Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-10
AMERICAN WON EN-.
they Are Generally Sensible, Unaffected
and Very Gu0d Managers.


ANY one familiar with American nov
IS would be apt to think from the de-
icrpton of American ladies that they
we're mere butterflies when young and
nyal d; after marriage. Boston ladies
have becn widely represented ms all head
and no heart, living in an atmosphere
Of metaphysical distractions and utter
ly untitled TO discharge the domestic
lut' es of life. Taking some such view
rs this, n Canadian writer some tinio
since spoke of them as marrying at
sixteen, faded at twenty, toothless at
twenty-five, h,deous at thirty, alternate
" passing thar time between their
rocking chairs and their beds, lazy, list.
less, up and down like an old-fashiened
bean-pole. Are these the things to rear
heroesp" The late war of the rebellion
is q suilic cnt answer to this question,
The lad es Of both contcuding parties
sent to the war as gallant an array,
both of officers and privates--me who
had been nurturcd with as much care
rs the most refined aP stocrats of Eu-
rope-as ever drew a sabre on any
''slrleken field" vt is pecul arity Of
the English-speaking races, and equally
so of the Teutonc races, that they have
never debascd their blood by
mingling with inferior races, in
consequence of which Americans
are OF as pure blood as their En-
glish, Scotch, Irish or German ances-
tors. Because man has been born in
China it does not follow that he must
be q Monaghan, or because he has been
born in America that he must be an
Indian. Race, not locality, determines
quail ties and character. Climate, of
course, has an influence on the body,
bnt the EnglSh-speaking races in all
parts Of the world-and they are ram
bling eVerywhere-maintain their native
characteristics. Many ladies of rank in
each of the three kingdoms from which
this country has been so largely stocked
have been distinguished for their ability
III the management OF large house
holds, have been rs familiar with the
details of kitchen rs of a drawing
room. The same is true of the high
born danes of the Fatherland. Such
cases have been placed by some writer's
in contrast with the hotel life of some
of our Amer can parvenus. The hotel
parvenus, however, are but very
small fraction of the American people.
If any person will take the pains 10 find
out how wealthy American ladies who
keep house manage their establishments,
they will soon preceive the same econ.
omy and order, and the same talent for
MANAGING family affairs for which the +
ancestors across the sea have been dis.
: tinguished.
Recently the transcript gave n brieI
: sketch of the waya Boston lady with a
large family managed her own house.
t hold. She has a husband. some seven
or eight robust children, keeps a butler
!, and seven female domest cs. and super-
intends the whole without tho aid of n
housckeepcr. She never asks servant
what she wants: she supplies at stated
times to each all that is required in his
or her department, and keeps the run
of everything in the house from the
most valuable articles down to the waste
paper necessary to light fro. Her
husband is not only gentleman of
great wealth. but is highly esteemed for
lis intellectual attachments and upright
life. He furn shes her with all the
, money she requires, and never asks how
it is to be used. 1t is not, therefore,
mere economy that governs his wife,
but the love OF system. We know an.
other lady of this same capable type,
who not only manages large family,
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