San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
REAL MANAGING
NECESSARY
IN HOME
Housewife Must Learn to
Take Advantage Of
Labor Savers.

The kitchen has arrived on the
financial page. 1t did not stray there
from the women's section, with its
recipes, dress patterns, advice to the
lo@elorn and whatnot that is supposed
to be of special interest to the wo-
menfolk. No, 1t was put there pur-
pcsefully by writer who discusses
stocks and bonds and other things
that are generally mans special
province. And after all, the way
the writer on business economics puts
II, what is happening in today's kitch-
ems Is rather closely connected with
what has happened and is going to
happen In the market where stocks
and bonds are sold.
Summed up, the situation he de-
scribes is this: Modern life Is chang
ing. homes are being managed on q
better basis: labor saving devices are
tightening and shortening household
tasks: the old-fashioncd kitchen is
disappearing; factory products are re-
placing homemade articles OF all
kinds, including foods. All this means
that big businesses are being built
up to meet the needs and wants Of
the prescnt-day home, and that the
future Of these businesses is assured
because the women Of the country
are seeking relief from unnecessary
work so that they can devote their
energies to real home-making. They
are not going back to the old-fash-
toned ways: thcv don't need to, neither
do they wish to do so.
CHANGE PERMANENT.
And the writer is certain that the
change is MS good as it is permanent.
He recalls the days Of the kitchen
with its hot cook stove. the hands
that were red md rough from dish
water and scrubbing, the backs that
ached from washing clothes, and
wonders why people do not think that
situation just as preposterous as if
business men today had to wash cor
ridors, empty waste baskets, clean
windows and all that. Then he passes
his compliments to the men who have
Joined the anvil chorus and have be.
moaned the disappearance Of old-fash-
Toned home cooking. the old-fashioned
wife and all Of the rest Of the senti-
mental viciousncss which has made
women bear extremely unfair bur-
donS."
Manufactured foods have contrib.
uted more. perhaps. to the emancipa-
ton of women from household drudg-
cry than any other thing in modern
life. These foods are prepared under
expert supervision in sanitary plants I:
they are available everywhere in al
most endless variety; and the nat
ural competition of producers is re-
sulting in constant improvement in
both quality and service.
The canning industry is but one
branch of food manufacture. yet it
furnishes four and half billion cans
OF food every year. Its requirements
Uf raw materials have resulted in the
development of n specialized branch of
agriculture, which is becoming of in
creasing importance in many parts OF
the country. Little wonder that this
business economist sees in food manu-
facture an established industry with a
future Of still greater promise.
TIGHTEN TASK.
Every now and then someone be.
comes worried over the fact that
labor-saving devices are becoming so
numerous that they will not only re-
lieve home makers of work, but will
make them lazy. Usually It is man
who does this worrying. Of course
there are lazy women-and lazy men,
too-but the wife and mother in the
average American home has little or
no opportunity to be lazy il she has
all the modern devices to tighten
household tasks. Moreover. relief
from the fatiguing physical labor Gu.
tailed in keeping house in the old.
fashioned way enable her to devote
her time and energy to other things
more important than cooking, scrub
bling and washing.
The home Of the future will be as
well equipped as the office and fac
tory to reduce labor and provide COM
fort. business and industry were first
to see the advantages of these things
the home is now beginning to profit
from them.