New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-11-24

Making the Ends Meet.

LIE prODlems low 10 make Inc enus
meet, is one that great many of our
leaders, are continually trying to solve.
Dur farmers wives rise early and sit up
ate filing every waking hour with the
7aried activities required by their cir
in order that they may help
pay for the farm, or meet necessary
;amlly expenses, or lay up q little for a
:ainy day. Our mechanics wives are
ousy from morning till night with
tasks, and many of them with
extra work by which they add to the
weekly earnings. A large number of
The wives of professional men are full of
care and labor, trying to make little
20 q great ways, and on irregular and
3canty collections to "keep up appear
ances'' and secure comfort. Their lives
are filled with uncertainties and they
can depend on no regular income how
ever small. Even the well-to-do, if they
are to remain in that enviable condition,
must do a great deal of housekeeping,
and balance their accounts with exact
ness and regularity, or they will run be-
hind. These various classes of women
continually dream of the time when they
will be less burdened with care and Ia
Dor, and life will be easy to them. Some
of them may realize their dream, but
the great majority will always have to
will always have to work,
will always have to carry load of care.
And the question continually recurs as
to the points where economy shall be
most igidly exercised, where labor will
be most profitable, where care may be
most effectively lightened.
AS to economy, those women, who in
preference to employing servant do
their homework themselves with the as
sistance their children can give, save in
waste and wages and board more
than double what they would
pay a servant, besides, as a
rule, having their work done better, and
having their girls and boys brought up
to know how to perform domestic du-
ties, and habituated to performing them.
It is the superfuities of life that are
costly. It has been shown again and
again that upon very small outlay per
week or per year for edibles comforta-
BILE subsistence may be maintained.
Flour, sugar, vegetables are not expen-
sive; it is the extras that cost so much.
The Scotch, the Italians, the Chinese,
are examples of vigorous life on an in
expensive diet. As to clothing, stand
ard goods, as domestics, calicoes, cloths,
may be obtained at reasonable prices,
but when we buy silks and fancy goods
we must pay roundly for them. Those
who must every day be confronted by
hn %~ 11n %ha do
meet, should indulge very sparingly in
superfluities. Plain furniture and up
holstery are cheap and easily taken
care of, while brocades and moquettes
are costly and require great care to
keep them nice. If those who can af-
ford only plain food, who can indul &c
only in plain dress and plain furniture,
would spend according to their means,
they would have little trouble in making
the ends meet, We are apt to fancy that
q little display will deceive our neigh
bors and make them think us better off
than we are, but we deceive ourselves
wofully if we trust to such fancies.
Every body knows just about how we'll
off every body else in the neighborhood
is, no matter what the superficial ap-
pearance may be. And those who are
brave enough and honest enough to live
according to their means and according
to their ideas of right living, command
universal respect.
AS to hard work. Here it is the ST.
perfluities that cost. 1t is an easy task,
comparatively, to prepare simple meal,
where the dishes are few and plain. 1t
is easy to ''clear away' after such a
meal. But where one must have pie
and cake and crullers and jellies and
creams in addition to meats and vegeta-
bles, the labor before and after meals
becomes formidable. Simplicity in liv-
ing is the solution which will help many
over worked women. The hard-work-
ing man who can not make a satisfactory
meal on meats, vegetables, bread and
fruit, each perfectly prepared, ought to
60 hungry. The fact is, great many
housekeepers take little pains with these
standard dishes, and trust to the excel
lence of their pies and desserts to make
up their deficiencies in cooking the plain
dishes. Then as to clothing. Since the
era of the sewing-machine 50 much
tucking and ru11ling and putting and
anticipating and stitching and braiding
has become possible and fashionable
that to many woman the sewing-ma-
chine has been made curse rather than
blessing. To those who can afford
them these superfluities are all well
enough, but to those who can not and
yet indulge in them they are millstones
about their necks. Plain clothes are
easily made, are easily washed and
ironed, and require little care to keep
them in order.
"Living in style'' is a very costly
way of living. 1t costs in money, in
labor, in care. People who have hard
time to make the ends meet and yet in
sist on living in style have very 1abori.
Gus life. There is no slavery more
wearing, no bondage more degrading,
than that endured by those who
are under the dominion of fashion,
of the desire to keep up appearances
and the fear of what people will say o,
think of them. Such people live as in a
balloon, which may at any moment col
lapse or be carried no one knows where
by sudden currents, unexpected and ir.
looloVlUl6' Liz uullS GAt WOUAdtl, WIZ
lives within ones income, who lives as
he or she can afford to live in respect to
style, to fashion, to expenditure, is the
happy man, the happy woman. They
dare to make the ends meet by daring
to dispense with whatever will keep thu
ends apart; and thus they escape debt
care, anxiety. They may not escape
labor, and it is not desirable to escape
labor, for that is '@our portion under
the sum- and when not exaggerated by
artificial demands is wholesome AND
profitable to us. There are no unhap
pier, no more restless and unsatisfabl,
people breathing than those who are
"depraved with ease.'' There is nc
happier class than the class that by
daily labor earns daily bread, whether
compelled to earn it or not.-N. Y
Tribune.
"A wedding in French town wal
recently brought to termination by ,
startling discovery. After the marriage
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