The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-25


begin al the very top and is carried
to the lowest place in the kitchen. In
reality the work of housekeeping is a
most important and particular one,
often embracing such departments as
the care Of children, the keeping of ac-
counts and the entire charge of din
ners and other entertainments given
during a season. The work is also paid
for at high rate when proficient ser
vice Is given and can be so quietly
and pleasantly carried on that 1t is
remarkable that more gentiewomen do
not take up the study for the purpose
of making it profession. instead of
crowding the ranks OF other less prof
liable vocations.
The housekeeper who comes each
morning and leaves in the afternoon.
or as soon as marketing and arrange
men.s Cor the day are concluded, is one
Of the newest in her line. OF course,
she must have corps of thoroughly
trustworthy servants under her. IN or
der TO thus trust them with the car
rying out of her orders. but she is
enabled 20 take care of two and some
times more households through this
| method. and naturally makes the bust
bness pay.
Marketing and the laying out of the
days menus are the important duties
OF the day. while in some cases there
| IS d udlly BOiHS over Oh SILVER ana tlIl-
| en-. But where there is a butler en-
ployed he is entirely responsible for
| this department, and the housekeeper
| receives his reports as to the conditions
| of things. But the housekeeper is re-
| sponsible for the working of the house
| hold. the excellence of the cooking and
| the variety of the menus, as well as the
general appearance and perfect clean
illness of the home and the behavior
| of servants.
Such duties are. of course. extremely
! onerous and require no small amount
| of intelligence: tact in managing SER
| wants. skill In marketing and economy
| IN arrangement, as well as a thorough
understanding of the needs of fash
| ionable household. For 1t is in homes
| of this class that the housekeeper Is
| employed, for the reason that women
| in society have no time nor inclination
| to attend to the bothersome details Of
| their large establishments and numer-
Gus servants.
| The housekeeper never ranks with
| the servants, nor eats with them in
| the large household. She has her own
| rooms, and her own meals as a rule
| at hours which leave her free to look
| after the family meals. She takes en-
| tire charge of the paying OF bills and
| renders her accounts monthly to her
| employer, who gives her check to
settle all debts, including servants
| wages.
The housekeeper in England is per-
| sonage of more importance than in
| America, but the American housekeep-
| er frequently receives a higher salary
and has many privileges. such as a
| protracted vacation. when a house Is
| closed up for the summer. She re-
turns a few weeks in advance OF the
| family which employs her and sees to
the opening of the house, the airing
of rooms and putting up of curtains,
as well as all necessary arrangements
| for the comfort of the returning family.
But the woman thrown on her own
| resources, who thinks it is only neces-
sary for her to obtain a place of this
sort to fill 1t aptly rests under grave
| Misrepresentation. In the first place,
the highest references are necessary
as to ability, honesty and experience,
| while her social management of SER
| wants in itself is a task which only a
woman of good hath and excellent
nerXes could accomplish. Marketing
and account keeping are also two i'm
| portant items and in a house where
much entertaining is done the work
| mounts to such Importance that ii COM
mands salary much higher than that
paid to women in other vacations.
| NJ a PiANdbC lCCluIc, says Ine Sul-
cago Chronicle, delivered in the parlor
of fashionable summer hotel, the lee
turer, woman well known in dress re-
| form, stated that she had solved the
problem of keeping cool in summer.
The lecture was for ladies only.
mo woman" said this authority,
suffers from the extreme heat of the
weather when undressed in her own
room. Clad in natures own garments
she is comfor table in body if not in
spirit. 1t is only when she puts on
clothes that she begins to persplre.
How not to perspire, how not IT, feel
ones clothing, how not to be burdened,
is the problem, and one" continued she,
that I have solved"
She then explained the costume, or
manner of costuming, by which this eff
feet could re produced and it can be
stated TO her credit that she so con-
WINGED her audience that half of them
| went away resolved to try and the re-
naming half concluded to anxiously
watch the dress of the others and 70
follow their example If 1t proved to be
| d success.
The crucial test was that thu wo-
man trying the experiment should look
conventional. as though she vera not
experimenting at all; in short, that no
| difference should be visible to the nak-
ed eye from outside.
The stcond was that the woman her.
self should be unaware of any leaving
off of gat ments except that she would
feel more comfortable.
A third was that the change should
not be too expensive, should not call
for Mandarin's silks, or cobwebby tex
| ture. at $50 per yard.
The fourth was that it should involve
no such radical change that the woman
| could accomplish 1t only by making a
complete new set of wear and under
| wear.
The exponent promised all these
| things and the women followed, at first
bindly. then rapturously. for the new
system of keeping cool in summer was
a success.
1t was a follower of Jenness Miller
who once stated from the platform that
she had for years worn only three gar
mnts exclusive of shoes and stockings.
In winter the three were heavy, in
summer very light. The weight made
the only difference in the seasons
| wear.
On being asked to name the three she
said: Next my skin I wear a gar
ment bifurcated. with upper part at
| tached. In summer II is sleeveless. To
make waist line IL is lightly boned,
as my system allows no corset. This
garment clothes me from my knees to
! nhE IL