St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-04
How Girls can Learn to be House
keepers

begin with your own things and your
own place. That is what Your mother
VIII tell Nou If you rush to her. enthu-
SlaStic with great intentions. and offer
To relieve her of half her houSckcepinp
Don't draw that little bucket of cold
water to have it poured back upon your
early zeal. Reform your upper bureau
drawer; relieve your closet pegs of their
accumulation of garments out of Use Il
month or two ago. Institute Il clear
and cheerful order. in the midst of
which You can daily move: and learn
To keep it. Use Yourself to the hcauti-
fn, which is the right, diSposing of
things as you hdRdIe them; 81 that il
VIII bc Il part of Your toilet to dress
Your room and its arrangements while
YOU dress yourself leaving the dr;,-
pcrieS You take off us lightly and artist
cally hung, or us dclicatelN folded and
placed. as the skirts you loop carefully
To wear, or the ribbon and lace you put
with Il soft ncatneS> about youI throat.
Cherish Your instincts of taste and fit
ness in every little thing that YOU have
about You. Let it grow impossible to
ynu to put down 50 much aS Il pin-boX
where it will disturb the orderly and
pleasant grouping upon your dressing
table; or to stick Your pins in your
cushion, even. at all sorts of tipSy and
uncomfortable inclination>. This will
not make you ''tISSN it i the other
thing that does that the not knowing.
except 10y .idgcty experiment. what is
harmony and the intangible grace of re-
latIon. DnCc get Nour knowledge he
yond study. and turn it into tact which
Is literally having it at Your fingers
ends, as | told YOU. and order will
breathe about You. and grace evolve
from c"mmoncSt things. and Uses and
belongings. wherever Nnu may he: and
putting things To rights" will not hc
separate task work and trouble. any
more than it is in the working of the
solar system. Ii will go on all the time,
and with II continual pleasure.
Take upon Yourself gradually for
the sake of getting them in hand in like
manner. il for no other need all the
cafes that belong to Your own small
territory of home. Get together things
for use III these cares. Have yom little
wa>h-cl"th> and Your >pnnyc> for bits
of cleaning: l"ur furniture brush and
N"nr feather du>lcr. and Your light little
broom and H"ur whiSk and pan; Your
bottle OF sweet oil and spirits OF turpcn
time. and piece of flannel. tn preserve
the polish. or restore the gloss, where
dak wood grnw> dim OF gets spotted.
Find out. 10y following Your surely
growing SrnSr of thnroughnrS> and nice
ness. the best and rradic>t ways of
keeping all fresh about you. Invent
N"ur own processes: they will come to
You. shall not lay down rules or Il
system for y"u. When Nou have made
Yourself wholly mistress of what Nou
can learn and do in Nour own apart
nIcnt, 81 that il Is easier and more nat
ural for You to do il than to let il alone
81 that you don't count the time it
takes ANY more than that which you
have To give Ia your own bathing and
hair dressing. then N"u have learned
enough t" kerpa whole house. ;" far a>
its ClranlN ordering j. concerned. Mrs. /
4. u. I. whitney. 81. NHhoIu>. -iugm>t.