Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-04
A W0MAN'S SUCCESS
In Taking : Care of Her Husband in
Summer.
MRS. ]. MATRIMONIAL BLISS TALKS
Explains Her Fresh Air and Hot
Weather Relief Society.
HER PROFITS THEREFROM

Written for The Evening Star.
Mrs. ] Matrimonial Bliss has not gone
out of town yet, and she isn't Summing
o. economizing either. she explained %
an astonished feminine friend from the
country whom she encountered on the
quiet side of the soda water fountain the
other morning
Il am conducting a fresh air society and
hot weather relief restaurant for John Mat
rlmonlal Bliss, esq, who is far too good
husband to be left in town to swelter by
himself began the wearer OF the black and
white dimity, stirring the compound in her
Icing glass while she talked. LAS a rule
you know, take a house somewhere
near town and John runs in and out on the
train every day. but this year the cottage
We usually rent was sneaSed from us by
scme INSCRIPTIONS Philadelphians. Moth
ing else available was offered and John
suggested that l should take the boys into
the mountains and he would try to give us
Friday to Monday visit twice month.
Risks Some women Run.
We'll, that determined me. AS 1 said
before John is a good husband. in fact, he
is just as near perfection as man can be
ana remain a truly delightful companion
q '
this worldly old world. SO, then and there
!. decided that he was far too valuable to
b. deserted in hot city in the lonely sum-
mer time. I've seen lots of excellent hus-
bands irreparably injured Just that way.
An otherwise affectiOaate wife Will reduce
her house to the aspect of a retired grave
yard. have the worst servant in the bunch
t. do up the hard worked mans room,
breakfast any old way and trust to clubs
or restaurants to keep the poor fellow from
the desperation OF loneliness and starVa-
ton.
when she comes home in the autumn
she is amazed to find that the head CT the
house has got a chronic club habit or dys-
pepsia, and either one, you know, is the
entering wedge for mutual disagreement in
the average family
Taking all this into consideration I sent
the boys off to their grandparents on the
farm, and l can say without boast.ns that
have kept my man happy and cool, We'll
fed and free from boredom.
The Preparatory Work.
at isn't one-half the difficult job you
would think. l began by putting the house
in order and shut up the bed rooms we had
for. took up the carpets cleared
away the curtains. removed every scrap of
~uperhuous bftc-a-brac and got the furni-
tlre into covdrs I did not, however, re-
duce the living rooms 10 the typical sum
ner appearance OF Un.nTiting gro t!IneSS
by bagping the chandelier and tying up the
p'c.ures Pictures and chandeliers are none
he worse for summer exposure when the
rooms are kept shady and free from flies,
and where big gaps were made by the re-
moval of fragile ornaments | filed in with
pots of greenhouse plants. The sight Of
them. you kndw, coos the most heated i'm
ig nation and as Dur house has a fairly
wide balcony at the rear had q ssreeI-and-
whte-strped awning made for It. ran
line Of flower, boxes along the top of the
railing and cafily cQpverted it into an open
air breakfast rQoPE
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