Kiowa County Democrat. (Snyder, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1910 Page: 2 of 9
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StfOMEN AS^OMBIS’S
s f Employers
OffiftffiHILWOQjmilB
HI3 wage-earning woman
Is pretty well aware of
tier Importance to and
ety In ttie modern world,
but tlie wage-paying
woman seems, for tbe
moat part, entlruly un-
capacious of any neces-
anry connection between heraeir
and the world outside her home
The expression "employer" brings
to in I nd the few women of these
modern days who, by very umiaual
ability, linve become directors of
large business enterprises, rather
than the great number of house-
wives. who are the employers in
an Important occupation. Domes-
tic service Is an occupation In
which, In this country alone, ovor
3,000.000 wage earners are en-
gaged; It Is not only the consumer
of the products of large numbers
of other Important Industries, but
Its products or achievements serve
the most vltAl Interests of society.
The employer owes It to society
to make tho occupation In which
he employs others an efficient
means of satisfying some human
need In a way that shall be con-
ducive to the economic welfare of
society. The obligations of the
employer Imposed upon him by
this pusition In the social order
may be put U.:o three classes; to of the house and rooms that will be
those he employs. In the regulation of considered Impossible for any other
wages, standards of efficiency, etc., human being even casually spending
and In maintaining proper conditions the night In the house. They are fre-
for the preservation of health and so- uqently bare of even common necessl-
dal welfare; to other employers. In ties.
the same occupation. In regulation of The position of those employed In
wages, class of service and standards this service, as dwellers under the
of efficiency, and to the employers en- same roof with their employers, gives
gaged In the production of supplies the latter no more right to Interfere
for this occupation. In the stability in their private personal affairs than
and character of tbe demand; to with those of her tailor. When the
those whose needa the occupation sup- service for which she pays la properly
piles. In reliability and quality of aup- rendered, economic rights end. It
ply. may be her privilege to suggest or
In domestic service. In which worn- wisely guide In personal afTalrs. but It
en figure as workers and employers In *“tiwt be willingly granted her. Cer-
qvurwhelming majority, there are tain personal restrictions are neces-
unlque conditions, which make It an »»rlly Imposed upon anyone living In
Interesting problem to unravel tbe another's household, but they must be
purely economical relationships from °nly such as any self-respecting per-
the tangle of closely related social and l,on w°uld naturally comply with, or
personal ones. . * the5' become Intolerable.
In the first place, the products or Tho housekeeper who does her
achievements are such as cannot be w-holo duly to those who are members
defined In terms of the market. The °f the household may her tribe In-
aelection and preparation of the food crease! rests serenely In the cotifl-
of tho world and the cleaning and deuce of having performed the whole
sanitary eare of Its dwellings Is the duty of woman. Nevertheless, every
work of the occupation, and the prod- onco In a while her hojne is Invaded
ucts are of necessity found In tho by the reprehensible methods of her
quality of the bodily life of tbe com- neighbors. Introduced by one of tho
munity Then, too, those whose needs nomadic hoBt that forms the constant
this occupation supplies—the "con- procession through our American
Burners"—are members of the cm- kitchens, with uncomfortable and
ployer’s Immediate fniully, bound to sometimes calamitous results; or a
ill in by the closest nnd teuderest ties, sudden demand for nn Increase of
and the employes, more often than wages from a carefully trained nnd
not, are dwellers under the same roof, reliable maid revenls tbe fact that
thus making of employer, consumer »»nie other housekeeper tn the nelgh-
and employe one household group, borliood. In dire stress of clrcum-
with a mixture of personal, social nnd stance, or for a less honorable ren-
economlc relationships that no Inw- *on bas been tempted to offer higher
yer, Philadelphian or otherwise, not wages. The good woman cannot un-
to speak of any "mere woman," has derstand how she becomes the victim
ever been able to adjust satisfactorily of such unmerited disaster and won-
Prom the nature of the case the ob-
ligations to the “consumer" linve re-
ceived the bulk of attention given to
domestic service l.ong centuries of
Isolation have bred In women its char-
acteristic evil of selfishness and obll-
dors "why people can’t mind their
own business nnd let her alone," nnd
she forthwith goes to the Intelligence
office and dlls the place of the com-
petent. Intelligent maid with a wholly
Inexperienced and untrained emigrant,
, , nt the samo rate of wages she pant
gat ons to her amlly not only appear fof compptcncy Hnd thp npxt ordpr
to her a. her first duties, hut. In the her gro(.pr ca1u for nn
mnjoDty o cases, have obscured al ,nfer|or ||ty of goodgi bec„use
otne.“ Though this obligation of .. . . -
maintaining the healthful and com-
fort alilo conditions of the home Is fo
completely recognized, the fact that it
is most imperfectly met Is lamentably
“such are good enough for an incom-
petent cook to spoil.”
