Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-11-19
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Womea Have Not Prepared for
the Cold Weather
SOCIETY BEGINS TO AWAKEN
Many Pheasant Parties Given During
the Week Hearts That We're Two
Now One. Personals

II 10 characteristic Of lot a women
says Eds Webster In the Chicago Mail.
20 have spelis Of doing the martyr act At
housekeeping. Ii must be said that
they make firstrate job Of IL when
they 60 in for this routine misery. And
they do not have IL out alone. Tor the
entire family Is Always scooped into this
penitential business yea. the whole
domestic outfit pays price, in suffering.
for the eomfortf OF home In winter.
These women are now numerous IN the
town. and each one is saying:
Nov mark my words. year I'll
have things ready before cold weather
gets here-youll see."
The especial queerness in this little
speech lies in its wonderful vitality. for
the woman has iteraied il Tor more or
less years in succession. and you may
depend she will ring IL into service when
the first chilly wave feol.cs down from
the north next frosty season.
This gentier being To- now from morn
ing until night setting her house In or
der for the frozen months. She has the
furnace repaired and stoves placed
where their use Is necessary. She moves
the furniture from one room 10 another
and she shifts the pictures from place to
place. and likewise finds new locations
fof brackets. She is preparing for com
fort. but while she is doing IL the mem
bers Of the family feel the melancholy OF
these days 10 be heavy upon them.
During tins hurry and worry the doors
are mostly left open and draughts may
60 as they please. The meals are not
called on time. and when they are served
are ~ the picked-up sort therefore.
everybody becomes cross and hungry.
OF course, during this trying period
the husband who has been preaching
sweet patience TO his connu0ial mate
has plenty Of chances 20 illustrate his
doctrine by means OF actual works.
But be is the hardest kicker OF the
unhappy lot because he is asked when he
comes home to dinner 20 do a few
chores around the house. such IA re-
hanging pictures and brackets. moving
the piano setting up stove. hitching a
bedstead together. and lacking down a
carpet While he is toying with these
aud other similar ct ceteras he keeps the
entire family on a keen run. waiting
upon him. He walks through two Of
the best cane-seat chairs; he tears sew
eral hole in the drapcry and breaks a
lovely statuette; he steps on the baby
aud lets the hammer fall on Johnnie's
h. ad-neyertheless. he feels himself TO
be the solitary abused individual Of the
small crowd and appropriates the priv.
lege OF language with yariations-the
latter being profane and prsdominating
After the wrsngling hustle ~ over
then the baby has the Group. and
Johnnie is seized with influenza. and
tine grip fastens itself upon the lord
OF the manor and the mistress Of the
set-in order home declares she has sew
eral pains in every JOINT and that she
feels bruised from head 10 heels and has
the neuralgia and looks dozen years
older. Then this woman thinks II Is
strange that every member OF her flock
is i'll. and she is inclined to believe that
they are victims Of sewer gas. And II
often happens that this housewife tells
her neighbors that she herself feels on
the verge OF fever-and sends for a
plumber.
IL all women OF this sort would carry
their resolution Ito get ready Tor winter
before cold weather gets here" into
effect next season. the doctors wouldn'
have such large sized bronchial and
lung epidemic 10 tackle.