GIVING MOTHER A VACATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)

GIVING MOTHER A VACATION.

Persons, particularly men, still cherish' the notion that the average modern housewife has nothing to do. The average housewife works harder than a factory girl. This is not feminist propaganda, but the sober report of a survey just made public by the Bureau of Home Economics of v the Department of- Agriculture. Out of two ■thousand women studied in ;various .localities, half work more than forty-eight hours a week, and' the. "weekly time for the entire* numbers fifty-one'hours., Half the work—which also includes washing, ironing, sweeping, dusting, mending, sewing—consists ■'■ of getting three meals a day and washing dishes afterward. Even though a Brooklyn gaa expert .testified ..before.the Public; Seryice 'Commission,,the other day that less i cooking -than formerly 'is done at home, -the" domestic art would seem far from being a lost one. ; But though ; many women, really, like to cook, and-though every family assuredly likes to eatj some days surely should be; turned into a culinary vacation for who. so- often gets no other- kind!—("Star" and AAv N.S.-1 \ '; • „ '. -••" I • ,'