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Critic Raps Modern MotherhoodComplaints About HoureworDonIFooThiObserverBy KNOX GALESBERG(How difficult is the lot of a modern wife and mother? What really transpires in Park Forest during the daytime? An eminent young man-about-town here explodes the theory that life is all work and no play for Mrs. Exurbanite. claiming that this is just an old wives tale.)While sitting in one of the I local coffee shops the other day 1 chanced to overhear a conversation between two Park Foresthousewives who were busily bemoaning the fact that they were both overworked, unappreciated, and “there just aren’t enough hours in the day.”“My stars,” complained one,“I’ve a beauty shop appointment at 11 o’clock, a luncheon date at 1, and then I have to go all the way into Chicago for an important bridge game. Then back to Park Forest to drop game. You’d think that he'dknow, but this chauffeuring him around certainly cuts into my schedule. Oh, well, motherhoodis quite a responsibility, I always say, and after all, who am I to shirk it?“Jim, Sr., comes in on the 7:20 tonight and I suppose I'll have to go all the way to the IC station to pick him up andme with an 8 o’clock mah jonggJimmy off at his Little league game. He’s doing quite well, youPlanning the Park Forest Nurses club program for the coming year are Mrs. Virgil Flynn (left), ways and means chairman, and Mrs. Joseph Farrell, president.NT Women Are Asked toState Interests in ProgramsMembers of the Illinois Insti-ibe mailed soon to each member, tute of Technology Women's J The cards will list three gen-club will be given an opportun- eral types of programs: Home-ity this week to take an active j making, beauty and fashions part in selecting program mat- programs; cultural programs, erial for next year’s meetings, and social events. Members willMrs. Gordon Johnson, pro- be asked to rate their prefer-gram chairman, has announced ences and to offer specific sug-that program interest cards will gestions for a meeting topic.walk home from the station and save me the bother of picking him up. Not that I really mind but after all I think the exercise might do him some good . . . Oh, dear, look at the time. I’ll have to hurry over to the beauty shop. Bye dear.”And so the sad lament of the average Park Forest housewife goes on. It can be heard anywhere — the Aqua-center, cocktail lounges, coffee klatches, card games. Oh yes, the one place you’ll never hear this lament is in the home. Seems the gals are never there long enough to get sufficient steam worked up. Girls, why don’t you wake up and smell the coffee, wrho do you think you’re fooling? You complain about a load of wash-j ing you have to get out. Big deal, a 2-year-old can drop a load of dirty clothes in a mach-| ine and turn the switch. You complain about cooking and yet | the canneries are making a for-; tune with the magic phrase, “Just heat and serve.”The forbears of today’s woman were a hardy lot. Can anyone ever forget the stout woman with a cooking ladle in one hand, a crying baby in the other,! and five ypungsters tugging on ! her apron strings. Here was a | woman any man could be proud| of-The women of today are making a mockery of that dream. I’m quite sure that in ■ years to come 20th centurywoman will be depicted lying in front of a TV set garbed in horribly striped toreador pants, busily munching bonbons ... at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.Let me conclude this with a quotation from that eminent authority on women, Knox Galesburg, who says:“Within this world of toil and strifeYou’ve got it made if you'raa wife.”
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Park Forest Star
Park Forest, Illinois, US
Fri, Aug 02, 1957
Page 6
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