The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-31
BAD MANAGEMENT.
From the New York 1ribnne.

There is great deal of nomely truth
IN the remark once made by a famous
clergyman, that some peoples Chin
neys always smoked and their roofs
always ler.sed. Now, as every one
knows. there is no reason for . smoky
chimney or a leaky roof except bad
management
1t is trihing matter to put few
shingles on leaking roof 1t takes no
more time to build chimney properly,
as it should be built than to build it
improperly. and it is an easy matter to
keep it clean Yet, every day We see
individuals enduring actual hardships,
from just such trifiing causes as these.
1t requires only little management, o
little calm, quiet thought and judg.
ment, to remedy majority of house
hold troubles Don Quixote was not
the only person that fought windmills.
Housekeepers are continually engaging
in such useless tasks One housekeeper
has a stove, the oven Of which will not
bake rapidly except when the fire is
FIRST kindled. During the rest of the
day il remains at a slow heat Now
there are great many buildings and
some cakes that may be cooked by .
slow heat, just the heat which a poor
stove oven gives. Instead Of content
ing herself with custards and old-fash-
toned fruit cakes and such CONNECTIONS
as require this slow heat. she is forever
attempting TO ignore the pcculiarities
of her oven and insists on baking
sponge cake and pastry to the vain
wasting Of -four and eggs In nine
cases ont of ten the housekeeper in
stead of considering herself a bad man.
ager. looks upon herself as a much
abused person
There is hardly any household trou-
bles of this kind which. IL taken in
time and treated with Judgment may
not be at least partly overcome. The
great fault usually consists in laying
out given line of action and expect
ing all circumstances to mold them
selves TO il, instead of molding our ac-
tons to the circumstances Most OF
the household disorder and a great
deal Of discomfort may be traced "a
just this thing. Not only in the kitch.
en-, but In the parlor does the house.
keeper attempt TO carry out Ella borate
theories, which she has no practical
means to fulfill She dresses her par.
lor in the miniature of grand salon.
and poses herself in IL TO wait for tho
society that never comea because, fors
sooth, there is no society in the place
that has time TO linger in grand salons.
6ao a. - hAn CO oil b.
genuine visiting is done in the kitchen
and sitting room. and the parior il
closed for all but two or three days in
the year, and left for moth and mold
to corrupt All this il theoretical. not
practical. living, and is the worst Of
The space occupied by the shut-up
parl0r should bs turned into the ait
ting-room, which is generally cramped
whole room should be made as light |
and cheerful as possible, as a general |
Of the entirs family. |
The money spent on the mock show Of |
the shut-up parior will furnish . great /
many comforts to the general sitting |
room, where nothing should be too tine
and good for daily use, and everything /
should be as handsome aud substan-
tai as our means VIII allow. This IL /
the general reception room for all the I
family guests
We have little sympathy with that
jealous spirit which members of some
families exhibit In receiving their
special friends by themselves The
rule which governs the best society in
bists that . social call should include
III the feminine members Of the FAM
~. and IL Is altogether the wises. one
Daughters should have no friends
whom they cannot receive IA the pres
.nce Of their mothers and sis;ers~-cer-
.aioly 10 male frien6s-aad The exist
nee Of the shut-up pzr.or has DO er- ,
.use excep. the custom OF allowing /.
foung ladies 20 receive their friends ~ ,
OCCASIONALLY . wedding ,
" funeral calls for The opening OF The
hr;ters and The san i allowed 20 p>n- I
iirzte into tbs otherwise supervisors ,
oors. 20 which 50 1zeh family comfort ,,
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