The Helena independent., 1893-08-20
WOMAN AND HER HOME.
Duties Which Occupy the Wife. the
Mother, and the House,
keeper.
Entire Change In the Status al
the Girl Who Gets Mar
ried.
Cars OF tho Wardrobe Family CO. opera.
tion-indlvidual Charming Quail
ties. Family DisAgresabieness.

A girl who perhaps has had perfect free
dom and immunity from all care becomes,
as soon as she is married, her husbands
companion. She must be fresh and attract
i've in appearance and feeling to greet him
when he returns home in the evening. She
must have topics of interest on which to
converse and make herself charming to
him after his days toll, or be ready to go
out with him to the thcater, lecture, card
party or entertainment, as the case may be,
or to make the evening agreeable to him ut
his home II he is domestic in his taste. II
she does not do this constantly and persist
emily, the average man will. after the novelty
of the new life has worn Off, betake him
self to his club, or if he is lacking in prin-
ciple he may drift away altogether and find
other company which is more agreeable to
him.
Where there is strong mutual affection
and the man has n fine sense of honor,
chivalry and high principle he will of course
feel that obligations are mutual, and he will
find for himself and make for her and with
herinterests that will be harmonious. When
to this happy condition are applied ample or
very comfortable means, the woman's work
In the home is greatly lightcned. But take
the case of tho mistress of family in mod
children The house must receive enough
attention from its mistress each day to keep
all in good running order, even supposing
that two servants do the actual work of the
household. Meals are to be ordered three
times each day, with provision for the re-
quirements and idiosyncrasies of each in
dividual from paterfamilias down to the
last conner in the establishments. Now, this
may seem . mere trifle to the locker on,
who at the well appointed table sees the
daily bill of fare, but let any such locker OH
try it for days, weeks, months, years, sea-
son after season. and he or she, whoever it
may be, will think that the position Of cat
erer alone to family Of ordinary size is no
sinecure.
Then the difficulties with servants and
their management. the settling Of their
difficulties with each other, the task of in
structing them in their duties, the frequent
directions which must be given to the de
tails of cooking by ordinary housekeepers,
is something which few Of the other sex
understand. Those who are able to pay
very high prices for fine cooks may be eX-
empt from ordinary trials, but the average
housekeeper knows that she must often
supplement her own knowledge and expert.
cnce with remarks like these: 1.-THE bread
this week is not baked slowly enough 0,
long enough" THE soup is too weak" etc
| to keep up the cooking to the standard
requisite for the health and satisfaction OF
the family. Then the care of the house, tht
weekly cleaning, the constant supervision
of cellar, closets and drains form with the
catering department In itself sufficient
for the entire occupation of one woman
and the health and comfort Of the whole
household are dependent on the fidelity anc
intelligence which direct it.
Yet the mothers responsibility and care
have only their beginning here. The needs
Of the children from infancy to adult life
in health and sickness, their training
physical, intellectual and moral-here il
another department which demands for it:
fultfliment the vitality and the best powers
Of the mother in the home. The oversight
Of the clothing of young and changing
forms is a care that is sufficient for on,
head and pair of hands, even when peopl.
are sensiI enough to pay little court tt
Dame Fashion.
Most of all in the home is the companion
ship of the wife and mother TO husband ant
children, for which she needs time for he
own rational physical requirements of air
rest and refreshments time to keep up he
reading, her interest in books, pictures ant
music, that she may never become a house
hold drudge, mere minister to tempora
needs, but that she may be the believe,
friend and counselor.--Anna A. Comelin il
New York Advertiser.