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Show I AN EDITORIAL BY FLORENCE DAVIES : YIJS. YES, HENRY, V Henry Ford says that there was too much hard hand labor on their old farm when he was a boy He suspected suspect-ed that there must bo a better way. There was too much work on that old ! place, ho hays, to Justify the results And so he starteu to find a better , way. and found a machine that would jtrael the roads and another that ! would cultivate the fields Yes, yes, Henry, go on! I Don't stop In the fields. Go on into the house. Take a peep at the kitchen kitch-en Talk about the work and the results' re-sults' H takes a woman an hour to get u meal and an hour to clear It away and the family fifteen minutes min-utes to et it. I How about it, Henry? Can't you Iheln? Didn't you ever see Johnny swag-'gerlng swag-'gerlng off to school of a morning his face shining from the vigorous application of soap and water, hair slicked back, blouse bpollea.. without a wrinkle, stockings whole and clean? I But by 6 o'clock Johnny comes bounding Into supper looking like the wreck of the Hesperus, stockings torn, muddy, blouse a wreck. Thinn of the work that went into the washing and ironing of Johnny's morning outfit and Nellie's pink and white sweetness, sweet-ness, and then their short-lived glory, land figure out the work and the result. re-sult. Step right up, Henry and do a little lit-tle worrying about us house-bound folks with our hard handwork and our meager results. , "There are plenty of ?o000 cars for the rich folks." Henry argued once. "Here is something for the folks back I on the farm." Sure enough. But how about the washing mac ihinea and the dish wash-iers? wash-iers? Can't you devise a simple, Inexpensive In-expensive fool-proof contraption which iwiH take that great stack of dirt dishes in tho sink, swirl It around a hundred times, plunge them again Into In-to boiling water which will stmd the dish towel into the Umbo along with the old, flow moving horse and cart 'and let the women folks see a little more result of theh labor, loo? i How about a dish washer for $10 or ;$15 and a washing machine snug and trim and cheap like vour little gasoline gaso-line buggy which climbs the hills and doesn't eat up tho gas and doesn't Icost much to start with? And then go on and show us how to crank up tho old coffee mill and stick the bread batter ln a pan and turn the crank, iund make the beds by machinery. You Icon do it, Henry, eo walk right up. Who's stopping you? There's too much ' labor for the results Indoors as well las out. I rn |