The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-06-26

the sympathetic reStiesSness OF D0dy OH
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
find this so, but to some knitting is
very pleasant safety valve for physical
restlessness while reading or thinking
up say q 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 rawlings 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 NAV safely be trusted with our line
china, but such servants are few. The
dangers of nicking, cracking, breaking
it are such that the housewife is in con-
slant apprehension. But this need not
be. There is no need of removing the
china from the dining-room to cleanse
it. 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
little tub or keller" partly filed
with hot water, dish mop, soap and
cup towels. With this simple furnish
ing the soiled dishes may be quickly
cleansed with no risk of injury to them.
Rubber aprons may be worn so that not
a drop of dishwater need soil the most
delicate silk dress worn by the operator.
A few minutes industry will suffice to
cleanse a 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 be 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 iaces
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 accomplishments 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 darkness in the
most costly establishment. No uphol.
sterer, no seamstress, no servant, nc
laundress, nor all of them together, car
put the tone into house that the &C.
complished 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
fed than to teach them to their daugh
tiers and require the exercise in then
essential to proficiency. But that mother
who would see her daughter enter uDor
the duties implied by the assumption o.
the marriage tie thoroughly equipped
for their easy performance must instruc'
her in those arts without which home il
a very barren and comfortless place.
N. Y Tribune.