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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1929)
PAGE SEVEN FARM WOMAN m m m i nrr sr i mt T i stt ar sanTT f ilf rfflf rff sTmsTT r"kf rkf 1 Burnett Bros., Jeweler? "Pay Us as You Are Paid'' Fifteen Stores'on the Pacific Coast Not only Largest but (we hope) the Best! Average of 63.7 Hours Weekly Spent in Toil NEITHER THE GUT NOR THE GIVER ARE EVER FORGOTTEN IFYOU ROUTINE DUTIES MANY The OREGON STATESMAN. Saien. Oregon, Sanday Morning, December 15, 1929 O. 8. C Corvallis, Dec. 15. How th'e average farm homemak er Fpends her time Is answered in a bulletin Jut published by the agricultural piifriment station at Oregon State college. The book let rontains the results of a study of tLe use of lime by farm home makers In Ore&on during weeks of noimal activity, factors that af fert this time distribution, and differences between farm home makers and those who do not lire on farms. The study by Miss Maude Wil son, home economist of the ex perimental staff, was undertaken because of the social and economic Importance of homemakers as an occupational group, and because of the direct relation that exists between the time distribution of the homemaker" and the family standard of living. 513 Hirniemakera Surveyed During the course of the sur rey, data were obtained from 288 farm homemakers, 71 country non-farm bomr makers, and 154 non-county non-faim homemak ers, a total of 513 teeorda. The survey allowed that the average work period of the farm homemaker was 4.1.7 1 1 ours per w;c'k, divide! as fol lows: hoiiirmaklng, HI per rent; farm work, 1M per cent; other work, 1 per cent. The work period for 9 per cent of the homemakers was less than SO hours ami for 14 per cent It. was 75 hoars On week days the average working period wan 9.7 hours while JV.5 hours were put In on Sundays. Hoiuemakinff activities re quired 51.8 hours each week. Food preparation took 47 per cent of this time; house, 18 per rent; clothing and textiles, 22 per rent; rare of uienilers of the household, 7 per cent; man agement, JJ per rent; all other, duties. 2 per cent. Seventy-two per cent of the time went to routine duties of the home menls, rlonnlng, fires, laundry, and mending. IWause of the farm work In addition to housekeeping, farm homemakers worked longer hours than non-farm homemakers. Ninety-seven per cent of them did some form of farm work, averag ing 11.3 hours per wetk. The H?iree farm rojects to which the most time was devoted were poul try, dairying and fruits and vege tables. Leisure Time Varies With work periods of varying length, there was a marked dlf ference In the amount of leisure time available, hut time for sleep, rest and physical care of self were fairly constant. The average farm homemaker had an average of 102.7 hours of personl time each week divided as follows: . sleep and rest, 61 per cent; phys "' 1-nr care of self, 14 per cent; leisure activities. 23 per cent: other activities, 2 per cent. Reading and Informal social life were of about equal import ance as leisure activities and to gether accounted for more than half of the spare time. Leisure rctlvltfes carried on away from thefamlly, aside from Informal so cial llfe.were comparatively unimportant. Children Give Home Help Farm homemakers- received an average of 9.5 hours of help each week in their household duties, half of It being help from their own children. The amount of paid hela was negligible. The time the homemaker spent for , meals varied more than that of any other activity. For house holds of two or ihree persons it was 13.6 houro; for seven to eight persons, 18.7 hours. Differences in ages of children resulted in variations In length as well as distribution of work per iods. Farm women with no child ren averaged 60.5 hours at work per week, 26 per cent of which was spent at other than home making tasks. Those with children under one year worked 77.3 hours of which 11 per cent was in out side work. Time given to care of a child under one year of age was three times that given to a child be tween one and six. and 12 times that given a child of grade school age. Forty-three per cent of the farm homemakers had neither modern pl.nmbing nor electricity, while 19 per cent had both. Those with both water and electricity spent three hours lesa each week upon meals, cleaning and wash ing than those without these utilities. Protect Your Eyes And They Will. Protect You WOODBURH STARS I1IMFU v WOODBURN, December 14. The men faculty members of Woodburn high honored the un defeated Woodburn football eleven at a "stag feed" in the hiKh school ThurHday night. The 'feed' was served by a group of the girls of the domestic science class girls and Adrian Schooler, four year letterman and president of the student body gave a talk on "This year s football." Lowell dribble, another senior with four stripes, told of four years of football. Keneth Oillan ders remarked about the ten sen ior lettermen and Charles Bartos talked on next year's prospects. Coach Gilbert Oddie gave his Impression of Woodburn's foot ball and Coach Kay O. Wotr pre sented the coaches viewpoint of the subject. The funny side of football was told by Laverue Schooler and assuming a serious attitude, Merle Nehl discoursed the other side of football. No one vas more able to give a lofty view of football than Emerson Bald win, the tallest high school tackle in this part of the state and Lewis Radcliff gave the low-down on football. Kenneth Battleson, one of the minute youngsters who turned out remarked about foot ball In the miniature on the bot tom squad. Last but not least, Wilmont "Pat" Courtney told of the joys of being manager. After dinner the boys retired to the lower corriders where var ious games were played until they were finally ousted out at a late hour. I VE A GOOD WA America's Finest Lowest Cash Prices Easiest Terms All Are Here MDBIH M CIST CU By eye protection we mean having them ex amined periodically, as you do your teeth. Life insurance com panies, before accept ing an applicant, de mand physical exami nation to determine the applicant's life expect ancy. The intelligent per son invariably has his or her eyes examined at intervals to deter mine their condition. Defective eyesight is responsible for many of the ills of humanity many of the acci dents that result in death and maimed bodies could be avoid ed if the eyes were per forming their proper function. Defective eyesight re duces efficiency and greatly hampers the activities of those af flicted. It is sometimes pathetic that some of the afflicted with fad ing and impaired vision do not realize what is interfering with their work and slowing them down. They attribute their condition to some other cause, and ne glect the relief so eas ily obtainable and so near at nana. Protect your eyes and they will protect you! can best be enforced by consulting a compe tent Optometrist. (Rights reserved) B WOODBURN, December 14. Miss Virginia Mason, coach of Peg O' My Heart," the three act i comedy which will be presented by the senior class at Woodburn high school has held the tryouts for parts and has selected the fol lowing cast: Peg. Naomt Van Cleave; Jerry, Lowell Cribble; Brent, Clair Nlb ler; Ethel Chichester, Waive Len on; Mrs. Chichester. Opal Hodge; Alarlc Chichester, Wilbur Wnr ster; Hawkes, Bernard Cole; Jar vis the footman, Glenn Foster and Bennett, the maid, Dora Tresld - der. ! uv r particulars . Concerning bT-pIay - will b announced later. 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