The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-19

The kitchen IS our Hades. In it one
rarely finds sound common sense, reason
ing minds, quick-witted, brains. All such
blessing are directly the result of educa-
ton
Skilled labor comes high, and skilled
labor after it is once installed within the
home demands needfll accessories. These
too, come high In Short to have a serv-
ice which will not constantly irritate. a
housekeeper must not feel that she is
committing an actual crime in spending
money.
Ignorance gives us our domestic IN
fernos How can some poor soul, sent
out into the world to shift for herself
while but a child take time to- know
things? She knocks about from pillar to
post, drifting into one home and out OF
another, the toy of mattresses as miser-
ably trained as herself.
She is the economical homemaker,s
drudge. and as such she remains to her
dying day. In all these years of toll OBJ
servatien does nothing forgher because OBJ
| servation is not backed By discipline 8
Look at the startling picture the newly
married girl presents who takes up houses
keeping in ignorance of its serious side,
She has married a man Just starting in
life. She does not want to settle down
in the back of her house and there spend
her days. She engages cheap labor, and,
being as much of a. knoW-nothing as her
maid, she promptly finds her purgatory.
Let an unframed mistress step into her
kitchen to give an order, and the dullest
| of servants sees at once delicious chance
for bui1dozing
And so the dreadful struggle goes on. A
capable housekeeper trains a. maid, the
incapable housekeeper untrains her. There
are hard task missresses. and easy-going
ones. Reins of home government too taut
will snap, too slack will drag and so
entangle everybody. =
1.-THE Domestic BIunders of Women, y
written by ''ANc Mere Man. is excellent
reading. 1 wish every woman in the land
could take some lessons from its pages. =
THE servants, says he, cost as much
as rule as taxes and rent, and yet they
never give satisfaction and are never sat
isfied. Why is this? I could find fifty
reasons. The mist ess who overworks, the
mistress who underworks; the mistress
who is unkind the mistress who is too
kind; the mistress who is too strict,
the mistress who is not strict enough.
The remarkable thing about the whole
question is, that though money will Sc
cure you everything on fearth no amount
.of wages will induce servants, as a rule,
to stop long in one place"
He then takes up the point of masters,
and draws a contrast Setween the way
no reason why home discipline should not
be as good as that in the business world
Hundreds. of women are working under
masculine management. Outsiders can
not of course, understand how much
friction there is, but I must pick flaw
right here in the criticism Women who
are in the business world engage them
selves to do one special thing, and outside
this round they are rarely called. This
avoids nagging. When a reasonable wo-
man knows that day by day certain set
of duties are hers. she performs them sys-
tematically. They become routine work.
Routine work Is deadly tiresome, but it
is play compared with the hundred and
one calls that the pettfness of home work
entails: If there. is but a single maid she
is rushed here, there and everywhere.
Where work is divided the calls are nu-
merous. ''.79'9 A41 tasv sfaTt >
A man can rarely criticise us Justly, and
yet in, the. domestic muddle in which he
constantly, finds us he IS excused if he
thinks he might do far better than any
woman living. f,@