Part 140 (2/2)

_Question._--A friend writes to ask--

”How about flies its the central kitchen?” (This being apropos of ”The Kitchen and the Fly,” in the August number of this magazine.)

_Answer._--One kitchen, though large, is more easily protected than a hundred kitchens, though small. There will be less ”garbage,” in proportion, and it can be better handled. The officers of such a kitchen will be of a higher grade than the present cla.s.s of servants, and capable of maintaining a higher grade of cleanliness; as, for instance, in the Franco-American soup factory, where there is exquisite cleanliness and care.

Further, in such a kitchen there will be no laundry or other extraneous work done; no running in and out of children and others; nothing but the scientific preparation of food.

Also, as shown in the article, the flies will be reduced 99 per cent. by the reduction in the number of horses required to bring supplies and remove garbage and ashes. To the large kitchen, wholesale supplies could be brought in motor trucks--a further loss to the fly.

III

_Question._--”A certain husband has been in the habit for years of paying a dollar a month lodge dues, and other incidental expenses of lodge meetings. The wife has paid a dollar a year dues in a suffrage club, and a dollar and a half a year for subscription to the Woman's Journal. The 'late' panic has shrunk the family income, and something must be cut off. The Wife will cut off the two small amounts mentioned.

She will cut off anything else that is for her separate existence.

Now, the question is, how may her feeling of virtue and self-sacrifice be changed to a realization of injustice?”

_Answer._--This is a very large question--how to change the ethical values of a woman's life!

We gather by inference that the ”certain husband” has not cut off his lodge dues--or anything else.

The best answer is: let the woman EARN HER OWN LIVING. That goes farthest in changing self-sacrifice to justice.

OUR BOUND VOLUME AS A CHRISTMAS PRESENT

The first year comprises fourteen issues--November, 1909, to December, 1910, inclusive.

In it is the Housekeeping novel--”What Diantha Did”--which will interest many, both men and women. It offers a very practical solution to the Servant Question.

In it is also the Book About Men--”The Man-Made World, or Our Androcentric Culture.”

There have been books and books about women--mostly, unpleasant. This is the first one about men, as such; men as distinguished from Human Beings--as women have always been distinguished from Human Beings.

You won't wholly like the book--just consider whether it is true!

The novel separately, or the book separately, would also make good presents, but the date of their publication is not settled, while in the bound volume of the magazine you get them both for only 25c. more than one would cost.

This set, making a volume of some 420 pages, with its twelve short stories, its articles, fables, verse, and other matter, will make a very good gift--for some people. Ready early in December. $1.25.

TO THOSE SPECIALLY INTERESTED IN THIS MAGAZINE, OR SPECIALLY INTERESTED IN FIFTY DOLLARS

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