Is Marriage Merely a Change of Jobs?

You have probably met the girl who has given up a fairly good office position for marriage, and now, after the first glamour has gone, feels that she has left one job for another—with fewer rewards in the shape of nice clothes and good times. Probably that girl put her best into her office job, and now does not realise that here is her opportunity to show her capabilities as an organiser and a doer. She will reap worth-while rewards in the way of more efficient household management, greater leisure in which to keep up her personal interests, and, best of all, a happy and proud husband.

We all know the woman who always has household tasks ahead of her. She is always thinking of them, and they are always being dragged into conversation. We are sorry for her, and feel that she is bungling her job, but we are too busy and keen on our own tasks to bother about her wails. Salvation lies in treating housework as an ordinary job, a five-hour or six-hour job, not a twenty-four hour burden. And the beauty of a housewife's job is that with a little additional organisation she can have her leisure when she will. If her husband lunches in town, it is so easy, by starting a little earlier in the morning to have her friends in to lunch or to afternoon bridge. The people she has invited will no doubt invite her back and she will build up quite a series of good times. Once the dinner dishes are put away at night, the wife is free to spend a quiet evening by the fireside or to enjoy some little social outing. The “young married” with a little management can have quite as gay a time as her young salaried sister.

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