The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-06
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When a woman loves her kitchen house
keeping has put on a new aspect. With
affeetionate congratulations to my ce1nury
sisters who a upstairs Hight roon1s
set aside for this use, in many places
having four bright windows, each with q
pleasant outlook. let us turn now to the
most cheerful view possible of the shad-
W room we a to accept in cities.
Apartments have one great advantage
in this respect. Let the kitchen be as
small as it may, 1t is usually above
ground and light. In choosing a house
the kitchen and the nursery are the W
keystone rooms, without which nothing
else is right. Eligibility of situation,
neSghborhood of fashion, mahogany trim
mings and incandescent lights, all are as
aaaught If the babies have no sunshine
and the cook no light.
Civ your servant all the room pos
sible: it is worth much sacrifice to in
sure them proper space. If our own wor-
ries and petty trials grow intolerable
from lack of elbow room and from
perpetual contact with each others In
hrmities. hi must 1t be to strange
women, lacking self-restraint and per-
feet civilization, when suddenly thrown
together, each bent on doing her own
special work without regard to the other.
If your menage consists of one of those
marvellous creatures who proves the
hearts delight of many a young house
wife in an apartment. and combine all
offices in one surprising whole, or if, by
however many additions. you multiply
those you employ-two. four. six-try to
allow thehln space and opportunity to
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and REQUIRE them to maintain the decen-
cies of life in their various spheres, es-
pectally as regards their meals.
Give the woman the best utensils you
can afford, tell her what they cost. and
demand that she does not destroy them.
Add every little charm you can to the
workshop; if she likes a red geranium,
give her n % set on the window ledge,
and % swtH be surprised to see what a
help it viii prove. indirectly. in Keeping
the window. clean.
Even If she is unused to being treated
In that way and does not at first res
pond, persevere to make her understand
that you consider her a sort of &C.,.
in the family partnership. and look to her
help in keeping the bills down to the
right limit. and you will be surprised to
see how regularly she watches the pass
books and % proud she win be of
q reduction of a dollar or two. do you
think Mr.. John would mind going with
out mushroom sauce-the grocer's bin
is getting too large this week?" Il quote
from hfel. viii demonstrate her anxiety
to meet his wishes in other ways.
And praise-don't. stint praise. II a.
thing IS particularly good, say so cordial
~. Make another Of those delicious
chocolate cakes. Nora: the last one went
like dew before the N" has an entirely
different effect on endeavor from an I'M
adorned order. And especially thank
her. openly and honestly thank her, If she
does save and does not break. Imagine
a life of stewing and baking and boiling
and scrubb.ng4. simply as baking, scrub
bing. ETC., and then realize what 1t means
to find they mean respect and esteem to
the and scrubber. and comfort and
ease to Mr.. and Mrs. Jonu.
Let no other quality in your cook con-
done for lack of personal cleanliness;
having this, you may hope for the self
respect which is such a bracer against
the temptations that beset her Office. We
viii assume that theswonan that makes
the lower light in our pictures is crupu-
lously neat and receives her mistress in
a fresh light calico, with sleeves well
above her wrist, and ansample apron abb
sohitely clean. She could not be spotted and
greasy when Mrs John looks so sweet
and dainty. ard the chair must be inn
maculate on which she sits down SO fear
.essfy, and the table on which she LAYS
the order books must be crumbless and
stainless when her pretty white hands
rest on it. Unconsciously she has created
q standard.
Hope of much attainment in the prac-
teal working cut of the best housekeep-
ing cannot be INDUCED unless the cook,
or indeed each servant in her separate
office, pride In her work and in her
employer. There are women whose SER
wants take absolute delight In being un-
der their sway-they love the pretty looks
the gentle ways, the kind voice, and take
infinite satisfaction in believing that they
serve one who excels her neighbors in
character and elegance. .sOi I 1ust wish
ou'd seen my lady when she came down
this morning. / v me the possessiye
pronouns as Indications of happy domes-
tic relations between the parlor n the
kitchen!
Talk about ~elevating the human race
a gentle woman and a good housewife
has two or three lives put directly into
her hands to operate on daily, A young
woman who can succeed in imbuing her
servants with an earnest desire to excel,
each in her own calling, and to exchange
servitude for cooperative labor, has
planted the germs of effort to excel In
her own sphere, has done more good than
she can ever measure in the present to
herself and her family, and in the future
to others, and may one day see the fruit
leavening h Woman life in her own
humble home: 81 4
There are no perfect servants, nor are
extraordinarily good ones so created by
their Maker.T am talking of common,
everyday moderately endowed women,
about whom you can know little more
than an assurance that in their past
place they did not break the ten COM
mandments. They are to be educated and
made skirlful. just. as much as lawyers
and doctors have toflgain by personal eff
fort and good teaching. the professions
they practices Among these ordinary
women are as large a percentage of in
telligent. affectionate, IMPROBABLE minds
and hearts as among their .betters,', and
If you have used discernment and care In
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