Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-01
INCOMPLETE TRAINING.

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Housekeeping knowledge Which Even
Young wife should Possess. II
AnoticeabIe portion of the discomfort |
of life to the newly-married arises from
certain defect in education-we regret
to say it-on the part of the wives.
Other portions may arise Ito say moth
ing of other shortcomings in the Wlves)
from the exactions, tyrannies, tempers
and general ill-behavior on the part OF
the husbands. But one serious flaw In
the knowledge and habits of the wives IS
| sufficient to develop many OF these tenn
| pers and exactions, and sometimes to
| drive the husbands elsewhere for the |
comfort that they ought to have at
| home.
IF a woman marries and undertakes
| the conduct of home, it Is supposed
| that she knows how to conduct the
! bonse. and if she does not know how,
| she must learn how; for no matter what
| she thinks is woman's sphere in generai'
II is certainly her duty to fulfil her obli-
cations and the obligation that she has
here assumed is that of conducting the
household affairs as we'll as it is possible
| to conduct them.
Yet. in view of this, how many young
u;ves are there who, if the cook should
suddenly fail them, can make one single
article of daily det-the article OF the
morning coffee, for instance-as well
as it ought to be made? Some sort OF
coffee. of course, she could turn out,
: but, as a general thing, it would be
| a strong and bitter draught, rather
| inclined to be muddy, and not the
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table that diffuses a rich and pungent
| odor through the house. Or. again,
,, take an entirely different branch OF
) housekeeping affairs-the washing OF
8 the ffannels Perhaps the husband IS
|. sensitive to the weather, rheumatic or
phthisicky, cannot wear the ordinary
Y and comparatively inexpensive flannel.
D and has to have peculiarly thick ana
nice flannel that is very costly, or
> even if he does not differ from the
d great majority, but, wearing fannels
= at all, he can not afford to have
Il them shrunk to nothing, or SO that it
u is an effort to get into them after they
r have been washed a few times, and dis,
he likes to go about trussed up like fowl
:, ready for the spit. Ten to one, then,
81 the second time the new flannels
- come out of the wash they will not only
IL he as stiff as "a board, but so shrunker
10 as to be some sizes too small for the
.. owner. In vain the young housekeepel
ia has them washed; she thinks her mothel
+ had f1annels washed; in vain she ask
j. all her acquaintance in subtle ways how
# is that they wash fannels; in vain a
ca ca last she makes no ado, but asks tn
i'd scornful elder housekeepers, perhaps
tu- indeed. her husbands mother anon;
ch them, what course they have pursue
an with this troublesome branch of laun
, er. drv-work; every one has dlneren
rol way. and few of them a right way, an
by some of them even tell her there Is n
,on wav; and it takes struggle of months
in together with infinite unhappines;
the the elimination, recriminatlon ana tear
yer in order to make the thing satlsfactor.
ers and to do right at last that which shout
rs p have been done right in the beginning
The whole trouble is due to defectly
ar education. For while the young lac
of has learned to talk French, to play Sch
ION mann and Schubert. to understar
er- political economy, and has, it may b
adj all those accomplishments with whlt
of Miss Pinkerton represented Miss lii
all to Mrs. Butte Crawley, she has n
ter learned the proper way in which
hat make coffee or wash fannels. 1t W
ser supposed. perhaps, that she would new
have such work to do; perhaps
sed never will; but all the same 1T is e
on ceedingly desirable that she shall kns
pa how to do it, even If she is never cali
upon to lift a finger in the actual ei1o'
ice, In some of our schools of late certa
lals domestic branches have begun to recei
not attention. whether in the interlude
ade hooks or as of equal importance. y
cial of these branches is sewing, in wht
re
Off structed. and proficiency with the nee'
tiles is required of them as much as with
ling crayon and blackboard. And althou
tie. as much as that is assuredly gr
ow- gain in public instruction, as the n
UNI placing of patch or working OF b
new ton-ho1e is something to be learI
wer, early. vet it would not be amiss il
must matter went still further, and instr
ly OF ton were given in the arts OF the KIT
at is en-. the laundry, and the buttery as W
con- Even if this were too much 10 nj
intermingled with the regular and us
,xer- course of study, it might not be lmE
the sible to add it to the course subseque
, the ". and to consider no girls educat
Lpers complete till she has diploma in
ds," common sorts of every day cooke
dent and the simple housekeeping usa
which will come into play the mon
4 not that she has home of her own. L
for very well for her to know Greek ii
more will. or to be able to read the Vedas
rea- the original, but she is by SO much
pow. a woman if she do not know how ais
set her house in order. She is the
If the tim of misplaced confidence, the ma
, leg to her husband, the slave to her w
pow if she has not this knowledge; an
y OPP she has it, she is mistress OF the 81
every ton, and rules her corner of the W
with an absolute sway from :"
part there is not only no appeal, but no
inches for power of appeal.-Hdrper's ga
mixed