Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1894-05-23
EAp MANAGEMENT,


Impose UpOa 1 hem selves
There is great deal of homely truth
in the remark once made by famous
clergyman, that some peoples Chin
news always smoked and their roofs
always leaked. Now, as every onq
knows, there is no reason for smoky
chimney or leaky roof except bad
management
1t is u trifiing matter to put few
shingles on leaking roof Tt takes nc
more time to build a chimney properly,
as it should be built, than to build Ii
improperly, and it is an easy matter to
keep it clean Yet, every day we see
individuals enduring actual hardships,
from just such trifing causes as these.
1t requires only a little management,
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 housekeepeF
has stove, the oven of which will not
bake rapidly except when the fire is
first kindled. During the rest of the
day it 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 poor
stove oven gives. Instead of content
ing herself with custards and old-fash-
joined fruit cakes and such CONNECTIONS
as require this slow heat, she is forever
attempting to ignore the peculiarities
of her oven and insists on baking
80 ~,
wasting of -four and eggs In nine
cases out of ten the housekeeper in
stead of considering herself bad man
ager, looks upon herself as much
q used person.
There is hardly any household trou,
bles of this kind which, if 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 it. instead of molding our &C,
tions to the circumstances. Most of
the household disorder and great
deal of discomfort may be traced to
just this thing Not only in the kitch.
en-, but in the parlor does the house.
keeper attempt to carry out elaborate
theories, which she has no practical
means to fulfill She dresses her par
lor in the miniature of avgrand salon,
and poses herself in it to wait for the
society that never comes. because, for
sooth, there is no society In the place
that has time to linger in grand salons,
or has any taste for them So all the
genuine visiting is done in the kitchen
and sitting room, and the parlor is
closed for all but two or three days in
the year, and left for moth and mold
practical living, and is the worst of
management
The space occupied by the shut-up
parler should be turned into the sit
ting-room, which is generally cramped
to give space to the parlor. and the
whole room should be made as light
and cheerful as possible, as general
meeting-room of the entire family.
The money spent on the mock show of
the shut-up parlor will furnish q great
many comforts TO the general sitting
room, where nothing should be too fine
and good for daily use, and everything
tial as our means will allow. This is
the general reception room for all thu
family guests
We have little sympathy with that
jealous spirit which members of soma
families exhibit in receiving their
special friends by themselves. The
rule which governs the best society in
sists that social call should include
all the feminine members of the fam,
lily, and it is altogether the wisest one
Daughters should have no friends
whom they cannot receive in the press
ence of their mothers and sisters-cer-
tainly no male friends-and the exist
ence of the shut-up parlor has no ex-
cuse except the custom of allowing
young ladies to receive their friends by
themselves. Occasionally wedding
or funeral calls for the opening of the
shutters, and the sun is allowed to pen
citrate into this otherwise superfiuous
room, to which SO much family comfort
is so often sacrificed IN. Y Tribune
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The National African Co. controls
FIVE hundred thousand square miles Of
the Niger valley, with q population OF
thirty-fiye millions
the Just, tnoAgh they hate evil
yet give men a patient hearing, hoping
that they will shov proofs that they
8ys not evil SIR P. Sidney.