WHY LABOUR-SAVING HOUSES ARE NEEDED
Why do we need Labour-Saving Houses?
Because:
1.--Life is too short and time too valuable to waste in doing work
which is unnecessary and which adds little or nothing to our
comfort.
2.--There is a scarcity of labour. Girls of the class from which
domestic servants were drawn formerly now dislike service. The
would-be employer finds it difficult to obtain servants and to
keep them when obtained.
3.--Unless great changes are made in our houses and households it
will become even more difficult to obtain servants, because so
many professions are now open to young women that they are in a
position to choose how they will earn a living.
4.--When servants are not obtainable, the mistress is driven to
turn to and do the work of her own house. That is why a demand for
labour-saving mechanism is making itself felt.
5.--Owing to modern inventions, it is now possible to achieve a house
in which a family may be housed and fed in comfort at half the
cost of labour which is absorbed in the labour-making house.
6.--It is pleasanter to spend money on the things one likes than to
squander it on unnecessary coals and kitchenmaids.
House-keeping. Home-making.
What do these words mean?
They mean so much that is vital to the individual and to the nation
that one could weep for the stupidity which permits any untrained and
ill-educated girl to become a nurse, a cook, a housemaid, a mother,
and the mistress of a home!