Wichita eagle., 1889-09-11
9ailg eagle
WOMAN AND HOME.
INFORMATION USEFUL TO WOMEN
AND HELPFUL ONES AT HOME.

What Women Have Achieved in Some
Fields-Something About Custom and
Dress-How to Decorate the Dinner
Table-items and Humorosities.
1t Is tfite saying that no girls education
ought to be considered complete without
good knowledge of general business, but yet
women who would be puzzled to do 50 simple
thing as TO make cut bill q receipt cor
Tecty are to be found in every school dis
t'ict. Perhaps they get through life without
any serious trouble, and perhaps they do not.
Such one thrown on her own resources Is at
serious disadvantage. 1t would be bad
enough If everybody was honest, but all peo-
pie are not honest
No woman, especially if she have children
or others who would be dependent on her in
the event of one or two deaths, ought to rest
satisfied with her attachments until she has
mastered the art of buying things needed for
general household expenses, knows where her
property is invested and how to take care of
it If necessary, and, above all. knows the
value of a dollar to her, and now many of
them she can spend and vet keep well within
her income. A large part Of the extrava-
gance charged to the women of che family
when the husband or father goes into bank
ruptcy would never have had an existence
had the wives and daughters been properly
Informed as to the financial st nding of the
family firm.
A woman, as well as a man, ought 70 know
the moro important principles Of common
law She needs to be equally careful what
she signs, especially in the case of papers Of
fered by unknown vendors Of patent medi-
cine, sewing machines, parlor organs or other
wares. These travelling dealers may be all
right and the paper they offer may be simply
an acknowledgment that sewing machine
or other article is left for trial, or It may be
an agreement TO take it az q certain price
The safest way when dealing with a stranger
in such cases is not to sign anything, GER
family never to sign without careful reading
ANY objection TO such reading, sudden haste,
or apparent nervousness on the part Of the
offerer Of such wares may generally be taken
as a warning Of something wrong.
Blessed is tho household that can count
among its inmates grandfather or a grand
mother, some one who has lived long enough
TO value things IN their true proportion. to
whom worldly wealth and honors is of less
value than love and friendship and homo en-
joyments. Who SO well as grandmother can
svmpathize with Johnnies struggles with his
arithmetic lesson or with Hates inconsistencies
on a visit which she planned herself? She
may have forgotten the complications of
compound proportion or of cube root, but she
has such faith ia Johnnie and such pride in
his achievements that he can't disappoint her
and must come ont conqueror She may have
advised against Katie's visit, but she forgets
all this and remembers only how she felt OF
similar occasion sixty years ago or so.
Who Ike grandfather can advise father in
his business affairs or Tommy in his garden
ing experiments with equal readiness as one
who has passed through similar experiences,
or who can so bring each to understand the
others trials and perplexities3 People who
are busy from morning till night sometimes
get so absorbed in their own tasks rs to lose
sympathy with the different work and worry
Of others, and so almost unconsciousiy father
may drift away from son or mother from
daughter. The presence of one equally de
voted to all and with leisure to enter into the
feelings OF each may be a wonderful harmon
izer OF differences. Those who neglect the
old people or try to shut them ont OF their
lives may lose more than the one, they thus
wrong-Lcwiston Journal