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Show mm spired and uninspiring as they maj seem to one who looks upon them coldly and Impersonally? The setting to rights of the little Lome, the preparation of the meal the family will enjoy are these duties du-ties trying to a woman of imagination? imagina-tion? For my part I should say the more Imagination, the less trying they nre. Every job, of course, at some time palls, all work has Its good and Its less pleasant aspects Duties which in themselves might be plcasureable become n strain when multiplied beyond the capacity of single person to cope with them. But If . the demands upon her are within reasonable limits, I can very well understand a wife and mother with abundant imagination enjoying the tasks involved in the making of a home and the up-bringing of children. chil-dren. It requires Imagination on the part of the observer to feel the joyous joy-ous thrill In the task of making up a lunch for little Bobby to take to school, to measure the unbounded flights of fancy enjoyed by a mother bent over the apparently monotonous monoto-nous Job of making a party dress for her daughter. Is It that women are suited to monotony mo-notony or that their Imagination da-feats da-feats monotony? C Bell Syndicate. WNU Servlc. Daily Tasks for Wife and Mother Few Women Will Look Upon Household Duties as "Monotonous." "Women are best suited for monotonous monot-onous jobs." That heading to a news dispatch sent several of our readers up In arms. "Best suited Indeed. What they mean is that women did the IIIU2iOi.OIlUUa V..io tj-iit; -cv,. them as long as they could not help themselves," writes one of the friends whom we heard from before. The basis for It all was the publication publi-cation of a report of a British sociologist, soci-ologist, that women adapt themselves them-selves to monotonous work with greater success than men, that they can best bring themselves to the daily performance of monotonous work without losing their Interest In life. It Is true enough that women have for centuries done uncomplainingly the work that was their duty, though It was not always the work they would have chosen. The reference Is of course to the monotonous grind of housework, the Job of home and children. But It seems to me that that Is not all there Is to It. The question Is, are household tasks as monotonous to the wife and mother as they seem? Are the routine rou-tine chores involved always as unln- |