The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
Men Need
Glasses i'm
DOn1eStiCity
BY MARTHA LEE

speaking OF Clinics, WHICH VIC
were in this column Monday, it has
come to our minds that a course
in how to be husband and father
might not be such a bad idea.
The education Of girls these days
includes choruses in home-making
and cooking and other lines of work
that are required of a wife and
mother. Presupposing that every
girl some day will have marriage as
her vocation, those educators who
have the good sense to realize that
knowing how to live is far more
important than knowing how to find
the hypothenuse of right angle
triangle, have made the preliminary
steps in home making a part OF the
school girls curriculum.
Boys learn trades. They learn
professions. They are taught the
fine art of earning, saving and
spending money. They are fully
prepared, when they enter the
world, to bring home the bacon, be
it a slice or slab. They have
the means of obtaining that home
to which they may bring the bacon
drilled into their heads through
twelve, sometimes sixteen years OF
school life.
But never once are they exposed
to class on how to keep that home
happy and intact. They are not
taught one lesson that will make
them useful in that home.
Invaded Mems Domain
Girls have invaded mems domains
in business and professional life.
They have, in many cases, taken up
a half of the burden of financing
the home after marriage. Along
with their knowledge of household
a, they are taught, also, to earn
the wherewithal to maintain that
home.
Somehow it seems that boys have
been neglected along these lines.
The main reason probably lies in
the fact that a boy who can cook,
or help" his mother is little de-
classe with other boys. He is con-
sidered sissy" He can be he
mannish as Bull Montana, he can
play football like one of the Four
Horsemen, he can fight like Demp-
Sey and yet if one of his classmates
ever caught him welding dishrag
or peeling a potato, he would be
y - with deriSiOn.
That's all silly. If women are
going to share with men in the
mairtenonce of a home, the men
should share equally the burden Of
it's upkeep. And unless they ale
taught these things scientifical :. as
girls are taught them, they are apt
to be more of a burden than help
when the necessity for helping
around the house does arise.
Not Feminine
I'm all for the domestication of
men. do not believe it would de-
tract one iota from their masculin-
ity if every school boy were made
to learn how to cook and care for
a home properly.
If a mans wife does not work
outside the home, it is perfectly
fitting and proper that she should
assume the entire job of keeping
that house properly. But it would
be nice for a man to know how it
should be kept If things weren't
going rightly, he should be able to
say definitely what was wrong, be-
cause he would know.
And this thing of being a father
is too important to overlook as our
present system of preparation for
life has overlooked it. A man should
know at least the fundamentals
concerning the care of children. He
should learn the duties he will have
as father. His influence and care
is equal in importance with the
mothers. Too many men can slide
gracefully out of active care of chill
dren by saying they don't know
how" These classes in fatherhood
and home making would eliminate
from the language the antagonizing
rubber stamp remarks so popular
among men, namely, you're
woman. It's your job"