THE MODERN YOUNG WOMAN.

Evening Star, Issue 19772, 24 January 1928, Page 11

THE MODERN YOUNG WOMAN.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —How the average man Joves to gibe the modern young woman on her lack of domesticity, her craving for unususal posts, which are classed as men’s jobs, her scantiness of dress on the streets, and her semi-nudeness when dipping in the briny. Even ‘ Q.V.,” whose comments I usually enjoy reading in Saturday night’s ‘ Star,’ brings his mind on a level with the man in. the street when he ends his article on readers of advertisements thus;—’‘Perhaps the most unusual place in which to find a modern young lady is in her home, and the most unusual work what are called domestic duties.” Now, sir, just how far back such a thought originated it is hard to say, but as men seriously believe progression should take place in all walks of life excepting the home, and if they had the luck of a Rip Van Winkle and could see the world in another thousand years, would they expect to find women on their knees scrubbing floors and messing around all day long concocting a scries of dishes that arc palatable to a semi-dyspeptic lord and master? This is an educated age, and woman sees cpiite clearly that romance soon goes out of life when she has a few r little tots around her and is kept with her nose to the grindstone day in and year out, making ends meet on an average man’s wage. Tin's is also an age of flats, where the cooking has to bo done in scores of places on a gasgrillcr, and supplemented from time to time at a ‘‘home-cooked” depot, and if man is lamenting the lost art of cooking juicy grilled steaks by modern young women lie will have to send in a protest to the domestic science staff and advocate in its teaching a few more “ back to Nature ” dishes. Tn my intimate acquaintance with a dozen young women I can mention at least ten of them who, if put to it, can cook and manage a home as well as any grown woman, and yet these girls are serving n, term in other walks of life. Tn the words of a well-known writer: “You cannot tell a woman to go back to the spinning wheel, the kitchen, the cradle, when vou have power looms, French cooks, liotels. restaurants, and modern nurseries. We’ve overflowed ; we’ve got to go on to a lot of ‘ new virtues,’ ’ 1 am. etc. Mother of Six. January 23.