Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-11-24

pots and pans, and you also discover
That your hatred turkey arises from the
TACT that gentleman turkey Of mature
age who has been kept on the ice for
weeks, and who is prepared for eating
two or three days before hand (when |
say beforehand, | mean before eating),
and alady turkey, plump possible, who
has no acquaintance with the ice chest
and who only few days ago was happy
in the barnyard are different. All this
sounds very domestic, and somebody is
laughing about Babs house. There
never was a woman in the world worth
anything who didn't want home of
her own, and | just want to tell the
scoilers one thing, and that is, that Bab's
house pledscs her. She gets what she
wants to cat, and having come from the
land where good things are plenty
she wants good things. Any visitor can
look in at the kitchen, and, indeed, any
visitor with ability can, ii she or he
likes, try their hand at cooking; the
cook is not crank and neither is the
housekeeper. Then, too, it is never any
trouble TO make cup Of tea and funnily
enough in the average boarding house II
cup of tea out of time, that is not eX-
actly within meal hours, means an
underdone stew Of tea leaves.
DAB IS HousEKEEpER NOW.
Everybody laughed at my housekeep-
ing; everybody said "NOw you will see
what it is like" and now do; and
spend most of my time regretting that |
didn't begin the voyage of discovery
before. We don't have dinner in the
middle OF the day on Sunday, and we
do have brandy peaches so they taste Of
brandy and not of burnt sugar; You can
buy punches of celery that are all
hearts, and lettuce that is nearly all
white. After | have kept house for a
while, shall be In condition to write a
cook book-it may help other people
who yearn for homes OF their own and
think they cost so much more than
boarding that they are impossible l
don't pretend to say that il don't cost
more to have a home when you are only
one, but where there are two or three
| people it is infinitely cheaper to have a
house or a Hat Of your own, and you can
live as you please.
There is another thing, in your own
home you can meet the people you want
and nobody else. You don't have to
endure the caprlces, ill tempers and gen
eral cranklness of the world at large
| you have the sole right to be cranky in
that house, and II you are nice woman,
and am sure you are, the very fact OF
this will make you forget how to be
cranky People were not meant to
HERD TOGETHER LIKE COWS;
they were given superior intelligence
and a certain ability intended for use in
making abiding places. That there are
people who dull their senses and live
out their lives among crowds is sadly
true; but that they are coarsened and
vulgarized by this cannot be doubted.
Somebody thinks it is new plaything
with me whoever thinks that must
Imagine am mighty poor specimen
OF woman. A real woman as natur-
ally wants home of her own as she
| does man to rule her. She knows in
her heart of hearts that she is the mon.
arch in the home and she also knows in
her heart of hearts that this rule over
her would amount to nothing if it were
not the very bond of love. Women do
| not submit amiably to tyrants who have
not their love, and it seems to me from
what know of them, that even the
average woman can make life much
worse for man than he ever can fol
her. She don't take great big knife
and stick it in him; oh, dear, no! She
takes II nice little pen-knife and gives a
tiny cut here and there until the entire
body Of the poor fellow is sore from the
minute stabs.
GOOD, BAD AND INDIFFERENT.
A woman can be so nasty and she car
be so nice! She is seldom between.
She is nasty all the way through when
she worries man with her petty jeal.
ousies and mean insinuations.
She is nice all the way through wher
she gives him word of ENCOURAGEMENT
for his good deeds, and in this way in
duccs him to do better.
She is mean all the way through
when, because of her own extreme
vanity, she makes another woman suffer
She is nice all the way through when
out of the goodness of her heart, shC
gives another woman joy.
She is mean all the way through whet
hospitality is trouble and c0urteou.
words bore.
She is nice all the way through wher
she speaks pleasant words every day
and finds no trouble in being gracious
She Is mean all the way through
when she holds up her husband or he
children to ridcule.
She Is nice all the way through whel
she finds out the best that is in them
and encourages it and them until the,
arc better than good.
Sometimes she is combination 0
meanness and niceness, and the on,
that comes to the surface will Grove
out the other. That's what we womol
want to pray for. To lose all the mean
ness and be as nice as we possibly can
At least that's the desire of BAB.
A NdRROH ESCAPE.