The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-01-12
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
GOSSIP CONCERNING MATTERS OF
INTEREST TO WOMEN.
The Test Of Business Capacity-GifAs
Who Carve Furniture PEARS
Again the Favorite-Aprons OF
Craah-HousehOld Hints.

| 1t Is not easy 10 0eny that WoMon
rave business capacity when we o n
;ider how much Of it is needed In or
Ter to get up q decent family dinner.
When a man says grace at MS W
| able he feels, let us hope, q becom'
ne gratitude to Divine Providence,
| cut he does not always bear in mind
hat the Immediate channel OF That
Providence has been, in most cases,
IL woman. The woman in question
night, indeed, be tempted sometimes to
! interrupt his prisons rs did stout Old
ethan Allen those Of the clergyman
who was offering a Thanksgiving Tor
| he capture Of Ticonderoga-"n you
please, Mr.. -, don't neglect TO men,
ion that I was there, too" To the
average man who is what is called
n the country "a good provider," 1t
perhaps seems as if all Housekeeping
consisted in taking a sufficient amount
If meat and vegetables, throwing them
| ntO an oven and presently taking them
,ut-a dinner. The fact that soup re-
1uires q certain amount of cooking,
| ind beef a particular time, and peas a
given interval. and pudding a proper
period. and that all these viands have
to be so planned that they shall all be
precisely ready, piping hot and done to
la 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. It is only when some sudden
change puts the whole matter into the
hands of some unframed Bridget or
Mary Ann, perhaps reared in a rae
tory, and not knowing a fry from a
~fricasee, that a woman's work In the
house begins to look like a business
training, 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 at least do the
equally difficult task Of putting together
the items Of a dinner and making them
come out even.
It would be easy to go on n show
how in other ways women exh1D1c
what are practically business habits
within their recognized domain. Take,
for instance, Il mother seeing her five
| children off to school in different direc-
tons on a winter morning, each prop
erly hated and muffled and shod and
| gloved and luncheoned, with due and
separate regard for Mary's cold and Ell
lens weak eyes and Johnny's tendency
to an excess of pie, and all the various
perils that impend IN different direc-
| tons 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 to write to Miss Jones about
that geography lesson" Mother, I
have pulled this button Off" Mother,
how far did you say it was from the
| earth to the moon?' And all this,
while, at the same time, papa is in
a hurry for his final cup Of coffee;
and papa forgot to speak to the plumb
er yesterday, and therefore the bell
does not ring in the kitchen to-day.
Papa may be a very good business man,
but will he seriously declare that any
| complication Is likely to occur in his
| Office that will exceed the complication
| of this little drama which his patient
spouse has to rehearse every morning
of her life?-Harper's Bazaar.