Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1876-07-27
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Hints u Girls Concerning Housekeeping.

Hints u Girls Concerning Housekeeping.
DON'T keep going 10 your mother.
Non have cvery one OF You probably
>ome little independence of money, or
~ouie possibility of ccoucmiziug il. Buy
your own utensils; set up your own es-
t4b!i-hmeut. if only by SOW degrees.
Nou will know the good OF it then; and
You will 10 setting up your character al
the same time, .Thae will be 40 sud
den violent resolution and undertaking,
which drafts aid aud encouragement
from every body about you, getting up
prospective virtue by subscription, and
ap>euing half the current srder of TIE
household for an uncertain experiment.
BE ia earnest enough TO make YOUR own
way, and before You or any body else
thinks abou; It, you will have become a
recognized force in the domestic COM
muniiy; you vii have risen into your
altitude without assumption, just as you
are growing, by invisible hair-breadihs,
into tour womaAly stature.
Then, some day, you NAV say TO your
mother LET me have charge of the
china closet and pantry, please" and
Hou may enter upon a new realm, hav-
lug fairly conquered your own queen
dom. And | can tell YOU this new one
win be ! pretty aud pleasant realm to
queen "a; All epitome OF the whole house
work practiced in dainty, easy little
ways. Shelves 10 be kept nice, wiped
down with soft wet cloth wrung from
the sucs that cups and silver have come
out bright from: cups and silver. plates
and dishes, to be ranged in prcttiest
lines and piles and groups on the fresh
shelves cnpboards TO be regulated with
light daily touches aud Replacement
yesterdays cake and cake-basket. fruit
or Jelly, custards or blanc-mangc, TO be
overlooked and newly dished for the
next table-setting; the nice remnant oil
morning cream TO be transferred TO
fresh jug and then put in cool, clean
corner: to-day's parcels, perhaps, to be
bestowed and the doors closed, with
lceiiug OF plenty and comfort that only
the thrifty. delicate housewife w ho
know, and Utilize, the resources that
are bat uncomfortable odds aud ends TO
tic dis1rjeriy, needless. procrasiinating
oHc-ever has the pleasure of. All this
J.. costly and in miniature 10 the larger
c..re OF Kitchen and harder, what the lit
tie girl, playhouse has been (if she be-
gan, ike a true woman-child, to spin
aud weave" for he; womaniy vocatiou)
II the "hJuse OF her own" that she-you
began TO talk of then, and that you
are earning Alright 10 now. And pretty
soon this daily care this daily pleasure,
will have become fAcile thing, thing
easily slipped into the days programme.
and never 10 be mountain or bugbear
any more, either 10 do or 10 teach; be-
cause YOU know every twist and turn
of it," and it i not process of con-
-cious detail, but a simple whole that
and lis quick mechanical execution.
In like manner, again, you can take
NJ cooking. Iou can learn to make
bread, until the fifteen minutes labor
thai il will be for YOU to toss up the
dough for to morrow's baking, will not
seem TO YOU L terrible inlic,ion, when
1t happens that you may have it TO do,
any more than the mcuding Of a pair OF
gloves for tomorrow wearing; simply
because it viii be an old accustomed
thing that you know the beginning and
the end of,-not a vague, untried toll
looming in indefinite proportions, that
arc always the awful ones Mrs. A.
ID. \. Whitney, $. Nicholas, August.