Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-30
HOusehOId.

The plant from housekeepers, where
ever in this country there are houses to
keep, does not open very pleasant vista
! to men who would escape the dreariuess
of bachelor quarters aud the women
who, while they are ready to sacrifice
| much for love, shrink from assuming
| drudgeries which are prone to DESTROY
| loveliness. The painted kitchen shovel
on the pnrlor wall, the be-ribboned toast
rack that is made to serve as a news
paper receptacle, aud the miniature
rolling pin plush covered and deckei
with gilded hooks may serve a pretty
purpose in ornamenting the house, but
back of these lies the real articles in all
their utility, symbolic g many back
ache and unpoetic drop that never, like
the tear has found its poet.
The work OF the house comes and
must go on and in the iuteregnum from
Bridget to Dinah aud from Chisllue TO
Charlotte the mistress usually groans
and ~perspires. The writer as most
writers on women must plead guilty TO
having urged upon women the iron
necessity of being as pretty as they can,
but while the standard of neatness may
not be lowered, observation on the way
men prepare themselves for work impels
u saying that there ought to be less
hampering In woman g work.
Firstly let women dress for their work,
man puts on his overalls, protects his
shirt and gets just as grimy as the work
coInpels and finds no cause for shame,
let woman feel the same. short,
narrow skirt, loose fitting blouse and
thick shoes, and woman is ready for
work in garden or IN Kitchen and can do
the work effectively and easily, with
gradual disappearance of nervous irrita-
hility that will surprise herself. With
the corset and the tight slippers off aud
substituted by low easy shoes and a SER
viceable calico it will be much more easy
to preserve good looks and jollity. Now
jollity Is essential TO the preservation of
good looks, life is hard but do NOT grum-
BILE. Captivats everyone around you,
from the butcher boy up, with your
gayety and you will get better cuts and |
larger measures of everything, happiness
included. |
II the tyraut on newspaper style would
allow it there should be printed right |
head Don't Worry Worry makes
wrinkles and friehtens good looks away.
Second only to the folly of worry is
that of rush, 1t Is a matter of small con-
sequence whether everything is done
within a given time. II the housekeeper
is tired after break fast let her lie down
aud rest long enough to read the Lndies
Department, then the breakfast things
can be quickly cleared away and the
beds are all the better for au extra hour
of airing.
The neIghbor that runs in at unses-
sona6le hours often binders. Here again
there might be reform. II the work
must be done say so, and let her gossip
as you work. This is better than sitting
in nervous inpaiIrnce and then hurrying
afterward to meet imperative demands
Above all II women who work would only
take time to play. To dress aud feed
the children is not all of mother love
play with them, renew youth in child
hoods sports; frolIc with them, and
they will work with mother all the more
readily that the play hour may not be
shortened. Have your lark. Women
need 1t As do busy men, and when men
aud women go larking together it will he
10 the advantage OF each. Life is real,
life Is earnest, but earuestness is not
n dizziness. TO do with the hand and
heart all that Is best for complete dsveI-
,pment, that Is life,