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Show Burden of Housework. A housekeeping experiment station, where all manner of work and worry-saving worry-saving devices for kitchen and household house-hold will be thoroughly tried, is to be established under the auspices of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Wom-en's Clubs. It will be the second station sta-tion of Its kind, the first having been for three years in successful operation in Connecticut, under the management of Charles Barnard, a retired playwright, play-wright, who wrote "The County Fair." It is the intention of the New Jersey Jer-sey women to Investigate every sort of contrivance for lessening the burdens bur-dens of housework. Dish scrapers, pot cleaners, dust rags, suction cleaners, jelly makers, dough mixers, fireless cookers, egg poachers and all the thousand thou-sand and one things of the kind which American ingenuity has devised and put on the market will be put to the severest tests before they are recommended recom-mended to housewives. It seems like a very sensible and useful thing to do. For millions of women "the woman question" Is largely large-ly a question of household work. Whatever makes housework really easier will In its way be as great a boon to humanity as automobiles or flying machines. |