The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-07-17

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Is this task over, when she IL agau
called to her children, The older ones
have TO be got ready and started To
school. Then the beds must bc made
up, the house has TO be cleaned aud an
hour TO two must be devoted to her
sewing.
By this time IL Is late IN the day.
The vegetables are to be gathered or
sought for in tile market; the meats
must be procured aud prepared for
dinner For This purpose more wood
and water have to be brought, another
fire must be kindled and dinner cooked,
and no one to do Il all hut the wife.
This occupies the entire morning, and
then the husband, instead Of coming
to his dinner ut twelve, waits until
two, and complains that his vegetables
are spoiled by being gathered in the
heat of the day, and that the meal was
served entirely too soon. All this the
wife bears uncomplainingly, and when
the meal is ended, proceeds to go over
again the same irksome process OF
clearing oil the table, washing up the
dining room and kitchen utensils,
sweeping the house and, If winter
time, her own fire has by this time
gone out and must be rekindled. Her
husband, meanwhile iacetiously called
" the w0rser hali,p smokes his after
noon cigar and takes his regular siesta.
AZ last the poor woman is ready to
take her seat, not to rest, but to make
new garments or repair old ones for
her children--here TO sew ON a few
buttons or there to mend a rent. Just
AZ soon rs she gets comfortably seated
the clock reminds her that soon hus-
band will be ut home for Il warm sup
per- Again she makes up the fire in
his room for his reception, returns TO
the Kitchen to prepare another meal to
be followed 10y the same process of
cleaning off and cleaning up. Add to
all this Il cross infant aud one or two
slightly larger children that have to
he put to bed. AT last the mother, her
self weary and worn retires to rest, too
often, alas to be aroused in the mid
die of the night by the cries Of her
child. She goes to il, takes it tenderly
in her arms, endeavor3 to soothe
its fears or releave its suffering.
The poor little innocent, unaware
of its mothers mental and
physical suffering, continues it cries,
thus forcing the mother to keep awake
perhaps through the entire night, al
ternately pacing the floor with her
babe in her arms or trying torock il to
sleep. Perhaps once during the night
the father, awakened by the noise of
the child, will turn over in his bed and
tell his wife instead of giving that
brat Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup,
you would do u deal better to admins
ter good spanking and go to sleep"
Consider this SKETCH and then say
your wife is not slave, This is no
fancy picture, but is, in large major
ity of eases, too true. The wife, in
stead of being the intellectual and So
cial companion of her husband, is de.
graded to the position of menial--a
mere slave to her husband and chill
dren. But how is all this to be obvi-
ated? Can it be done? Yes; and with
the view of tightening the burdens
which our wives and daughters have to
undergo, | herewith submit plan for
A COOPERATIVE KITCHEN.
This, then, is the plan proposed--a
cooperative kitchen, to be operated in
the following manner: Let twenty
families in the same neighborhood,
averaging five persons each, thus MAX
ing one hundred persons, or say not
less than ninety nor more than one
hundred and ten in the aggregate,
jointly purchase a lot fifty by one hun
dred feet, and construct thereon n
kitchen two stories in height, the lower
part to be used for store rooms and
cook rooms aud the upper portion for
the accommodation of the operatives.
Let them also erect stable and wagon
shed, and coops for fowls. For the
above purpose letone thousand dollars,
or fifty dollars per family, be appropri
ated, and five hundred dollars addi-
tional, to provide the necessary range |
and fixtures, horse and delivery wagon, |
making fifteen hundred dollars IN the
aggregate, or seventy-iive dollars per
family. Everythingwill then be ready
for operating.
PERSONS TO BE EMPLOYED AND rHprR
WAGES.
One steward and one chief cook. ot
a salary of fifty dollars per month,
each. and two assistant cooks, at sal
airy of twenty-five dollars per month.
each, making one hundred and fifty
dollars or seven and half dollars pcr
month to each family.
Some may object to this division of
expenses on the ground of its ineouali-
ty, as some families have only three
members, while other have seven, bnt
arrangements may be made to euual-
we the expense to the satisfaction of
all.
HuLE mode OF OPERATING.
No family is to have prepared and
delivered more than two meals ner
day. Breakfast between the hours of
SIX and eight a. m., and dinner no
tween the hours of twelve and five N
M, AS may be desired.
RULE ii-FooD 10 BE PREPARED FOR
BREAKFAST
Bredd-Biscuit, light rolls, waffles
cornmeal mullins, dry and milk toast
Medts-Beef steak, mutton ehons
chickens and broiled ham. F'' I
or br0iled. f'Ne"
ANY family may take any one or all
OF the foregoing as they may deem fit
RULE III-FooD TO BE PREPARED Pop
DINNER.
Medts-Roast beef or mutton. boiled
nam, chickens or turkey.
Vegetables Potatoes, onions, rice
dried apples and peaches, and other
vegetables in their season, or canned
If desired. n
Now comes in the question of dis. .
Iribnting the expense. How is this To $
be equalized?
You can not possibly make and :