Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-08-13
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New England Farmer
The question of the proper relations
between mistress and maid IL one oil
80 much latitude, and longitude az
well, and ii is so many sided that III
is difficult subject to dispose OF satis-
factorily.
Since the beginning of the world
there have been domestic duties to per-
form and by common consent those
duties have been delegated to women
who have been expected to keep the
house, do the cooking. sweeping, wash
ing, ironing and tidying up generally.
And there is no other occupation
beneath the broad canopy OF heaven
which demands the exercise OF 80
varied talents as housekeeping. The
woman who claims to be successful
housekeeper must in the first place be
a financier, that she nay he able to
bring her household expenses within
the scope of her income-no matter
how small it may be-and how largely
| it NAV be drawn upon by the unex-
| pectetl exigeDcies of company, sickness,
| charity and the numerous other emer-
| gencies which ut any time are liable to
| occur.
She must be disciplinarian, or she
cannot manage her servants and con-
troll her children, who are to so con
stantly under her influence.
She must he diplomat, or there
| will continually be unpleasant little
Jars in her household, which will make
everybody unhappy and cast cloud
over her domestic felicity.
In every family there are so many
conflicting opinions, and people In
general are 50 ready to express them,
and to stick to them, that the woman
who can skilfully smother an argument
in it's incipiency and divert conversa-
| tion into another channel has reason to
be proud of her generalship. for of all
the tiisagreeabie things in family the
habit of arguing everything which
comes up is tine most destructive OF
comfort.
1t requires genius to do housework
and do it well, there are SO many con,
tiicting circumstances to meet and
combat, there are SO many different
! tastes. appstites and ten pers to con.
slider. Aud it is always easy to lind
fault. II is a melancholy fact that the
poetry of the kitchen is pretty much
) all prose. I'd tho woman who does hel
own work. IS very likely to find it out
There il an immense amount Of hard
r dragging work about housekeeping anc
the housekeeper who always has OF
: The proverbia clean dress and whit
] collar, and whose hands are invariabl.
spotieas and whose temper is neve
/ rutllea and who is always ready t
Welcome the man her husband uneS
4 rectedly brings home to dinner, ha
no existence outside of the romanti
rain Of the novel writer, and we VIII
7 have been housekeepers ourselves ar
L very well aware OF it.
a And the housework, no matter hoy
n hard or ciistasteful it may be. must b
!, done if the health, happiness and peac
u of the family arc to be assured.
Q When the housework is done by tn
n mistress of the house it is difficult an
s complicated enough, but when th
! hired girl enters in as u componen
part of the arrangement then the II
a volvement is still more difficult an
}. complicated.
't You never know how much there
to do about house until the 81
leaves suddenly and you have to p,
n your own shoulder to the wheel. 70
g never realize how much hard rubin
ID and how much backache it takes
n get the weekly washing on the III
r until you perform the labor yourself
az You never know how much dust the
is about sweeping until the girl is goi
at aud you tie your head up In a handke
20 chief, and with broom and duster
c. hand attempt to sweep the chambe
8. before you get dinner.
eft 10, ,,it thnnuhf that Ma
X gle burned great deal more coal thi
a was necessary, but when you drag
h. up out of the cellar, hodful at
y. time, you feel as If you were usi
about ton week.
In these days, unfortunately, I
cd mistress and maid are in some degr
N, antagonIstic. The mistresses 6
ea together and discuss the maids, a
CO the maids get together and discuss I
n. mistresses, and it seems to be abo
lv an even thing.
nd The question of efficient kitchen be
les is one of the most perplexing prohlel
be which confront the modern hout
cd keeper. The difficult. of securi
on suitable servants has driven hundre
to of families into boarding houses;
ed has broken up happy homes; destroy
ok the sweet influences OF harmonic
ell home life, and been the cause of MT
ms domestic infelicity than almost a
he other one thing.
is 1t is an evil which is on the increa
is, and how is it to be dealt with? WI
arc is the remedy and what can be do
ow to secure harmony of purpose betwe
nut the mistress and the maid? How {
Ill. their joint interests be made one,
Ick rather, how can they be made to
)se that it is for the interests of the 9th
are The man who can answer that qu
int tion and answer ii practically will
ON hailed with delight by the vast ar
wn of tired. fretted and discoura;
eta houseBeepers, and they arc ready
are him now. Let him step right vi
of tho front and state his proposition.
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