Wichita eagle., 1889-11-21
Daily r eagle
W0MAN'S WORLD.
Gathered from Fields of Femi.
nine Activity.
IN THE CASTLES OF MAN.
In the Parlor, with Needle and
Thread, and Over the Range.
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IN THE CASTLES OF MAN.
SOME OF THE HOUSEHOLDER COS

SOME OF THE HOUSEHOLD LET COS
The Welcome Is the Soul of Hospitality-A
Trousseau of Household Linen-Wonder-
full Drawn Work of Mexican Nuns-Pbysi-
cal Culture at Home The Property
Rights Of Women in CoIorado-Dress the
Children SimpIy-She Never Thought of
It-Miss Greeley at Home-Useful Suc-
gestions for the Housekeeper.
1t is rather strange, when you come to think
of it, how many little things are ''let go" in
the house, that really fret the inmates and
add friction to the household machinery,
which should run smoothly. Most Of these
'let-go's" are in the kitchen. might philoso-
phize about that fact, but will not, just now.
A dull vegetable knife is ore of these The
kitchen which contains sharp one is the ex-
ception, yet it is very exasperating to peel po-
tatoes or apples cut up beans, or slice tur
nips, with a knife as ''dull as hoe" In the
first place one begrudges the money for fine
steel knife lust to pare potatoes with"
knife the cheaper it is for this sort of work.
A sharp knife will pare thinner, and waste
less than dull one, and will last longer. A
good, small whet stone should accompany it,
with instructions to use it, and not the stove
pipe. stove edge, or sole of the cooks SHOE
There is an old saying, that one of the few
questions the devil cannot answer is: What
is woman's whet stoneg'
Another oppovopca iS ting Of W.
rious kinds, notably quart measures, clippers,
dripping pans and sauce pans. Bits of rag
drawn through the tiny holes, or -four paste
rubbed on the bottom to form patch, are
common devices for getting along with these
let-go tins, instead of carrying them TO the
nearest tin shop some morning and getting
them back whole and strong in the afternoon
for very small outlay of time and money.
There is for sale, and doubt not it is quite
commonly used, certain kind of solder that
the dealers claim can easily be used at home.
/ think l bought some once, but was not very
successful in using it, probably from lack of
skill. 1t in no way lessened my conviction
that tins should not be allowed to continue
leaky, when time or service has made them So
A clothes wrinGer that will not wiring is
another annoyance Perhaps one Of the
rollers will not turn. We oil the gearing,
end fuss with it week after week on wash
day, and forget it the other days, all the time
@aguely hoping it is only ''conniption fit"
md the matter will fright ITSELF" if we only
wait long enough. 1t does not fright ITSELF"
and so the annoyance continues the clothes
IRE half wrung, or ,wrung by hand, when it
would be so easy to drop postal to the man
sho repairs wringers, and then have this one
ease to be ''let-go"
Dull scissors-who does not know them?
Day after day some people saw away" with
such pair, working their jaws meanwhile,
end getting pain in their tempers," all be-
.ause this is one of the ''let-gosn that has
grown to be chronic. Isn't it queer! Why
is 1T so? | only know it is, and that | rarely
have a friend, who visits me and uses my
scissors fail to say, why, how nice and
sharp your scissors arei" Also, l never go
anywhere, taking my work, without being
very sure my scissors are with it, because |
know what / viii meet, nine times out of ten,
If | borrow scissors.
Another ''let-go" has connection with
tides. Now tides are very nice things, and
very saving to the furniture, if they are prop
erly made and adjusted; but how few are.
Most of them are ''everlastingly falling off,"
and all because we fail to sew on little tapes
for tying, or little tapes for pinning under
meath We mean to, each of the fifty times
we pick them up and lay them on the sofa or
chair; but somehow we let it go, aud fret our
selves and others by SO doing.
The weekly repairing of garments is almost
q religious duty in some few homes; but in
how many are the little rents and rips, the
lost buttons and hooks, the broken button
holes and worn edges, and the tiny holes and
thin places in hosiery, let so from time TO
time until nothing remains to be done but
throw aside the garments The stitch in
time saves nine" remark NAV be trite, but it
is Just as good as ever, and when find a
home where mending is one of the '1et-go's"I
feel very sure there is a sad lack of thrift aud
so of certain moral qualities that so with it.
am well aware that lone cannot do every
thing but let us not be self indulgent or self
deceived when we say this, Let us not find |
that the ''let-gos' are things that we should |
do, and that neglect for other things that we
prefer TO do because they are pleaSanter, or
through careleSSneSs that is selfish or dis |
honest. The fewer 'let-go's" we have the
easier viii life be, really.-Juniata Stafford |
in Good Housekeeping.