The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-17
The Girl WHO is Ever Welcome.


The welcome guest is the girl who,
knowing the hour for breakfast, appears
at the table at the proper time, does not
keep others waiting, and does not get i'll
the way by being down half an hour be-
fore the hostess appears. The welcome
guest is the girl who, if there are not
many servants in the house, has sut1i
Gent energy to take care of her own
room while she is visiting. and if there
are people whose duty it is, she makes
that duty as light as possible for them by
putting away her own belongings, and
SO necessitating no extra work; she is
the one who knows how to be pleasant to
every member of the family, and who
vet has tact enough to retire from Il
room when some special family affair is
under discussion: she is the one who does
not find children disugreeable or the vari-
Gus pets of the household things to be
dreaded: she is the one who. when her
hostess is busy, can entertain herself
with book. a bit of sewing, or the writ
ing of a letter; she is the one who, when
her friends come to see her. does not dis
arrange the household in which she is
staying that she may entertain them; she
is the one who having broken the bread
and eaten the salt of her friend, has set
before her lips a seal of silence. so that,
when she goes from the house. she re-
peats nothing but the agreeable things
she has seen. This is the welcome guest,
the one to whom we say, 'GoOdbyv' with
Gomez with the lips and from the heart.
Artistic Tastes in Housekee ping.
It very often happens that the woman
who Just loves to do fancy work" hash t
enough sheets and pillow slips to 80
round if sickness comes into the house.
Sometimes, too, her towels are not so
plentiful as they might be, and her maid
dusts with unhemmed rags which may
or may not be clean, washes dishes with
any old cloth, and uses tea towel for a
pudding cloth.
It's fact, too, that many house
keeper who has embroidered table fixings
by the dozen is obliged to economize in
fresh serviettes if the wash is delayed
for a week.
Perhaps it is natural a young girl
should fill her bottom drawer with dear,
frivolous little tiXings, with bows and
blossoms all over thenl-things to hang
OH the wall and stick on the chairs, and
set Oh the tables, and gather the dust and
perplex the buster, but if she has wise
housewifely mother she will pay more at
tention to the palmer necessities for com
fort, and neatneSS, and cleanliness and
nicencSS.
Most of us love dainty things, but
eoAiC are "HllllS ~ 1OIeSO tue laEcy
for the useful" There is, too, about the
house-linen gathering the blessed ass,.r-
ance that it will not go quickly out of
fashion, and that it will be white and
sweet and attractive when the berib.
bOned fancy knick-knacks have gone the
way Of the garbage barrel.
"Do you care for fancy work?' one
woman asked another NO" was the
answer, but I am delighted to have
table linen and embroider my initials on
towels The woman who buys coarse
table linen and a silk petticoat is an UNI
worthy descendant of her dear great
grandfOlkS.
There is something at once homely and
delightful about the odor of lavender
from bed linen, something in pillow
slips fneness Of texture which redeems
a barely furnished room. while it is an
often-noticed fact that dainty and fine
table linen atones for a plain dinner and