St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-31


goes on i'll this charming family.
Between meals the mistress of the
| kitchen is art critic, hostess and chap
| erOne for the artists, but her heart is in
her work. and her influence is all-per-
| vading.
Some women are cranks on the sub
| ject of boxes. This little woman will
box nothing that she can possibly hang
up. Hooks run round the mantel board
and across the chimney breast, and here
| she hangs cups. pitchers, sugar basins.
cream jugs, teapots, etc. When the
table Is set for eight. as it often is, this
ornamental crockery serves another
| purpose.
| Her linen closets when closed are
window seats, and the finest dressing
table in the family consists of dry
goods box draped with dotted muslin
and yellow ribbons set up against'a
door with a mirror in it.
| This sweet little woman, who is
scarcely more than girl in years,
keeps house as competent teacher
keeps school-by programme. Things
| are done on time. At msai times the
artists gather up their traps and go
down to the drawing room for fifteen
! minute rest, while the work table is
| being set for lunch.
SO much for the house. Now for
some facts and figures from the domeS-
tic day book which Miss Lewis was good
enough to furnish for the interest of the
women readers of the World.
"Our expenses rarely exceed $50
month apiece, but we live better than
the average family, l think, with an in
come of $500 year. In the first place
we have no car far to pay and TO fuel to
buy. We have relatives and friends
who send us occasionally iellies, butter,
game and fish, and in that way we enjoy
more luXurieS than we could afford to
buy. But aside from that we live we'll,
pass for ladies of elegant leisure, enter
tain great deal and have an awfully
good time together. Scarcely week
passes that we do not give tea or dim
ner, but we are not foolish enough to
splurge. Our friends are given just
what we have. Absolutely no prepare
ton is made for them.
Here is regular bill of fare for
day:
BREAKFAST.
Grape Fruit.
Hash. Cream Potatoes.
Toast, Coffee
LUNCH.
Cold Meat.
Warm Rolls.
Salad.
Cream Cheese and Crackers
Tea or Chocolate.
DINNER.
Soup.
Fish.
Steaks, Chops or Birds
Three Vegetables.
Salad.
Cheese.
Jelly with Cream, or Fresh Fruit.
Cakes and Coffee.
"Whatever is left from dinner Is
haShed over for breakfast, so that meal
costs nothing to. speak of. We always
have grape fruit and we never slip up
on the coffee, for which. an egg does
six times with the regulation spoonful
of Mocha and Java for each cup and one
for the blessed pot.
cat noon we always have salad and
always rolls which cost six cents. The
dinner, however, is feast. Delmor-
ico's chef cannot beat us broiling steak,
chops. SQUAD and quail"
Here is a summary of last months
expenses:
Gas for cooking and Illuminating 90
Groceries ana marketing. ....... % %
Service 49,. Observation-Disclosures. 20 90
w dSnlll5 10 w
sundry holiday expenses 10 90
Total. .sl5l 90
Average. 50 IS
And now word about the girls them
selves, VINO nave their drawing rooms
every week, and. surrounded by quaint
pieces of furniture. sketches, studies
and academy-eXhibited work, receive
their guests in art dresses made from
their own designs.
Miss Albright, who was represented
in the New York water-coIor exhibition
two successive years, is known best by
her delightful BLOW High, Blow Low,
Well Hang Together" picture of
dolls in basket sailing through the air
on fairy balloons. recently published by
Allen. She is pretty, petite, plucky and
young, and, best of all, she has genius.
The Misses Lewis are all gentle and
fair. and the type that Tennyson loved
to sketch. Aside from legitimate work,
they have reputation for house-fur-
nishing-that is, taking suite or fat,
and with stipulated sum making over
the walls and floor, and selecting every
thing, from the table books to the
kitchen table.
The pensive little cook devotes two
afternoons in the week to kinder
garten work, of which she is the preSi-
dent