Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-06-16
se GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. 81

bed of gOssip'-and much more Of the
same sort | have not patience to repeat
Now, we all know that more and more
people are giving up the housekeeping
experiment every year as a hopeless IN
dertaking. Finer and finer hotels are be-
ing built and filled with families As
| ask my husband-if 50 many people are
disguised with that way Of living. why
do they keep on With il: [ don't want
70 he unreasonable. but after all these
years Of toll and worry, it does seem as
II ! might have rehef anu rest. AMER
can housekeeping Is a mistake, out aud
ont. / am weary, weary Gf studying
what 20 have for breakfast. luncheon
and dinner fer 800 DAYS in the year.
weary sometimes think, almost unto
death The smell of the kitchen clings
10 my life, and servants are a NUS
ANCE.'
| give the long Ietter-apparcntl the
work Of an educated Wuman-becanse it
expresses the sentiments and Feelings 81
large class Of hOusekeepers and be-
cause there is much foEce in some things
my correspondent says.
Let me answer, first. that she is worn
and weary and needs Il temporary change
II must surely be practicable for her 10
take vacation from ordering meals and
managing servants, for a few weeks
Even ten days would get the smell of the
kitchen out o. inc nostrils of her imag-
tnation. The machine must have rest.
now and then. to restore temper and
brace nervous forces.
As to hotel life-I question if many Of
the thousands who crowd our spIendiI
carayanseries-th finest in the world
live in them all the year round AS
town houses are given up the number of
seaside and mountain cottages multi
plies. The gayest lover of pleasure longs
for taste OF domestic life: the matrou
who has abandoned housekeeping as
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breath Of the old life in an Adirondack
camp, or furnished country house.
whore she can have her family to her
self ana get away from the glare and
stare Of what call Contract living"
The "indugcnt husband" is altogether
right IN what he says Of the sameness of
hotel fare. however palatabie il NAV he |
for u few weeks. II palis upon the taste
as the plain food prepared in our own /
kitchens never does. We complain some |
times that we are tired of our own
cooking.' but it never bores the appetite |
as do the catalogued delicacieS that come |
from the hands of the salaried chef.
confess myself unable to account for |
TINS to my own satisfaction or to my cor |
respondents. | know that | speak the /
truth IN asserting that in time-and not |
So long time, either~what once pleaspd |
the palate of hotel hoarder becomes in
sipld or distaSteful. Roast turkey tastes |
as much like chicken as il does like the |
bird whose name il bears and cannot he
distinguished from duck if the eater
closes his eyes. Beef. mutton. veal and
veniSon. might all have been cooked in
enc roaster and at the same time How
ever allurng the list of cruqnettes, riS-
sol'S. tmhllcs, outlets and salmis. one
becomes uncomfortably familiar with
mem all aud would honestly prefer
juicy steak blood rare hrOiled in his
mothers kitchen and served with mcaly
potato, to the entire collection.
Some part of this gaStronomir boredom
Is due 70 the circumstance that hotel
cookery is done on so large a scale that
II Is next to impossible to preserve dis
tinctive ilavorS. | incline to the belief
that more is owing to the lack of what
may be STYLED the personal and individual
element that is wrought into each dish
which appears on the home table. |
wish | had time to discuss this interest
ing point.
| must pass on to speak briefly Of our
induleent husbands remark that hotel or
boarding house is an undesirable place
in which to bring mp children. | won
Her if he sensible parent as he is knows
how forcible is this objection! The
mightiest safeguard our children can
have against the manifold evils of this
present world is Home influence; the holy
and tender associations that cling 10 the
name and the reality Of the hcme which
Is thc'ls and of which they are m inte-
grail part
Ny frank and full reply" to n letter
that has cost me much and grave
thought, is to cntreat this particular wife
and mother to think long and seriously
before she and her now-unitcd household
join the nomadic TRIBES who are making
American home life n by-word and
kissing 10 other Christian nations.
Recreation she may, and appnreutlv |
does, need When the approaching sum
mer is upon her, let her seek this for
herself and her brood in hillside farm
house or seaside hotel. Let her not hope
-or--try to find the fine, exquisite. mimi
table essence Of HOME in either. much
less IN the gildcd hives. swarming with
human incongruities which my CORE
Spondent reminds me are growing more
superb aud populous every year.
All the pity of it,