The whole course of human devel-
opment has hnd a tendency to make
evident. This is coninionly attrlbuied woman tbe conservative, self-centered
to the Inefficiency of the available
being that she Is. and through that
supply of employes and, at Hrst glance, <*har«*cterlatlc the home, her special
would put the whole responsibility for
province, became nnd remained a sup-
the evils In the present to the work r<i«ecHy self-sufficing social unit. Here
ers in It The methods of the prepa- ,m‘ ‘'nshrlncd the deepest mysteries
ration of food In the modern family nml snnr,m°8 of human llfp- r|Kh,lv
are for the most part governed by tra protected from public Interference. As
dltlon, based upon the more or less **'»’ umnufacturer Is entitled to keep
Intelligent experiments of a long line ,'<'‘'rp, ,he Processes wherewith he
of female ancestors, or tbe fnds nnd oomhlnes bis raw materials Into the
fancies generated In Idle brains or by h*'*8hcd product, but the plant and
misused stomachs, rather Ilian any li 1 nory may be matters of public
knowledge of the value for support Interest, so In the home the life Itself
and upbuilding of human bodies based * Personal nffnlr, but the machin-
ery whereby It Is carried on Is a so-
cial affair.
In (lie days of simpler housekeep
upon sdentlllc experiment.
From the position of the employe In
tho employers household the exist- he" domestic wage'earn ers were
mice of obligations to them Is gener- fow mimbpr nn(1 thp ministrations
ally recognised, but any general Idea of Pnoh individual were confined to
as to the definition nnd scope of ope or at perhaps a half dozen
these obligations Is extremely vague families, and II mattered comparntlve-
Klghl here Is a very delicate adjust- ,y „ (llp (raln|ng ,.0nslsted large
incut of the personal and economic re- |y of unwholesome processes of cook
lallons The training Hint men have ,I1R am, unsanitary methods of clean-
gotten in the business world, where sllu.p „,p miseblef was not dla
tbe distinctions between personal nnd scmlnntcd through a whole eonunu-
business relations are sharply drawn. „|ty ,,cither disease germs nor other
lias been almost unknown to women results of crude experimenting were
in the past nml thetr propensity to c#rrlp(| from tan,||y to fam,iy ,)y the
mix sentimental!!', prejudice nnd pre- constantly moving strrntn of domestic
sonnl caprice with nil their business employes we have to-day.
transactions Is notorious ... " .... , , ,
the woman who raises tho rate of
In the economic relation the cm- wages In her own household compels
ployer owes to iho employe a definite, every other employer In her neighbor-
reasonable wage for a definite amount hood to do likewise, either absolutely
of service, nnd, since she ts also the or by accepting Inferior service, nnd
educator, she owes such training ns Ibis result follows whether her motive
shall bring efficiency. She Is also un- In so doing was to raise a wage un-
der obligations to maintain proper Justly acquired through some other
renditions in the occupation for the woman’s careful training, or whether
preservation of lienltb nnd social wel ll was done In pure thoughtlessnesa
fare Such obligations certainly In- The woman who takes Into her cm-
elude n place to sleep, bnving the ploy. In place of a competent and well-
requlslto amount of ntr space nnd sun- trained cook or housemaid, an Inei-
light, with comfortable nnd wholesome perlenced one. at the earn# rata of
bed and proper farllltlea tor bathing, wages, because the girl, through nat-
etc But this has been ao entirely ural stupidity or Ignoranca ol tha
Ignored that our homes hava been ways of her adopted country, “la not
hullt with "the girl's room" Invert- up to tha trteka of gtrla la geasrsL"
a bly In tha moat uncomfortable part or bocauat tha houaakaapar waata to
be able to “train her from tbe start,"
not only raises the relative rate of
wages, but puts a premium on Incom-
petency. She repudiates her obliga-
tions to her own family, for nowhere
else la the employment of unskilled
labor more extravagant than In do-
mestic service, where processes are
so Intricate and varied and where
routine counts for so little and unskil-
ful experimenting can hardly produce
the best conditions for bodily health
and comfort. There are natural lawg
that governln the economic world In-
exorably, without respect to sex or
person, and one of them la that tho
nature of the supply la governed by
the demand
The common expedient for balan-
cing the extravagance of Incompetent
service Is using poorer quality of ma-
terials nnd there again tbe same law
holds; less price means less of some-
thing. For example, we hear house-
keepers say, "Oh. yes, 1 know these
extracts are perfectly pure and much
superior In every way. but they are so
expensive and the cook Is no more
careful about wasting them than the
rhenp ones, so I buy the cheap ones."
