St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-05-29
THE YOUNG HousEkEEPER.
She Should Not Indulge IN Fads and
Fefbles.

She Should Not Indulge IN Fads and
Fefbles.
There are few more exasperatiTs
things to a young wife than the com.
parison, SO often made by her husband,
between his new and old home. A good
son naturally considers his mother the
embodiment of worldly wisdom, tact
and household management. What
ever departure his young wife makes
from the old ways he is accustomed tc
he is apt to regard with apprehension
If his old home was run by an exact sys
tenn, the slightest departure from thai
cast iron management he is likely II
look on as unthrifty. Though he may
show infinite forbearance in such cases
where there is really no need for for
bearance, the doubt fingers whether his
loved and scrupulously neat little wife
will not finally develop into hopeless
sloyen. Such doubts are too often fos.
tered by his relatives, who see a new
order of housekeeping, and unless they
are persons of exceptional liberality OF
character they disapprove of it.
On the other hand, If the system of the
old home was as "easy as an old she,'
ard the young husband finds his wife
is fond of law and order, the suspicion
forces itself upon him that she may
| develop the temper and tyranny of do.
mestic martinez. In whatever way the
new home departs from the old, it is like
n
of mind.
Tt does not detract from the love ano
admiration Of the husband that he doef
not always believe his wife wise anc
prudent. Even her own mother ane
sisters are likely to commend her eff.
| forts with the doubtful phrase: "Sb<
will learn" 1t is the height of injustice
to contrast her inexperienced manage.
| ments as SO many do, with the effort
| of a woman full of the wisdom of years
However, it does not necessarily follow
because the young wife's methods OF
housekeeping are different from the
| older woman's, that they are inferior
| She has had the advantage, if she is 6
woman Of average intelligence, of su.
| perior instruction. Her intuitions are
just as true as her mothers, and they
are supplemented by the enlightenment
OF a practical age. She can point with
pride to the statistics of the new genera.
ton of mothers, which show that there
has been a steady decrease in the deatf
rate among little children since the
last generation. The new mothers
thus are proved to be more intelligent
and therefore more trustworthy, thar
their own mothers were. It is Difficult,
to show by statistics that the house
keeping of to-day is superior to that OF
the last generation, but any unpreju
diced person travelling the length and
breadth Of the land cannot fail to como
to this conclusion. The number Of
homes where superior cooking prevails
is immeasurably larger than 80 year
ago. The methods of doing work and
ell those contrivances that make worl
easy and life wholesome are becoming
comm ON.
If the young husband will only have
faith in the system of his new home
and never contrast it disparagingly with
his old home, he will probably soon fine
he is living under a system Of domestic
/ prudence which his mother never at
tanned, discreet and wise though she
may have been in her own generation
So long as the young housekeeper il
true to her home, SO long as she is moi
| led astray BY foolish fads and foibles
of the day, she should be trusted to worl
out her own domestic problems by the
superior light which God has given te
/ this generation.-N. Y. Tribune.