St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-25
Making Ready for the Bride.

Boston courier.
A young man was recently joked by
a friend for the assduity with which he
wys making all his calls and otherwise
fulfilling whatev er social obligations lay
within the scope of his observance; he
was jestingly asked If he had joined
the ranks Of the butterflies of fashion,
and the usual light quips were INDUCED
in at his expense. ITO tell
you the TRUTH" the young man said, 81
am making ready for my bride. l mean
to be married next autumn, and | do
not mean that when [ bring wife to
that there is no one to welcome her So
cially."
The remark showed a common sense
which is unusual, and which is to be
commended for its ear-sightedness
and for its unselfshness. There are few
young men who are clever enough to
see that if they marry girls who have not
lived in the city the acquaintances Of
the young wife are likely to be chiefly
confined to those her husband has
at the time of the marriage; and per-
hapS there are not a great many who are
self-denying enough to take the trouble
of going through the social routine
necessary to make it easy for the bride
to come at once into pleasant place in
the circle where her husband has been
known. The men who carefully fur
nish the house, make everything ready
for the material comfort Of the wife and
are prepared to protect her are precise
ly those who are least likely to attend
to this social side of the things which
should be made ready for the bride.
The matter is by no means OF slight
importance. 1t is decidedly question
which is sure to affect the happiness OF
a bride largely whether she is to have
calling acquaintance or whether she is
to be left in complete loneliness. Her
husband is likely to have his friends,
his business, and the outside life which
belongs to man, while the wife is by
the very nature Of things left to herself
and to loneliness unless her husband
takes some especial pains to do some
thing to change all this. 1t is usually
through thoughtlessness. but per.
haps the larger proportion OF
men who bring wives to the city
leave them to make their own
way socially. 1t is often quite as cruel
to leave a bride without preparation
for friends as it would be had the
bridegroom neglected to provide prop
erly for her more material welfare. 1t
is the duty of every man who is to mar
nv woman who has not already a cir
Gle of acquaintance in the place to
which he Is to bring her to see to 1t that
he neglects no means by which he
could increase the chance of her having
a pleasant and profitable acquaintance.
He can do her no greater kindness than
to put her in the way of making friends
with people or her own sex and age;
and if he does not do this he is, however
unconscionsiy, treating her badly.
Merely Appeared to Be Clean.
1t IS not enough that house should
look clean, says Jane Ellis JOY in the
Ladies' Home Journal. To be a healthy
abode for human beings it must be
clean: and to be clean the processes OF
cleansing must be carried on from day
to day in particular manner. Better
that the kitchen table, cupboard shelves,
kneading and meat boards should never
be scrubbed at all than that they should
be whitened by foul or contaminated
scrubblng brush. 1t is as important for
the end of purity that a special brush be
kept for cleaning all wooden utensils and
kitchen boards that come in direct con-
tact with food, as it is that the dish
cloth should be kept separate from the
floor cloth. Yet have reason to believe
that in many families one serubblng
brush is considered sufficient, being
made to answer all purposes, until its
dirty, water-soaked bristles drop out.
Once | surprised new servant girl in
the act of applying the floor brush to
the TOP of the kitchen table. She had
forgotten, she apologized, to use the
table brush, never having been accus-
toned to more than one, and she added,
bv way of satisfying me, that she had
..washed'' the brush-washed it. as
presently learned, in the common scrub
bling pail. Yet the girl came to me we'll
recommended as a clearly and careful
person.