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    Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework Business principles applied to housework
    Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework Business principles applied to housework
    Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework Business principles applied to housework
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    Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework Business principles applied to housework

    By C. Hélène Barker

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework Business principles applied to housework - C. Hélène Barker

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      Title: Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework

      Author: C. Helene Barker

      Release Date: November 22, 2004 [eBook #14117]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WANTED, A YOUNG WOMAN TO DO HOUSEWORK***

      E-text prepared by Stan Goodman, Melissa Er-Raqabi,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      WANTED

      A Young Woman to Do

      HOUSEWORK

      BUSINESS PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO HOUSEWORK

      By

      C. HÉLÈNE BARKER

      Author of Automobile French

      New York

      Moffat, Yard & Company

      1915

      PREFACE

      This little book is not a treatise on Domestic Science. The vacuum cleaner and the fireless cooker are not even mentioned. The efficient kitchen devised in such an interesting and clever way has no place in it. Its exclusive object is to suggest a satisfactory and workable solution along modern lines of how to get one's housework efficiently performed without doing it one's self.

      If the propositions that she advances seem at first startling, the writer begs only for a patient hearing, for she is convinced by strong reasons and abundant experience, that liberty in the household, like social and political liberty, can never come except from obedience to just law.

      C.H.B.

      CONTENTS

      PART I

      CAUSES OF THE PRESENT UNSATISFACTORY CONDITION OF DOMESTIC LABOR

      Ignorance and Inefficiency in the Home

      Difficulty of Obtaining Women to Do Housework

      The Disadvantages of Housework Compared with Work in Factories, Stores, and Offices

      PART II

      BUSINESS PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO HOUSEWORK

      Living Outside Place of Employment

      Housework Limited to 8 Hours a Day

      Housework Limited to 6 Days a Week

      The Observance of Legal Holidays

      Extra Pay for Overtime

      PART III

      EIGHT HOUR SCHEDULES IN THE HOME

      Eight Hour Schedules for One Employee

      Eight Hour Schedules for Two Employees

      Eight Hour Schedules for Three Employees

      PART I

      CAUSES OF THE PRESENT UNSATISFACTORY CONDITION OF DOMESTIC LABOR

      Ignorance and inefficiency in the home.

      Difficulty of obtaining women to do housework.

      The disadvantages connected with housework compared with work in factories, stores, and offices.

      IGNORANCE AND INEFFICIENCY IN THE HOME

      The twentieth-century woman, in spite of her progressive and ambitious theories about woman's sphere of activity, has allowed her housekeeping methods to remain almost stationary, while other professions and industries have moved forward with gigantic strides.

      She does not hesitate to blazon abroad with banners and pennants her desire to share with man the responsibility for the administration of the State, but she overlooks the disquieting fact that in the management of her own household, where her authority is absolute, she has failed to convince the world of her power to govern. When confronted with this accusation, she asserts that the maintenance of a home is neither a business nor a profession, and that in consequence it ought not to be compared with them nor be judged by the same standards.

      Is it not due perhaps to this erroneous idea that housekeeping is a failure to-day? For the fact that it is a failure cannot be hidden, and that it has been a failure for many years past is equally true. Recent inventions, and labor saving utensils, have greatly facilitated housework, yet housekeeping is still accompanied with much dissatisfaction on the part of the employer and the employee.

      There are only a few women to-day who regard domestic science in the light of a profession, or a business, although in reality it is both. For what is a profession if it be not the application of science to life? And does not work which one follows regularly constitute a business?

      Many women, however, do not regard housekeeping even as a serious occupation, and few have devoted as much time, thought, and energy to mastering the principles of domestic economy as of late years women of all classes of society have willingly given to the study of the rules and ever changing intricacies of auction bridge. Some consider their time too valuable to devote to domestic and culinary matters, and openly boast of their ignorance. Outside engagements, pleasures, philanthropic schemes, or work, monopolize their days, and the conduct of the house devolves upon their employees. The result is rarely satisfactory. It is essential that the woman who is at the head of any concern, be it a business, a profession, or a home, should not only thoroughly understand its every detail, but in order to make it a success she must give it her personal attention each day for at least a portion of her time.

      It is a popular impression that the knowledge of good housekeeping, and of the proper care of children, comes naturally to a woman, who, though she had no previous training or preparation for these duties, suddenly finds them thrust upon her. But how many women can really look back with joy to the first years of their housekeeping? Do they not remember them more with a feeling of dismay than pleasure? How many foolish mistakes occurred entailing repentance and discomfort! And how many heart-burnings were caused, and even tears shed, because in spite of the best intentions, everything seemed to go wrong? And why? Simply because of ignorance and inefficiency in the home, not only of the employee, but of the employer also.

      That an employee is ignorant and unskilled in her work is often excusable, but there is absolutely no excuse for a woman who has time and

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