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

n Ph0sc OF Modern City Life which
Will Amaze Many In the Country.
The time IL approaching when house.
keeping, rs our grandmOthcrs under.
stood 1t. will become lost art, says the
San Francisco ArgOnaut. There was a
day when the model housewife spun
her own linen and dipped her own
candles. Then she advanced to the
stage of frivolous disregard Of these
accomplishments. and bought her lin.
on ana her candles. but knit her chill.
drcn's stockings and had n still.rOonl
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 Oh.
The craft Of housekeeping, which In
the eyes OF our grandfathers was our
grandmothers' most considerable ut
traction, IL to-day almost extinct.
In the great cities things are 80 mr..
ranged that 1t IL possible to live com.
f0rtably In your own apartment with.
out any Of the friction Of household
management which has turned so
many heads white and rutlled the peace
or no many hearths. In any city an
apartment OF from three rooms up
can be hired for from twenty to two
hundred dollars a month. This can be
made habltable by furniture jobbers ut
twenty-fOur hours notice. The janitOr,
the laundryman, ana the livery.stable
Keeper are ut hand. ready to prefer
their services. Each apartment. house
has Its own corps of these supernumer.
aries. who are willing, for a cOnsldern.
tion. to tighten the burden of the house
wife. Close at hand, II not In the build.
Ing Itself, Ii a cafe. where good meals
are served at all hours. When there
are few children In the family, the cafe
IL generally patrOnlZed. II the house.
hold consists OF only Darby ana Joan.
ana 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 90 out
to different restaurants for lunch and
dinner. Those who wish to have the
privacy OF home life mt their meals
can find a waiting crowd of butchers,
bakers, and grOcers. who eagerly offer
price-lists ana pass-bOOks, and will un-
dertake to procure ana 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-glrl question, Is reduced to its
smallest possible Importance, for In
such a style of living few servants are
needed. In fact. where the family Is
small, 1t Is possible to dispense with
them entirely, as the janitOr and ele-
vator-bOy attend to the outside work,
ana any hOuse-cleaning association will
furnish Il reliable charwOman as often
ana rs early as can be required.
Altogether, the modern woman Is
having things made as easy for her as
possible. In ten years she will no
more think of busting 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 n child Is taken care
OF for from ten to twenty cents a day.
The time Is ut hand when institutions
of this kind, well-run and hight 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 a good deal
Of civilization to transfer the maternal
instinct from the individual to the
race.