| Show home tl good career for any make rs younda youn woman by LOUISE JLOUISE ARNOLD i HE ordinary misconception of the service rendered iu in the home has often been the cause of the ambitious ambitions search for a career housework may stand for three three widely varying careers the first is fairly expressed by the common homely phrase she does lier her own work if we think of home bome mak ing as a carter career if we realize re alize that nearly three fourths fourtha of the women who preside over homes must dispense with outside service it becomes a matter of great importance to tho the individual as well as to the community that eveia every girl should know the arts and processes involved in housework this is essential not simply that the house bouge maybe clean and the children properly clothed and led fed but that the family income may be wisely expended the wife and mother who is 6 so skillful and ana capable that ah aho 0 ran can dispense with the service of others in her housekeeping may readily double the purchasing power of the ordinary income this ability to maintain a family upon a income is not only a matter of great mo moment aint to io the i individual tn family but also to tho the community training which will insure this end is ia of vital importance and tho the schools will not have discharged their full responsibility until such teaching is assured for every girl housework housework however is likely to denote a second type of career the girl works in the home of another a career carcer against which many objections have hac been urged here a gain again wo we find evidences of the misconception of the value of domestic service and its appropriate compensation if the work of the housemaid or house housekeepers housekeep cepe eris well doneit ap broaches chea in value the household service of f the wife and mother it will never be rightly considered nor properly compensated until the task of the wife and mother is properly measured and we may add this career will fiote not beckma eco more attractive than at present until women unite in in recall recalling ln g the finer and truer conception of service then one might rejoice in housework for tho the sake of the large opportunity which it provides for assisting in the essential maintenance of the homo and the safeguarding of gl its inte interests lesti it |