The facts are that the cheap extracts.
If really taken from the fruits or
spices they represent, are so diluted
that a much larger quantity must be
used to get the same result. In the
ense of foodtstulfs the lower grades
have a smaller percentage of nourish-
ing power—nn unpardonable sin. Ev-
ery housekeeper Is by her demand In- 1
tluenclng the quality of the supply for
every other housekeeper. It Is the
demnnd of the economical (?) house-
keepers thnt has made tho problem of
adulterated foods assume such propor-
tions.
Large numbers of Industries are de-
pendent upon the home for the con-
sumption of their products—the mnr-
kel gardener, the dairyman, manufac-
turers of grocers' supplies and all the
multitude of Industries engaged In the
production of supplies for house dec-
oration nnd furnishings, and every
rlinnge in the economic conditions
there Is registered In some disturb-
ance throughout this whole system of
dependent industries.
Tbe rent worth of the decorative
nnd esthetlcally valuable things lies
In tbe artistic skill put Into them, In
combination of colors, design or work-
manship. nnd the degree of Intelli-
gence necessary in the proper rare
of them Is In nlniost direct proportion
to such value When such Intelligence
Is lacking In the housemaid the care
of these things falls upon tbe mistress
of the house nnd the wise woman of
to-day very often comes to the con-
clusion that her life and time have
too many more Important demands
upon them to be used up tn the way
thnt ownership of many of these valu-
able things makes necessary Conse-
quently the demand for the really
high-class commodities falls off nnd
those of cheaper quality. Imltatlims.
etc., take thetr places and the skilful
and artistic employes are supplanted
by cheaper nnd untrained workers.
Aa a rule, low-class labor ran be em-
ployed profitably only upon the cheap-
er grades of products. The compe-
tency nnd Intelligence of those em-
ployed ns cooks nnd housemaids has
nn Important Influence upon tbe qual-
ity of the supplies demanded by the
housekeeper and It depends upon
these demands whether the employers
In the production of these supplies,
who furnish honest, first-class quality
nnd pay good wages to a high class
of workers, shnll ho able to prosper
or whether the market ahull be mo-
nopolized by the law-grade produets.
These are some of the responsibili-
ties that the housekeeper nasumes
when she becomes un employer. To
study them nnd meet their demands
would not only lead to the solution of
that modern riddle of the Sphinx, tha
domestic service problem, but would
help conditions throughout the In-
dustrial world.
The thoughtful women of the coun-
try should become actively Interested
In theee questions. The great naed
la for general organized effort among
Intelligent women to put the one In-
dustry axclualvely controlled by them
Into lu proper piece (a the eoetal
order.
Paint lick Lady
Writes Thanks
For the Great Benefit Tknt Cardui,
the Woman's Tonic, Was to
Her When Sick
Paint Lick, Ky.—“I suffered so much
from womanly trouble," writes Mrs.
Mary Freeman, of Paint Lick, Ky.,
"before I commenced to take Cardut.
"I was so weak from It, that I was
down on my back nearly all the time.
"I have taken three bottles of Cardul
and it bas done me more good than
any medicine I ever took In my life.
‘‘I can't possibly praise It too highly.
It has done so much for me and I will
do all I can to help you for I think It
ts the only medicine on earth that will
cure female troubles."
You need not be afraid to try Cardul,
for In doing so you are making no new
experiment In drug dosing or In tablets
of concentrated mineral ingredients.
Cardul as a medicine, as a tonic for
weak, tired, worn-out women. Is time-
tested, safe, reliable. It has helped
others and should certainly help you.
Composed of gentle-acting, herb In-
gredients, Its action Is mild and nat-
ural and It has no bad after-effects, as
have many of the powerful drugs,
sometimes recommended.
Try It.
X. B—Write «oi Ladles’ Advisory
Drat., Chattaaooaa Medicts* Co., Chat*
toaooga, Tran., (or Special Iastrwetloma,
aad 64-page book, ’’Iloaie Treatment (or
Women,’’ neat la plain wrapper, oa to*
sweat.
ONE OF ADAM’S TROUBLES
Incident In tho Garden of Edan That
Must Ba Taken for What
It Is Worth.
