The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-09
WORRY OVER TRIPLES.
Many Women Wear Themselves Our BE.
cause Their Work Is Not Systematized.

Many Women Wear Themselves Our BE.
cause Their Work Is Not Systematized.
Women worry too mach over the
small affairs of life and wear them
selves out over such matters as I'M
earned holes in the table linen. tar
nished silver and unwashed ice-boNes.
OF course l am talking of the great
, middle class of women. who look after
their own servants and household and
attend to the marke snan. butchers
grocers and bakers. who help To form
the formida Die array of daily cares
which are insepara BILE from house.
keeping. Unfortunately. in nine cases
out of ten. lack of system is the princi-
pal STUN bling block IN the way OF good
housekeeping and perfect service. The
woman who conducts her house on
system which servants and tradesmen
are made to understand will find her
lot much easier and viii be able to con-
verse inteiligently on some subject be-
sides that everlasting bugbear, the
management of servants. DAYS and
hours arranged for certain household
duties and kept strictly will simplify
housekeeping and insure the respect of
servants, however ignorant or stupid
they may seem. The great fault with
servants is that mistresses begin wrong
with them and then lay their own
shortcomings at the door OF the cook,
laundress or chambermaid. 1t is DOS
sible to train the most seemingly inn
possibl" case of servant-girlism to a
state OF absolute perfection, and this is
always done BY the women who are not
hollow-eyed and worn out through
their struggles with the lsitchenmaid.
The man of the middle class who has
$4,000 year clerkship on which TO
support the family is, as rule, not
borne down with the anxiety of living.
as Is his wife, who presides over the
home. Some women seem to fret and
worry and think those two verbs the
most important ones in the manage
ment of their households. Women are
not good enough to themselves, as
rule, and the health reformist " no
breaches rest and sunshine and sofa
pillows and matinee now and then To
the great army of housekeeping woTn-
en- Will have text worthier than mus
Gle culture and dumbbell exercise or
even the newest fads in physical train
ing. 1t is told that certain New York
society woman whose engagements oc-
cupied nearly twenty-four hours of
each day made a practice of taking one
day every two weeks which she de-
voted to thorough resting process. re-
manning in bed all day and having mas
seurs manipulate her tired limbs and
aching head until the feeling of posi-
tive and complete rest was assured. ]
would advocate such a day off for
housekeeping women Not a day at
home spent within reach of household
worries and annoyances, but day be-
gun at Turkish bath establishment
and ended by a perfect dinner at some
good hotel Get out OF the rut of
housekeeping worries once in a while.
Rest the tired head and hands in the
luxurious languor of a Turkish bath.
Get medicined, manicured. massaged,
hair dressed! You will go home feel
ing positively young again and will
surprise your household with "a smile
long bsent among the wrinkles and
lines of an existence made miserable
constant friction with house
hold worries N. y. Herald.