| Show KATHLEEN NORMS Johnnie Bosses in the Kitchen MUCH BOSSING should a wife demands Minna a St. Paul and mother of three am her letter goes about my life would be serene and satisfactory to if it were not for my That if It were not for Johnnie's Interfering with what I consider my My business is the the the the dinner the family's the children's our simple as they and our Like all other housewives I add to these the extra tasks of such crisis as family and general supervision of radio moderation In use of car seems to me a full demanding real budgeting of time and energy as well as To Johnnie it ii merely a haphazard collection of minor easily shunted and changed and never to be regarded as For my training has been to leave a kitchen at half-set the breakfast table the last wipe and air the children's lunch and generally get ready for the The Children Help and Tony help me with clearing They are as handy as These are twins of the baby is only but even he is Johnnie hates all he says his mother always piled the In the sink and amused her husband business is the kitchen In the He says I am mak-ng sissies of the and though I love and admire his mother and know that it was only on rare occasions that she was a slipshod and though my boys sturdily persist that they are going to help Johnnie will never give the kitchen is in order a matter of perhaps minutes we go systematically at Johnnie then says that he has no wife and no and he will turn on the radio so loud it distracts the Sometimes we move upstairs into the back room for especially exasperates and makes me feel really unfriendly to concludes what happened two nights We had four our clergyman and a bishop and their nd I gave the boys an earlier supper so that everything would be nice The dinner was perfect and was In a relaxed and conversational mood afterward when Johnnie over my astonished said suddenly that we always had to do the dishes right after Min wouldn't stand for and we had to set the breakfast They all played up most everyone but my evening was and I think theirs was After ward Johnnie and I had a not and decided to ask you whether my job doesn't Justify me in making my own rules and my own and having them Ridiculous Conduct My dear Johnnie's ridiculous conduct is similar to that of thousands of who take their own stuffy office filing and copying and dictating as important and but toss off the little woman's laughable jobs as sporadic gay little duties that need never soil her pretty fingertips or very seriously Interrupt her novel reading and chocolate Such men are The job of and of raising a family takes two And of the two Jobs yours is Infinitely the more In Its effect upon the and physical health of the It must be handled not only with good will and but with real knowledge of food child sanitation domestic In a I gather that Minna Carew knows something of all of and puts her knowledge Into energetic They tackle the congealed the crumbs and sticky plates and crusted pots next Personally I have always belonged to the other of on the occasions of entertaining distinguished That was pure mischief on Johnnie's and indicates something wrong with both his heart anu his I would advise Johnnie to confine his observations regarding affairs In his household to two you're a and I don't see how you manage it |
