Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04

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~AVAJN II was Center market
n N at 10 O'Clock on a satur-
MX AAN day morning, the par
one, from cabinet ladies
to cooks. congregates and buys everything from
roses to roasts.
"Why don't I boardl Well, dear me! I
would think there are enough people in WASH
ington who are obliged to board-people who
are here perhaps transiently, with homes else
where, and whom il would not pay to strike
such deep roots as housekeeping implies (and
sorry enough am for them, too,) without me,
who am not so situated, performing any volun-
tary penance of that sort.
"But it il so easy, - said the bosrder.
And SO unadmirable," said the housekeeper
why, would you admire a woman who pre-
ferred wearing another's clothes which did not
Mt ner to providing herself with some of her
own Well, that is boarding, for . house is
only sort OF loose outer garment, which we
stamp with our own individuality as we do our
actual dress. What was it read once? Every
spirit builds itself house and beyond Its house
world and beyond its world heaven" And
with this she ran into thin man with Q heavy
basket, who was 80 bewildered at hearing such
unmarketable sentiments in . market house
tnat he failed to recover the head of lettuce
which had fed in alarm from his basket during
the collision.
THE INDIVIDUALITY IN HousRKEKPrNa.
Yes, II is very unindividual to board
Haven't you noticed that we instinctively
attach more importance to those strangers
whom we hear spoken of as housekeepers than
to those who are mentioned as boarding? Well,
that is because the houskeeper il more individ-
ual, for home, though it be undeniably one of
many, has, notwithstanding, characteristics
peculiar to itself, which no other possesses.
while boarding houses can all be classed under
the three general heads of bad, Indifferent and
better, each inmate thereof being only az one
more grain OF sand in desert.
Nor Is 1t any more astonishing that some
ones else house doesn't At me than that Law
ender dress doesn't become a brunette. or that
the hy-away ribbons and frills Of sixteen don't
sit well on sedate sixty
THE AVERAGE FURNISHED ApAnrrrSrs
II had q little experience of that sort mvself
when ! first came to Washington. We took
furnished apartments. and, only think, the walls
were hung with numerous landscapes. so-cslled.
Perpetrated by an artistic Cd daughter Of the
landlord, and mounted, would you believe it. in
frames manufactured by nephew living in the
family who was frame makers combination
OF home talent which sometimes threatened to
80 me- ~ hequeHts gave me the nightmare.
Oh tnas L am positive; and, by the way. il il
astonishing what things people viii hang on the
walls OF their houses and be satisfied with as
representations of nature-the very same indi-
vidnals, indeed, who demand high order of
merit In portraiture. Now, if they only knew
1t. there is as much individuality expressed in
natural scene as in their own faces, but thew do
not love it, do not look for it, and consequently
do not see it, and therefore some trayesty Of
nature, conceived by an aspiring amateur, will
receive their high praise. Oh, what lovely
pease! Eastern branch? To the dealer.)
"Send me out half peck"
THE COOKING.
"And their cooking" went on the house.
keeper. recalled from her little side excursion in
art to the moro domestic topic suggested bv
Eastern branch peas, ''do you know il makes
me out OF patience to hear q woman say that
she can t learn to cook. They saw il of course
because they think that such an assertion inn
plies some superiority on their part. Now, it
gives me quite the opposite impression. for IL
sounds as If they must be very weak-minded
indeed, since cooking demands only that the
COOK pay attention to what he is about-that
and that alone. l have much more respect for
woman whom once heard say that she could
cook, but that she didn't like to, in which case
and in all cases where one is able believe of
course in hiring it done.'
But, said the boarder. leaning ever to sniff
passed a flower stall, ~ think that boarding.
instead OF killing individuality fosters il. since
the woman who is not harassed by petty
household cares has more opportunity to cult
vate herself and polish her characteristic
points into relief"
DEVELOPING CHARACTER
"The woman who has any characteristic
points, replied the housekeeper absent-mind-
eddy as she paused and tapped the edge Of the
shell Of q wriggling turtle with the point of her
sun umbrella and wondered il she'd better have
green turtle soup for Sunday. 1.-THE woman
VINO nas any Characteristic points. she repeated
more brlskly as she decided to defer green turtle
soup TIL Wednesday, Twill find that thew viii de-
velop whether she board or housekeep. while
the one that you might say has no characteris-
tics will really evolve them in the school Of
housekeeping, for I've seen women whom i re-
garded as very shallow suddenly develop execu-
tive ability and many other hitherto unsus-
Pected virtues after q little of the discipline
of housekeeping.
DOES BOARDING SPOIL ONES NAruRrp
"Yes, indeed, it is a rare nature went on the
housekeeper, shat is not spoiled BY boardine.
just as ii is a nature that il not spoiled bv
prosperity, for boarder is in the position of q
weather vane and unless she Ia exceptionalIv
strong In her purpose Of pointing one way and
one way only, will, in spite of herself, be waited
around by every veering wind Of trivial daily
happening; while If she keeps house. she can;t
be, that's all, for she won't have time"
You don't mean to tell me-" said the
b0arder passing in her preoccupation with this
absurd assertion Of the housekeeper quite by
some extra fine pinks which abe had had her
eye on for some distance down the market
that putting rooms in order or directing sery
ants Is any more elevating than talking with
them?" ~