Show OW old IT HOW i. i STARTED w it 7 Er JEAN AN NEWTON That Word Housewife u on UI on analysis a n lH H 1 strange term for no woman can he bo the wife of ot a R house And yet et It Is ts the modern word In good standing to describe the o occupation of a married woman who devotes her time thine to the maintenance of her home The Is U Its first term n a ncr very cr old oM one literary use 1150 dating IZ 1225 In a work called the In which It Is spelled The rue first record record record rec rec- ord of the modern spelling housewife Is found under date of 1710 In III the British Apollo pollo In III the original early Middle Ell Rag flab the word was t-as taken from bushouse hus bus house and wit wIC woman or wife Incidentally the tho reader may remark that the l English of those days was a R avery avery very ery different language from Crom that we know today It would appear that In hi the early use of the word the emphasis was more on the house thou than the wife for Cor forIt forit It applied also to a single woman n who was th the tho head of a household O. O Dell Belt Syndicate Service |