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swered the bell ner
self, which surprised me a little, for she
has just wee bit of objection to doing
that sort Of thing. Rena and Bob have
not been married very long-six months, ]
think-and they have had trials enough
for 1t to have been six years. Rena her
self Is a very excellent sort Of a young wo-
man. She has ability above the average In
many directions, graduated with honors,
and created quite flutter in her one sea-
son out.
I never did approve of the manner In
which she was reared, however; and il I
were so minded 1 might fling II told you
81 In her mothers teeth. I have known
Rena's mother great many years. She
was selfish, overbearing girl. and she
married man for his money. She got the
money, but not much else that was worth
having, and she simply soured on mankind
male kind, more properly speaking, and she
set to work to rear her three girls to do
the same.
Oddly enough. while teaching them to be
them
lovers OF mems work. She stood betw cen
tnem and the requirement of any domestic
accomplishments. as well as she could, di-
recfed their tastes toward the law medi-
cine, art, anything, in fact but matters Of
interest to home lovers. I think without
any doubt whatever they were the most
utterly ignorant creatures about anything
appertaining to household matters that ever
wore gowns and screeched at mice
OF course, while they were at home and
had plenty of money and well-trained SER
wants 1t did not seem necessary to learn
those homely accomplishments which make
a lovely woman yet more lovabIe in the
eyes of man who is seeking some one to
help him make home. If the stockings
that they We're to put on fresh had holes
in them they could throw them in the
mending basket for the sewing woman and
put on new ones. If the gown sleeve had a
dropped stitch the sewing woman was at
hand to take it up If the gloves for a
certain dress were ripped, the sewing
woman fixed them at once.
Rena could write a page of music but
she would have ruined the plano polish II
she had undertaken to dust it; she could
mix paints as deftly as need be, but to
have eaten a pudding of her mixing would
have been as disastrous a dose Of Paris
green. She could have passed examination
as pharmacist-she really had leaning
toward medicine-but was as ignorant as
an ostrich Of the simplest formula for yeast
bread or the quantity of sugar for pint
of jelly. She could do century on her
child's play, and she was no mean oppon-
ent at athletic sports of the more vigorous
kinds.
Advanced Views and Marriage.
New, you can imagine the appalling con-
diton of affairs confronting couple
where both man and wife are given to the
same pleasures and whose tastes are iden-
tical. especially when, as in this case, both
have been reared in well-appointed homes,
are fond of luxury, as well as ignorant of
how TO produce 1t, and have a modest
Sl,WO year to live upon, when each has
been used to much more individually
since arriving at an age to spend money
Rena's mother told me once that she want
ed her daughters to be advanced women"
freed from the bonds of the down-trodden
sex and able to cope with the whole wide
world If necessary.
That is very good in theory. but while
tn the IA advanced M,n woman is getting ready to
pare herself to do battle with servants who
are only a shade less ignorant than her
self The advanced woman swears in the
beginning of her fatuous career that she
VIII not marry, and Ii would be much bet
ter for suffering humanity If she stood by
that vow, but she doesn't. She surrenders
ignominiously and without reservation
when love takes possession of her heart
foreets her career" and becomes as ab-
ject slave to the whims of her friend
the enemy, man, IS the most shrinking,
tlmfd domestic creature alive.
And that brings me back to Bob and
Rens. who are the present cause of this
What is the particular griev-
ance this morning." / asked, as we went
into the cozy little back parlor, which was
also the breakfast room You see I had
expected just such domestic cataclysms
Most all their friends had applauded the
splendid match" between two people of
twin tastes. Twin tastes are all right, but
let me tell you that one of those twins has
got to have taste for managing and saw
ing, while the other is making to spend,
or the home they fondly hope to set up
Will be hollow mockery. All gee" or all
''haw," will demoralize any pair under
yoke.
Trials With Servants.
TITS servants! replied Rena, with lit
tie Sob I'VE have had four this month,
and we had six last. They get mad because
Bob interferes about the cooking. He can't
eat 'sody' biscuits, as one Of the cooks
called them and because suggested some
thing to bleach them so that he wouldn't
know that they were made of soda, the
girl got mad and said she wouldn't injure
her reputation living with such an ignor-
ant mistress! She slept at home nights.
The next cook seemed to use a great deal
of sugar. Mamma said that twenty pounds
a week for two people was scandalous, and
when 1 mentioned it Mary said was too
stingy for any use.
1ueA TIE usAI girl was a nice little Ter
man. as clean and honest and quick as
could be; but oh, she was so ignorant She
could do very few German dishes, but
Bob hates Dutch cooking and couldn't tell
her how to do anything, because 1 know
nothing about it, so I had to let her CO.
though she would have been Jewel, If she
had been trained. She was quite young
And SO it goes. We cannot afford high
priced cook, who could go ahead and do
everything, and leave me free to pursue
my lectures with Bob. so I have to worry
along with common servants, who are as
helpless as myself outside Of plain boiling,
frying and stewing.
Those who have cared to sleep in the
house object to the room. They say it Is
lark and unhealthy, and they would rather
sleep in the unfinished attic than down
there I think servants are far too exact |
Ing! This morning the last girl failed to |
come at all, and 1 tried to get breakfast |
myself. I know I made an awful mess of |
It, but do think Bob was most un-k-k!n-d |
to s-say that g-grls ought to all learn how |
to c-cook before they get m-married!" And |
at last the tears that were so close to the |
surface burst forth
Poor misguided girl! I did feel so sorry |
for her, and for Bob, too. Like all men, he |