DRUDGERY FOR WOMEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 37, 14 October 1913, Page 4

DRUDGERY FOR WOMEN.

If not a honor of wood, the American farmer’s wife is a drawer of water, and the task "takes the elasticity out of her step,the bloom out of her cheek, and the enjoyment Irom tier soul. Such, at any rate, is the discovery made hy Mr took, president of the Mississippi Normal College, and announced in a sneeial bulletin issued hy the United States bureau of Education, .ray - the Manchester Guardian. Mr C'dok estimates that on most American farms the housewife has to lift e. ton of water a day. The water tor the kitcheir has to he drawn from the well, carried to the kitchen, poured into a kettle, poured out of the kettle into the dishpan, and from the dishpan out of doors. r ! his occurs three times a day in the preparation of meals, and, in addition to all this, the poor woman has to draw and earn the water necessary for washing.

scrubbing, and the laundry. If Mi Cook’s sympathetic protest brings compunction to the hearts of American farmers there should he a boom in the sale of pumping machinery, for he points out that all this drudgery might ho obviated, on the most isolated farm, hy an outlay of £sl) on an up-to-date pumping system.