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Show HOUSEWIVES IN CENSUS RETURNS ii - Washington. April 15. Census Director Di-rector Uurand has issued a statement to the housewives of the land, explaining explain-ing why. In the instructions to enumerators enumer-ators for the cenaiis bureau, housewives house-wives should berepresentod as having hav-ing no occupation. "It Is not intended intend-ed in (his Instruction," says Durand, "to imply that housewives have not a high occupation and one which greatly great-ly contributes' to the wealth of 'this country." The instruction says that tho census cen-sus Idea of an occupation Is necessarily necessar-ily to get tho statistics of women who di arn money directly and that In order or-der to assure an accurate census, hutisewlves should be represented as having no occupation. |