Rev. Dr. Charles Townsend of
Orange was one of the speakers at the
Park Presbyterian Church Men's club
banquet last week, and told this story
of one of the troubles of the original
ancestor:
“Adam had eaten the elaborate re
past furnished by, his helpmeet with
every Indication that he relished each
morsel. He complimented her upon
the dainty manner In which the blue-
polnta were served, the flavor of the
puree of pea, the seasoning of the fish
nnd entree, and finally reached a de-
licious salad. Adam paused, and with
a worried look on Ills face he de-
manded of Eve where she found the
Ingredients. She enumerated all ex-
cept the lettuce.
" 'Where did you get those leaves?'
he demanded.
" ‘Why, they were lying on a bush
In the back yard,’ she replied sweetly.
" ‘Wall, those were my best Sunday
trousers,' sobbed Adam, adding, ‘Ah,
woe is man,’ which was corrupted Into
•woman,' the term by which we know
Eve's daughters.”—Newark Star.
Why doss Groat Britain buy l$a oat-
meal of ua?
Certainly It seems like carrying
coala to Newcastle to apeak of export-
ing oatmeal to Scotland and yet, every
yegr the Quaker Oats Company sends
hundreds of thousands of cases of
Quaker Oats to Great Britain and
Europe.
The reason is simple; while the
English and Scotch have for centuries
eaten oatmeal In quantities and with a
regularity that has made them the
most rugged physically, and active
mentally of all people, the American
has been eating oatmeal and trying all
the time to Improve the methods of
manufacture so that he might get that
desirable foreign trade.
How well be has succeeded would
be seen at a glance at tbe export re-
ports on Quaker Oats. This brand Is
without a rival; is packed la regular
packages, and in hermetically sealed
tins for hot climates. 51
AFTER
DOCTORS
FAILED
LydiaE-Pinkham’sVeffeta-
ble Compound Cured tier
Knoxville, Iowa, — "I Buffered with
pains low down in my right side for •
year or more and was so weak and ner-
vous that I could not do ^myvoriL ^1
In Demand.
“An infant in a Pullman car set up a
loud wall, and would not be com-
forted,” narrates a high railroad of-
ficial, “and 1 came forward and told
the young mother that I had helped
to raise five, and that I thought I
could secure a quietus. I put the little
turn turn across my knees, and with a
gentle jogging achieved beautiful re-
sults.
"Instead of giving me the credit I
deserved some drummers In the car
showed Btern disapproval of my ‘but-
ting in.'
“At 2 a. m. the baby woke up and
stayed awake, and kept every one else
In the car awake. Finally a gruff
voice asked;
" 'Where’s that fool that put It to
sleep this afternoon, I wonder?’ ”
Murphy.
Tbe prisoner at the bar was of
swarthy complexion and was charged
with peddling without a license.
"What Is your name?” asked the mag-
istrate.
“He says his name la Murphy," re-
peated the policeman on the bridge.
“An Irishman peddling bananas, eh?
What part of Ireland do you come
from?”
“He says he was born in Italy,”
again responded the bridge policeman.
“Umph! The Murphys are numer-
ous, but I didn’t think they had spread
to Italy," said the judge as he made
the fine $1 and asked the man to spell
his name.
The prisoner wrote on a piece of
paper "Giuseppe Muerfee.”—New
York Sun.
A Terrible Risk.
Typhoid had broken out In their
neighborhood and the family resorted
to travel as the best means of precau-
tion until the trouble should subside.
They arrived at Quebec by the
morning boat. Intending to take it to
Montreal In the evening, but the sight-
seers got tired and returned early In
the afternoon to find the top of the
smokestack on a level with the dock,
the tide having dropped 18 feet.
"Mamma," cried the little girl, "did
God drink up all that water?”
"Yes. my child."
"Then hadn't we better tell him It
wasn't tolled?"
Uppers.
“I was brought up by my colored
nurse," said the southern girl nt a
party on the seventeenth floor of a
Harlem apartment house.
"I was brought up by the elevator,"
the New York girl declared.
Alas.
A little five-year-old who had been
wntching her mother dress for an
evening entertainment surprised her
mother with the following question:
“Mother, didn’t you say you were al-
most 40 years old?”
“Yes,” replied the mother.
"Well,” answered the little girl, “you
don’t look it tonight, but you will to-
morrow morning.”—Judge.
Wrong View of Marriage.
“There would be less divorce,” said
ex-Gov. Pennypncker, "If there were
fewer men like William Windle.
"William Windle embarked on an ex-
cursion steamer for Point Breeze, and
a few iqiles out, ns he paced the upper
deck and drank in the bracing ozone,
he spied his friend Jackson.
