The First Lady of Radio by Stephen Drury Smith

Author:Stephen Drury Smith [Smith, Stephen Drury; Cook, Blanche Wiesen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620970492
Publisher: New Press, The

A typewritten postcard from San Francisco read:

Why don’t you use some of this soap to scrub those BUCK TEETH of yours and maybe you could talk plainer . . . Why don’t you go jump in the bay and let the young people get some work, when we all know that the old cripple is worth millions.5

Either ER or her secretary, Malvina Thompson, had marked these letters “N.A.” for no answer. But they were still kept on file.

ANNOUNCER: This is Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Own Program, presented by SweetHeart Soap!

(MUSIC “UP AND OUT”)

ANNOUNCER: And again, we greet Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt! Today Mrs. Roosevelt takes time out from her countless other interests to chat with us from the nation’s capital. These intimate talks come to you with the compliments of SweetHeart Soap, one of America’s favorite beauty soaps for the past half-century. And now, we won’t keep you waiting a minute longer. Are you ready, Washington, DC? Then please come in, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt!

ER: There is one thing about every woman’s home which I think has never been sufficiently emphasized. Namely, that household work is a profession. If you do the household work yourself, you will find it most satisfying and you will be able to do more for your husband and children and to include more outside interests in your life if you learn to schedule your time. If you have a routine for everything you do, you will be astonished to find how much you can increase your speed. In dealing with little children, of course, it is impossible to hurry them. And one has to realize that, in order to allow them to learn to do things for themselves, one is obliged to take a great deal more time in letting them struggle over things which could easily be done for them. In the long run, however, this too saves time. And teaching a child a routine is one of the best lessons which can be learned in the home.

In many households throughout the country, one or more people are employed for household work. This is one of the fields which is not oversupplied and many people have come to look upon this as a possible new profession. Two elements enter into the successful development, however, of this field of employment. One is the proper training of the household employee. The other is the proper training which the homemaker must have as an employer of labor. The approach to the whole situation has been a bad one in the past. There were no regular hours and the living conditions and working conditions were peculiarly unsatisfactory. That was because the majority of women did not approach the running of a house as a man would approach the running of his business. If one person was taken on to work in the home, the woman of the home was apt to think that the [housekeeper] would do all the work which was to be done without any regard to standards in hours and wages.

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