The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-09-10
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1891
SUMMER HOUSEKEEPING.
An Ingenious Woman Finds Wise Way
to Get Kid of Care.

An Ingenious woman Finds q ai6e WAY
TO Get Kid of Care.
Il wish the Recorder would tell US
low TO make summer housekeeping
easy" said woman, letting the tea
bali which hung from her foretinger
rise and fall in medltatlye way.
when warm weather comes | feel so
tired of wash DAYS and ironing days.
breakfast. lunch, aud ainner, broken
ONLY by the warnings of the old Bridget
and the blunders and 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 aud nurse was
not TO be thought Of Yet | felt the
need of change, if not of a rest. and
contided nv 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 s. per week for the laundry
work. which included that of two
grown people, my 10-year-old niece.
who was spending the summer with
me. and Toodles. There are plenty of
women who can not go out to work on
account of their small children, aud
who are glad to get family washing at
so cents per dozen. For 81 month
servant Chloe had her washing done
by her sister. Thus we disposed of
one great bugbear. and left Chloe free
to relieve me of the care of the infant
Toodles.
Expensive. you say?' Well, let US
see. Fourteen dollars month extra
for washing. Deduct from this s.
month for coal and wood and ST 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 TO and fro weekly.
1T only remained to dispense with
the cooking 10 make life Arcadian.
Bread and milk said Jack. But my
epicurean instincts reyolted.
liable d'hotcs, said Jack. But we
couldn't run around to bohemian dim
ners with SalIic aud Toodles; besides,
there was Chloe.
I'VE finally decided to let Chloe at
tend to the simple wants of the young
er members of onr family, feeding
them bread aud milk. rolls, buns,
eggs, chops, and fruit; doing such
small cooking as they required on a
was worth living. We had all the
comforts Of our pretty, cool rooms,
instead of being crowded iGto stuify
little holes III a 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 | shall some day tell you. Our
friends called US the Jolly tramps.m
Some one suggested that resta urant
breakfasts and dinners must have
grown tiresome.
Bless you. we never did anything
we felt TO be tiresomc all through that
blissful summer" protested Gill.
Sometimes we shared the simple
breakfasts of Sallie and Toodles-
Chloe bringing tray to our room with
butlered muffin a cup of coffee, an
egg, aud sliced tomato. This did not
have the same flavor rs regular break
fast ut home; we made believe we
were guests ut 4 hotel.
Like most colored servants Chloe
had all the instincts of good cook.
and sometimes she varied our bill of
fare by bringing us a broiled herring.
When we felt an appetite for anything
VT
Der of nice little restaurants where a
cereal. fish. meat or eggs. cooked in
any shape. with potatoes, coffee. and
pancakes, were neatly served for %
cents. Sometimes our dinners were
taken ut one table dhote restaurant
and sometimes ut auother-Frcnch.
Italian. German, or Spanish-and
think we are fitted to discuss the rel
alive merits of them all. Occasionally
we took more ambitious dinner at a
hotel. Extravagances of this kind
were balanced by economical gypsy
dinners taken on tramps. Again we
picnickcd at home with Il can Of soup
heated by Chloe, some sliced roast
beef or half cold chicken and potato
salad from delicatesseu with the
fruit in season. We grew SO fond of
these little home dinners, still fancy
ing ourselves guests and never for a
moment allowing that we were keep
ing house. that before the end of Sep
TENDER we took more than half our
dinners mt home. but the range was
never lighted until the 1st of October
Our living expenses. including the
restaurant breakfasts and dinners, were
trtle less than ii | 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 eur dinners away
from home, but when especially tempt
ed by fresh-looking asparagus or peas
l carried home Il generous supply, and
We dincd on peas aud !. pair OF great
juicy Dreaded chops. or on asparagus
and Dreaded outlet prepared over our
little GAS stove. | never said to my
self What shall | have for dinnerp'-
indeed. seldom gave the matter of
where we should dine a thought until
the time came. spent thoroughly
restful summer. and we intend TO keep
house exactly ON the same plan this
year. ~ J.. Recorder ,