WOMEN'S WORK

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 117, 20 May 1930, Page 17

WOMEN'S WORK

Writing further of women's work, "Still Smilin 'Thru" denies an attempt to iudse anyone. ■ ' ' ■■ . "There is nothing to be. said against the firl who chooses to work in an office. She as to live the same as anyone else, i£ she is to pay her way. What Ido say is that it is not fair to draw comparisons that are apt to make others discontented. In my own defence I would like to say .that I have some papers, of which I am justly proud, that would prove to 'Typewriters Hammerers' that my living was not obtained in the domeatic sphere, but I took up housework and cooking before marriage, and now as wife and mother I have never regretted the knowledge gained thereby." "A Woman," on-the same subject writes in reply to "Smilin' Thru'": I have done both domestic and office work before marriage, and am now the mother of five young children, and I manage very well, but I don't consider myself clever. CleaDliness and orderliness are all that is reTiiired, and any cookery book explains liow one's onions are cooked. Very feudivorces are due to the woman's, incompetency, but rather a lack of kindnes on one

or both sides in many instances. Then think of Miss Amy Johnson. Such women have been the mothers of our race, but in the past received no credit, as they were not allowed any outlet. I think pluck and brains are to be admired in a woman as well as good housekeeping. It is remarkable, too, how beautifully the modern 'flapper' fits in with all the laboursaving devices that are being invented. Why worry about future housewives; a few generations hence and it will be necessary only to press buttons."