The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-28

ton of possible housekeepers and wives, but
l am not of the opinion that they meet the
want. My opinion is that schools for teach
ing practical wholesome cooking to servants
would do much to improve domestic house.
keeping. | would use these schools Just as
trades are taught to boys, for they would
improve one class of servants, obtain for
them higher wages, and enable even igno-
rant housewives TO maintain their house
holds in proper and economical way.
at is a 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. Excep-
lions to the ru % 40 not make it So"
HOUSEKEEPING is GREAT FUN.
~ think housekeeping great fun" re-
marked Miss Jeanette l.. Glider, editor of
the Critic. Il 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 house
keeping is failure in any one instance, it
is entirely the fault of the woman who fails.
Look at me; | have great deal of literary
work to do, but | find ample time to look
after my housekeeping. Until recently |
had the care of four children, and even
now have a little niece and one of my
brothers with me, yet did not find it any
care or worry
depend upon it, success in housekeeping
mainly depends upon the class of servants
you keep. If they are bad or ignorant,
everything will go wrong. But if you get
good servants, half your care disappears. |
have always been fortunate in getting good
ones. But there are some things house
keeper should insist uNon doing herself.
always do my own marketing. | adopt the
French plan and go to French people for
my supplies. They are more civil and ac-
commodating, and know how to make
much out of little. You can buy in
smaller quantities-for instance | got two
chops just now for 10 cents, just for my
nieces lunch. The French grocers keep
many things other grocers never think Of
providing.
1.-The rent question is, of course, serious
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 cannot live so well.
For myself, | cannot eat food in boarding
house, so what is the use of it? You must
eat and have an appetite for your food, or
the money you pay for boarding is wasted.
How often 1t happens that person gets up
from the boarding house table hungry, and
goes to restaurant for something to eat!
Even there he is not quite satisfied, for the
cooking is not homelike.
MORE STUDY NECESSARY.
"If our women would only make study
of housekeeping, they could do it econom-
cally and live well. At any rate they would
have more comfort. How do | lives Well,
l will tell you. We have light breakfast
at $50, hot coffee. a few light rolls cold,
some eggs, radishes or something of that
sort. At 12 80 we have a regular breakfast
not lunch with cold cuts, but hot meats,
chops or beetsteaks-good solid food. At
we have dinner-soup, fowl or roasted
| joint. We have always good appetites and
seldom need any supper except sometimes
glass Of cool beer and bit of bread and
cheese. You can't get that sort of fare in a
| boarding house.
II prefer French servants or those edu-
Gated in French families. They are heater,
more obliging and cheerful, because they
take an interest in their work. 1 believe in
the French system of cookery. and think six
OF eight courses awful. l want light dishes,
SOUPS, cold bread, no tea biscuits, and never
| could eat pies IL there is pudding, it must
be simple and plain. To keep house is tc
have home; to board is to be wandereI
on the face of the earth.
ACTRESSES AS HoUsEKEEPERs.
Chow wish Clara Louise Kellogg was in
town! She could give you charming idea
of the delights and profits of housekeeping
She is one Of the best housekeepers | ever
met. Despite her rehearsals and vocal
practising and all the cares of business she
has to attend to, Miss Kellogg finds time for
her marketing and is never so happy as
when so engaged. | suppose it will be sur
prising to many wives to know that nearly
all the professional women are housekeepers.
Many an actress who charms her audiences
every evening takes personal care of her
household, and there are many women
wearing the fancy costumes of the bur
lesque stage who spend their mornings with
market baskets on their arms, and find a
genuine pleasure in buying supplies for
their tables This should be a proof that
real good housekeeping is pleasant EN-
| ployment, and when properly conducted is
| perfect and enduring success.
eff our women will only decide that life
| is not one of pleasure and Incidence, that
work is healthfuI and enjoyable, then they
will make housekeeping the success it should
be. A woman who gets married ought to
| have a home for the comfort of her hus
band and herself, in which she can bring
up her children. A persons who grows up
knowing nothing of real home life, nor the
| training, the love, the attractions of the
| domestic circle, is not the same man or
woman as he or she who has enjoyed these
comforts and blessings. Without house
keeping the family ties are loosened; there
is not the same love and tender
ness. A true woman is naturally
a housekeeper. 1t is her peculiar prov.
ince, and a good housekeeper is a good
wife and mother. You cannot dissociate
the two things. How any woman of sense
or self-respect can be content in boarding
house or hotel l cannot conceive. When
| there are so many single women, like my
self, who find pleasure and profit in house
| hold duties, | cannot conceive how mothers
can seek to avoid them.
| And yet there are unsuccessful house
keepers, so the question remains practically
unsettled The evidence stands upon an even
balance, find, and though these ladies are
enthusiastically in the affirmative, there il
quite as much proof that housekeeping is
really a failure.