The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-02-27
TALK WITH THE HOUSEWIFE.

benng There are very few who
seem to truly understand and appre-
ciate how essential and necessary COR
rect household management is to the
enjoyment of domestic happiness.
Every civilized man has an idea of
what home should be, we care not
what his circumstances are or may
have been. Poverty may be his lot,
and adversely his portion, but they
cannot rob his imagination of it's pic
fure Of home and home comforts.
There is no man that does not admire
order, no matter how slovenly and
disorderly his own habits may be
and no man thatdoes not enjoy good
dinner better than poor one,no mat
ter how poorly he may provide for his
own board.
No man can be thoroughly satisfied
with wife whose household arrange
ments are disorderly and inharmoni-
Gus; and we claim that no family can
enjoy complete tranquility, while dis
satisfaction finds lurking place with
In its circle. Order should be as
surely the first law of Heaven. GA
time for everything, and everything
in it's time;" should be the motto of
every housekeeper, from morning till
night, year in and year out. Certain
circumstances may so far interfere
with homework, that a definite ar
rangement cannot always be carried
out, but every woman should, never
the less, have a fixed method to pur-
sue, If circumstances will permit.
Some houSekeepers wash on a con-
yenient day in the week, and after
wards iron and mend an article when
ever it is needed. Such ironing is
rarely, if ever, well done, and such
mending usually requires repeating
every week.
In some cases, dlsorderly habits
arise from an improper education, but
in a much greater number of instan-
ces, they arise from lack of obser-
walton or desire to learn. Many wo-
men, who have been brought up in
the midst of negligence and disorder,
have afterwards become noted for the
order and completeness manifested in
the arrangement of their domestic
duties and pursuits. And they have
accomplished this by close observation
and determined energy, that has
enabled them to cast aside old habits,
and adopt new ones in their stead.
In the course of our life, we have
met many women who entertained so
exalted an opinion of their own
household arrangements and knowl-
edge of everything pertaining to cul-
mary affairs, that they would have al
most treated with scorn the very Sag
gestion of the idea, that it might be
possible for them to learn more by OBJ
serving the methods pursued by other
housekeepers. But the bee that lays
by the greatest store of honey, does
not scorn that which it finds in the
lowest flower; and it is equally true,
that the best housekeepers, and best
cooks, do not despise useful informa-
ton, let it come from whatever source
1T may. And here let me suggest,
that no housekeeper should be las the
saying ISL ASHAMED to expose her
Ignorance" By this we would not
be understood as recommending an
1mpertinent asking of questions con-
corning how this, that and the other
was done, but there are many espec-
Tally among young women, that in
dulgea timidity in reference to asking
information, that is by no means com
mendable. In the usual free CONVEX
sation between farmers wives and
daughters, subjects Of common inter.
est are invariably chosen, and a slight
question will sometimes coll forth o