The Real Business of Living #260429

Today the work Of getting a living is in many ways less heroic than in the days of the pioneer. It does not call for the same hardships; it does not get us up so early Of a Winter's morning, it does not compel us to make our journeys mainly on foot or to transport our goods by oxen; it does not compel the housewife to know spinning, Weaving, cutting and making garments, soap and candlemaking as well as cooking and house keeping. But the very fact that all these kinds of work once done by hand and in the household, as well as many other new kinds of manufacturing which could not have been done at all in the old days, have gone.