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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1919, Page 7

In the course of a lecturing tour in America as a representative of this. Brit ish Ministry Miss Helen Fraser crossed the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and everywhere Bhs found decided and successful efforts to simplify domestic life. The maid servant is now practically an unknown quantity. Housewives have to do their own work, and so methodical are they, and so well supported by builders, and particularly plumbers, that the task is not so hard ae it might appear. According to Miss Fraser, the American plumber is proud of his work, and tho consequence of this pride is realised in the home, In a house of six or seven bedrooms, there is usually a bathroom for each. In living rooms floors are of parquet or hardwood, with rugs. Miss Fraser does not recall a single carpet covering a Jlour throughout her stay in holds or private houses where she was a guest. The luck of the pre-war supply of Scandinavian and Irish maids has compelled many an American woman to do Wie cooking for her establishment; but tho stoves aro of a most convenient description—frequently electric and commonly gas. Where coal is used it is specially prepared for domestic purposes, and rendered much cleaner thun that in its' natural condition. Central heating in tho houses does away with much of the dust that has to be cleaned up every day. * Tho Vicious Circle.—"At twenty you left the farm and came to the city. And for thirty years you havo been working like Hades. What for?" "In order lo get money enough to live in the country." ' i