Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-08
SUMNER HOUSEKEEPING.
An Ingenious Woman finds . Wise WAY
to Get Rid OF Care.

An Ingenious Woman FINDS . Wise way
to Get Rid OF Care.
II wish the Recorder would tell us
how to make summer housekeeping
easy said a woman. letting the tea
bali which hung from her forefnger
rise and fall In meditative way.
"Wher warm weather comes / feel SO
tired OF wash days and ironing days.
breakfast. lunch, and dinner. broken
only by the warnings Of the old Bridget
and the blunders aud breakages of the
new one."
Try our way said Nine. Gill, the
heroine OF the road-cart adventures of
the Novel Wedding Journey" Jack
can only leave the city for two weeks,
and spending the summer alone in the
country with Toodles and nurse was
not to be thought Of. Yet I felt the
need Of change, IL not of rest. and
contded my state of mind TO Jack.
who is always fertile in resources. and
together we evolved an ideal summer
arrangement. The kitchen range be-
came as If it were not. Washing and
ironing were done out of the house.
We paid s3 per week for the laundry
work, which included that Of two
grown people, my l0-year-old niece,
who was spending the summer with
me. and ToOdles. There are plenty Of
women who can not 20 out to work on
account OF their small children, and
who are glad TO get family washing al
90 cents per dozen. For 81 a month
servant Chloe had her washing dont
By her sister. Thus we disposed OF
one great bugbear, and left Chloe free
to relieve me OF the care of the infan t
Toodles.
Expensive. you sayP" Well. let us
see Fourteen dollars a month extra
for washing. Deduct from this IS a
month for coal and wood and 81 for
soap and starch. For the three hot
months we were under total expense
OF S24 by this arrangement. 1t would
not have paid our travelling expenses
had summered out Of town. with
Jack going 10 and fro weekly.
1T only remained to dispense with
the cooking to make life Arcadian.
Bread and milk said Jack. But my
epicurean instincts reyolted.
Table d'hotes. said Jack. But we
couldn't run around to bohemian dim
ners with Sallie aud Toodles; besides,
there was Chloe,
1--WE finally decided to let Chloe at.
tend to the simple wants of the young
er members OF our family, feeding
them bread and milk. rolls, buns,
eggs. chops, and fruit; doing such
small cooking as they required on a
65-cent gas stove. Now indeed life
was worth living. We had all the
comforts Of our pretty, cool rooms.
instead OF being crowded into stufy
little holes in n summer boarding
house. We were free TO walk or
drive whenever we chose without ref
erence to the dinner hour. We took
all the walks which have been de-
scribed in the Recorder, and others OF
which I shall some day tell you. Our
friends called US the Jolly tramps."
Some one suggested that resta urant
breakfasts aud dinners must have
grown tiresome.
"Blessyou. we never did anything
we felt to be tiresome all through that
blissful summer" protested Gill.
Sometimes we shared the simple
breakfasts of Sallie and Toodles-
Chloe bringing tray to our room with
a buttercd muffin, q cup.of coffee. an
egg. aud sliced tomato. This did not
have the same flavor as u regular break
fast ut home; we made believe we
were guests ut a hotel.
Like most colored servants Chloe
had all the instincts Of good cook.
and sometimes she varied our bill of
flare by bringing us broiled herring.
When we felt an appetite for anything
fmore extensive there were any num-
~ of nice little restaurants where q
CVrcSl. hsh, meat or cggs, cooked In
any shape, with potatoes, coffee. and
pancakes. were neatly served for "a
cents. Sometimes our dinners were
taken Mt one table d'hote restaurant
and sometimes at another-French.
Italian. German, or Spanish-and l
think we arc fitted TO discuss the rel.
ative merits of them all. Occasionally
we took a more ambitious dinner at a
hotel. Extravagances of this kind
were balanced by economical gypsy
dinners taken on tramps. Again we
picnicked at home with can of soup
heated by Chloe. some sliced roast
beef or half cold chicken and potato
salad from q delicatessen with the
fruit in season. We grew so fond of
these little home dinners, still fancy
ing ourselves guests and never for q
al hat
Ing house, that before the end OF Sep
tember we took more than half our
dinners at home. but the range was
never lighted until the lst Of October.
Our living expenses, including the
restaurant breakfasts and dinners. were
tritle less than If / had kept house
regularly. serving soup. meat vege-
tables and dessert every day.
Our simple mode of eating result
ed in better health. We never pur-
chased vegetables for our dinners away
from home, but when especially tempt
ell by fresh-looking asparagus or peas
/ carried home n generous supply, and
we dined on peas and a pair of great
Juicy Dreaded chops. or on asparagus
and Dreaded outlet prepared over our
little gas stove. I never said to my
self What shall l have for diuner9-
indeed. seldom gave the matter of
where we should dine a thought until
the time came. Ispent a thoroughly
restful summer. and we intend to keep
house exactly on the same plan this
year."-N. y. Recorder.
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