Evening star., 1941-05-16

of our large universities were re-
Gently asked about their plan of life,
only II said that they expected
to become housewives. This is a
a situation that we might well view
with alarm were 1t not for the con-
soling knowledge of their sex's ability
to change their minds at moments
notice, and the certainty that when
the right men come along they will
forget their antipathy to domesticity
and there win be a mass migration
into the kitchen. So there Is no
use in getting all hot and bothered
about who is going to keep the home
fires burning, rear the children. get
the breakfast and do all the chores
that keep a family going concern.
Mother will still be doing business at
the old stand and she will have
forgotten that she ever thought that
she would rather get the glad hand
from the public than to have q
babys arms around her neck. Still
and all, the mere fact that so many
of our young feminine intellectuals
turn thumbs down on the ancient
and honorable occupation which has
heretofore been considered their
predestined career, gives food for
thought, and makes one speculate
about how they got that way. What
has happened that has made the
typewriter and the adding machine
supersede the gas range in a girls
fancy? Why does the modern
maiden dream of Job in an office
instead of living in vine-wreathed
cottage, as her mother did? Why Is
1t that the home-making instinct is
apparently so atrophied in Miss
1941's breast that she can pass by
even the most alluring display of
pots and pans unmoved and without
a single desire to possess themP We
pause for a reply.
Can it be that these girls who say
they never expect to be housewives
intend to be old maids? That
seems unlikely. Yet the dullest Of
them must know that the compelling
desire for a home and home cooking
and home comforts is what finally
drives bachelors into matrimony.
Not even Circe herself could lure a
man to the altar if she announced
beforehand that she loathed house.
keeping and cooking and expected to
live in furnished rooms and eat at
a cafeteria.
1t seems to me that the reason
girls have this phobia against
domesticity and look down upon
housework as a despised calling, fit
only for morons and not to be con-
sidered by college graduate, is
because they have gotten the wrong
slant on it. They think, for instance,
that making home Is just a round
of dull and monotonous labor that
would bore any woman so much
she would wish she had gone in for
running a shoppe, or going into the
movies, or something worth while.
They forget that We get out OF
every job just what we put into 1t,
and that the work of the movie
actress who stands up day after
day covered with grease paint, doing
over and over the same scenes, Is
just as monotonous as washing
greasy dishes three times q day.
They ignore the fact that, In
reality, making a home Is one OF
the most thrilling and satisfying
occupations on earth, because 1t
gives a woman a chance to use every
talent she possesses. To be an artist
who creates beauty. To be a I'M
ancier who makes one dollar do the
work of five. To be the power
behind the throne that manipulates
the lives of husband and children
To be the guardian angel who
watches over those she loves and
keeps them happy.
Taking it by and large, the house
wife has life easier than her business
and professional sisters. She has
the security that her husband brings
her, and while her working days may
be long, they are not strenuous as
| are those of the woman who works
In an Office or store.
If she Is any sort Of manager
she can find some leisure during
the day to take . nap, or read
or gossip with Q neighbor; If she
wakes up with Q headache, she car
let things slide. none Of which she