Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1914 — NO 10-MINUTE-A-DAY WIFE [ARTICLE]

NO 10-MINUTE-A-DAY WIFE

Writer In Collier's Doesn't by Any Means Agree With Inez Mllholland Boissevaln. Feminism by all means —only That doesn’t commit one to accepting every statement advanced by Mme. Inez Milholland Boissevaln. Take her remark the other day about ten minutes in every twenty-four hours being enough for “keeping house." Now, ten minutes may do in a Manhattan apartment house, where babies are against the law, but who calls running a Manhattan apartment “housekeeping?" In our town there are no uniformed bellboys to fall back on; no speaking tubes or dumb waiters or “maid service included" in the lease. One cannot have hraalrfaat brought to one’s bed for the asking: some A time, somehow, that breakfast has to be cooked. The housekeeper in our town is a homemaker. She has mending to do, and stops letter writing or preparing a club paper on H. G. Wells to kiss a "hurted place" and make it welt Mrs. Inez's flippancy

about ten minutes a day doing for keeping house is a crying injustice to the best, the most efficient, the most lovable of all “feminists.” It Isn’t even on a par with the kaisers “three Ks” ineptitude—Kirk, Kitchen and Kids. We should live divided between a very present fear of ptomaine poisoning and a recurrent dread of death by slow starvation—if ours were a' ten-minute-a-day wife.—Collier’s Weekly.