El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-09
For the Better Half.


the table, and turn over the vinegar
bottle every night" 1t was her dec
laration of future independence. Doom
ed for d while to be the slave of Harsh
and tyrannical people who imposed
arbitrary rules and practices upon her
she accepted her fate with compare
tive philosophy and Indifference, know
ing her day would come and planning
all the forbidden things for that day.
1t was her ideal of life-a boisterous
one because the red blood chases rap
idly through her veins and to be alive
is to be restless as birds and kittens
and puppies and al young healthy
things should be. She was clearheaded
enough to recognize that her baby
hood was not to last forever. and she
planned to talk as loud as she wanted.
to eat like a pig, and turn the vinegar
bottle over every day.
The other small girl, a five year old
had heard her mother say something
about sending a horse to the hospital.
She broke her doll most sadly and
brought it to her mother saying. with
the expression of a drowning man
catching at a straw. Mother. isn't
there dollpital where she can go to
get we'll.
The Reverend Charles NJ. Sheldon.
author Of In His Steps. has been work
ing over the servant girl problem for
six months or more. and still gives
no practical suggestions to either
housewife or servant. He urges SER
want girls and house mistresses to see
that domestic service is an honorable
and dignified work. which is very true.
but both servant girls and mistresses
have had this advice dinned into their
ears for several Operations and still
there is a servant girl problem. House
keepers who complain the least and
keep their servants the longest how
ever are authorities and their success
lies in that they not only pay fair. |
standard wages, but give the servant |
some chance at life, fresh air. enjoy |
ment and individuality every day, nor |
do they require skill and industry and |
service in every branch |
Of the household work. A woman can
not be a skilled cook and get up three |
good meals day and also do bed room |
work, sweeping and laundry work If |
the housewife chooses to do much of |
he cooking herself she can require ex-
Iuisite sweeping. busting and bedmak-
ng of her one maid. If she expects the
cook to do all of the cooking the
sweeping and busting will have to be
secondary and not so well done. Also
every day entirely to herself. This re-
luiring work of them every minute
rom the time the breakfast fires are
it to the last dinner dish washed. is
not civilized. Incompetent servants
md incompetent mistresses make a
;qually combination and one is about
IS bad as the other, neither deserves
much pity. The mistress is often the
Durdened one for she has to train so
many incompetents, and the mistress
who utilities what skill her servant
has to the best, hires other service
when necessary, and refrains from pet
y tyranny, is not rare. Eventually |
Ter good sense will leaven the whole Il
,ad tempered ,sulky incompetent lump, Il
litchen work will grow more dienified II
M honorable as servants learn and
row skilled and miStreSSes appreciate II
nd grow more tolerant, and eventu-
lily there will be no more servant II
roblem than there is porter problem
r clerk problem.
Dame Fashion says:
Tucks must be either wide or very
arrow. III
The bishop sleeve is coming.
Orchids. small roses, and vioIe.s are
sed to trim the upper edge of the
odice, for shoulder straps. for the up
er band of the tiny puffs of sleeves
nat fall down On the arm, and for the
EN- of the skirt.
Shirtwaist cuffs are narrow. have
FUNDED corners, and are VOTE with
nked buttons.
An amusing mistake occurred m one
the western journals which devoted
whole page to beauty prescriptions il
Istrated by types showing beauty of
yes, mouth, shoulders and SO ON. One
the subjects discussed was red roses
nd after a few words about diet and
athing. the following prescription is
ven:
At night on going to bed take che of
lie following pills:
Xtract of podophyflin. &. .0.03 centigr-
xtract of belladonna = -O.OO5 Miiiigr.
owdered ginger. ... ..0.05 centigr-
um Arabic. :. .. .........Q. s.
Fifteen Kilograms to each pill.
Ihich is to say that on going to bed at
light swallow a thirty pound pill, for
kilOgram is about two and one-fifth
ounds. The mistake is amusing be-
ause absurd. Any woman who found
erself confronted by thirty OF thir-
y-five pound pill for a night cap.
,ould probably see that something was
yrong and thing twice before swallow
ng it. At the same time it points to
he fact that miscellaneous prescrip-
ions are not reliable and all Of the
,eauty recipes that are going the
ounds should be carried to a doctor
,r reliable pharmacist before being ac-
epted.
Mark Twain's daughter. Clara Glenn