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Show I Dorothy Dix Talks j COME INTO THE KITCHEN j: By DOTHy D IX, th c V orl d 's 1 1 jghest Paid Woman Writer. J I 0nP of bc curious effects of the j da- lirrn '" almo'-1 annihilate the ?ame?ii'- servant oaks and house-S house-S .aids bivr beronie almost as scarce c bens' '' h. -nd eostl as pink V f' arls while 'he general houseworicer p0'nr -o join H..- rind.", m the limbo I LfXlinrf species. Thouund? of women -who h?ve !t-fr done their own housework in I If r ,f--, and thousands more who fv'avp not wresii. d with Die pots 9nri Jj I G? for many a lone; year, now hae to arise with thr alarm clock and get V family breakfast and as they toil ith 'h'1 temperamental cas range I" TtheV sinc a Hvnm of Hn' ;,C!lin; th" !4lothor? of th.- treat world catastrophe end P"; ,,irir nn,f' cul in it. You W n-t jjavr to argue with ihom 1 1 - Sherman was i.cht, and war was all l'A ho said it wa? j -or i 'In- rvantii-ss slate a tem-' tem-' torzr f P' ll '' 1 ome in staN-'yhere staN-'yhere will prohabh n.-v. ;- ac.un be H He steady flow of immigration t'-at supplied us with Norn-, 1 h.-lmas, tfl Ejrias and Roses. Nor is it llkelv JKat our own native Maude Gladyses, II " usd to nnd.-scend 0 chs ion -' I v M0 "help out" in the housework, pro-: ldrj ll"-'"-y w . , . Iirated ; s memler-3 memler-3 et tbe familv will ever again -o de-- Qpan ihcmselve- to any iarge ex'en' The war has taught women everywhere every-where that there is no such thinT as J by special sphere of woman s work. I Ed that a bright husk) girl can ocer-' ocer-' te a ma Hi It- Mm; Lias almost human 9 Etelligence Itself, just as well as a 3 Ean can. Therefore, women from now ? ,n are rrrtain to go more and more' .lima fai-i".y w..ik w iiere there are lEorter hour.-, more freedom and Kg- pay than In domestic service. And Bjobody can blame them for it. I fAnd even if a servant could be ob-h ob-h fclned, their own new standard of I" wees, and th-- .:-n'-ral ln-.h . oi jj I Urine haie put 'hern in the i r dass that onl the wealthy can afford. With pre-war pn. ; .f r- n-.. f d , lUvants' w:i4:' Ml. w. I i I . do-v. dip; n Kid indulge herself m a maid Dul Trith a cook .-.!; a - i h alar, a pood office man. and with rents H. pb. and meat and groceries equ.Ml;. ndlitudlnous. the servant passes In'o he legend, in the ordinary family of thf thins.- w. used to have in the good I old das that ?re no more, I j Pit is back to the kitchen, then. for. J Bltctically all hut the most fortunate women, and one v.i.r.u.rs what tneyj , Bue going to d" ; e(. and wh.n eherae of In in i- ounc io be evolved 01 these new conditions. t The thing U- wr.m. n object to about doing tieir own work is not hfeor, but th. fact that housework is U never ending job. Xo sooner is on1 BBe washing the dishes trom one Hll than one must begin on the n"-t Hreover, any cookery thai is worth Hie. and that isn't a mere makes! ::t that is an Insult to one's stomach aud fcukruptcy ir, r ne'.-i po. k.'t book, Is a Hfc of art that it takes hours to ac I BP1ish. I Bfce woman who rooks her family a froper dinner, ir.stead of ieedlng it o t t tin cans an. i papei bags, will ha., to time to Indulge in afternoon clubs, L-ridge and maimers as has been her pleasing custom Nor will i h.- m.ui v, li,, ha h Id krfe piji.in. r ( be able to devote herfH.' .. ,;. .. ..,( i: wh- n .-In- ha -br hands ill. j with her own housework, house-work, for one's husband and children Binst be fed, their beds must be maoe their floors k.-p' 1. an. huugh ill the WOrld go to -h buv. a o .-. - j-lt s a queer and humorous par adox lhat just a- ;.') i ,...f. el i pr, -I tWuly open wide to woman, her MChen door -hu's her in. and how-fee- is point tu get out of it is not I fet least interesting probhm precipl-Ited precipl-Ited b Mi. -A c It has long been .a matter of cm-Mit cm-Mit that bou ekeepinc has been the ( M profession in w hich there has been - te least progre-s made, and that thre re fewer m , 1 1 .. ; , i . intllC kitchen lhan anywhere else Perhaps I Breasoithaj . house jus; as their irrandmother did, and have been satisfied to use the same domestic utensils, is be, lus somebody else had to do the work IoubtJess with the advent of highly intelligent women into their own kitchens we shall have a new era of scientific housekeeping In which electricity elec-tricity will be called on to do the heavy manual iabor. Doubtless, also, we will have a new era of plain living n which our homes will be stripped of their dust catchinc cewgaws, i ad our tables will know lew or the elaborate elab-orate dishes in which we ha, be. n wont to indulge. Also hospitality Is likely to become a lost practice, for there is small pleasure In eitier belnp company, r having company, when It imposes an added burden en the already overworked over-worked mifttress of the qoub The most reasonable BOlutlon of the problem seems, however, to be some system of cooperative cooking in which from a central plant food can be supplied sup-plied to a numbtr of families not onlv at less ro.a than the Individual famil) could purchase it. but without ch.-iii-Iuk every wife r.t.d mother perpetually to her cooking sio e. Of course there arc those who will say that this can never be done, but the same croakers said that apartment apart-ment houses would never be successful success-ful bcause you could not put numbers of families under one roof without their b.-inc in perpetual quarrel. But the apartment house has ccm" to stay to meet a modern need, and the co-operativ cook shop will a i n come to stay. Kor somehow we always manage to adjust ourselves lo the sltu-at sltu-at ion |
