Mary & Martha: Balancing Life's Priorities [antikvár]

HOW TO LIVE SUCCESSFULLY IN TWO WORLDS (PART L The truggle For bignificance When I entered fifth grade, I began studying what was then called "domestic science." By the time I reached high school, the name had changed to "home economics." I understand college course catalogs now label it "human ecology." By any name it was the same: ¦ a semester of cooking ¦ a semester of sewing ¦ a semester of cooking ¦ a semester of sewing You may have found yourself in a similar track. I'm not sure which I hated most—the cooking or the sewing. At age 10 I could not separate eggs neatly or make decent flat-felled seams. I remember mostly that I dreaded the hours spent in the domestic science rooms. We learned to sew using treadle machines. No electric wizards then. When I stopped recently at a fabric store for a pattern, I glanced at the array of modern sewing machines on display—wonderful electronic computerized miracle workers! While I stood there admiring technology in the service of seamstresses, I also noticed one thing that has hardly changed since my first introduction to domestic science 50 years ago. On the front of the sewing machine just above the needle is a dial that adjusts the tension on the thread as the machine sews. 5