Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-07
RUNNING A HOUSE BY RULES.
Curious PIacards Posted Up in a BaI-
 tImore Mans House.

I Curious PIacards Posted Up in a BaI- tImore Mans House. There are good many queer people in | this world. Just at present Baltimore con- tains as odd parsonage Charles Dickers' MT. Dick. He is a bookkeeper who runs his house by Jules. A reporter of the News, I who recently visited his residence, says: Plaeards of rrles were placed in every
 room for the guidance of it's occupants, and | for their violation sundry penalties are pro- l vided. In the hall the following rules were posted, the placard being wedged in the | crevice of the mi1-or in the hat-rack: Please hang your hat up. Please wipe your feet.
 | Please do not take away our umbrellas. Please put your umbrella in the rack. | Enter the parlor by the f-st door to the | left.
 In the parlor he found a similar poster It was fastened to the shade of droplight, and at night it's lettering was brought into I conspicuous prominence by the light under | it. The placard read thus: Please do not soil the photog raph album. Please do not finger the oil paintings to see | if they are genuine, for they are. Please do not touch the mineral specimens on the side table.
 Please do not move your chair from the | position it occupies.
 | Please close the piano after using it and ! put the music where you found it. If you found it out of place put it where it belongs. No visitors entertained in thls parlor be- fore p. m. and between the hours of and 8 p. m. and after 1050 D. m. Any visitor calling at any hour when ente1 tainment is allowed will be compelled to await the a1Ii- val ot the hour when some member of the family is permitted to enter. Young men will please observe the ldle
 that no visitors are entertained after 10:30
 p. m.
 Members of this family are prohibited from occupy ing this parlor except to enter tain callers.
 The rules rough visitors, but the porter learned from regular visito: to one of the young ladies of the house that they are rigidly enforced
 Suspended from a chandelier, which over hangs the dining table in the dining-room was placard which read thus: Please take your time in eating. Please replace the different articles in the casters.
 Please do not place your elbows on the table,
 Please sit upright in your chair. Please eat with your fork. In the kitchen the servant girl kept such close watch upon the reporter that he could not copy the rules he saw over the dresser. He got few furtive glances at them. They were very long and outlined in detail the cooks duties, such as the amount of salt, pepper and other condiments to be placed in certain articles of food; the amount of flour
 required for biscuits and rolls for each meal;
 when butter was to be used etc. There was
 place for every pan and pot and each was specified. Even the amount of coal required for days use in the kitchen stove was set down. There was special inj junction that everything was to be kept neat and clean,
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 by the master of the house, who would in- spect the kitchen every day. The servant girl was allowed to receive company on one night each week, and she was permitted to take Sunday night to herself, provided she would return by 10:30 p. m. Violation of on duty on Sunday night and refused con- pany either for one, two or three weeks, as the magnitude of the offence might justify.
 The harshness of the paterfamilias was brought into full play when he devised the rules for the bedchamber which his two
 daughters occupied. The placard was of the same pattern as those in other rooms throughout the house-twelve inches by
 eight, plain black lettering, surrounded by
 broad black border. The placard was sus
 pended by ribbon from the top of the mir
 TOT frame; and the card covered the top of the glass. It was probably placed in that
 position by the father to insure it's being seen long and often. Every time that either of those young ladies ties her bonnet string, arranges her hair or gazes into the depths of her blue eyes she cannot help seeing that placard. Any young lady must know how often then those rules meet the eyes of the fair occupants of that room. They read thus:
 My daughters will refrain from using cos metics, paint, powder and other such stuff on every occasion.
 Tight facing is prohibited.
 No conspicuous jewelry must be worn.
 Rose-water is the only perfumery permit ted
 The teeth and nails must be carefully brushed at least twice day
 The bureau drawers must be kept in prime order.
 No high-heeled or tight-ftting shoes all lowed.
 No garments should be thrown haphazard on the chairs.
 The lights in this room must be extin- guished at il p. m. promptly.
 It is unnecessary to add that my daughters will say their prayers before retiring at night and after rising in the morning.
 Similar rules are placarded in the chamber occupied by the father and mother. Even the son is not exempt, and he is told how often to shave, what kind of cravats to wear,