Evening star., 1938-02-27
a similar type Of prefecture ac-
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in a similar type of prefecture ac-
tivity.
Articles on these studies and others
in connection with buying problems
found their way to various magazines.
AS chairman of the National Com
mittee on the Standardization OF
Consumers Goods she got out a study
outline for women's clubs and Or
ganizations under the auspices Of the
American Association Of University
Women, which published her study
outline on scientific consumer buying.
Then followed a ee-month con-
nection with the Governments Food
and Drug Administration that she
might inform the public generally
and her sex in particular as to the
limitations Of the existing act in this
field of such concern to every indi-
vidual
To her present sideline activity,
Mrs. Howe gives two days each week.
The National Home Economics As
sociation is being fostered by a grant
from Phi Upsilon Omicron, fraternity
OF women in the profession of home
economics. AS editor. of its Consumer
Education Service. a monthly service
which goes out to libraries, adver-
tising agencies, business houses and
over 500 subscribers, Mrs Howe is one
OF five trustees of the Consumer Re-
lation Council which is trying to bring
about better relations between manu-
facturers, retailers and the buying
public. as to standards of grading and
labelling. This it hopes to achieve
through certain established, active
governmental agencies, through leg
lslation, advertising and consumer
education
Industry CO-operates.
Associated with Mrs. Howe on this
council are representatives of the Ma
tional Dry Goods Association and of
OF the American Standards Associ-
alton, as we'll as those from large
manufacturing and retail houses.
Does she find her present job con-
n1ctlng in any way with her husbands
or her daughters activities or the
smooth running of her home?
"Oh, no." Mrs. Howe stated def
nitely. After even 10 years of more
or less successful operation of her
household machinery, any trained
homemaker ought to be able to make
1t 60 at the pace necessary for her
particular situation.
MY own individual philosophy"
She continued. "is that under the
changing conditions of the goth CEN
tury which have brought so many
labor-saving devices into the home
and taken so many Of women's actiyi-
tles out OF 1t. the purely housekeeping
duties OF my sex have been so mini
mlzed that unless the family is more
than moderate-sized, the running of
a household no longer takes the whole
tlme OF competent woman trained
as homemaker"
IL is also Mrs. Howe's further opinion
that the average homemaker does a
better job If she follows outside inter.
ests to some extent and makes her
contribution, large or small, to their
doing"
one Is equally positive that there
must be plan and a program to the
Gays OF the woman who would com.
bine outside interests with her home
making, not just a casual or a frantic
check-up whenever chance, inclination
or emergency dictates it.
Many of the servant employer prob
lens In the home. Mrs. Howe believes
are due to the fact that EMPLOYERS
themselves, through lack of familiarity
with similar problems, are ignorant Of
the time and fatigue incident to the
tasks tney are requiring.
Ihoughtlessness and casual plan-
ning, too, are the basis Of MANY of the
lrreconcilable differences between mis-.
tress and maid.
Her own absence Of any particular
servant problem in her home through
out quarter of century of home
making Mrs. Howe attributes to the
TACT that because of her own special
lzeo training she is herself capable Of
carrying through the technical uroc.
esses behind its running and the plan
ming and preparation of its meals
1hls, she tells you, lis wherein Scandi-
navlan, German and French families
even among the higher classes. greatly
excel our own American ideals