Show I Daily Tasks for Wife and Mother Few Women Will Look Upon Household Duties as Monotonous Women are best suited for monotonous monotonous onous jobs That heading to a news dispatch sent several of our readers up In arms Best suIted Indeed What they mean Is that women dId the monotonous work that was put upon them them-as long as they could not help themselves writes one ot of the frIends whom we heard from before The basIs for It all was the pubU- pubU publication cation ot of n a report of a BrItish soci- soci sociologist that women adapt them themselves selves to monotonous work wIth greeter success than men that they can best brIng themselves es to the daily performance or of monotonous work without losIng theIr Interest In lIfe It Is true enough that women have for centuries done uncomplainingly ly lythe the work orb that was their duty though It was not always the work they would base hae chosen The reference Is ot of course to the monotonous grInd or of housework the job ot of home and chIldren But It seems to me that that Is not there Is to It It The question Is are household tasks as monotonous to the wife and mother as they seem Are Arc the rou- rou routine routine tine chores involved always as and uninspiring as they may seem to one who looks upon them coldly and Impersonally The setting to rIghts or of the little home the preparation atlon of tho meal mea the family will enjoy are these du- du duties du ties ImaginatIon tryIng to a woman ot of imagination tIon my pert I 1 should say the themore more Imagination the less tryIng they are Every job of COUl comae se at some time pill all work has Its good and Its less pleasant aspects Duties whIch In themselves might be beI I become n a strain when multiplied beyond the or of a sIngle per person on to cope wIth them But It if the demands upon her are within reasonable limits I can very well ell understand n wIfe and mother pith Ith abundant Imagination the ta tasks In involved In the malIn making ot of ofa n a home and the up bringIng of chil- chil children children dren It requires im on the part purt of the observer to feel the joy joy- ou thrIll In the task of making up upa upa a lunch for little Bobby to take to school chool to measure the unbounded flights of fancy enjoyed by bv n a mother bent 0 otter er the apparently monotonous monotonous job of making a party dress for her laughter daughter Is It that women are suited to m me or r that their de- de defeats do feats monotony e Dell Belt Syndicate Service |