Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-22
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.
only the Most Thorough Educa-
ion Gan Secure It.

upon her furniture. Another is called q
good housekeepcr because she has q
knack for cooking, and her table is
bountifully supplied with we'll chosen
and we'll prepared food. A third do
ponds for her reputation as a house.
keeper upon her faithful and cXpcr
darning; sho cuts tho sheets in two.
when they become worn in tho middle
sho makes napkins Of her half-worn
table cloths, sho keeps her children
neatly clad and is always immersed in
sowing, says writer in Ilarpcrs Dazar.
It's seldom that any woman cXcclS in
these three dcpartmcnts-aS seldom as
any one is to be found who il at tho
Same timc rich, handsome and clover;
and even If housckcoper existed who
combined great ncatness, facility in
cooking and dcftncSs with tho needle,
sho might still fail Of being good
housel1oeper. This can be readily seen
when tho business of housekeeping is
analysed and it's purpose defined.
In the first place, what Is the object of
housekeeping? Is it solely to keep n
house cloan? Heaven forbid! Is it to
provide we'll cooked meals? Any prop
erly conducted restaurant can do that.
Is it to send forth its members fashion
ably attired? A scamstrcss would &C
complish that better than ninc-tcnths
of tho mothers.
Tho object OF housekeeping is no ono
OF these, but all of them, and n great
deal moro. 1t Is to keep tho household,
first, we'll, and second, happy. These
Two objects arc really ono, for no house
hold can be happy which is chemically
unhealthy; but since this fact does not
socm to be clearly understood, it is, per-
ha2s,. we'll to separate tho statement into
two component parts.
1t Is necessary, in order that family
should bc we'll, that tho walls of it's
house, It's floors, its windows, it's beds,
tho clothes and bodies OF it's members
should be kept scrupulously clean. Yet,
by becoming monomaniac upon tho
subjcct Of cleanliess, the main purpose
of tho housokccper is frustrated. Tho
happiness OF n family is ruined If things
in tho house can not DO used for fear of
smirching them, If the needless, child
ish fcot arc to be followed everywhere
by tho dust brush and pan, and if con-
tnual seedlings aro to BIO delivered for
tho breaking of rules.
No household is healthy whero tho
food provided Is not wholesome. A
family to which rich viands arc often
served can not he we'll. Plain, savory
steaks and roasts, oysters and CLAIMS in
their season, carefully cooked cereals
and vegetables, fresh milk and eggs,
light. thoroughly baked broad, and
plenty of ripe fruit-thesc arc tho only
suitable articles for regular daily living.
food, buildings and CONNECTIONS and
strong tea and coffco can be enjoyed by
most people, sometimes with impunity,
but in families where they arc frequent
~ served it will he found that there is
also frequent illncss-childron out of
school for two or three days at n timc
and tho elders periodically laid up with
sick headaches or attacks of neuralgia.
My stomach has nothing to do with my
Illness they say. "Oh! no, it is my
nerves." as though nerves wcrc not de-
pendent alas! upon digestion, good or
the reverse.
Then thcro arc tho careful ad iustmcnts
of clothing to tho temperature, the ven
nlation of sleeping rooms and tho rcgu-
lation of sleeping hours, the manage
mcnt Of baths, and dozen other consid-
Crations which the good housckecpcr
must supervise.
Thus 1T goes. She who would keep
her household in good condition must
DO constantly intelligent and on tho
alert, balancing this duty against that,
deciding upon the most important, and
doing 1t, no matter what difficulties
fence hor about.
Tho woman who constantly changes
servants Is poor housckceper, for sho
makes her family uneasy and uncom-
Portable. Tho woman is poor house
Keeper whose family Is delicate and
often i'll tunlcss there DO somo radical
difficulty in their location or in in.
hcritcd tendencies, and oven these can
DO largely Ovcrcomc). The woman who
Is habitually in debt (unlcss tnere Is
great poverty, or avarico on the part of
the other head OF tho family as n poor
housckcepcr. 1t may seem almost
wicked to add, though it is implied in
almost every limo of this littlo scrccd.