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This little book is not a treatise on Domestic Science. The vacuumcleaner and the fireless cooker are not even mentioned. The efficientkitchen devised in such an interesting and clever way has no place init. Its exclusive object is to suggest a satisfactory and workablesolution along modern lines of how to get one's housework efficientlyperformed without doing it one's self.
If the propositions that she advances seem at first startling, thewriter begs only for a patient hearing, for she is convinced by strongreasons and abundant experience, that liberty in the household, likesocial and political liberty, can never come except from obedience tojust law.
C.H.B.
CAUSES OF THE PRESENT UNSATISFACTORY CONDITION OF DOMESTIC LABOR
BUSINESS PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO HOUSEWORK
EIGHT HOUR SCHEDULES IN THE HOME
The twentieth-century woman, in spite of her progressive and ambitioustheories about woman's sphere of activity, has allowed her housekeepingmethods to remain almost stationary, while other professions andindustries have moved forward with gigantic strides.
She does not hesitate to blazon abroad with banners and pennants herdesire to share with man the responsibility for the administration ofthe State, but she overlooks the disquieting fact that in the managementof her own household, where her authority is absolute, she has failedto convince the world of her power to govern. When confronted with thisaccusation, she asserts that the maintenance of a home is neither abusiness nor a profession, and that in consequence it ought not to becompared with them nor be judged by the same standards.
Is it not due perhaps to this erroneous idea that housekeeping is