Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-03-10

What quality or what want of quality is
it that makes it impossible for certain peo-
pie to maintain an appearance of tidiness
IN the rooms where they live, and while i'll
some houses everything looks as if it grew
in its place and could not be uprooted, in
their houses everything looks rs if tumbled
into confusion and were only waiting
for wLulwind TO give it another turn
The covers are half oil and half on the
furniture; the books are open, face
down, perhaps, on the table, perhaps on
the sofas, perhaps on the floor; the
flowers are faded in the glasses where
the water has never been renewed; the
lamp shade is ~; the rug is tossed
upat the corner; tue photographs are fallen
pellmell; the cushions are scattered; the
chairs seem to have been arrested in "a
waltz piece of fancy work is left where
it happened to be dropped; hassocks are
anywhere where they can trip up the un-
wary; even the pictures on the wall are out
of line, and there is not a straight path to
be followed anywhere in the room. The
bees and the ants put this house mistress
to shame, and 80 do the birds, who make
their nests in old trees indistinguishable
with lioh ems, Ii she tried to make order
out Of she chaos she would only achieve
another turn Of disorder.
Yet after all it Is to be questioned if
there Is not as much comfort in the midst
Of all this amazing disorder as in a house
OF prina and methodical geometrical rule
where crumb Is a crime, where nothing
II out OF place, and if you take book you
feel you must replace it to within a hair 5
breadth OF where it was before, and the
neatness IL such az to put the indweller in
bonds. A golden mean Is desirable in all
things-something that is neither too pre-
else nor too disorderly. Yet there seems
to be an easygoing element OF sweet tenn
per in the disorder that promises, on the
whole, more happiness than may belong
where everything n done by line and meas
TIRE, with a sort Of Grabbed and acrid acid
fty of favor I'm the very air you breathe
Harper's Bazaar
Girls Who Don't Understand Houswork
1t is no longer the college bred girl who
IS ignorant Of the first principles Of domes
tic science, as in most institutions of learn
ing for women steps have been taken tC
insure instruction in those branches which
directly concern the home, but in our cite.
Il Is the aPtifoially educated girl who
after several changes of private schools
with longer vacations than terms, necossi
tated by Newport In the summer and Flor
ida through the winter, the spring tern
ending In June and the fall one beginning
the last of September at seventeen O
eighteen. graduates, to plunge into thu
thiokest whirl OF society and fashion, nevel
70 give thought to hygiene, cookery o
household economy until perhaps thes
subjects are forced upon her by marriage
The worst of it ali is, too, they are no
only ignorant Of these subjects, but exul
in their ignorance They look down upoI
oil domestic matters rs kitchen drudgery
and expect to have competent servant
whose duty 1t shall be to superintend ever.
eetAii OF the home life except the purel.
Ornamental and social. But who IL to hay
the care Of heahhiui foods, of the sanitar.
GonGItiOn OF the house, Of home nussin.