The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-03
DAINTY HOUSEKEEPIN
Some Examples of Cory Homes I'm Small
Quarters i'm New York.
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NEW YORK, April acknowledging in
rooms does not promise much comfort to
persons who live in half grown or overgrown
towns. They picture it as they have toe
frequently seen it-a crowded, announcement,
untidy, nly-venllated existence, craInped
compromise between raw poverty and the
borderland of responsibility. All that and
worse it often is, when attempted where there
are neither material conveniences nor man
agerial skill to keep it from falling into
sightlinesS. But in New York one finds it
perfected into AN art, and by 10 means low
phase of art, either
Here the whole tendency is to compactness
and daintiness. 1t needs the hand OF an artist
to bring the crude complications of house
keeping down to a miniature compass and
stu keep the gloss of neatneSS and attractive
ness thereon The old saw says that any
body can work with plenty of tools, but only
the expert workman can produce something
excellent with few tools. On the same grounds
it might be said that anybody can keep house
nicely who has plenty of room to operate in,
but only genius can keep house beautifully
in small quarters. Here such geniuses are
found The crowded condition of the city
develops them.
1t is wonderful what results in the way of
coy homes can be obtained in the most I'M
promising quarters and with the most mex
pensive adjuncts when tasteful and skillful
hand directs matters. Housekeeping as well
as everything else can be simplifed, refined
aud beautified. The disagreeable features of
it, the fuss and furry and clatter which were
once considered necessary part of it by
many of the rush-and- hurry order of house
keepers, have been thoroughly eliminated by
the needs of this big city, where space is
more valuable than anything else.
sometimes wonder what one OF the old
fashioned housekeepers, who went through
the day at breakneck pace and thought In
cessant work her greatest glory, would think
if she could enter some little gem of New
York fat, no bigger than an old-time kitchen
would be if divided into compartments, and
see how smoothly roll the wheels of the men
GgeS She wouldn't approve Of it, of course,
because there is no fuss and hurrah about it
none of the signs of hard work, which she
worshiped. and sacrificed her time to- and
made everybody around her uncomfortable
about. No, there is none of that in the per-
fected system of housekeeping as we see it
here, where comfort, beauty and coziness
join hands TO make three or four rooms into
a home.
have a friend whose little home of three
rooms is more exquisite in its atmosphere of
refined comfort than any elegant mansion
ever entered. She does her own work, ("
for that is one of the beauties and pleasures
of the condensed system of housekeeping
no servant to bring disorder into the little
bower of home under pretense of doing the
work" The "work" in this case isn't diff
cult, because, although she and her big son,
who occupy all three rooms, have every
comfort they need, her ability to plan I'M
erringly and execute skillfully and speedily
Is 50 great, ano the convenience for such
style of living so numerous here, that the
actual labor is only enough to interest her.
Being person Of tine education. much cul