The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-07-12
Plain Talk to the Girls.

Dung ladies, young women, GIRL
whoever and wherever you are, ALLOW
me TO give you few hints, which if you
will heed, | guarantee you never will
regret.
: There are certain little articles which
) belong to every woman's toilet, and are
just as indispensable to decency as the
clothes you wear, and wherever YOU
go to stay any length Of time, you
should take them with you just as surely
as your shoes and stockings. These
are hair brush coarse and fine comb
tooth brush, if you use one. needles
pins, thread, scissors and thimble. Il
you are visiting, you surely need these
conveniences, for you would not be sc
rude as to expect or ask yonr friends
to furnish them for you. Frequently
young ladies have spent a few weeks
with me, and l really was not sorry
when they left, for they keep my work
basket in such confusion that did not
know where to find anything-my
combs and brushes were never
where / wanted them. making a great
deal OF trouble, and not little vexation.
| would just as soon you'd went to my
ORA yer and took out my collars, pocket
kerchiefs and clothes, and use and wear
them, as to go to my work basket, dis
arranging my needle book, carrying off
every pin and snarling my thread.
You take up any number OF needles,
never putting them back as you found
them, on the leaves singly, but through
all the leavs together, and when | want
certain sized needle, no matter what
my haste, | have TO sort them before |
find what I need or if | go to my
cushion in a hurry for pin, not one
can find, and | must take time that /
cannot well spare just then, and replen-
ish my PIN cushion ; and so it goes, un.
til | get very tired of it, and wonder
what sort OF a mother these girls had.
1t is not the cost of few needles and
pins and little thread, but the annoy
ance Of having a disorderly person
NEEDLE with my things. If you never
were taught better, you are excusable ];
but l am sure you will never need to be
reminded again, not if You reflect a
little.
Only once since kept house, have
had girl come to do my kitchen work,
who brought with her single one of
the articles | mention, and it annoys
me beyond measure to see them 90 to
my toilet, and work basket, aud help
themselves as freely as | do myself
You would not think me very squeam-
lsh, if | woui / not like to eat with your
fork y frf nj offoy
yet | Nlld just as soon do so as use
my combs and brushes after you have
them. You never leave them clean,-
such girls nc08r do. You do not know
how rude and impoliet it is to do so,
and you have no right to ask me to buy
you such conveniences, any more than
buy you shoes and gloves. The first
thing | have to do when | have a new
girl, is to furnish her with these articles,
especially with pair of SCISSORS
above all things, dislike your meddling
with those.
Never go anywhere again to work with
out your own tools i; and, depend upon
it such course will add very much to
your responsibility, to the good opinion
you covet, and to your own self-respect.
Another thing wish could be i'm
pressed on your minds, and that is-it
is not the noisy girls that do the most
work. When [ hear my dishes whack
and clatter together, and constant
rattle about the cook stove, and see the
dust fly i'll clouds after the broom, as
sure you my spirits sink twenty de-
grees for dislike to change girls, and
| have either to learn her or rather, un>
learn her habits, submit to numerous
Vexations and losses, or dismiss her.
Now do please to think of these
things, and be teachable, mot offended,
for | am your true friend, and far bet
ter one than a mistress who will get rid
of you without advice, or refrain from
giving it, for fear of hurting your feels
ms, and you will think so when you
get older and wiser, if ever you do.
A FARMERS WIFE.
-Rurdl NeaC Yorker.