St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-28
ADVICE TO THE GIRLS
How to Do the Right Thing
When an Emergency
Comes.
Would Woman Be the Com
fortep Of Man Or the
Reverse -?
Gossip Of the Women All the
World Is Talking
About.
Aggregation OF Interesting
Subjects for Our Women
Readers.

How to do the right thing in an emer-
Eency is a question that interests most
woman. If ones friends could always
let one know when it would suit their
pleasure or convenience to make one
a visit, company would not be the bug
bear that it is to many hCuSekeeperS
who are able to employ only one serV-
ant,or, perhaps, who do their own work.
But that is not to be expected III TINS
haphaZzard world, Your friend may
be passing through the city, and dis
cover, at the last moment, that she will
have TO wait for an evening train, or
she may have an opportunity, on very
short notice, to make you little
visit. Would you have her refuse
to visit you, because she would
not have time to send you word?. AS
suredly not. This is the way my niue
neighbor does under these trying cir
cumstances. Early one morning her
door bell rang, and the maid urshered
i'm two women, old school friends. In
a flash nv neighb0r saw the state Of
the family lardeI. Her home was i'll the
suburb of a. busy city, and it was not
possible to get things at moments
notice: but did she let those travel
worn friends know that they were put
ting her to a good deal of tronble?
Quite the contrary. She met them with
the old-time smile and hearty wei
come. After a little chat she excused
herself and went to consult her COOK.
The cupboard was even barer than she
had thought: for meat there were only
oysters. but Betty, the maid, was equal
TO the occasion. She suggested little
stew, some Saratoga potatoes, oat
meal and cream. some mullins, and
lovely coffee. What more would
YOU want for breakfast? Then she
could have creamed salmon. some thin
slices of carved beef. baked beans and
delicete masheds potatoes, and a de
licious bread pudding with nara sauce
and good coffee again, and there was
the dinner. Some delicate little cakes
from the bakers and tiakey biscuit ana
sweet butter, few banana sliced III
pretty glass dish, to be eaten with
cream and a fragrant cup OF tea. and
there was the supper. These things
were further made palatable by being
served on a table whose cloth was
snowy. silver and glass as bright as
good care could make them, few
of the table, pretty napkins well ironed.
and | am sure no one would have asked
Tor more appetIzing meals.
These details being settled. the little
woman devoted herself to her guests.
There were questions to be asked and
answered, pictures and books to De
looked at and commented upon.
a ride in the cable car after dinner, and
the other members of the family to be
introduced before supper; then, after
that pretty meal had been disposed of,
the ride with those old friends to the
train. Everything had been done i'll
such hearty. friendly way that those
Two unexpected guests have never
ceased to be thankful to the impulse
that prompted them to risk, even i'll this
day of fuss and feather, the chance of
taking pot luck" with their old-time
friend. And the friend; she talks to
this day of her pleasure in the thought
that these girlhood companions had
confidence enough in her good sense to
come to her without warning when cir
cumstances made it impossible to come
i'll any other way.