Who Should Make the Fuss?

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 52, 11 July 1930, Page 34

Who Should Make the Fuss?

f When Day. is Done HE following little story from 4 contemporary is not without its application here :- ‘ "T went home dog-tired the other night," said a husband recently. "T made so much fuss about how many things I had had-to do that day that my wife and I got into a good-natured argument over it. What she said, and what I said, set me thinking. "We took a pad and pencil, and each set down a list of the things we had done that day. Then we took another sheet and set down the things we thought the other had done. That last sheet, when compared to the ajtual list, Was an eye-opener. ’ "T thought about all she had done was prepare meals, dust and clean, make the beds and look after the chil-dren-certainly a good-sized job. But I found that the present-day homemaker has a many-sided job calling for all the skill and training of a big business executive. And usually she has no staff to whom she can delegate the details!" THIS is all too true. The home-mak-er to-day, in addition to all-the old routine duties that are still to be met, needs to be a marketing expert for one thing. She buys the groceries and meats, the furniture and furnishing, the clothing for ‘the family; bargains for the services of plumbers, painters and repairmen’ of all sorts; She must keep abreast of the times, too, or her -home-life is threatened with disaster. When her husband comes me at night, he is through; he can revax and rest. But the home-maker’s day is not done until the dishes ‘are out of the way and the last curly head has been safely tucked in. | And yet, husbands look to the wives to make this fag-end of the day-ser-ene, frictionless and happy. | Most husbands, we know, are ‘anxious to do their share, and many would help more with household chores if they could. But they can do their par to relieve the burden and lighten the labours of wife and mother, and the can best do it by securing for her th best of all modern aid. Ask an}"w man the most efficient time and labour savers. She will say electricity and modern electrical appliances. She knows,