Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-21
MAN THE HoUsEkEEPER.

Human, He Can't DO Everything.
 What suggestion: 1t would indeed take a brave woman to introduce a man housekeeper 10 many homes.
 At such suggestion the air seems to ring with a jingle of voices whose keynote is discord From the begin ming their houses have been under a woman's control. Their great great grandmothers made the rut, and their grandmothers and mothers walked steadily within 1t, never swerving to the right or to the left, and they have no wish to keep house on any other lines. And thus the narrow minded, shortsighted women settle the ques- tion. They refuse to consider what might be a possible solution of their housekeeping difficulties, and with in flexible firmness they continue in the track which has been plowed and fur roWed through the generations, for getting that the world does move and if they have an atom of ambition they must join in the procession.
 Man the housekeeper may not be a necessity in the. village home and yet there he may be needed most of all But never hire housekeeper. can only afford a maid of all work, z said a pale faced, nervous little woman about forty five years of age, and then she dejectedly added: T wish could hire more of my work done. There are so many steps for me to take, and Bridget always upsets me. During the time that extra fires are needed I have to call upon her to attend to them, and she does nothing but grumble, and her duties get so far behind that have to do very many of them for her.
 If man were the f1ousekeeper in such a home he would attend to the extra fires with smiling face because he would realize that such work Das pre- eminently in his schedule. Tn like man ner he would shovel off the snow, and the sidewalk would be cleared before the snow had chance to freeze or harden.
 Man the housekeeper would wash and polish the windows quite willingly and ungrumblingly, for he would look upon them, and also on the brasses at the hall door, the piazza and all the grounds about the house, as his legiti- mate work. Indeed, the outside work of your home would be so rapidly fin ished, because men are stronger than women, that the contrast would be de lightful.
 But what about the indoor house Work-how is that to be done? is some body's question. The man housekeep, CT would bring Up the coal and wood for the kitchen range and attend to the fire; he would sift the ashes and keep the cellar clean; he would shake the rugs sweep the carpets. polish the floors, make the beds, carry up the laundry and carry down the laundry; he would go to market and cater, so that the housewife need not be dis turbed about the table; he would cook; he would wait on the table and the door Indeed, he would do almost any, thing if he only understood at the time he was engaged just what his duties would be. Naturally, his particular lines of work would have to be select ed. He could do upstairs and outside work, mere butler work, or, indeed, any combination wished. Man can do anything. but. being merely human he cannot do everything So his peculiar duties should be chosen, and any work that the man could not do because of lack of. time would have to be arranged for by the mistress. However, she would soon realize that the man house keeper could accomplish far more than a maidservant
 When, in the usual sense of tho word, housekeeper is employed. the man housekeeper will prove boon. His management of the servants is far and away ahead of woman housekeeper's management. There is a diversity of gifts ill this world, and men have been given, with rare exceptions. superior business qualifications. Therefore when the man holds the whipcord the serv- ants behave better; they recognize they have a master.-Emma J. Gray in Ia ble Talk
 CAsHED FORGED CHECK.
 Minneapolis, Minn, Oct 21.-Edward Foster, who was arrested yesterday in Boston as he alighted from a train. is
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