The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-06-03
NEWS ADVICE
To Womcn-Disscction OF Woman's
Journalby n ErilliantWomnn--pro-
Dlcln of nuiItIinn n Homo

3 One OF the best features OF the recent
meeting Of the Kansas Federation OF
Women's Clubs. held at Junction City,
was q paper on housekeeping VS..
Homenaking," by Mrs. William Allen
White, OF the well-known EmporIa cd
itor. says the st. Louis Globe Demo-
crat. AS 1t will be appreciated by every
real housekeeper 1t is printed here in
full.
In this age OF the printing press"
said Mrs White, every trade and pro-
fession has Its journals. which are
known as trade papers The lawyer has
his law Journal, the doctor has his
spokesman. the dry goods merchant his
bulletin. the butcher, tho baker and the
candlestck maker each has his special
fztns weekly or monthly magazines full
OF new and practical hints about his
business. or late years scores and scores
OF publications devoted to the profession
OF home making and housekeeping
have arisen In the land, which. instead
Of being edited by successful and prac-
ticai members OF the profession arc
conducted by bright young men or BACH
elor maids, and the ideas which these
journals promulgate, instead OF being
helpful to the profession, only dIScour-
age the stupid, confuse the young and
amuse the experience Of the craft be-
yond expression.
"One can always pick out the pages
In bright and CHEEKY SMILE We women
are told that the true 'honemaker'-
that Is, the mans pet word-always
meets every emergency, whether 1t be
unexpected company to lunch or grease
on the new parlor carpet, with a
bright and CHEEKY smile. That bright
and CHEEKY smile Is supposed to not on
ly light up the whole house with Its
holy presence but Is also supposed TO
remove stains. mend china, polish nick
Ell plate. color butter and split kind
ling. That smile Is supposed to furnish
the kitchen with q full line OF cutlery
and put stdck Of staples In The pantry.
and the only blessed thing which that
writing gnan gives the poor woman to
help the smile when the jell won't jell
and the butter won't come and the roast
burns and the cream sours, the ice
melts and the servants leave. Is the
gentle benediction OF woman's sooth-
ing presence After the editor has I'm
posed thus far upon his readers COM
mon sense he feels justified-and he is
juStiied-ln writing something In this
strain:
The true "homemaker" Is more
than the household drudge, who Is a
slave to tyrann!es of dust and Imagl-
nary dirt. who allows routine to con-
quer comfort. who mandates her fam
lily on the altar OF her monomania for
spotless environment and gsometrical
Idea OF order. The true homemaker Is
she who by the helpfulness OF her pres
ence makes each subject OF the Kingdom
feel happy In her domain and proud to
be under her queenship.' Oh, we all
know the man who wrote those lines;
his hat Is In the living room, his coat Is
In the dining room. his collar encIrcles
the sOapdlsh at the kitchen sink, his
necktie is Invariably lost. his meal times
come festlvely between 4. IN. and D. m.
intervals made by the caprlces OF his
stomach. He is the man who writes
those beautiful thoughts by Aunt
Agatha and addresses to young wives.
That man who exuGes all this elegant
advice has q sister apparently. She It
must be who writes those delightful ar
tlcles which tell her readers how to
make $40 ha. from eiShty-niue cents
worth OF chiffon, seven cents worth OF
violets and the silver buckle from q
grandfather's old shoe. Any one so I'M
fortunate as to have 4 grandfather
thoughtless enough to posterlty to wear
cowhlde boots and socks rather than
silk stockings and buckled slippers Is,
OF course, beyond the pale and must pay
the price of ancestral folly.
THE same woman who writes these
helpful millinery hints has another and
more soulful mood In which she dis
courses thus: No woman should be
the slave Of her icebox; O. resourccful
woman finds liberty In her invention
The other day company appeared rath-
er Unexpectedly and found me with one
small piece OF cold fried round steak
and sauce dish Of stewed rhubarb
Need | go into the sickening details of
that woman's prevarication as she tells
OF heap!ne that sauced dish of s,ewed
rhubarb with whipped cream. garn!sh-
Ing Il with cand!cd cherries and setting
1t away In the Ice chest? How she
made soup from that bit of round
steak. n soup favored with an array
of condiments that would disseminate
every grocery store In Kansas? How
she minced the boiled steak after maxi
ing The soup and after mixing the
steak with eggs. bread crumbs and
much parsley. she turned out variety
of croquet which. properly rarrished
with olives and fancy figures cut from
Picked beetS, was some .hinC worth
while? How she served n salad from
two leftover tomatoes on some crisp
young lettuce leaves? YOU know huw
We can all conjure up fresh tomatoes
and crisp rouag lettuce from our inner
consciousness and evolve mayonnaIse
dressing from the depths OF necessity
when company comes; and. knowing
these things. 10 repeat the chatter
which tells how from the piece of beef
steak and saucc dish Of rhubarb this
wonderfully res0urccful woman served
n intercourse luncheon on the rare bits
% old china. an heirloom from her
Grandmother.
THAT story Is trite. Il Is what we all
do, You know. and there Is nothing that
n Kansas woman with refractory oven
and lDcorrigibIe coal. stove. with only
skinned milk and cold potatoes In the
house.. likes to hear so well as the story
u the devices Of the resourceful wa
man sailing into her dining car Ike
kitchen and rising above the base i'm
pedimenis, o. environments. Nothing
will bring tears Of joy to good wo-
mans eyes SO quickly as to read these
pathetic and highly imrressiOnab BILE tales
Of hnlrDrcad,h escapes frcm housewife
" ailments, written in the hectic Ian
guage OF IL poor ignorant. benighted
creature who proves In every stroke of
her typewriter that she never scaled n
llsh or washed n child IN NIL her Idylic
life.
THE problem OF building n home is
one that cannot be worked with rules;
woman's home Is the perfection OF her
temperament; 1t can be nothing more:
II Is nothing less. and the sooner she
broadenns her mind aud deepcrs her
l.. IL. 1.