The Washington times., 1895-06-16
DomeStic Secrets
for Summer Brides
HON TO ECONONIZE TINE AND
LABOR IN H0USEW0Rk.
Some Useful Hints for Those
Whose Bank Account
Is Limited.

Very, very many women have improved
the early shining hours OF June by getting
| themselves made into brides, aud during
| the hong hot summer days they are going
| To busy themselves by learning all the
difficult lessons which life sets for the
| newly married
The first year of marriage, throughout
| the greater part Of which a girl is still
called a bride is always a difficult year
even when the household is one of wealth,
aud when, as will be the case with nine
out of ten of this Junes brides-the two
young people are, trusting a good deal to
| luck in the future aud have a larger balance
| in the bank Of hope than in any more
| material establishment. Then the les
sous which the bride is going to have
to study will be almost beyond numbering
aud most of them some what difficult to
master
ECONOMICAL MANA CEMENT
Unfortunately the modern girl spends
ST. much of her girlhood either in school or
L even sometimes in a shop or factory, that
she has had little time before the we'd
ding ceremony to perfect herself in the
art Of housekeeping, and yet that art OF
| huusek eepiGg is just what she most needs
to know.
The charitable societies that work
among the very poor all unite in declaring
that the prosperity and comfort of the
family depends considerably more on the
wife than on the husband. That is to
say, that even If the man earns small wages
a skillful, economical wife can manage to
keep the family tidy, we'll fed, and happy,
but that a thriftless, ignorant housekeeper
will make the home Squalid, wretched
M
the man may bring in. So the brides,
while they are struggling with the first
mysteries and difficulties of domesticity,
must bear in mind in the midst OF all dis
couragements that the work they are doing
or learning to do is just as important and
necessary as the work their husbands earn
the bread OF both of them by Just as nee
essary as it is for him to be ambitious
and industrious if he means to get on in
the world and earn more money, Just so
necessary is it that she should be equally
ambitious and industrious in learning how
to make that money go just as far as it
will and getting the greatest amount Of
comfort and pleasure out OF it. OF course
every woman must learn for herself be-
cause the circumstances are different in
each case, and the experience Of no one
person will serve for all the others, but there
are certain
DOMESTIC SECRETS
Which, like the trade secrets of manufac-
turers, simplify labor enormously and make
apparently hopeless difficulties straight and
easy, and these secrets every woman can
learn at once, and save herselfall the trouble
of finding them out through the slow and
tedious process of her own mistakes. When
all is said and done the two great trials of
housekeeping are cooking and cleaning. All
the other details are more or less simple. or
course, if one has several servants these two
problems solve themselves, but service is
always after rent-the most expensive item
of housekee ping, and the woman is now be-
ing considered who either has but one maid
of all work, or else undertakes to do her
own work. If the latter is the case it is
well worth her while to devote great deal of
the best efforts of her intelligence to the
question of saving herself steps. They are