The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-02

Dut am not oil the opinion that tISy
meet the want. My opinion is that schools
for teaching practical, wholesome cook
ing to servants would do much TO improve
domestic housekeeping. / would use
these schools just as trades are taught 10
boys, Tor they would improve one class Of
servants, obtain for them higher wages,
and enable even ignorant housewives TO
maintain their households in proper and
economical way
at is great and interesting question,
and the more it is discussed the better.
But please put me down as holding the
opinion that housekeeping is not failure.
Exceptions to the rule do not make it So"
II think housekeeping great fun, re-
marked Miss Jeanette J.. Glider, editor
OF the Critic. 81 have always kept house,
and would not live any other way il l
could only have one room, TO sleep in one
corner and cook and eat in the other. II
housekeeping is failure in any one in
stance ii is entirely the fault OF tie woman
who fails. Look at me; | have great
deal OF literary work to do but find am
pie time TO look after my housekeeping.
| Until recently / had the care of four chill
dren, and even now have little niece
aud one of my brothers with me, yet did
not find 1t any care or worry.
depend upon it, success in housekeep-
ing mainly depends upon the class Of
servants you keep. II they are bad or
ignorant everything will 60 wrong. But
II you get good servants half your care
disappears. l have always been fortunate
in getting good ones. But there are some
things housekeeper should insist upon
doing herself. always do my own mar
keting. / adopt the French plan and 90
| To Eranph naOnla fcr INV uun,,lina rhny
are more civil and accommodating, ana.
know how TO make much out OF a little.
You can buy IN smaller quantiiies-for
instance, | got two chops Just now for 10
cents, just for my niece's lunch. The
French grocers keep many things other
grocers never think Of providing.
THE rent question is, OF course, n seri-
GUS one, but though the rates are high
in the city, | find housekeeping much
| cheaper than in the country Boarding is
cheaper than housekeeping, but you can
not live 80 well. For myself, | cannot eat
food in a boarding house, 80 what is the
use of it2 You must eat and have an
| appetite for your food, or the money YOU
pay for boarding is wasted. How often it
happens that person gets up from the
clearinghouse table hungry and goes 20
n restaurant for something TO eat. Even
there he is not quite satisfied, for the
cooking is not homelke.
I'll our women would only make a study
OF Housekeeping they could do it econom-
ically and i've well. At any rate they
would have more comfort. How do live?
Well, | will tell you. We have light
breakfast ut $50 o'clock, hot coffee, lew
light rolls cold, some eggs, radishes or
something Of that sort. AT 1890 o'clock
lss.sH. 4 =.
with cold cuts, but hot meats, chops or
beefsieaks-good solid food At Z o'clock
We have dinner-sOup, q fowl, or n roasted
joint We have always good appeti;es and
seldom need any supper, except sometimes
n glass OF cool beer and bit Of bread and
cheese. You can't get that sort Of fare in
a boarding-house.
~ prefer French servants, or those edu-
Gated in French families. They arc
neater, more obliging and cheerful, because
they take an interest in their work.
believe in the French system Of cookery,
aud think six or eight courses awful.
want light dishes, soups, cold bread, no
tea biscuits, and never could eat pics. IL
there is pudding, ii must be simple and
plain. To keep house is TO have a home;J
10 board is TO be wandorer on the face OF
the earth.
GLOW wish Clara Louise kellogg was
| In town. She could give YOU charming
indea OF the delights aud profits Of house.
keeping She Is one 81 the best house,
keepers ever met. Despite her rehearsals
and vocal practicing and all the cares OF
business she has to attend to, Miss Kellogg
| iinds time for her marketing, and II never
~ happy rs when 20 engaged. ! suppose
Il will be surprising 10 many wives TO
know that nearly all the professional
women arc housckcepcrs. Many an
actress who charms her audiences every
evening takes personal care Of her house,
| hold, and there are many women wearing
| the fancy costumes Of the burlcsquo stage
who spend their mornings with market
baskets on their arms. and nnd n genuine
pleasure In buying supplies for their Ia
blcs This should be a proof that real
good housekeeping is a pleasant employ
mcnt, and, when properly conducted, is a
perfect aud enduring success.
"lf our women will only decide that lie
Is not one Of pleasure and Incidence, that
work is hcalthiul and enjoyable, then they
will make housekeeping the success that
| IL should be. a woman who gets married
ought 10 have n home for the comfort OF
her husband and herself, in which she can
bring up her children. A person who
grows mp knowing nothing Of real homo
life, nor the training. the love, the aitrac-
tons OF the domestic circle. is not the
same man or woman as he or she who has
enjoyed thcsc comforts aud blessings.
Without housekeeping the family Ties are
lo0scncd, there IL not the same love and
tenderness. true woman IS naturally a
house-keepcr II j. her peculiar province,
and good housc.kcepcr Is u good wife and
mother. You cannot dissociaio the 49,.
things. How any woman ui sense or self
respect can be- content in q clearinghouse
OF hotel canno. conceive. Whom there
are ~ many single women, like myself,
who find pleasure and profit la household
duties, cannot conceive how mothers can
seek to avoid them"
And yet there are unsuccessful house,
keepers, ~ the question remains pacii-
caliy unsettled. The evidence stands upon
an even balance, ! iind, aud though These
ladies are Enthusiastically In The aiiirina-
live, there is quite ~ much proof that
house keeping Is really failure.
The Latest Ia Jewels.
Specially attractive a. broasipin Is n
golden scythe, cntwining spray OF cnam-