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Show THEY WILL COUNT A WOMAN'S STEPS Students of Household Economy to Determine the Distance a Woman Walks in Her Daily Toil. (Specially Written For the Woman's Page of the Intermountain Catholic.) Man's work is from sun to sun. But a woman's work is never done, is an old saw that is familiar to every one. Moreover, such sayings as these have been handed down from prehistoric prehis-toric times so that there has been no excuse for any man to doubt the assertion as-sertion that the average woman works hard for every comfort that she receives. re-ceives. While this fac t may have been spread broadcast over the world since the days of Adam, however, there must have been men who have doubted its truth, for it is now announced that the members of the Household Economic Association have set out to solve the problem: .. How many steps does a housewife take in a day? , If the members of the association ex- t . pect to answer this question with any degree of accurateness it will be necessary neces-sary for them to spend more than one day in the discussion of the subject. In fact, the conducting of an. investigation investiga-tion by the Society of Physical Research Re-search would be a simple matter as compared to the solution of the problem prob-lem that the students of domestic economy econ-omy have set for themselves. How they expect to go to work to figure out their results is a matter that of itself would be a subject of more than general gen-eral interest. Of course there can be no question but that the women who are engaged in this investigation will be able to prove that the road traveled by the average woman is not a smooth one. Of course, there can be no question but that the average : woman walks miles enough in a single day to make an athlete ath-lete in training turn green with envy, and the only question is, How are they going to prove it? A HARD DAY. It is a well known fact that it takes about twenty-six hundred steps to make a mile, and it is upon these computations com-putations that all figures must be based. For instance, a woman who has no servant to aid her rises from bed in the morning to be confronted by a score of problems that must be solved during the day. 'In the first place there is breakfast to be prepared, and to do this the fire must be lighted, the table set and countless other small matters attended to. To enumerate them would be to make this article uninteresting reading for a man and unnecessary for a woman. The only tadt that is of importance im-portance is that during the work of preparing breakfast she has taken -a thousand or two steps and In the time when male members of the household have been soundly snoring in bed. When breakfast is ended there are dishes to be washed and the house to be put to rights for the day. Much of the work that is done during this portion of the day might seem "fussy" to the average man. but the woman knows only,-too well that if it was not done the "average man" would be the first person to notice the untidiness of the house. In the afternoon it is the same story over again. Lunch must be prepared, and by the time the luncheon dishes are out of the way it is time to think of dinner. It is- long after dark, there fore, before the woman has ceased her toil, and if the members of Jthis association asso-ciation are prepared to decide just how many miles she has walked between sunrise and bed time they will-' have accomplished a labor that no mere man would ever have dored .to undertake. SCIENTIFIC CALCULATIONS. The members of the Household Economical Eco-nomical Association have entered upon this task with all seriousness, however. They have by no means mistaken this labor as a mere course of mental gymnastics. gym-nastics. The actual purpose of the examination ex-amination is' to show, if possible, how often two steps might serye instead of ' . ' .'!. three, and to use the statistics obtained ob-tained as a basis upon which to bring about several much-needed household reforms." A young woman. Martha Van Renselaer. is now , studying such statistical sta-tistical work in Cornell university, and she will arrange the plans for the work that is to be undertaken. |