El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-16
A Masculine Experiment


Blakey is a born housekeeper. What
/ he doesn't know about the care of the
kitchen sink isn't written in the books
and a person who tries to teach him
how to make good coffee is simply con-
| veying anthracite to a well filled bin.
It's a grief to Blakey that he can't get
a proper substitute in his Office, SO that
he can stay at home all day and see to
things.
And yet. in spite of all these inter-
ests in common with them, Blakey
isn't popular with women. There are
days when he isn't even popular with
his wife, and she is one of the most
devoted spouses that ever made an eff
fort to keep up with the procession.
Some good friend ought to tell Blakey
how women feel about these things.
He ought to be Informed that the man
who is a winner tells his wife how it
fills him with admiration to behold her
as if by magic creating feast from
the materials in the pantry. That's
the talk that sends q woman into the
kitchen to fashion the puff paste with
her own hands in order to have 1t Just
as che" likes it. Blakey doesn't know
this, though, and there are more things
that he ought to know-and doesn't.
Perhaps life will teach him some Of
them in time. 1t has looked just lit
tie that way of late.
They had been dining out, and on
the way home Blakey commented on
the serving of the dinner.
did you notice that Mrs. Gillespie
didn't issue one order to her maid?' he
asked. ''She had her stationed behind
that screen. where she could command
q view of the table in the sideboard
mirror, and there was such a perfect
understanding between them that Mrs.
Gillespie only had to raise her eyes to
that mirror and the thing she wanted
was done. That's the way I'd like to
see you have it, my dear. This ring
ing a bell and telling what you want
rather mar a dinner. Don't you think
500"
Mrs. Blakey murmured weary
word to the effect that much depended
on having an expert waitress and
thought the matter dropped. But next
morning she was reused by her hus-
bands voice.
Il have it all planned cut" he said.
1--WE been lying awake for two hours
getting up a code of signals for you to
use in calling Nora to serve the table.
I'll write it down for you, This is the
idea: One pressure Of your foot on the
electric button in the floor will mean
clear the table for next course two
pressures might call for repaSsing Of
the bread. three would indicate that
the glasses needed refilling, and so
forth. / think can make it cover the
whole ground"
But. David. it is Morals duty to
watch the glasses and keep them filed
without any telling her at all"
81 know. but does she do it? She
gets busy with something else and very
naturally forgets that. Now, by this
plan she won't have to tax her men,
DRY at all, and you can remind her
without anybody's knowing you've
done thing
But she'd have to remember what |
the signal stood for"
Leave that to me-" he answered ct
shall make it very plain and easy, and
I'll take 1t down to the Office and have |
two typewriter copies made-one for |
you and one for Nora
"I-hope Nora will like it, ventured |
Mrs. Blakey anxiously. 'She's little |
you know"
'Shes sure to like it! You women |
never seem to understand what a sense |
of satisfaction it is to the employee |
when he feels a systematic hand on
the helm. Why, the people who work !
for you would rather have things run
pretty strict than not to feel system in !
the management. They want to know
there's head planning things for
them. I've found that out in business.
tell you, all that housekeeping needs
to make it run easy is the application
Of masculine brains and business meth
DDS! Nora will like it, all right
enough
But Nora didn't. Loyal Mrs. Blakey
presented the plan as joyfully as if it
were her own pet project, but her eff
Tort to catch and impart her husbands
about it was a dead fall
nre. Nora looked very glum as she
pinned the typewriter code of signals
up by the kitchen clock, and Mrs.
Blakey felt GUNNER still as she fas-
tened her own copy on the edge of her
mirror and stood mumbling over it's
words.
Zone long ring and two short
1nger bowls" she repeated. "'One
short and two long-repassing article
asst served Two long rings-clear
"a BILE for NEXT courSe' 0Thrae short