Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-02
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Household,

Household,
MILD PROTEST.
OF articles on household lore and do
nestle economy there is no end. Women
are instructed SO to their duties until in
struction would seem to have reached its
utmost limit. Every hour of their time
Is mapped out and laid down for them,
from The rising of the sun to It's going
down. They are told how 10 dress their
children, and how to wash them; how to
punish, how to feed them, and how they
should be undressed and put to bed.
They are told how 10 treat their servants,
how 10 wash their dishes, end how to
make their beds. Sweeping and busting,
washing and ironing, would appear to
have been hitherto unknown arts, and the
cooking Of food 8 recent Giscovery.
There is no household duty too small,
no small thing too trif,ng to escape the
vigilant eye Of the domestic instructor.
Does womaD, indeed, come TO her place
as hoGsekeeper, wife, and moth: r, as one
being an idiot, with not st iii ;ient COM
mon sense to teach her thst it Is necessa~
~ to wash her children rll over and
clean, and not to feed them habitually on
plum cake and lobster-ssled2
Tuition is good thing-in moderation.
1t is, perhaps, most needed where iltui-
tion is lacking. But one may have too
mucn even CT good thing. Some house
hold hints, short ways Of doing things,
original ioeas in working, or ssvirg work,
are often welcome. N Jtions in fashions,
different styles Of adorning the home,
points that will mean time and money to
the busy housemother, directions 50 TO
NJ a
clothes, Or grown folks, either are
neIlfal. Good recipes. those thst have
common ense IS one CT the ingredients
snd would really satisfy thu healthy appe-
tite of the hungry head of the house, these
are all pleasant to read aud convenient to
remember and refer to. But minute in.
struction in the style OF busting your
room, or 8 column Of explicit directions
as TO the correct way to make your bed,
are, to any sensible woman who has seen
her grandmother and mother make beds
and dustrooms, IiciculouslY superfucus
teaching.
The wonder arises in the mind OF the
ordinary reader how the vigilsnt instruc-
tor herself found out all these things.
And how did her mother and grand.
mother ever do the cooking, msnsge the
UUUsSTO9hy Auu DAInf NY - Aainhy "a Shb-
dren when the instructor WAS not there?
Il Is irightful to contemplate the state OF
ignorance Of domestic matters In which
our fcremothers lived and moved snd
had their being. That they ever educated
their children and ruled their households,
with no domestic journals to teach them,
must remain mystery to torment in
curing minds.
But the fashion changeth. Much in
the new departure is COCO, sensible, in.
teresting, instructive, and OF assistance
to those always locking for new ideas In
housekeeping. Therefore will the wise
woman, relying first or her own common
sense, prove all things and hold fast to
that which is good.
THE DINNER TABLE.
Dinner tables this winter are no longer
to look like fancy store on bargain dsY.
There are to be no more plush, or silk or
sstin table cloths, no bewildering assort-
ment OF silver and bisque figures. It is
even said that all decorations are TO be
fiat, 80 it will be possible to speak to and
see your vis.a.vis without dislocsting
your reck dodgirg around the monus