The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-12-07
Ladies' Department.
TWO Scenes on q November Morn
ing.
SCENE ONE.

doors, no kindling prepared, tie
breakfast potatoes in the cellar, and
no bread ready for that meal.
Mr.. Farmer gets up and calls the
boys and the hired help; Mrs. F.
hurries into the kitchen with hair
flying, and this is about what follows.
Mrs F. to boy-"Jimmy, run out
and get me some wood and kindling;
Mary, hurry and bring up the pota-
toes and wash them,'
While these orders are being ex-
ecuted, Mrs. F. cleans out the stove
CRATE preparatory to making the fire.
when the fire is started and the po-
tatoes on she hurries to make biscuit;
after which meat must be sliced and
fried, coffee be made and the table
set. When breakfast is about half
cooked in comes Mr.. Farmer from
the barn.
breakfast ready?"
"No,' says Mrs. F., sit isn't. Do
you suppose ! can cook breakfast in
minute?"
1.-The men orght to be in the field
this minute,' says Mr.. Farmer.
"There's time enough wasted here
every morning in waiting for break
fasS to run small farm. Why is it
we can't have breakfast earlier?
There's Smiths hands now going to
work. | just wish there was such
management in this house"
Perhaps you had better take t.old
and manage yourself snaps Mrs. F.
"If you were like Mr.. Smith and got
the wood and kindling ready over
night, there wouldn't be 80 much de.
lay in the morning. But everything
is left for me to see to, and then you
fuss because the meals are not ready
the minute you want them There's
nothing so unreasonable as an un-
reasonable man,
Except woman" retorts Mr..
Farmer. And with the comfort of
the last word still lingering on his
lips lie stalks back to the barn.
Mrs. r. in hurried; irritated
manner, proceeds with breakfast,
which in Time is ready for the wait
ing men.
The day has commenced wrong,
and throughout all its hours the hus-
band and wife labors under a cloud.
The couplet, "Commence the day
we'll, and well it will end; but poorly
begun It's hard thing to mend" is
a very true one. If the mornings
work is retarded all the duties of
the day seem to lag. And if words
of discord are spoken before the
family members separate for the day,
they bear like heavy weight upon
the heart. But under different man.
agement we shall see how smoothly
the day started in.
SCENE TWO.
A cold kitchen; but in the we'll
cleaned CRATE of the cooking stove
is fire material just ready for the
match. This was put in readiness
by Mr.. Farmer the night before. On
the back of the stove is kettle for
the potatoes. waiting to De placed
over the fire. On the table is pan
of potatoes ready for cooking. and
meat sliced for frying. Coffee and
coffee pot are near at hand. Plenty
of bread in the bread box, and the
table set ready for breakfast.
Mr.. Farmer gets up, and after call
ing his boys and the "help," pro-
ceeds to the kitchen, lights the fire,
puts water in the kettles, and places
them over the fire. Mrs. F. soon
appears, with hair nicely combed. By
this time the fire is burning briskly,
and breakfast is soon cooking.
Without any furry or worry on the
housekeeper's part, when the men are
through with the morning "chores,"
breakfast is waiting for them. There
is no loss of time or loss of temper.
The farmer and his wife are both
gamers by the good management,
to say nothing of the comfort of hav.
ing fire quickly on cold morning.
There is just SO much work to be
done in getting breakfast, and where
that meal must be served early for