Show GETTING AWAY FROM ROM HOUSEKEEPING HOUSE Forty five per cent of ot the new human habitations built last year were apartment houses and only two out of every five families in inthe Inthe Inthe the country now live lIe in the one one- family dwellings which used to be dignified under the tho group institutional Institutional title of The Great American Home These are re the sober stat stat- statistics statistics statIstics of the U. U S. S department of labor so 60 the facts must be so Once again there can be raised a great hue hu and cry cr over the dis disappearance dis- dis disappearance appearance of ot American family life lire of tho the kind that flourished In that indefinite period known as the good old days Front yard back yard side yard ard cellar and nd attic are as out of date as the hu hu- human human human man appendix and the great American Amer ean kitchen en has into a cubbyhole of ot infinitesimal dimensions Of f course the tho reformers will Ill shout that the modern woman is the cause of f It all She's too lazy I Ito to keep house too Intent upon her bridge and her novels no and her makeup and what's that's going on at atthe atthe the tho movies this afternoon and eve eye ning She has no time for chit chil children dren or she has no time for the children she has bas They run wild all rill over this state and the next and what is the tho world coming to anyway The question is supposed to need no answer But Dut Is the woman to blame for all this Hardly Talk to any aby of the tho modern young husbands for any length ot of time and their ideas drop crop out mit OI t obtrusively Would they fix a furnace Not on your our life lire Would they cut tho the grass on the front or back yards until their kinder were ele grown up They The would not Would they lend a little co operation co-operation on voyages of ot discovery Into attic or cellar for tor those annual cleaning out eXI dl- dl lions Not while they're con con- scions In tho the national passion for shirk shirking ing domestic duty the male has been just as ax slothful as ax the female The hard day at the office dear dearbas has bas become an alibi tougher than shoo shoe leather Civilization Is one or two too many generations re re- removed removed removed moved from the farm and the tho back to the tho soil urge which used to tomake tomake tomake make men want to hoe in a gar gar- garden garden den has shriveled and shrunk to veritable non existence Admit if It you must that the great American hom borne is not as it was or that it just Is not but put the blamo blame on the tho gentleman of the tho house bouse as aswell well as on the lady Indy |