Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-15
HOUSEKEEPING OF THE FUTURE.

I
| hired girl are all to be banished. Clothes
making, soap-making, laundry work, coffet
burning, yeast-making, butter-making, all
gone forever, with ten thousand othel
tiresome tasks which one may wear hersel
out in performing, and nobody knows that
one has done anything at all, but leave
the mlnutest of things undone for awhile
and how great a vacuum Pretty soor
organized industry will take after these
| cruel old task-masters that have driven
many women to their graves, the remain
ing work of cooking and cleaning. 1t i:
coming, this household millennium, as sure
as fate. The city of the future will not
build houses in squares, giving to every
house an individual kitchen and prison.
like "back yard" 1t will rather build
them all around an open square, and that
portion now disfgured with the kitchen
will be given over to household sitting.
room or play-room or nursery, opening
into great green space, wherein children
may romp in safety, and through which
the free air of heaven shall flow into the
surrounding houses. In every square will
be found scientifically constructed build.
ing, containing Laundry and a great
kitchen, supplied with every modern ap.
pliance for skilled and scientific cooking
and also for sending into every private
dining-room any desired quantity or vari.
ETY. of food. The individuality of the
home and the home table will be pre-.
served, but the kitchen smells and waste
and worry and "hired girls" will 5e for.
gotten hobgoblins of the past.
Sing sweetiy a song for the days that are gone
They were merry and glad and free;
But Oh for the days that are yet to dawn,
And the joys that are yet to be!
Fair is the East when the morning shines,
And the glad earth awakeS from rest
But lovelier far when the day declines,
Is the glory that fills the West.
Tomorrow will come with brighter light
Than yesterday ever knew
For pleasure unknown and a new delight
Will gladden. it through and through.
ESSENTIALLY WOMEN.
Speaking of our Southern sisters, one OF
the brightest writers of the day saws oI
them that their charm is not in knowing
SO much nor in wearing gowns OF the very
latest styles, nor that they aspire TO any
high degree of physical culture, but that
they are essentially loomea. As girls they
are happy, and expect to be married some
day and to become mothers. To be sure. a
girl does not think this all out, but if the
question were put fairly to her, she would
probably blush prettily and admit that il
was the truth. She cannot wear a tailor,
made gown with the chic of New York
girl, but she is wonderfully bewitching in
the simple white one that she dons of an
evening, and in which she looks, Just now,
like a picture tanen from one of the old
beauty books. She wears a full, plain
shirt that is cut round at the neck, show.
ing the white firm flesh, and the sleeves
are the old-time "baby" sleeves-so ex,
quisitely modest, and which show the
entire arm. Around her waist is white
ribbon belt, and just in front is generally
buckle set with brilliants that her grand
mothel wore in the dancing days of long
ago. Ter hair is knotted low on her neck
and iist at one side is placed creamy
white rose.
The typical Southern girl has not the
book knowledge of the New England
cousin, for she thinks Browning does not
compare with Adelaide Proctor, and she
has been told that Swinburne wasn't
proper for young lady to read. She
doesn't care for George Eliot, because
mamma said there was something queer
in her behavior-but she reads Thackeray,
and thinks if she ever had son she
would like him to resemble Henry Es
mond. She is very willing to concede that
the Northern girls know great DEAL but
when they tell her OF women who have tC
earn their own living ng-gentlewomen, too
she wonders with wide-eyed astonishment
where the men of their family are. She
cannot be made to realize that in this
world are any men who only look after
themselves Do L think her without
faults? No, | do not. But they are fault.
that are essentially womanly-faults thai
are wiped out in time by her many virtue,
faults, that when she is good wife ant
good mother, are forgotten, and she il
certain to be those Her quick temper
will be invaluable in her rule over the
kitchen, and, also, a little subdued, it vii
serve to make her train up her children
in the way they should go. Her senti
mentality lessons as she grows older, bu
there is always enough of it left to make
her husband feel that she values his love
THE ARTISTIC THING
Now is to design your own patterns fo
draperies or dress, and have them printed
as well as embroidered for you | saw
| lovely set Of curtains for country house
where something was desired that wonlC
wash and wear. They were of unbleachet
sheeting, yard and half wide (origina
cost, % cents per yard), which has beer
| sent to an artist furnisherS to be stamped
| in various floral patterns, wild climatis il
| greenish-white blossoms and dull leaves il
| old-pink single roses, or silvery stars o
that soft hue which makes beautiful tht
| spring waysides of all New England Tn,
blocks are cut by hand and dyed in fas
colors without finish, and in the mellow
ground the quaint, pleasing designs hav,
an excellent air of use and charm.
The most elegant suites for country
sitting-rooms are white mahogony-a clea
| wood like hickory, with a rich, creamy
tint-made in the simplest lines, with
| beyel of high polish. Cherry wood in it
light, natural color, highly polished, il
quite as much admired.
There are some new and pretty indi
yidual conceits in furnishings. What t
do with photographs is often question
and the latest way of disposing of them i
to mount them in the upper panels of
folding screen, where they are fitted int,
fiat borders of silk, plush or cretonne
with isinglass slipped over the picture
Below is ten-inch space of polishe'
wood, with shallow rallied she'll, to hol,
china. have seen an octagon tea-table
with large cabinet photographs arrange
below the border, with wood frames an,
isinglass face, the latter substance bein
much lighter and less likely to break tha
real glass. Or row of photos may be Sc
on the wall, like tiles, with fiat WOO
framing and bevelled glass over each
which helps the tile effect.
Ewes GREAT-GREAT-
| GRANDDAUGHTER.
The Young Mans Capital.