The Indianapolis journal., 1885-06-14
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posed to understand the value of advertising
Housekeeping is becoming truly vicarious
matter. For a long time VIC have had our veg
etables canned for rs, and If the store
room supply gives out we can always
repienlsh it 18th the somewhat sour
grocery artic' IT here is Mrs. Mary Stafford,
"a DetrciL ,&lng cakes for the blue
ssocalnGed , 1,. mans, and pies for the pedi-
greeo M Ihiiae 'phians, and sending her English
p, plum pudding, tho real old fashioned kind,n
a an over north America at fifty cents a roundi
success TO Mrs. Stafford and to all her nhilan-
tnropic klndi BY and by matrimony viii lose
Its last terror, and the voice of tha nawsnanar
moralist bemoaning illtrained wives w;iI ha
heard no more IN the land. Bv and by n con.
sclentlous married person will be able ia hiring
up her children, and vote and cultivate the true
and beautiful, and walk in tne fear Of the Jord
and not of tho cook. Excelsior Mrs Saffordi
They say that the sisters of William Morris.
the well-known authority in aesthetics. drive
around London advising newly rich people how
to furnish their houses; and somebody suggests
it a new employment for women. Admira-
BILE; only the advisers must be newly poor-the
final flowers Of decayed gentility--or they will
know no more than the noveaux riches them
selves about the fall of portiere or
the tint of a wall. But why lin
it the transaction to advice about
furnshing2 Put your literary culture into the
market, my impoverished friend, and select the
contents of these very modern book cases, your
artistic taste, and hang Meissoniers where
chromos were won't to be. Teach the parvenues
what to expect of their servants and how TO
give kettle drum, and your reward shall be-
great in specie. The gold of the people for the
intangible product of the centuries Truly q
tabeau Of the nineteenth century!
Talking of interiors; Lady Barker has put her
ideas about them into series Of little books on
cart at Home" Very fresh, and vigorous, and
thoroughly English, and Independent the ideas
are, too. They are entertaining little volumes.
If only for the uncompromising style in which
the authoress ''hatesr this, ''detests" that and
prefers something else, declares this ia
nous. that capital and shuns the other thing
as she would the plague" always
in the first person. l must para
phrase for you a few of her sensible
suggestions about spare room. light writ
ing table, flowers, dark blind and room for
your guests boxes and individuality are indis-
pensable. And a wooden frame two feet high
for trunk to stand on during the disgorging
process is a positive luxury. 1t gives one
greater control and saves many weary ache in
packing and unpacking. Lady Barker limits
her advice, however, to the arrangement of
guest chambers in tho country. With regard to
spare-room in town, she has only an emphatic
Don't The reasons for abstaning are not so
clear 'Itmeans an income tax of several shillings
IN the pound" But are guests entertained for
nothing in the countryg 1t means ian endless
succession of dodgers who don't pay' Is Lady
Barker in the habit of remunerating her country
hostessg Apart from these very evident consid-
eratons of justice, everybcd ought to have o
spare room for the pleasure of it, A good deal
of nonsense has been aired lately about nothing
being too precious for the sacred uses of the
family; about the folly and wckedness of best
rooms and furniture and china. The perpe-
traitors of this sort of thing must have a very
limited acquaintance with the domestic
boy. Ce.ibacy is exposed in it, and
a strictly theoretic idea Of housekeeping Her
spare room ought to be to every house mother
sort of inner sanctuary, whence muddy boots
should be debarred and where fishing tackle
should not come-a spot consecrated with sprigs
of lavender and jars of rose leaves to the ameni-
ties Of lfe spot where the pin cushion remains
immaculate and the pillow shams stiff and spot
less, to be a continual JOY in the beholding The
mere knowledge that it is the re, in its fragrance
and its purity is constant factor in her happi-
ness, and she cannot afford to do without it in
city or country. Avauntl Lady Barkerl
The Laureatehas not thehabit of inspired con-
versation, according to anecdotes of him In Sir
Henry Taylor's recently published autobiogra-
ply, and by the same evidence objects to the in-
QUESTION of an Anthony Froude or any follow
ing of his He ITennyson] said that the
desiring anecdotes and acquaint tance with the
lives of great men was treating them like pigs to
be ripped open for the public; that he knew that
he himself should be ripped open like a pig"
Posthumus honors are no longer a praiseworthy
ambition. desire to live in future thought
his lordship has probably discovered to be s'bad
form" He is described as ''grumbling agreeably
for an hour or two, in want of story to treat.
being full of poetry with nothing to put in it,
From his recent productions he appears still dis
posed to grumble, being full of poetry with moth
ing to put in it.
1t is questionable, after all, if this desire that
we all have for intimate knowledge of great
mems lives, is altogether prurient and to be con
demned. One might have legitimate curiosity
about the anatomy of angel. To know that
these literary deities whom we worship from
afar off are constructed of the very same
flesh and blood that stands all day
in the market places. is TO want to know great
deal more. 1t is an instructive desire to estab-
lish kinship, to make sure that the possibilities
attained are for the race. 1t is a grateful tick
ling of our self respect as members of Adams
large family to have incontrovertible proof that
our idols are mon of like passions as we
GARTH GRAFTON.
Tho Madam Naxvcnanar