The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-08

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There are few more exnsperating
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 to
he is apt to regard with apprehension.
II his old home was run by an exact sys-
tenn. the slightest departure from that
cast iron management he is likely to
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
eloven. Such doubts are too often fos-
order of housekeeping, and unless they
are persons OF exceptional liberality of
character they disapprove of 1t.
On the other hand, II the system of the
old home was as easy as an old She"
and 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
nestle martinez. IL whatever way the
new home departs from the old, tits like
ly TO cause grave doubts and disturbance
of mind.
1t does not detract from the love and
admiration of the husband that he does
not always believe his wife wise and
prudent. Even her own mother and
sisters are likely to commend her eff
forts with the doubtful phrase: "She
will learn" 1t is the height of injustice
TO contrast her inexperienced manage
ment as SO many do, with the efforts
OF woman full of the wisdom OF years.
However, IL 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, IL she is a
woman of average intelligence, of SUI
perior instruction. Her intuitions are
just as true as her mothers, and they
are supplemented by the enlightenment
of n practical age. She can point with
pride TO the statistics of the new genera
ton of mothers, which show that there
has been n steady decrease in the death
rate among little children since the
last generation. The new mothers
thus are proved to be more intelligent,
and therefore more trustworthy, than
their own mothers were. IL 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 come
to this conclusion. The number OF
homes where superior cooking prevails
is UNNECESSARILY larger than 80 years
ago. The methods of doing work and
all those contrivances that make work
easy and life wholesome are becoming
common.
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 find
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 is
true To- her home, so long as she is not
led astray by foolish fads and foibles
OF the day, she should be trusted 20 work
out her own domestic problems by the
superior light which God has given To
this generation.-N. Y. Tribune.