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friends. I go to church for religious reasons rather than for social contact. My grandmother went to shop at stores where she was Well known and carefully served. I shop at the supermarket. Occa- sionally grandmother went on a journey to visit a relative a few hundred miles away. I ltve in Connecticut and commute to Washington and Philadelphia and Baltimore, driving alone over thru-ways and parkways and tunnels and overâ€" heads to teach, to help revise home economics curricula. to attend endless committee meetings. incidentally meeting people from many places and of many qualities. Grandmother's life was strangely contrasted to mine in that she lived in her home and her community: I have been thrown into many acti- vities and live in the wide. wide world. Yet fun- damentally we had much in commonâ€"similarities of tastes, sensitivities. abilities, strength of in- terest, the same imagination and quality of inâ€" telligence. But my life hasn’t followed the lines of my adored grandmother‘s. It has a different tempo. :1 different kind of service. a different sense of achievement. And necessarily circum- stances have led tis to develop different attitudes. There are tremendous differences in the perfor‘ manccs. the work. the play, the family life of grandmother‘s life and mine. It may be a challenge to you in your preparaâ€" tion for the future to know that there will be greater differences between your way of living and mine. than between mine and my grandâ€" mothch For instance in my electric stove I have a burner with a brainâ€"thermostat control. I have to know how it works and what utensils to i i '* A PRAYER ON GROWING OLDER Lord. Thou kntm'est better than I know myself that I am grottng older, and will some day be old. Keep me from getting talkative, and particularly from the fatal hahit of thinking I must say some- thing on every subject and on every occaston. Release mi.- from craving to try to straighten out cveryhody's affairs. Keep my mind free from the recital of endless detailsâ€"give me Wings to get me to the point. I ask for grace enough to listen to the tales of nthch pains. Help me to endure them with patience. But wail my lips on my own aches and painsâ€" they ilfl: increastng and my love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally it l\' possible that I may be mistaken. Keep me reasonably sweet; I do not want to be a saintâ€"sonic of them are hard to live withâ€"but a sour old woman is one of the crowning works of the devil. Make the thoughtful, but not moody; helpful, but not hossy. \Vtth my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to use it allâ€"but ThOu knowest. Lord. I want rt few friends at the end. Prayer composed by an unnamed Mother Superior, and qtmted by TLtimas IE. Dewey of New York. * * ‘k 12 use. You will have to know this and mom. probably you will be cooking by electronics. You have two big learning jobs ahead of you" learning. to live and learning to make a living in learning to live you need a cultural education - .r the enrichment of lifeâ€"something of read. _ music and art or the appreciation of these, ’|;.. can be ours but only if you work and sit You will need to develop a competence in I11“ making so that you can have better food, ht" clothing, a better place to live than you could 1, without these skills. Learning to make a in means gaining efficiency in a vocational field gainful employment. You will have more vncut» to choose from than I had, and more job i choose from. That adds another responsibilty. to get the most from a vocation it is important you choose work that will bring you a mono come. that will be a joy to do, and that will 1-- service. Also choose Work for which you ' abilitiesâ€"for example if you have not an tude for manual skills do not choose a you: in which these are required. But there are skills we will all need as “m in otir homes. One of the first of these is c.“ for children. The hours for this work havt changed with the years but knowledge has. new skills following. Automation with all its household appliances requires the homemakt be scmething of a mechanic to understand equipment and to know how to use and can. it. In clothing, the production line turns in woman‘s cotton suit in less than six minute may be that the home dressmaker can not z. petc with the prodttction line in making the ~. sort of cotton suit; but the woman who skilled dressmaker can compete in turning r- piece of creative work in clothing. It is in creative work. this Work for beauty in clott and home furnishing that our skills are importu The homemaker of the future must k. more and more about how to spend monc) we are going to be good buyers we must leurt resist high pressure advertising. One mot.- with a car radio reports being subjected t tooth paste advertisement one hundred ninety-two times in a half day’s journey. But perhaps more important than anything in the bus‘ness of homemaking are the ll“- maker’s own attitudesâ€"her understanding of i self. her ability to get along with others. the I port she is able to establish in the faniil} all people the homemaker needs education in behavior sciences. My grandmother would not have talked at“ cducation to help you make a livingâ€"she not approve of girls working for a living: 1m. am concerned about it. In 1951 one out of ex: four women in the United States was ruin“ emT‘lmed at one or more times during her l The was not entirely due to necessity: how the reasons married women worked were to 1" extra comforts for the family. or because c‘ funds were needed at expensive times in the lm ily cycle, or in the case of wealthy women. ii' the satisfaction of achievement. In my youth we worked before marriage. N muny girls marry before there is time for two. HOME AND COUNIF!Y