CORRESPONDENCE.

White Ribbon, Volume 40, Issue 467, 18 August 1934, Page 11

CORRESPONDENCE.

. Editor, rtn* “White Ribbon." a r Madam, — \t our monthly meeting it \\;is a .imj re to hear our President refer, 1 im sure many other Presidents and \;ite members have done, to the j>arularly good quality of the last \\ hit>L»n. Rut there was one expression ich it seems to me might have been proved. Why say "Back to the 1. hen" as if the kitchen of necessity ■ns drudgery, and only drudgery? If re to have homes \\e need kitchens, 1 the better type of brain used then* >t misused or left to addle itself) the tei' for the home life, both physical ntal and spiritual. Children of every • need good food, in all three ways. I it takes a mind, alert, well trained 1 generous to supply that need. \W a* made far too much mistake in our tern of education in not impressing the last generation that horne-mak-is the highest profession, and that who give their lives to it are to be loured. ■lie W.C.T.U. can help the country, t imi in the future, if it lays stress tin* importance of this attitude. !io sweeps a room as for His |e we all know the feeling comes knit warning, sometimes in the most cil of routine jobs, and the day is Jfied. Thanks be for the knowledge I Rod sends every housewife som* Is. if she loves her work. “Tlii ; Jo* is mine, and Thou my mmister- ■ l nest. To make it holy for Thy !•' to enter in, Thy work is not the Bt.’’ Would not we Ik* wiser to use ■ i slogan. Forward in the Kitchen? o ward all the time, for us and for B children. Our children don’t in Bit our early enthusiasm, they have Bbo trained in it, and the home, of flich the kitchen is a basic part, is the Bining-ground Rod has given us. If B country is to live it needs comfort - B- homes, so we can’t afford any n« bbishness in regarding home-making a l>elow any girl’s ambition, and in Bt side of education, as in others, it sl'or the W.C’.T.U. to lead. KATHERINE MKRCKIt ■fad our correspondent looked care llv she would have seen that “Rack ■ the kitchen" was a quotation. W° ■ entirely in accord with the writer I to the importance of the kitchen, hit our objection is to tlie contention ■it tin* kitchen is the only place for Kirnen. Also, what of the women who Ivor have kitchens to work in? WoI a is an individual and has n riuht I any position for which Rod has given talents. — Ed. “YV.R.”