Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1886 — ARCHITECTURE FOR WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

ARCHITECTURE FOR WOMEN.

The Southern Woman suggests architecture as a profession for women. There are magnificent and costly how whose kitchen arrangements are a marvel of inconvenience; and the woman of the hou- e often says with a groan, “No Woman Would have planned things so.” By all means let women be architects. They would naturally make better architects than men, for the reason that they have more practical knowledge of convenience and economy, especially in tlie arrangement of dwellings and other buildings appropriated wholly, or in part, to the use of their sex. There are, or could be, a thousand little intricacies about our homes which the masculine mind would never conceive, but which would add immeasurably to the comfort and convenience of the tidy, ambitious housewife. Since the trace of a woman’s hand is so easily discern able in indoor decorations and adornments, why should she not cultivate and develop this, as any other talent, giving to her varied genius a wider field of activity and usefulness?