Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-18
BELLIES IN THE KITCHEN.
Murray Hill ladies Taught Household
Economy.

About nifty young ladies, matrODs and
maidens, gather weekly in the elegant
house No. 222 West Thirty-eIghth street,
says the New York Morning journal, to
hear practical lectures on housekeeping.
Many of the girls who are the most earn
! est listeners are sly beings contemplating
matrimony, who wish to duly impress tu-
ture husband with their skill in house
Nifery.
| The lecturer, Miss Julia Fl. Oakley, is
! practical young lady, who teaches the
art of daily life in nearly all the large
| private schools uptown. Household
| economy is her hobby, and although she
is not obliged to practice what she
| breaches, she is good teacher, and many
a slim has captured good wife when he
thought he was only getting butterfly
! thanks to Miss Oakley.
The audience does not have time to
/ Yawn when Miss Oakley is deep IN the
! intricacies Of floor scrubbing or kitchen
| kalsomining. Her description of an ordi-
nary spring cleaning is lively enough to
| be a quotation from lngersoll, and to
| make the topic interesting, she is not OF
| liged to descend TO stoye-piDe Jokes.
! One OF Miss Oakley's maxims is: CAS-
! certain the exact amount you have to
! spend and keep yourself within the limit
"A yoAAA1 VIC " iO utdIu LUIS at LLG ItC-
| ture yesterday uncOnsciOusly counted up
! her amount. She found that she had only
/ $l25 with which to keep the pot a-bOIling
! for the week. She informed Miss Oakley
! OF the low state OF her finances, and asked
! advice. She was shown how she could
| easily spread the amount over much
| longer time if she RETAINED from buying
| SILK dress to wear in the kitchen. this
| being one Of the items the student had
| marked among the indispensables.
| W lille the lecturer was giving hints on
| the marketing the audience was
| very attentive, as marketing and shop
| ping are generally one; but the audience
had to be scOlded a little for not paving
more attention to the hints on building
| fires.
| "Well, guess I'll never build a fire."
said Madison avenue blonde, with a
| glance at pair of soft white hands.
You must know how to do the manual
| work, otherwise you will be unable to iu-
struct your help" said Miss Oakley re-
provingly.
On hearing that it was theoretical and
| not practical tire-building they we're
learning the ladies became more tractahle.
and exhibited mild degree of interest in
| the proper moment of applying a match.
Two of the giddiest of the audience were
comparing engagement rings. From
their secluded position on a back seat
they evidently fancied themselves hidden
from the lecturers eye, but an unre-
strainable glggle reached Miss Oakley's
ear as she was deep in the science of re-
moving dirt from white painted door.
Miss Oakley never reproves, but
glance from her eye startled two loving
hearts into beating rapidly to pump blood
into cheeks. After that glance the I'M
ruly auditors were the most attentive of
all and took an abnormal interest in the
study Of washing windows.
One OF the hitherto unexplainable
things of city life was made plain yester-
day. Mortuary statistics tail to show the
death Of a single servant girl while en-
gagged in window washing. Men have
been transfiXed with horror daily at see
ing girl sitting on a window sill seven
or nise stories from the ground, calmly
cleaning the outside OF the window panes.
At the corresponding window in the
next house sits friend to the first girl.
Often may be seen a row Of servant girls
seven stories above the areas, with moth
ing inside the houses but their feet.
1t has been thORght that now and then
a girl must have let 60 and fallen to the
sidewalk. II so she must have rebOunded,
unhurt, to the window sill.
The secret is out. These girls wear
India rubber bustles, and they do rebound.
1t IS thought that some servant girls drop
s~&-, .. = .1,gAk l.
seven sIoIAcS LOT TIE ldn OF Jne lhlHg.
The value of early rising was set forth
earnestly by Miss Oakley. There is no
necessity for rising with the milk man,
but II ls well to get up before breakfast,
or as SOON after as possible. lrreguIarity
is apt to dissrranEe all work for the day,
and the kitchen help will not tolerate
mistress who only pays occasional visits
to their realm.
Miss Oskley's lecture was the first of
course of lectures on "Househeld Econo-
N.Y." under the auspices of the Industrial
Educational Association. The audience
showed that great interest is taken in the
common things of life, and that it is not
Questionable to know something about
making bread.
The course has been subscribed by
many Of the bellies of Murray Hi, who
have hitherto taken an active interest in
the ornamental only.