ONE OF THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
“The ‘new boy’ is of later origin than the ‘new woman,’” said Mrs. Joseph V. Witherbee, who lectured recently in Brooklyn. “He can make his own bed, sew buttons on his own clothing, cook his own breakfast, and wash the dishes if necessary, and he is no longer considered a ‘sissy’ for so doing. He can carry on successfully a bachelor establishment for his father and himself, make out the menus, hire the domestics, and even do his part socially,11without losing his place among the first six in school. “The ‘new boy’ is the result of a growing belief among mothers and educators that domestic training is just as good for boys as for girls. They argue that a domestic-trained boy makes the best kind of husband, and that the brother who is obliged occasionally to make his own bed or boil an egg will not look down on his sister for doing the same things. Also that the girl who can use her brother’s kit of tools will no longer consider him a superior being because the tools are his property rather than hers. Again, the advocates of domestic training for boys say that, while there will always be a division of occupations in the family, as in society, there is this difference in the family, that in those occupations which relate to the common life there ought to be a common performance, else the division of labor will result in a division of feeling and of thought.”—N. Y. Tribune.