The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-15
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 LITTLE MISS MUFFEr UP TO { 1 DATE. Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet- whatever q tuffet may be- < AT'. When along came a spider +, And sat down beside her, But he told 1t: You can't scare me, For since women taking f+ Mems places less quaking
 We go with heads bare
 -. We run things in office and store.
 And some of us braveiy Since we've let old traits vanish and got to F To have fits over mice any more" F s f2 Chicago Record Herald. This is happy and diverting time of year for the average housekeeper; hut a trying and aggravating period for the wo- nfah AwhoS is not domesticslly inclined. So much time Is consumed. in this Sunny south, in the preparations for the short cold season. There is. however, best of going about the work of straight ening out the house and wardrobe for the cennig winter. The woman who Is a true student Of economy will find that the best way to | facilitate matters and get the most sat isfactory results as to expenditure ot money, and time, Is to, first fix what IS on hand. .. ll Beginning with the house, look over the tcurtains, the sofa pillows. the pictures | the lounge csovers. the rugs, the table covers. the bed and table linen and the draperies. Throw away what is absolute ly useless or disreputably worn out, and | put the rest in. good condition. Mend. straighten, darn and tack, but buy pos itively. nothing yet. This done, the nome | effects are in order and chaos is no more there. no matter how many the gaps Tn | the furniture tdraperies and other ap- | pointments The cobwebs of confusion are cleared out and it will be possible to see ones way clearly to what shopping
 Is necessary and wise. | Next comes the looking after the ward robes of the family. Let the same pro- cess be gone through, Get cast offs ipto | one neat pile and according to the wealth of the household dispose of them to the servants, the poor, or turn them over to the ''oli clothes woman'-whom perhaps you will never see again. Put in per- | feet order every garment that is deemed ] ft to pass through another season. ATreat every article as If 1t held place of E vthe best" for the coming winter. Mend. tfSJuvinate, alter, sponge and press. Every thing should be either cast aside or put i& uAsaer No one should start the season kzatH rubbishy garments. Let this treat l fnefit include every item: Dresses, under wesr ,hats, gloves, etc., and extend 1t through the mems and children's effects. When all this is done it will bring about
 a delightful self respecting state Of feel | ing and the purchasing period will be delightful. The needs will be clearly de- fined and deliberation and wisdom on the
 subject will be possible. It will take livery little time in the largest estab- lishments if 1t Is gone about with
 manly idea of business and system, and not in a nervous, fretful rebellious | "womanly" method.
 The trouble with all home work is that she wastes her energies in trying to evade I the doing when the best way is to, for a l short season, hunt duties. She should l keep a slate, lengthen the list of what
 must do'' at the bottom while she works
 with energy to wipe the items off the
 slate at the top of the list.
 Don't forget to have a furniture repairing man to come and put
 on rollers that have come off,
 bottom chairs, glue here and there, and
 men the loose joints-there may not be
 many such jobs. but just two or three
 will cause a thrifty housekeeper to feel
 that there is something wrong.
 All of this need not consume more than
 two of Sept ember's four weeks And then
 the purchasing period may be handled
 with the most elegant leisure; the articles
 of most immediate need being attended I to first and the state of the family purse may determine the extent
 A'womans idea of economy is a queer one. It conveys to her, usually, only I-"do without" That Is the only defIni- | ton that reaches her understanding. She
 does not seem to understand that $25 1 per month may be spent with no idea of | economy and that 5000 a month may be | expended by the same family with most perfect regard for the laws of true econ | omy. To spend money, time, or energy, | in an economical manner is to get the
 most and the best with a given amount.
 To do without is sometimes-oftentimes
 pure stinginess. It Is all according to
 our income. I have known many women
 to be so liberal @ with the small pit
 tance earned by the sweat of d hard
 working husbands brow; and I have | known her to seem to bid for applause for 1t. l have also known women who were saving dredges with a comfortable | income. and I have known them to bid
 for approbation for that. One is as
 wrong and false an idea of economy as | the other.
 | So let the purchasing portion of fixing
 for the winter be according to your purse.
 using no stinginess-ro unwacranted
 liberality, but under all conditions true
 economy.
 WOMEN IN PARTNERSHIPS. | In. this day and generation when wo-