The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-01
FRIDAY rs HER BUSY DAY.
East Side Wife Must Light No Fires
on Saturday.

Friday is the busiest day Of the week
for the East side housewife, for she can
not so much as strike a match in her
house on the next day. No matter what
the weather on Friday the coal fire is
started, great loaves Of bread, twist and
coffee cake glistening with a varnish of
beaten egg, and made dishes such as
those described here are prepared When
this supply of bread gives out she buys at
the Hester street market, paying or 5
cents loaf for white bread and cents
pound, or three pounds for 5 cents. for
the black bread similar to that used by
the Russian peasants in their native land
The wife of the man who earns 50 a day
and has a family of five calculates to
spend about Sc cents a day on her table
The rent will be $40 month and out of
the remainder she will manage to save
not only the coveted deposit against a
slack season. but sufficient to send her
family decently clothed to the synagogue.
The children each day have only a single
garment to don during the week. but on
the Sabbath day they will sally forth-ar-
rayed like the flowers of the fields every
garment fashioned by the untiring fingers
of the moderated East side mother
Aside from her cooking, which. by rea-
son of the Mosaic law, is a complicated
process, the East side housewife conducts
her house on simple lines. Bath rooms
are unknown in the cheap tenements but
the Children can linger round the nearest
hose house until the good-natured fire.
men turn on a freshening stream The
few garments worn by the East side child
can be quickly dried on the roof or the
| ever-convenient fire escape. She never
| cleans house because there are no cor
ners" to be welded out. The cleaning
| goes on eternally and her only store room
! is a single trunk, which holds the Few
| family treasures and is hidden from view
| by friendly if gaily -f1owered curtain.
About her person she is untidy. The heavi-
est contribution to her wash comes in the
| form of the inevitable Nottingham win.
dow curtains and the china closet cur
| talnS, which are source of pride
| When the weather becomes unbearable
| even the shake-downs" do not have to be
prepared. The suffering family betakes
| itself to fire escapes, areaway or roof
When four-story tenement is divided
INTO sixteen apartments and each apart
ment or nat shelters at least six persons
readily be imagined.
AS the exhausted housewife drops off
| INTO uneasy slumber the chances Pc that
sSl ne az creams an of successive rises through
| @IV, 80, $N0 apartments until her husband
now paster or presser, may become a
| clothing contractor of Importance: then
they VIII lease large private hoEze and
sup-iet Two hoors and the children shall
nave SILK frocks to wear to the syna-
gogue.. But as for leaving the East side
when the wave of prosperity strikes them
| sible
The East slider who has $500 in bank
is ready to start On an independent BUSH
ness career. With deposit of $500 at his
command he considers seriously the BUR
chase of real estate. But to the end of
the chapter his wife will continue to bag
| gle over the food supply, make her chit
aren clothes and contribute of her blood
to the family exchequer- Omaha Bee