“ ‘Why, Jackson, how are ye?’ he ex-
claimed. ‘Are ye out for pleasure, or
is yer wife along?'”
ham and took Lvdla
E. Pinkham’s Vegs-
table Compound
and Liver Pills, and
am glad to say that
your medicines and
kind letters of di-
rections have done
more for me than
anything else and I
had the best physi-
cians here. 1 can
do my work and rest
well at night. I believe there is noth-
ing like the Pinkham remedies.” —
Mrs. Claju Franks, B. P. D-, No. 8,
Knoxville, Iowa.
The success of Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
anti herbs, is unparalleled. It may be
used with perfect confidence by women
who suffer from displacements, inflam-
mation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, ir-
regularities, perlodlo pains, backache,
bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indi-
gestion, dizziness, or nervous prostra-
tion. '
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham’a
Vegetable Compound has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
suffering women owe it to themselves
to at least give this medicine a trial
Proof is abundant that it has cured
thousands of others, and why should it
not euro youf
If yon want special advice write
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass„for its
It is free and always helpful.
Sick Horses
have many symptoms, such as
hidebound, loss of appetite,
cough, colic, indigestion, etc.
BLAGK-DRAUG
STOCK a POULTRY
^ MEDICINE
fl«
fdrit
I thei
■ thai
I you
I 3
liberates their livers and
drives out the cause of all
these troubles. Costs less
than one cent a day to keep
your horse in prime condition.
Ask your dealer.
28c. 80c. and $1. Per Can.
_ p e»
Progress.
Knlcker—Now we have children
taught how to play.
„ Bocker—Fine, next we Bhall have
animal trainers to show lambs how to
gambol.
Takers of the United States Census
will use Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen
because It Is always ready and sure.
If the fool and his money were In-
separable there would be no get-rich-
quick schemes.
Don’t Persecute
your Bowels
CMoOraihullauil nrsMbw. Tkwsni
—ohawh-o-uBTiBcf—ry. Try
CARTER'S LITTLE.,
UVER PILLS
Pmlr A
sLr&SS;
wsk.lt>. JAcU.
■F
ZkkHwfccW aal UfcMlw. at sb. kanr.
Small Pill. Small Dose. Smell Price’
GENUINE mail bear signature .
lilTPIIT Book nnd Advice I HKK.
IPI I hi I »ri<wirh A l.ewrtur.-, Washington,
f M I mill I li.o. ttst. 4 y yr». II. St ruff relieve
DEFIANCE STARON
sever stick*
to tbe !ro»
ROSY COLOR
Produced by Postum.
"When a person rises from each
meal with a ringing in the ears and a
general sense of nervousness. It Is
a common habit to charge It to a de-
ranged stomach.
“I found It was caused from drink-
ing coffee, which I never suspected for
a long time, but found by leaving off
coffee that the disagreeable feelings
went away.
“I was brought to think of the sub-
ject by getting some Postum and this
brought me out of trouble.
"It la a most appetising and Invig-
orating beverage and baa been of
such great benefit to me that I natu-
rally speak of It from time to time
as opportunity offers.
"A lady friend complained to me
thnt she hnd tried Postum. but It did
not tnste good. In reply to my ques-
tion she said she gucsed she boiled It
about ten minutes. 1 advised her to
follow directions and know that she
boiled It fifteen or twenty minutes, nnd
she would have something worth talk-
ing about. A short time ago I heard
one of her children say thnt they were
drinking Postum now-n-days, so I
Judge she succeeded tn maklrg It
good, which Is by no means a difficult
taak.
“The son of one of my friends was
formerly n pale lad, but since he has
been drinking Postum, has a fin. color.
There la plenty of evidence that
Postum actually does 'make red blood.'
aa the famous trade-mark saya.”
Read "The Road to Wellvtllo.” found
la pkgs. "There's a Reason."
Bve* teed the .have Intent A new
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telenet.
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We have just issued a book about house decoration. Map wb
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It tells how to produce those beautiful walls, now seen in all thd
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It suggests color schemes — offers a wealth of ideas. And it tells
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Tha SonHaiy Wll Coating
Alabasline I, the only wall coaling that
doesn't breed germs. It has burn so for
30 years.
In the past few yean it has Income tho
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of taste — W>th rich and poor—uow have
alabastiued walls
Please know the reason. Know tha
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Know how easily you can apply it, evas
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You will never use wall paper —never
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facts.
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Th« moM practical and economical fence made for yard, laws,
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