The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-22
THRILLS OF
HOUSEKEEPING
Ordeals of Young Women in
Building Happy Homes.
EARLY Training of Girls in an Art
That VIII Make Husbands For
ever Contcnted "a Necessity.

! Is the self-made housekeeper a success?
As a rule, no. She has so many things
TO learn. so many to unlearn and with
no early training to back her i'm the
mighty struggle.
1 never hear a mother lightly put
aside the responsibility of teaching her
girls with the remark. They will be all
right; let them find out things as
did, that do not pity the girls.
The finding out things is where the
pinch comes. Many heartaches must be
horne, many tears wiped away because
ineXperience is whipping delinquents into
the niche of the life that fate has as
signed them.
The daughter who has a mother with
sense enough 20 insist that she shall get
right down to the very root of matters
is blessed girl should be taught home
management i'm her salad days.
Before she is twenty she should know
how 10 go into the kitchen and order an
appetizing meal and see that il is appe-
tizing. If she cannot have il dore for
her she should be able to do IL for her
self
The mere making of bread is an art
But cooking is only one branch Of many
branches that strike out from that great
root which keeps the roof i'm fiourishing
condition or allows il TO fall into de-
cay.
Dollars and dollars are saved the man
who marries a girl able to run IA home
as II should be run. Duties multiply
tasks daily Increase. Ii Is the keeping
up with them without waste or haste
that tells the story.
know a family of girls with a mother
worth a million. Every month each
daughter is given the house in charge.
She must not only order the meals on an
econimical basis, but she must look after
the linen. see that il is darned. and i'm
every way possible see that the interests
OF the household do not suffer EXecu-
tive ability i'm one girl helps her might
lily. One of the sisters complains that
she IL frequently in a dreadful muddle
with accounts, but checrfully adds. Il
am learning, and while | will never be
the manager sister Mary is. what would
! have been if mother had let me be
idlc?'
All the daughters are being taught
something new each day They are train
ed to shop with level heads. a very inn
portant part of home-making If the
shopping for household is slackly done.
there is the mischief to pay.
from shopping blunders than from any
other piece Of misjudgment. Articles are
bought that are useless. and The purchase
OF necessities utterly neglected
LOOK INTO the average Sewing-room. In
il you will find mother and a seamstress.
while the girls frolic at their sweet Wills.
Mother has had TO worry along for years
finding out things" and she declares that
IL Is a shame TO tie young people to a
needle, So the prospect Is poor for the
future households of these damsels. Their
parents expect them to marry and marry
well Poor husbands, Riding a bicycle
being an expert golfer. a crack tennis
shot. doing fashionable tricks to perfec-
zion. is not going to help these young
folks in hOmemaking, and to n girl they
expect 10 preside over an establishment.
The great trouble with self-nade house /
keepers is their egotism. I question
whether they ever do realize that they F..
are constantly laundering. Certainly not
unless they are exceedingly sharp of OBJ !
servation, when perhaps that occult diff /
ference in their housekeeping and that of /
their skillful neighbors may strike them 4
Unplcasantly and set them TO thinking
In one RESPECT the young woman used 4
to elegant surroundings from babvhood 4
may marry poor man with impunity. .
She knows how to appreciate the worth 4
Of elegancies. and she is able to take care Z
Of them they should be cared for 4
thing in her favor, she is not per- :
fectly crazy to buy right and left "a soon +
as she gets husband. If she has had a /
sensible mother, one who has trained .
her in the delicate niceties Of home-mak-
ng. she will prove most excellent part
ner.
Men would do Well 10 use their ears in
place of their eyes when looking out
or a wife. Ii ought not to take a brainy
fellow long to get points on his future
yife's ability to attend to his creature
comforts.
He may not want drudge. He may
De able To keep the woman he peds i'm
luxury. He does need real helpmate .
ZONE one who can look after his interests
Is well az her own.
Poor foolish masculnes, They imag-
ne that the wife chosen WI meet ali re-
iuirements. practical as well as senti-
Mental When the awakening comes
omebody must suffer.
Two-thirds of our life-tragedies are