The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves life
stands out from the pages of history as
one that has had a large share in the
uplifting of humanity, and so great was
her influence that President Lincoln is
said to have greeted her as "the little
woman who brought on the great war.
That this bright genius was comfort
able, economical, practical housewife is a
fact that should be an inspiration to the
housekeeper, whose daily round of duties
seem often so hunldrum and narrow; in
deed, Mrs. Stowe herself tells us how,
while writing one OF her early novels,
which for literary merit is placed by crit
les among her best. she was papenng a
room and would think up a page or Two
while putting up a few lengths of paper,
write these out and return 10 her manual
labor again, and So turn and turn
about with pen and brush until the room
was finished.
II $ a refreshment to remember that
Mrs. Stowe was in her prime when she
| turned her pen to domestic matters and
gave her mind to such topics as 1.-THE
Lady Who Does Her Own Work." etc.
In her article on THE Lady Who Does
Her Own Work. Mrs. Stowe dwells on the
value of homework in giving the very
healthlest form of exercise, and for the
average woman shows i'll to be far prefera-
bic to the work of the masseur, who, even
IN those days, more than thirty years ago,
seem to have found plenty of patients.
She quantity speaks of them as hired
operators to stretch and exercise inactive
muscles" Women" she continues, lie
for hours to have their feet twigged, their
arms fiexed, and all the different muscles
worked for them, because they are so
flaccid and torpid that the powers of life
do not go on.
Would it not be quite as cheerful and
less expensive a process" she asks, eff
young girls from early life developed the
muscles in sweeping, busting, ironing,
rubbing furniture and all the multiplied
domestic processes which our grandmoth-
ers knew of?' and then adds: 81 will
venture to say that our grandmothers in
week went over every movement that
any gymnast has invented, and went over
them to some productive purpose, too
MISS KELLOGGS ARMS.
Here is a hint that women with thin
arms would do we'll to take 1t is said
to be really fact that Clara Louise KEEL
logg, the singer, when a young girl, was
much annoyed by the attenuated appear
ance of her arms when she began to dom
evening dress at her crowded concerts.
Some one recommended a brisk use of
the broom. which advice she followed
and soon had a round plump member as
the reward of her labor. If a thin, listless
girl, with dull eye and skin, can by
any means be persuaded to try the
broom cure" she viii be astonished to
find what beautifier it surely is.
In the matter of wall paper, Mrs. Stowe
gives advice for very artistic and cheer
full effects, and now that summer is
drawing to a close these hints Will be
very useful to the housekeeper.
"All you want of a paper says Mrs.
Stowe. is to make a ground work to
throw out your pictures and other mat
ters, and to reflect a pleasant tone of
light" She further bids us beware of
cold blue greys if we must have this
tint to harmonic with carpet or furni-
ture let it be a warm gray suffused
with gold or rose color, such as you see
ALL" she declares, for the rooms wherein
the family is most often found is a paper
with a buff tone, something that pro-
duces warm yellowish reflections, that
will almost make you think the sun is
shining in cold gray weather" Nothing
lights US SO cheerfully in the evening,
and the color of the old-fashioned jaf-
ferano rose, which must have been very
like some of our beautiful yellow ones of
today, she commends for cheer and
brightness.
She also commends a color which was
then called maroon, a rich deep crimson,
and which with brighter tints of the same
and a dash here and there of heavens
own blue, in draDeries and bric-a-brac
would make lovely motif for family
room.
The time when Mrs. Stowe writes we
must remember were the days of abomi-
nations in the way of carpets with huge
medallions and impossible flowers and
stiff sets of black walnut furniture gen.
orally covered with green rep, upon
which walked and sat men with long hair
and women with enormous hoops and
flowing ringlets and yet in spite of all
this she conjureS up the loveliest rooms
imaginable. EMILY FORD.