Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1915 — LESSENING A WOMAN’S WORK [ARTICLE]

LESSENING A WOMAN’S WORK

Conditions During Recent Years Havs Greatly Improved, and Results Have Been Excellent.

Our women are carrying their years better. Not only is their length of life increasing, but they are making their youth last longer. They are raising stronger children. There is an uplift to the whole race. Many explanations are offered, but the big cause underlying the whole efTect is the improvement of the homes and the lightening of its drudgery. There is now more time for improving the members of the family; more time for culture and travel; more time for civic and other public matters. .z. - Staying young is largely a matter of keeping interested in things, and, to keep interested, there must be variety. So the current criticism that woman is flying from one thing to another and undertaking too much aqd wearing out her nerves is not altogether sound. Some of them do, doubtless, but they are the exceptions. Woman’s great trouble in the past h&s been routine. t ..

Doctors found that the reason so many cases -of mental disease came from the farms was that farm women did not have enough interests. Their loneliness was disastrous. Now that the farm women have the telephone and the automobile And the social societies and other means of diversion and employment, conditions are improving. So, the lessening of woman’s work by system and the use of all labor-sav-ing devices possibly really means that besides the enjoyment of better hours she has time for things that will broaden and stimulate her mind, bring her in association with other women and give her the opportunity to be part of the larger life'and progress of the age. —Woman’s World. i '4