The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-13

ners, to make a house luxurious. orns-
mental, cheerful and restful, to have an
inspired sense of the fitness of things.
that she should dress and entertain, in per-
feet accord with her station, her means
and her husbands ambition, that she
should master, unassisted, all the inns and
outs of the noble cart of Entertaining"
has not this something of the nature of
large contract! She has taken the con-
tract and filled it.
She must 60 to the cooking lecture, come
home and visit the kitchen, go to the intel
hgence office, keeping her hand on all three
She must be the mind, while the Maggies
and Bridgets furnish the hands. She
must never be fussy, never grotesque. She
must steer her ship through stormy seas,
and she must also learn to enjoy Wagner's
music, etc. There is proverbially no sea
so rough to swim in as that tumultuous
one of new lily regulated prosperity.
And in the changeful, uncertain nature of
American fortunes an American woman
must be ready to meet any fate.
And judging from many specim ems
whom we have seen, may we rot claim that
the American woman must be stamped
with an especial distinction. Has she not
conquered her fate!
and curiously enough fashion and good
taste seem to lackey to the American
woman, 10 matter where she was born or
where educated. In spite of all draw backs
and the counter currents of destiny, she is
almost universally a well-bred and taste
ful woman. No matter what the American
woman has to fight against, poverty or lack
Of opportunities, she is apt if she is
called upon to do so, to administer grace
full the inequalities of the White House,
or to fill the difficult role of an ambasssa-
drice abroad.
Some of them have bad taste, perhaps.
what is good taste but an instantaneous
ready appreciation of the fitness of
thingsg' To most of us who observe it in
others, it seems TO be an instruct. We
envy those few who are always well
dressed, who never buy upbecoming stuffs,
who have the gift to make their clothes
look as if they had simply blossomed out of
their inner consciousness, as a rose bios
SONS out of its calyX. Some women al
ways dress their hair becomingly, Others
even if handsome. look like beautiful
frights, some wear their clothes as If they
had been hurled at them by tornado and
reminds one of the poor husbands remarks,
II feel as If | had married a hurricane
And the same exceptions, which only prove
the rule because you notice them, may ex-
tend TO the housewives who aim at more
than they can accomplish, who
MAKE THEIR HOUSE AN ANGUISH
to look at, pretentious without beauty,
overloaded or incorrect, who have not tact,
who say the awkward thing. Such people
exist, sometimes SHINING from ignorance,
but they are decidedly in the minority.
The American woman is generally "a sue
cess" She has fought hard battle, but
she has won. She has had her defeats
however.
Who does not remember the failure of
that first dinner party! When the baby
began to cry so persistently, when the
hostess was not dressed when the bell
rang; when the cook spilled the soup all
over the range and filled the house with a
bad odor: when the waitress, usually so
cool, lost all her presence of mind and fell
on the basement stairs, breaking all the
plates; when one failure succeeded another
until the husband looked reproachfully at
his wife who, poor creature, had been
working day and night to "get up'' this
dinner, who is responsible for none of its
failures and who has an attack of neuralgia
afterwards which lasts all winter.