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Show Children and Dishpans Compulsory dishwashing- never puts , a rainbow 'round 1 : the dishpan. But it dees have a lot to do with that chronic 1 business of being too tired to wash the dishes. Just the !same, mothers can't seem to break themselves of the habit ! of putting tea towels in their daughters' hands and suggest-j suggest-j ing that they wash the cups and saucers' and brush the crumbs away. i , : But now Miss Marion S. Van Liew, chief of' the Home ' , Economics Education Bureau of the University of v the State i j of New York, and education director of the Honte-Making ( Center in New York City, has cast her influence with the I daughters. Mothers are all wrong. Compulsory dishwashing, according to Miss Van Liew, has given millions of g.rls a drab outlook on home economics. It has made therrrhatc j housework. And- it is all their mothers' fault. ;' Still with a large family that must be fed three times, a day, to say nothing of after-school bread-and-butt'er-and-I jelly sandwiches, it isn't always possible for a mother to at-i at-i tend to the cleansing of the plates if she woukt darn tne farrir i ily socks, sew on the family buttons, wash and iron and scrub I ' 1 1 and sweep and dust and bake and stew and nurse and market ; land plan the menus and tell tho agents trial she -sn I nicer- leated in anything today! j ! Ol course, it Sally and Sue and Mary didn t tmve to as- i sist in the cleansilying of the dishes tney would have the ;: I thrill of novelty when ih y U.'p their own rosebud china into I -the foamy suds. . . :l : It is a sad state of affairs. If modern labor-saving dc-'i dc-'i ! vices can't strengthen the case for- the after-dinner exorcises '' there seems to be little to be done about it except let the ' I mothers attend to the ablutions of the china. ." j ) ,1 Dishwashing used to be something that every normal ( 1 ';! girl had along with measles and mumps and chickenpox. ' "' Now it would appear that it should be banished from the childhood ailments along with the other hindrances to health and freedom. j There is nothing to do, apparently, but let the mothers i perform the purification rites for the porcelain and dresden 'unless common sense arises to remark that children don't V ; always need quite as much coddling as the experts seem to I think. |