The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-06-17
NO.. Is.
The YOUNG HOUSEkEEPER,
She should Not Indulge In Fnds and
FOiblcs.


Foibles.
There are few more eXasperatirg
things to Il young wife than the COM
parisOn, so often made by her husband,
between his new and old home. \ 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.
If 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 wifi.
will not finally develop into hopeless
:loven. Such doubts are too often foS-
tered by his relatives, who see a new
order of housekeeping, and unless they
are persons of exceptional lberality Of
character they disapprove of it.
On the other hand, if the system Of the
o'N'
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
mestic martinez. In whatever way the
new home departs from the old, it is like
!y to cause grave doubts and disturbance
CT mind.
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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 ef-
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 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 a
woman of average intelligence, of SUI
perior instruction. Her intuitions arc
Just as true as her mothers, and they
Of 4 practical age. She can point with
pride to the statistics of the new genera
ton of mothers, which show that therl
has been steady decrease in the dealt,
rate among little children since the
last generation. The new mothers
thus are proved to be more intelligent,
and therefore more trustworthy, than
hnj
to show by statistics that the house
keeping of to-day is superior to that of
the last generation, but any unpreiu-
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 immeasurably larger than 80 years
ago. The methods of doing work and
all those Contrlvances 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 disraragingly with
his old home, he will probably soon find
he is living under Il 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 no0
led astrdy by foolish fads and foibles
of the day, she should be trusted to work
out her own domestic problems by the
superior light which God has given to
this generation.-N. Y. Tribune.