clock! John will
be home from work soon, and have
to stop at the butcher shop! =.
Five o'clock!l o, there is my stop"
The poor creature runs out with the
rushing crowd before the door slams
on her, makes few steps towards the
exit, and utters a shrek The
box with the dress she bought as
big bargain she left in the train. The
train is off. o, horrors she spent al
most the last penny on it, and Kate
needs the dress so badly she
hardly has enuf money to meet the
expenses to the end of the week, till
John will bring the pay.
She blames herself. Why did not
she hold it in her hands? o, yes, she
RENDERS the skin is off her hands in
many places from washing the clothes
and the string of the box hurt her so
and cut it so painfully
Not a Woman Of Leisure.
Yes this is the life we women c
the working class lead today! W.
have no means of getting away from
our cursed drudgery. Ii wears out
our bodies and brains. Life is tor
ture. Always work, wash, cook, shop,
sew
We not only loose packages and
purses, we loose our health, often
lose our minds, and are taken into
the insane asylums; we loose our
lives prematurely. All as the result OF
the hurried wretched life we lead.
No wonder the students of the
habits of mankind" do not know all
that How should they know? Their
wives need not work at all. They roll
in wealth. They have no petty
household worries; how much
pound of chops costs; their heads do
not whirl to insanity how to make
ends meet; their hands are not sore
from washing clothes. Their wives
ride in their own cars and the chauf-
feur attends to their things II they
are left there.
Is 1t not high time for us working
class women to change this miserable
existence and show the "sagacious
theoreticians" that woman can rise
to a better, niger life and not lead the
life of a beast OF burden?
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