The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-12-28
The Test of Bushes Capacity.

business capacity when we consider how
much of it is needed in order to get up
decent family dinner When man
says grace at his own table he feels let us
hope. a becoming gratitude to Divine
Providence. but he does not always bear
that Providence has been. in most cases.
a woman. The woman in question might.
indeed. be tempted sometimes to inter-
rupt his prisons as did stout old Ethan
Allen those of the clergyman who was Of
fering thanksgiving for the capture of
Mconderoga-''lf you please, Mr.. -,
don't neglect to mention that was there.
tool! To the average man who is what
is called in the country "a good provider,
it perhaps seems as if all housekeeping
consisted in taking il sufficient amount of
meat and vegetables. throwing them into
an oven and presently taking Out-a din
ner. The fact that soup requires Il certain
amount of cooking. and beef particular
time, and peas given interval, and pud-
ding Il proper PERIOD. and that all these
viands have to be so planned that they
shall all be precisely ready. piping hot
and done to a turn. at the precise moment:
nay, that during this process each separate
item must be duly mixed or stirred or
favored or transferred from dish to dish.
no two being treated just alike-all this
does not at first occur to him. 1t is only
when some sudden change puts the whole
matter into the hands of some unframed
Bridget or Mary Ann, perhaps reared i'll Il
factory, and not knowing Il fry from Il
fricasee. that womans work in the
house begins to look like business train
ing, as it is. 1t then may occur to him
for the first time that his wife, who
could never yet make her weekly accounts
balance, can ut least do the equally diff
cult task Of putting together the items
of dinner and making them come out
even.
1t would be easy to go on and show
how in other ways women exhibit what
are practically business habits within their
recognized domain. Take, for Instance, a
mother seeing her five children off to
school in different directions OIL a winter
morning, each properly halted and mufiled
and 'shod and gloved and luncheoned.
with due and separate regard for Mary's
cold and Ellen's weak eyes and .Johnny's
tendency to an excess of pie, and all the
various perils that impend in different d.
rections. See her in the midst of that
battery of questions: Mother. where is
my right mitten" Mother. l can't find
my India rubbers" Mother, you were
ply lesson Mother, ! have pulled this
button off, Mother. how far did yo1
say it was from the earth to the mom?''
And all this, while, at the same. papa IN
in hurry for his final cup of coffee: and
papa forgot to speak to the plumber yes
terday. and therefore the bell does not
ring in the Kitchen today. Papa may
be very good business man, but will
he seriously declare that any complication
is likely to occur in his Office that will
exceed tho complication of this little
drama which his patient spouse has to
rehearse every morning of her life?-
Harper's Bazaar.
Human Sacrifices in Russia.
People are unfamiliar with the fact
that in a part of the Russian empire hui
man sacrifices arc in vogue today. Ac-
cording to the Yakutsk (Siberia) News
this fact cannot be doubted. 1t is prac-
ticed Emailly among the Tchuktsch tribes
and there is no chance for the discontinue
ance of this practice in the near future.
The Russian government or the orthodox
church is not to be blamed for these con-
ditions, since all efforts toward suppress
sion of the barbarous custom have until
now proved entirely fruitless. Old and
sick people who are tired of life and wish
to end their existence offer themselves
for these sacrifices. If Tchuktsch has
come to. this conclusion he informs his |
neighbors and nearest relativec of his |
intention. They thereupon. call on him !
and try to tlissuadc him from his purpose.
But all prayers and reproaches are pow |
erless against the determination of the !