Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-10-05
HINTS FOR MOTHERS.


isasH tine thiiureh OF the HOusehoid tn
Care Of Chambers and Clothing.
"Bc sure you shut the closet door
before you stir the BEDS was tn,
charge our mother called after N
when she heard the warped back stair
creaking under our lettering steps n,
we We're sent to put in order tn.
chambers OF the wide old farm hous,
That was our childhood home. A full
quarter OF a century has passed sine,
then, and we are now trying to teacf
our own little girls the wise counsel,
we sometimes SO unwillingly heard
from our mother. II every house
keeper would insist that the OCCUPANT,
OF their sleeping apartments, children
nclp, boarders ard visitors. should All,
their beds and throw open window.
each morning before leaving tbei,
rooms, unless beating storms make
this impracticable. we should have
less ailments Of lungs and liver ana
nerves in our midst. To breath night
after night unelean, vitiated air i
enough to poison and disease the
soundest lungs and undermine the
strongest constitution created.
Children. unless weakened and nm.
done by unwise cosseting, love pure.
bracing air, and we find it easy 10
toss back blankets and quilts after
rising, and to remember to throw omen
the windows OF their chambers: but II
Is not SO easy for an adult. who has
lived and slept in an heated atnros-
phere heavy with impurities till he
shrinks and shivers in currents o,
fresh, breezy air waves. to adopt the
rules Or requests Of the house.
When housewife has a crew Of
farm-hands or work-peopIe to board.
to make sure OF well-ventilated cham
oers 1t is necessary to go through the
sleeping-rooms each morning as soon
as the help is out, airing beds, closets
and opening windows.
But teach your girls to close all
closet and chamber doors before com
mencing to make beds and put rooms
IN order, else dust and lint will puff
and settle over garments in halls and
needlessiy litter Railways and land
lngs. May be half their wardrobe is
not neatly hanging in smooth, we'll
shaken folds on their hooks, but is w.
ing in tumbled heaps on the closet
floor, crushed under shelves ALONG
with backing brushes and lathered-
tipped shaving mugs, or scattered
about the chamber rumpled, dusty.
creased, hopelessly injured with their
slovenly care.
And other wardrobes than those of
the men folks quickly grow shabby
because of shiftless caretaking. We
have seen dainty suits. the work of
painstaking. loving mother hands.
grimed with dust and crumpled with
wear and their last toss and flop on to
ct'1ir-back or foot-board. their pretty
rutfies and plaits spoiled with careless
crushing. We have seen elegant
wraps and velvet aud lace-trimmed
garments swinging, right side out"
on closet hook or on jagged-headed
rail in the chamber wall, caught at
some point OF the rich draperv
when heedlessly flung hookward. a
muddy gossamer brushing their cling
ing folds, and carefully laid plaits and
delicate ruchings ruined with their
deep crossings and gray siftings of
dust and lint. Nowhere does slovenIi-
ness so quickly tell of itself as in the
shabby wrinkles and crumpled folds
and drapery of lady's wardrobe.
Our little girls and boys should early
be taught habits OF neatness and
method, that they may not be left to
form such undesirable traits of char
acter. 1t is easier for child of seven
than one of seventeen to learn to take
proper care of her clothing. Our lii
tie daughters of six and seven years
can readily learn to keep their corner
of mammals closet in the incest order.
With careful and constant example.
and now and then warm word of ap-
proval. these little home makers of
the next generation soon take healthy
pride in keeping their dainty dresses
and wraps neatly shaken out. turned
IN their Innings, and carefully hung or
'olded away from clinging lint and
sitting dust, Give them pretty boxes
or their priced. lace-trimmed aprons
and dainty collars and bonnets: an
slaborately embroidered shoe bag for
he smart little button boots and leg
yings. and these little folks soon learn
% delight in keeping their corner of
wardrobe in neatest order
Good Housekeeping.