Monday, September 24, 2007

Why should housework in private homes be an exception to all other work?



Is it because some housewives say, in self justification and frequently
without an accurate knowledge of what it is to do housework week after
week without one day"s release, that housework is easier than other
work? Is it easier? Is it not sometimes harder? However, it is not a
question of housework being harder or easier than other work, but of the
desirability of having it limited to eight hours a day and six days a
week
Why should housework in private homes be an exception to all other work?
Is it because some housewives say, in self justification and frequently
without an accurate knowledge of what it is to do housework week after
week without one day"s release, that housework is easier than other
work? Is it easier? Is it not sometimes harder? However, it is not a
question of housework being harder or easier than other work, but of the
desirability of having it limited to eight hours a day and six days a
week. Why should the housewife be allowed to remain in such a state of
apathy in regard to the physical welfare of her household employees?




In a similar way a sales manager, in writing the advertising matter



for a motor cycle, leads up to his description of the motor and its
capacity by the brief statement: 'No limit to speed but the law
In a similar way a sales manager, in writing the advertising matter
for a motor cycle, leads up to his description of the motor and its
capacity by the brief statement: 'No limit to speed but the law.'
This is a friction clutch on the imagination that carries the
reader"s interest to the end.