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He wants you to do the housekeeping. He wants you to do the marketing. He wants you to write the family letters and not have a secretary in at night to do it. I always point out how much waste there is, how much money goes into the salaries and wages of competent people in the home, both at the housekeeping level and at the care of children level, how much more you have to pay for rent because you must always pay extra rent for the servants to have rooms of their own, because when you get two or three servants which you've got to have, you've got to pay rent for those extra rooms. You have to pay extra for their food. It's a very sizable bill that mounts up at home.

One of the drawbacks to having a career and a home life is the terrible fatigue, unless the woman has a superconstitution. I always say that one of the things that is essential if a woman is going to do both is first a very, very strong consitution, great health and strength, and ability to endure way beyond the ordinary line of duty, because she is not through work when she leaves her desk. She's got a lot of responsibility which she can't even discharge or delegate with hired people. There are still certain things that she's got to do and certain things that she wishes to do. She's got to be agreeable enough not to hinder her husband's career, to be agreeable to his friends,





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