The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-06-24
BELLEVUE, La, THURSDAY. JUNE "A 1874

uSuaily relegated to the mother or
grandmother of the family. where there
is grandmother, and the young ladies
play the piano or embroider when they
would be more usefully employed in
mendlng. This imposed deal of
drudgery on the one who has all the
mending to do, and releases from what
should be pleasant task, those most
able to perform it. No matter how
wealthy ayoung lady is she should know
when her wardrobe is in perfect order
and be able to keep it so with her own
hands.
Another Of the g lost arts' is the art
OF knitting. One of the most peaceful,
sedative employments woman can
treat herself to is that of knitting. pro.
Vided she is so proficient in it that she
need not think about or look at the
work growing beneath her fingers. This
proficiency comes of course by practice:
the sympathetic restlessness of BODY oft.
en- induced by intense mental application
Is as In reading perfectly quieted by the
unconscious motion of the hands in
knitting. All temperaments may not
tlnd this so, but to some knitting is a
very pleasant safety valve for physical
restlessness while reading or thinking
up say newspaper article. Then, in
spite OF all that machinery can do, there
Is no hosiery so warm and comfortable
as the home-knit hosiery, none so dura
Bile, none that takes mending so kindly.
BY this useful art all the ravelines OF
our hours and days are knit into beauty
and utility.
Another charming accomplishment is
that of fine dish washing In some
houses there are servants so careful that
they may safely be trusted with our fine
emma, but such servants are few. The
dangers OF nicking, cracking, breaking
1t are such that the housewife is in con-
stant apprehension. But this need not
be. There is no need of removing the
china from the dining-room to cleanse
1t. The ladies of the family can do this
without soiling their hands or their
clothes. Let large tray be set on one
end of the dining table, on this be placed
a little tub or g keller partly filed
with hot water. dish mop, soap and
cup towels. With this simple furnish.
ing the soiled dishes may be quickly
cieansed with no risk of in Jury to them.
Rubber aprons may be worn so that not
drop of dishwater need soil the most
delicate silk dress worn by the operator.
A few minutes industry will suffice to
cleanse goodly array of soiled dishes,
and no risk or injury is run by trans
porting them to the kitchen and back
again. Fine dishwashing may thus be
elevated into privilege to which grow
ing girls aspire. Thus conducted there
Will De little danger that fowls for silver
and glass and china shall be debased to
lower and commoner uses.
Another domestic art of great utility
is that of clear starching Unless laces,
fine embroideries and linens pass in the
cleansing process through skillful hands
they are as good or as bad as ruined |
There are plenty of servants who are,
as they claim to be, good laundresses,
but they are not to be trusted with laces |
and fancy goods. These every lady
should be able to clear starch for her
self, and without the least injury to the
texture or any suggestion by their ap-
pearance that they have been "done
over"
The possession aud practice of these |
various homely accom- plishments ena-
bles any woman to make the place of |
her abode, however humble it be, at
tractive and cosy. The absence of them
causes dreariness and blankness in the
most costly establishment. No uphol-
sterer, no seamstress, no servant, no
laundress, nor all of them together, can
put the tone into house that the ac-
house mother does. Under
her touch unity and harmony appear
everywhere.
1t is easier for the majority of moth
ers to practice these arts we have speci-
led than to teach them to their daugh-
5ers and require the exercise in them
essential to proficiency, But that mother
Who would see her daughter enter upon
he duties implied by the assumption of
he marriage tie thoroughly equipped
or their easy performance must instruct
ler in those arts without which home is
very barren and comfortless place.
v. Y. Tribune.
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