Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-02-21
BOARDING OLD rHlho.
The Poetry and Prose or c.
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me foetry ana Prose M a..
Recon- and Close, - newins.
Women, in the main. ~
spend thrifts, and economy ~ - haturl
mendable thing. but there 4 con.
which 1T, like forbearanco =, point al /
virtue. allude now to ~ soh
81 letting odds and ends acc,'n ~ practice
boarding nondescript articles a !, d |
ent value, with the notion - - PRES
Will some time be of use s,,s wat they
become veritable skeletons a.h articles
u many home. Bonnets u y" !. Closets
81 years agone have musty s : 'sa'salou
piles OF newspapers are stioi,v ,'eS tho
hoop-skirts of times past a. m'sa age;
ically, and shoes are prcen - ssafdon.
long unused. VI ieathe
me rule, keep a thing seyo,
and If no use be yet found for !. years
seven more, is one that is s.n y Keep It
bred In the breach than in Il 'os hon
'nce." From it has come the eff th uD'sr'
sight OF collection of dust.bs,haa''les |
SO disease-engendering rubhsp ing
no seeming earthly nso ''n
makes one of nr.no,1 mat
tuted tendencies instinctirc, coast-
for either a bonfire or long
What should like to know il th apaae
iom in keeping the broken na. .ae WIS.,
umbrella longer il not fixed m;ss, o.
year. Yet the dilapidated lot Is'alh
increased. Why not, at once 81, 1 e
Did iron to the iron-monger ana 'h 'Ae
mp the cracked pitcher and nose,o. "eas
pot into eagerly-appropriated ~. va
| yraveD for the chickensP Rurr N 'o
sight the old tin cans for which ~ ou' o.
no apparent need, knowing their aee
ness II any should be wanted in th a' 4
certain future for flower-pot or u. .I ~, ua
stool, and burn in the friendly aon., IVY
the kitchen fire the rimless ba r'D' ~
wornout shoe, and the rag-bac tb.t ~. sne
filled last year but for which III way
man never came. 's'
Fire is in more than one w,u
housekeeper's blessing. Besides ~ 'u'
fulness for cooking and heating NO..
poses 1T may hide forever tho ob ta
that is an eye-sore, or which na r,s
become such by long keeping, pivinn :.
in its place handful of ashes r,,.s
which to enrich our flower border =,
fertilize our orchard plat. The scran :,
cloth and bits of paper and stripp ibs,
litter the floor and, swept out disssn."
the door-yard, may help, to better al
vantage, in kindling the next fro. On,
many an unsightly thing about tbs
premises can be picked up from tina n
time, and its burning serve douhs
purpose, namely: the provision Of mo,s
fuel. and tidily-kept surroundings
Cloths of every description are 50 uss. |
full to the housekeeper that every mar,
of almost any garment can be speedily
utilized, and the long saving of laidasids
clothing becomes a folly. While tina
thousand and one uses for waste-nana,
that housewives know precludes any
necessity of stacks of stale newspapen
Bureaudrawers and pattern receD-
tacles ought to be ''riddled OUT occa.
sionally, and, by the same token, ones
letters and papers and pigeon-holes
And however niggardly one may once
have been it can come to be, BY tho
higher order of worth and neatness
peculiar satisfaction to put every bulk
and particle, no longer valuable quite
out of the way.
| The young housekeeper should be
prudent and not wasteful, but there il
occasion to guard against the opinion
too often considered virtue = that
every thing is ''too good to throw away
Even an inanimate articles day Of use.
fulness may be ended, when its keeping
becomes burden. l have often thought
that the poetry OF the garnet exists only
in the poets ina gination, for in reality,
in the room cleaned on an average but
once year, the spiders webs are too
numerous, the spinning-wheel too dusty
and the hair-covered trunk too apt
contain mouse's nest to make it a place
of delight or the contents of healthy
inspira ton. Emma E. Volentine, in
iood Housekeeping.