THE WOMEN AT HOME

Shannon News, 4 September 1928, Page 4

THE WOMEN AT HOME

The more girls and women take up careers in the world, the more trained women will be required in the home.

Someone must iook atter tue roof that shelters us, .and the space it covers not to mention, equipment, personal' clothing.and food, to reduce our needs to the lowest practical level. We hear a great deal about women running botha home and a career in the .world most.; successfully, but unbiased investiga- ■ tion will invariably- reveal -the ? fact that there is some,indispensable woman there to keep the machinery sin or,der, even if the woman with a career (who considers she runs the house) turns the handle.

It is this indispensable woman who is my concern, states a writer in a London exchange. I don't care whether she be mother, wife, sister,, daughter* aunt,, housekeeper, servant, or daily "char." These women are indispensable to the worker —man or.womajn—who has a commercial or any other career.

I defy anyone—man or woman—to make a career in the world without :the help of one of these treasures, "The woman a( home makes her best contribution to the community bysknowing how to live. To make things go well in a home is an art and the .woman who does this is an artist. Her achieve- * ment is an attitude td life. Most, women at home hav« a little of this quality and some are almost perfect. Such women are .great artists. As a rule, human nature finds some leisure : neeessary to hold this attitude and this is one reason why, if possible,- the woman at home should have leisure" These are the words of->a Canadian gi r] brought up in a Canadian home. They have wide horizons out there and take wide views. As Lady Ravensdale, president of the Union ;of Women Voters, said recently, we need to organise capable groups of women ;so that when legislation comes along affecting these groups, wc may have the adequate brains and information. We need most particularly a strong group of home-makers of every type. Not merely those, who rule, but those who do the actual work.