The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-11


glass doors swing back into the room anc
are most easily cleaned. In summer II
admits twice as much air as any other
window in the same space. 1t is dainty
and pretty. Indeed the only fault that /
can imagine laid TO its doors (no pun IN
tended is that sometimes it rattles i'll the |
wind, when not securely barred and bolt i
ed.
Laundering and Laundresses.
Northern mantua makers could take
lessons in summer toilets from the south
ern ones. There is difference-that is
felt-between dress that looks cool ana
dress that is COOL An orSandy lined ,
with silk, with a vast fiutter of pretty ,
(but warm) hummery at the neck and
a cool gown, no matter how much white
chiffon beguiles the eyei The southern |
artist will make you an organdy with
a thin silk slip with low neck and no
sleeves, ii will be a dream in its appear
ance and you will (when yop wear ~
wonder why the other women complain
In the southern cities, New Orleans.
Memphis Louisville, Atlanta, one is al
ways struck by the exquisite summer
gowns that the ladies wear. Ihey nave
learned the art of comfort in summer
clothes as well as to make the clothes
beautiful.
not yet appreciate the grace and the COM
fort of wrappers. And we do not realize
how infinitely comfortable and adaptable
are the pretty sacks called maunees' we
depend too much on the shirt waist Tor
GOODNESS and comfort; dainty sacks mys-
FERROUS with ribbons and lace and fanci-
full sleeves, are quite as cool as the shlrt
waist and much more feminine. The
fancy bodice may be regarded as the
butterfly emerging from the crysallS or
the simple shirt waist, 1t is a beautltul
creation; but it is not COOL it is only
cooler-than some other things. South
they have another advantage over the
north as a rule in city or country, they
wash out of doors, making much less or
an occasion of that weekly rite of puritl-
cation. The southern dressmaker'S wash
gown is simple affair within the grasp
of the talents Of Aunt Cloie or Aunt Bet
sy, when it comes to be washed; but the
northern wash gown is an awesome spec
tacle for the home laundreSs; and If she
essays washing 1t, the chances are 1t IS
a more awesome spectacle afterward to
its owner. Nothing is cooler, nothing
more comfortable to wear or more charm |
ing to see than a dainty. fresh wash |
gown; but nothing is less attractive than
a wash gown so elaborate that it cannot |
be washed; yet it is in crying need OF |
soap and water.
If one really thinks about 1t, how in |
sensate and cruel is our demand that |
the poor be cleani Cleanliness is the |
greatest luxury in the world and one of |
the most expensive. We should rather |
be grateful to the poor If they are not |
obtrusively dirty; and be thankful thai /
we have enough money to be clean. 1t |
has always seemed to me a dark dispen- |
sation that the time of the year when II
is warmest and hardest to wash and iron /
there should be the most washing and |
ironing to do. And there seems no way /
out of the problem except to engage ex-
ira maids to wash. ] always admired the
houSekeeper who said mo, l am not go
ing away this summer, am going to hire
an extra maid and have all the washing
done l want, instead, for the first time IN
my life. l have never been as clean as
want to be in summer; but now L shall
be; and know l shall enjoy it more than
a trip to the seaShore."
For the sake of the maids it is a very
good thing, however, to take a vacation. |
They are human and they like a break
in the monotonous treadmill of their du-
ties as well as we like it in our easier
end more varied life. They will serve US
the better for it afterward
Fields For Masculine Enterprise.
No home should be without chating
dish for the heated term. 1 think IL
should be for every term but certainly in
summer the chafing dish is invaluable.
mer, can be cooked in an infinite variety
of ways, fish can be fried of broiled (more
or less butter makes the difference-ot
course you can't broll in chafing d1Shs
but you can sautee so cleverly as to be-
guile the very elect and in fact there is
no end to the usefulness of the shining
little help
And it is pleasant to observe the widen
ing made by it in the avenues of useful
ness to man. 1t is my privilege to know
several men who cook like great chefs.
They cook only few things, it is true,
but no artist could do those things bet
ter. We come to perfection, we can come
l
thousand year in a kitchen, or toiling
in our retired walk of life as a banker,
manufacturer, merchant or a member
of Congress. If we can scramble an egg
perfectly we are on top in that thing, and
the greatest can do no more. 1 hope L
shall not be consderer a traitor to my
sex IL l add that in general, men use the
chatting dish more skilfully than women.
Perhaps it is because there is a gaudy
triumph about channg ash processes
which there is not in other cooking ex-
PLOTS. Men never like to work behind a
screen. They enjoy the tumult and the
crowd and the cheering when they strike
see dozen eyes on her. Her ears tin ,
gle at the good-natured comments. She J
is frightened, she loses confidence in her
self. she looks furtively across the table
at the man for whom she cares more than
all the rest; and he is telling the lady
who gives such charming dinners that he
will have to send his wife over to get
a series OF lesSonS-and 1t is all over for
the poor creature at the alcohol lamp |
If she be wise she will tip the lamp over
and cover her retreat.
A mans self-confidence is of stouter
fibre. He isn't looking at his wife, he is
looking at the dish; if any ingredients be
to call aloud and spare not, for
that was voice given; naturally he gets
whether he has forgotten
things or no, and the entire service of the
meal stops until he has had his will. A
man will have two maids and a large
stately butler running about the room
waiting on his preparation Of terrapin a
la Maryland or lobster la Newberg; and
he will be no whit embarra sSed. A Wo-
man is scared to interrupt the feast by
one servant.
And the man is right and the woman
Is wrong; Tor people can wait for their
wine or their sauces, but an alcohol flame
waits on no mani =
But the difference between man and wo-
man as cooks is too near other burning
at 80, =