Milford chronicle., 1947-02-07
Back To The
Kitchen, Gals !
BY CYNTHIA LOWRY
Up NrqcSfcatRrCS Uriitr

Modern woman, bewildered. un-
happy, insecure. must abandon
competition with men and return
to the life which fits building
the hOme--if the worlds social ills
are to be cured, psychiatrist Mary
mia r. Farnham and writer Ford
inand Lundberg believe.
Their joint book, Modern Wo-
man: The Lost Sex" (Harpers)
finds that present day life, the in
dustrial age and modern house
hold apparatus left women with
little to do at home and made out
side occupation popular.
The result. according to the au-
thorS. is that the whole sex has
become confused and poorly ad-
iuSted and now is the principal
transmitting media of the disor-
dcred emotions that today are 50
widely spread throughout the
world"
While portion of their book on
women'S phySic ills reads like Il
Freudian textbook. cOuched in the
patter of the profession. DR.. Farm
ham and Lundberg steadily main
tain that women cannot be re-
garded as any more similar to men
than Il spiral is to 4 straight line. .
and should cease trying to emulate
men and mems accomplishments
and return to being women"
THE destruction of the home
as Il result of mems economic
and archaeological exploits has
bred deep unhappincss not only
in women but in society as a
/; whole" they write. THE stage i'll
deed has been set for general
chaos and confusion. which We
are rcaping today. The result OF
, what happened to the home is
/, ncnr0siS on Il wider scale than
, WAS seen before
Today. the authors not. what
, is still called the homes is to ;
large extent Il vacuum; nothinI
! much of any consequences hap
pens there" And the point the,
make is that millions of womel
, arc faced with deciding whether
= they should remain in the hon,
I. with only nominal duties to per
, form or whether they should srcl
employment and careers in compc
:, tiOn with men outside.
i, Destruction of home life ha.
4 symptoms III the rising divorc,
:, rate. juvenile delinquency an,
many other evils Of our time. The,
state that hardly more than ON,
Y person in three is free of some sor
+ of ncurOtic character trait.
The feminist movement whicI
:, sought 10 have women considers
the absolute equal Of men. wa
. misguided and led by ncurotic wa
< men they fourd, but failed to giy
= women anything they sought i
= life. Neither did part Of the fem
i mist movement the single stand
f, ard. Women are still attcmntin
O desperately to find a compromise
u TO make up for the home of whic
g they were deprived.
* The two writer's suggest that
~ general program be undertaken
= Hcducu ny lIlc SONcfnmCnt-f fO
: the rehabilitation of women. Th
/ first step would be public rccoynt
L ton of the ''p0wcrful role and sn,
o. cial Importance of mother -
= transmitting agents of feeling,
j. personality and character"
n They would use much moro rs,
,e chothcrapy-treatment of the min
5 by trained psychiatriSts as we hay
n physicians cure the body of ills
Ii both on an individual and on
,e community basis. And the mai,
,e spawning places of physchoneur,
tics, they state repeatedly. are O,
, homes.
N DR.. Farnham and Lundbe,
L. would create a federal Departmo,
ic OF Welfare. with one of its finn,
n tions the recognition of wome
It. who have produced healthy. u.s.
G. full well-adjusted citizens Gas
+, payments such as government sn1
of sides should be paid to families
IN alleviate the heavy financial I'm
il den of rearing children.
lie Mothers should have more
er do with the education of childre
i'll and if the authors had their W,
~ "all spinsters would be barred
do with the teaching of childron r