The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-07
BY SUE SABA

Once we have agreed that there
are more than one type of true"
women, that career" is a misused
word, that equality Is more than
tolerance that femininity or mascui-
nifty is a matter of degree, and that
woman has right to her career,
then we can find out what happen
ed to today's home that made wo-
men seek careers outside OF 1t.
Once upon a time keeping house
was a fun time work, because
home was a more or less self-suf-
ficient unit But now its heaviest
duties have been taken over BY
mass production factories ana
farms, by huge diaries, textile and
lumber and grain mills, by public
schools, churches, by drug stores,
groceterias, department stores, spe-
ciality shops, by radio, newspapers
movies, wireless, fast trensporta-
ton. Even the mechanics OF
housekeeping has been streamlined
through appliances and packaged
goods, and newest discoveries IN
science. Even on the most rural
farms, the industrial revolution
has made itself felt.
< And as men went away from
!, home to work for living the wo-
t men felt that the one-timc Coop
erative, constructive labor has dis
= appeared from the box-liSe houses,
k the flats, the apartments, rooms,
: hotels, etc. No more did they spin
OF weave, or teach the Young to
read or write. No more did she
n need to study herb lore for the
aches and pains, for now all she
has to do Is phone the drug store.
She doesn't have to plan recrea-
ton, for the movies, the dance halls,
= the amateur n d professional
sports, the concert halls, have taken
that out OF ner handS
She feels no need, except as @
hobby, to excel In handicrafts, FOL
she can buy the factorv-made
kinds. Her skill in cooking is no
necessary, for the frozen-men1
firms will take that out Of he
hands one Of these days. If she i
81 the purely domestic type, she viii
oS refuse to accept the commercializ
~ ed services and will take pride Il
As doing the work herself, but tn
81 other types of women welcome tn
expert help she can hire or bu
FfS without detracting from her abil
ity to run a successful home.
.57 What is left Of the home
1853 largely the spiritual values asst
BIS ciated with 1t. And woman mu'
454 be well-balanced to give her be
468 towards maintaining 1t
y Just as In the homestead da,
81 there was plenty Of room for 9
. talents within the home, today
293 world has plenty Of room for 9
talents outside the home But tn
home is still the base Of operation
457 the core, the heart Of men and W
SIS men who work together to mai
450 tain 1t. How they do 1t is the
440 own business, and needs no apol
1893 gy from anyone.
The career woman type saw h
90 career go out Of the house; ther
. fore she went out after 1t, and
'1Si roundly scolded for doing so.
.os Many Nisei women were amo
AAo the first to come east after evacu
-aos ton. Once the pattern Of trat
-aoo ton was broken. they took eve
600 advantage Of the time. and,
he moment, are advancing gre
,,7a deal faster than their contempt
airy males. Perhaps 1t is this 81
den squirt of progress that frighte
Ass some Nisei men into bewailing
Aoo loss of that servile flattercr In fl
ae7 and feathers. Nisei career won
-5os have a long way to go yet, but tn
AIS beginning is very promising.
. The young Nisei women tot
= 70 are very charming, think,
. probably much more inteilie
1926 than they get credit for. IT
have more savior faire than t
had before the war After the
-4oo element of the new independe
sos Is over. they have a chance to
-4oo velop into the sort of women I
tio excite and fsscinate the pre-
tory males to the point Of pre-
sails. Surely they need not
-zo'' losing their charm and femii
ity
t1 There you are. cannot CT
--4ol every phase of this question. b'
800 hope I've shown that the anti
.4lo reerists have no valid grounds