Milford chronicle., 1895-05-03
a MODEL SYSTEM.
How One Young Wife Utilities Her Husband
In Her Housekeeping.

How One Young Wife Utilities Her Husband
In Her Housekeeping.
A clever young woman who was eating
Ice cream with an acquaintance at a down
town restaurant was telling her expert
ence in keeping house without help, and
it Is good enough to be reproduced here.
"When we have company, said this or
/ iginal young woman, "my husband al
ways assists in waiting on the table. He
I Is a railroad postal clerk and Is at home ev
cry other week, sometimes every other day.
We do the work together, and as we are
/ both young and strong we do not mind 1t
in the least. The money we save by not
hiring help goes into our charity fund"
"But how did you manage to teach him
housework9"
"His mother taught him that, with 9TH
er domestic accomplishments, for which I
am much Obliged to her"
"But isn't it awkward for both to leave
the guests at tablef"
"No. They understand and chat with
one another But I do wish sometimes
that people had more tact than to offer to
assist-that only makes confusion and Is
embarrassing. While Walter carries out
tho plates remove tho center dishes, and
as the dessert is all ready ON the sideboard
/ have only to bring in the coffee, and in
moment we are both seated again, and
neither Of us has been overtasked. OF
course l appreciate the old adage about
making the head save the heels.
II don't believe could get my husband
to do homework, " said the other young
woman 'He has never been trained. "
"Thon train him at once-the sooner the
better, " suggested the clever one. Men
make good walters naturally. Why should
it DO any more mental for a husband e
change the plates than for the wifeg Wal
ter cuts the bread, sets the table and often
sweeps while I am cooking. The other
system, where a husband smokes or reads
the paper while his wife drudges, isn't to
DO compared with mine. Then when our
work is done we enjoy our reading or mu-
sic together"
"Helps wash the dishes. Mol You don't
mean itr'
1t was the same subject continued. The
young women had ordered another set O.
creams and were still discussing the
homework question.
"Yes, he does, and let me tell you there
never is a dish broken in his hands.
Mercy My husband would break ev-
cry last one of them before he would wash
Them.
Il wash them, and Walter wipes them. !
He has his own apron, with bib and nice |
coarse linen for toweling them, and he sets
them away in their places every time"
"How do you manage when callers come |
imp
"Ask them right into the kitchen, If I
they are our friends, and finish the work. !
Why, we just play at housekeeping and |
are as larky as two children. But We often /
talk the situation over and express our
sympathy for the girl who must work
alone"
Perhaps youwin suggest to her to take
a partner?h
''We've thought it would be a good idea
for young married couples to live out to-
gether, the man as butler, the girl as cook
Il has been tried and did not work well,
because neither had special training. What
q pretty domestic life the two could live in
the kitchen when their work was doneW
'Your theory suggests an ideal kitchen"
"Why nOt2" answered the clever one
"Why not have ideal kitch
ems as well as ideal parlorsS Thank heay-
en-, A" she concluded, with reverent force,
'we have both. Detroit Free Press.