Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — The WeeKly Panorama. [ARTICLE]

The WeeKly Panorama.

tt/cman and the Kjtchen. t/tme. Schmahl, editor of the Avant Courier, goes even further than Mme. Sarah Grand in her advocacy of woman’s enfranchisement. Mme. Schmahl would apply the ax to the underpinnings of our domestic institutions. “The kitchen must go," says she, “before women ineet the responsibilities of the twentieth century and specialize their work according to their tastes.” That is, if women are to have free scope for their intellectual development during the present century, they must abandon the cooking stove and the pantry, the refrigerator and the china closet, the kneading board, the rolling-pin and the broom, and devote themselves exclusively to what Mme. Schmahl regards as the higher pursuits. How are they to do this if they expect to have husbands, children and the happiness for which the soul of every good woman yearns in these days? Can they the kitchen and still preserve domestic peace? Or, to put it in a broader way, will It be possible for the woman of the twentieth century to eliminate the kitchen from her home life?