The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24
YOUNG HousEkEEPERs.
Plenty Of Advice for Them--Hints This
Ought to BE Well Received.

| Plenty Of Advice for rhem-Hints That
Ought to BE Well Received.
The young wife. on first starting
housekeeping. gets overwhelmed with
advice. "She mist be very strict with
her servants; she must be mild with
them; she must be neither the one nor
the other; must be both together" she
is told. Economy is another matter on
which some advisers are eloquent.
myself began housekeeping with an
impress on. derived from my numerous
female relatives. that leg of mutton
was the only economical joint in the
world. My ideas on legs of mutton
got mixed. very nearly ended in
having two o day. one hot and the
other cold, SO as to be doubly ecOnomi-
cal.
Treat your servants as human beings.
and not as machines. Be regular and
punctual yourself. and above all study
your husbands wishes and comfort.
This is gu tie sufficient advice for a
Young lady to start with on her jour-
ney through life. if remembered and
acted upon. No fear of shipwreck or
mutiny among the crew then. She
may occasionally bump the ship against
| O rock or run aground. but it will get
safe off in time and into smooth waters
at last.
l should advise every housekeeper to
| keep str. ct accounts from the very first
Learn how much you have to spend on
your house. on your dress, on your
amusements. and then keep each ac-
count separately. 1t will be real help
in time, though It is tiresome to do at
first. 1t is better with small means to
pay your lis weekly. 1t is not only
check upon your tradesmen-you are
not hkelr to forget IN week what you
have ordered. though in a month you
very probably w.ll-but you also learn,
in tn s way how much things really
cost. and what quantity is required for
a house. 1t is no use asking a friend
how much your bills ought to be. Find
out for yourself how you can have
plenty without extravaganza, and be
generous without being wasteful. The
quantity used will depend on the num-
Der your family consists of. In some
houses the bakers bill is the largest in
proportion. IN others the butchers. and
so on. There can be no law about
these things.
Above all do not begin by spending
up to your full allowance; always leave
a margin. Necessar;es have a wonder
full knack of going up. but they do not
come down again so easily.
Another advantage IN keeping ac-
counts is that It shows You how trities
run away with money. 1t is often
SAID: What is the good of accounts?
The money is gone and there is an end
of it." But it need not be the end.
The accounts help to give us the
moral. We can learn from the moral
the lesson where to be more careful.
One is very apt to see thing in
shop that seems to be wonderfully
cheap. and may be very useful some
day. and. therefore. to buy it. "Wom-
ems bargains are passing into pro-
verb. A good thing to remember is
that thing is not really cheap for you
if it is not required.
In housekeeping have everything of
the best-goOd meat, good bread. good
Goals. A word about the last. Don't
attempt cheap Goals; they are a snare
and delusion-all dust and ashes. If
you want to make your coal last well, |
invest IN cnder sitter. They are to |
be had at every irOnmonger's. Have |
all the ashes sifted through it before |
throwing them into the dust-hole. The |
small. worthless stuff goes through and
the cinders remain and can be used
agan. They make a hot, clear fire.
but. of course. do rot burn for so long
a time as coal. If your coal is bad. it
burns quickly to small slate ash, and is
not only wasteful but d rty. for the
small. white dust flies about and settles
on everything in the room.
For q man or woman who has daily
work to do-and we must remember
that brain work takes more out of
person than mere manual labor-good
fresh meat is absolutely necessary, as
it also is for children while growing.
1t is not a good plan to send orders
to your butcher by the boy who calls
for orders" Your ideas and the
butchers are not always the same as
to the SIZE and choice of joints. If you
have good. trustworthy cook she can
90 for you. but should advise Il young
to 20 and choose what she
wants herself, certa My for the first
year it gives experience.
When you order dinner think care
fully about all that will be wanted.
Dinner is ser Gus sub ect in some
houses. Ii you are apt to forget little
most young housekeepers
are at first-take a pencil AMI paper
and write down everything that
is wanted. Give out what yOu
have in the house, for of course you
will have store cupboard. Store
rooms are luxury not oft N found in
small town houses. Order all that
Will lie required in the morning. then
it w II be o / your mind; If left until
ater some one or something will inter-
rupt YOU and the small orders will
be forgotten.
When we sit down to dinner those
little forgotten things return with ac-
using force. Sometimes there follows
! grumble: sometimes kindly Never
mind this time"
The last makes most impression. No
wife likes 10 remember a grumble. but
20 true wife can forget the kindly
word.
Many a young wife have heart say.
He was so k nd about it. l will try
md remember better in the future"
If a1y young husband designs to
cad these few hints. he is to try to re-
member that the kindly word of en-
helps the young house.
;eeper to persevere and to succeed in
and doing all the little
h ngs that tend to make home happy.
The La,iu.