Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-03-20
HOUSEKEEPING.
A Phase Of Modern City Life Which
Will Amaze Many Ia the Country.

A Phase Of Modern City Lifo Which
Will Amass Many Ia the Country.
The time II approaching when house.
keeping, 40 our grandm0thers under.
stood II, will become q lost art, says the
San Francisco Argonaut. There was q
day when the model housewife spun
her own linen and dipped her own
candles. Then she advanced to the
stage Of o frivolous disregard Of these
accomplishments, and bought her lin.
en- and her candles. but knit her chill.
dren's stockings and had q still.room
full Of Jams and pickles Of her own
making. To-day she would no more
make her pickles than she would un.
dertake to build the bed she sleeps on.
The craft Of housekeeping, which In
the eyes Of our grandfathers was our
grandmothers' most considerable at
traction, u today almost extinct.
In the great cities things are 10 ar.
ranged that It 10 possible to live com.
fortably In your own apartment with.
out any Of the friction Of household
management which has turned 90
many heads white and ruined the peace
of 10 many hearths. In any city an
apartment Of from three rooms up
can be hired for from twenty to two
hundred dollars q month. This can be
made habitable by furniture jobbers at
twenty.four hours notice. The janitor.
the laundryman. and the livery-stable
keeper are at hand. ready to profer
their services. Each apartment.hous
has its own corps Of these supernumer.
aries. who are willing. for considera.
tion. to tighten the burden Of the house
wife. Close at hand. II not In the build.
Ing itself, II cafe. where good meals
are served at all hours. When there
are few children In the family. the cafe
ID generally patronised. II the house.
hold consists Of only Darby and Joan.
and they happen to be young and act.
I've. they dispense with the services OF
this convenient caterer, make their own
breakfast In their rooms. and 60 out
to different restaurants for lunch and
dinner. Those who wish to have the
privacy Of home life at their meals
can find waiting crowd of butchers.
bakers, and gr0cers, who eagerly offer
price'lists and pass-b00ks, and will un-
dertake to procure and serve whatever
may be desired, II the objects of their
attentions will undertake to pay the
bills they send In. Even that tough.
est Of housekeeping problems. the serv.
ant-girl question, is reduced to its
smallest possible Importance, for In
such style Of living few servants are
needed. In fact, where the family Ia
small, 1t Is possible to dispense with
them entirely. as the janitor and ele.
vator-bOy attend to the outside work,
and any hOuse-cleaning association will
furnish q reliable charwoman as often
and as early as can be required.
Altogether, the modern woman ls
having things made az easy for her as
possible. In ten years she will no
more think Of dusting her own room
than Of making her own shoes. Even
that most unanswerable problem, what
shall she do with her children? is rap.
idly solved. There are now day nur.
series for the children of working
women, where q child ID taken care
of for from ten to twenty cents day.
The time IL at hand when institutions
OF this kind. well-run and high.priced.
will be on every block. superseding the
old nursery of the domestic regime.
In all probability the child will be bet.
ter cared for than 1t was when left to
the charge Of an ignorant mother and
an Irish nurse-girl. Whether. however.
the arrangement will be satisfactory to
the mother herself is another side Of
the matter. 1t will take good deal
of civilization to transfer the maternal
instinct from the individual to the
race.
No two Thermometers ever had the