Show DOROTHY DIX MX TALKS TANKS 1 s DOROTHY DIX DIT the Ibe Worlds World's World orld's Highest t r Paid ld Woman Writer NO GIRLS GIRLS GIRL'S EDUCATION HOWEVER HIGH IS COMPLETE WITHOUT A KNOWLEDGE OF COOKING AND SEWING A WOMAN OMA O IA who signs Siena herself the mother molher ot of four boys boy whose hol wh es A are aro not properly educated es me a a letter In n which she says that hat t she has s schools been cn gon going to I a a number ot of o school commencements atom ants at which tills this Well vote green given prize prizes foi fm everything ero e t except In cook cooking In and nd sewing y It lt I Is 1 i ot of that I 1 am anI opposed to the hIgh p r 8 I er education ot of women omen says sa 5 the mother II I strong for tor It St on ou the contrary am g h di y Iwo z V Heaven knows all knowledge is no more than a woman needs heeds for her Job Certainly the woman who z has to grapple with the problem of I I the high cost cott of and solve It should uld be a mathematical shark hark Every mother needs need fo o know w as a i much about ab ut medicine s a baby doe doc tOl ard to he t-e as good god a lawyer as ny Judge e and every wife sh should uld be bea bea a post postgraduate graduate of the school of dip diplomacy fps Teach girls all that tho they a ill III learn but DIX spending time and money iu In DOROTHY while lull ne 1 e are ire educating them thew why 1 ili should nil d w i slight the hel theart art nt and anil science that hit they are goin going to moat mosi need to be proficient la In that they will III be called ailed on 01 to practice every Mei et day of ot their Ilves lives a and andon nd on their skill kill in ill which hl h will iII depend their th-ir happiness and prosperity It It is all nil very cry ery II well ell for a gill gh I to be pert In free hand free nand baud drawing dro but It II Is 10 1 a fine t going colne to help her ter like lIJe being a flee hand and b ha thing thine for tor a gIrl cirl to hive have a cultivated e eve ee e e so that she can i at a glance lance but what hat a genuine old matter mater from a good reproduction Is to be able to tell ell spring lamb Iamb she be is really call going goine to need to 10 know from rom old mutton at tight sight to be a In beef and aud pOlk that no butcher can toot 1001 It t is ll wonderful for tor a girl sirl to be able to II work ork out geometrical le but the that is going to be lie mom money moirey in her ber pocket Is la to be beable beable able to work ork outa oua out a perforated paper pattern and fit tit a titles Ulles dress diess so that It look looks as if it had come ore oft rHth avenue ao of 01 Of course some of o 0 the schools do teach leach at these theae things but most mo tol o It Is so o superficial that It amounts to nothing My M complaint fa s that L girls are not grounded In the most mast important branch ot of kno knowledge ledge that tC they can PO possibly acquire It ought to be Just as a much a matter of f course for a girl to tobe tobe be taught to cook and sew tew as a it Is for f r her to t be taught to read and write and when that time arrives It will offer the solution or of many of or the moral and domestic problems problem that confront us u would than anything else to pro promote For F r one thing it do more mote domestic d happiness and stop divorce The home Is It found round rounded founded founded ed on n physical comfort a comfort a clean hearth heartland and a a good table a wISe expenditure of the family funds If these are lacking the home horng goes es to t pieces no matter how brilliant or beautiful or ac accomplished the woman at th the thi head of or it Is li Thousands Thousand ot young oung chips chaps like my sons tons who are lire ambitious and energetic but who bo ha e their own o onay o n way nay to makIn make mak In the world orld marry mine harming and amI educated girls eirls expecting to lo be happy hapl e cr e tr after aCter And hey would be b and the tho mall loge II would be a I success if It the th girls iris had only been taught how to cook and sew But they bao haven't They feed heir husbands out of ot tin cans and paper bags They waste wast their money In buying ready made things and when a Il tired man tomes comes home bomo toa to toa Ii a wIfe wit who bo is I b because e she has bas burnt the tho roast and scorched the soup and the lh darns In his socks hurt burt his feet and he be has bas to te begin dodging tho llio bill collector It doesn't take long lone for tor or love i s young dream to get busted busIed to smithereens and for tor him to decide that mat matrimony is fe s a failure Ot Of Of course the burden of ot teachIng gIrls eirls boto bow bo to cook and sew se not be shunted onto the schools Every mother m should begin her little daughters daughter's yi l I Ion along those there lines In her mud pie and doll dolt playing days But nut mothers mothr are too loo lazy are are too indifferent lie are too tender to do doIt doIt It They dont don't want to bother with teaching their gills eirls how bow to do dol things or else elf they the want ant to EO sat o 0 them from doli anything that looks liko work ork My girls will learn how h w to sew and cook after Her they get married That's the way I did they say and never nev r stop to think what an injustice this is 10 to the th poor husband who has to be the victim of 01 7 his wrt id In the culinary art Nor or do the th mothers consider what hat a needless cruelly cruelty they are Inflicting on their own daughters by chucking them untrained and un- un unprepared un unprepared prepared Into the hard Ial d job of ot being a poor mans man's wife ICe for roi 01 there ther fa 18 fano lano no more moc pathetic figure than that ot of the young wife ICe who ho II wrestles In in- in in lly ely with Ith the lira pots and pans who bo bungles bung her sewing and nho bo tau an never make ends meet In her household accounts Perhaps the reason mothers rS do not teach their daughters how to COOk and sew Bew Is because they tb y all al expect their darlings to marry mil mil But even so ledge knowledge Is always power po The woman who ho knows how to do things herself hE can tan always all al ai get set better ser service ice than the woman who Iloe nt know and she th Is never neier in power of sert ants as Is the woman oman who Is helpless it If the th cook took leaves leave A final reason realon why every girl should be bt taught how to cook and sew cow t w la le because it t gives her a sure sur way of or making a Hying If she ll Is ever called upon to support herself Every body has to eat Everybody has to have clothes No N woman to who can supply these demands need ever starve And If she sir has the tir ambition and industry to make herself an expert In either line lone she sh can make her fortune why every girl gh ill I for foi her own sake take tot toi her husbands husband's sake and her ber children s I sake saJe should be b taught tau ht the th domestic arts 10 whatever else elbe el e a woman ornan mayor may or may not need to know she is 16 dead S 11 seta e to 10 n need ed to know knoy how bow to cook and sew DIX CopyrIght 1 1923 23 by Public Ledger Company |