The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-21

| lace of lndiait workmanship formed of
| fine specimens Of nearly every known
Jewel.
Elderly people - particularly elderly
wcnien-haye an eXasperating way of
talking as II ilcusewifely skill were the
| one thing al Owe all others which a man
admiies in a woman said a woman the
other Gay.
In their scheme of happy home it
1 seems to be the glorified kitchen maid
| who plays the supreme role, and rein
4 forced by the German emperor and his
exaltatlon OF the cleaning, cooking woman
they are fond OF tracing marital infelicity
| wherever 1t exists to the lack of domes-
| tic ability on the part of the wife A
similar opinion finds expression in the
familiar adages to the effect that if you
want man to love You, you must feed
him well; that the way to a mans heart
lies through his stomach, etc
! But, like many of the things which
| people go en- cheerfully taking for granted
| this arrears to be fallacy In other
words, faint So Thousands of mar
Tlages are happy marriages in which the
! Feminine partner is but an Indifferent
washer anc ironer and no cook Girls
| who have never done,ia stroke of house
work IN their lives marry with the same
celebrity as girls who are born to the
tTeemhandle and rolling pin -
Truth to tell, there are great manv
things more essential to mans happi-
| ness than the cooking and cleaning that
| go on In his house-and he knows it, Men
| arc rot half so material as women seem
TO think and the majority of them want
ne;re than tie best housewife who ever
lised TO make them happy.
| AT Bottom most men are houelessIv
lrFeff1evsthly romantic, and the considera :
ton tnaS they cannot make good bread
does not CARY feathers weight of in
fiuence In tbs alterations which they pour
out at the feet of their sweethearts or
wives. TIE fac of the matter seems to
| be that what d man REQUIRES of his wife
| Is cefapanienship The ready sympathy
/ OF iofable. Charming woman is thou
safiG times more to him than a carefully
| busted parlor or a five2course dinner
w wholesome food, properly cooked and
served PtinciuaHy and clean, comfort
aeie hoiiie are certainly necessaries of
ire, without which man cannot keen
Ndl or do has work to advantage. but
! there is no duabt at all that the run of
| theh are i21olant of and Indifferent to a
| greas many Of the refinements of house,
| Keeping which are placed on their shrine
ny INT Il az mGsuc saints of wives Indeed.
| most nien care so little for ho,lsewifelx.
| SIKH tfat they would far rather sit down
| 10 a riate of cold beef and a cup of coffee
ID" ulnner with charming, well-olressed
| woman opposite than to an unimpea CHI
able three course dinner in connanv
4 with an rhtidy. tired woman.
AND great many of the domestic
| t-tseuies where middle-aged husbands;
I neglect trt,r middle -aged wives for. silly.
| pretty, young women are due ENTIRELY tn
1 the inability CT the unwillingness of th,,
ntiudlet aged wives to see this They can't
seem TO understand how it is, after thew
nave spent years in gdarning their hus-
oands socks so beautifully and giving
MN MS favorite dishes to eat that he
prefers the society of girl who can't
tel an egg beater from an ice pick. I'm
| grateful wretch,
| But the man is not necessarf,v IN
sfateIul, nor wretcht He is simply, ex-
pressing IN aninistakable terms the long
ing OF ms soul for something more than
Inc nousew1felS virtues which he is sun
posed TO prize 8boye everything else in a
woman
Inc German husband must be a con.
Vement but queer sort of person to keen
ABOUT the house. if Countess Aida yon
hraekoW IS to be believed Writing in
5000 Housekeeping for July. the countess
draws a picture of this engaging individ-
uai winch is warranted to make the aver
age american wife thank her lucky stars
that she does not own him.
He accompanies her CHS wifel on
cans, Tor instance, or pays them on her
pehaf. He writes, and answers invita-
ions. He selects the wines for dinners
ana he frequently orders the whole menu
lie arranges the programme for dances
ana not only disposes the eompany AT
lapie, put informs each man in advance
which lady he shall have the hnnor tn
lead out. He attends to the introduction
| OF strangers to herself and to all the men
| present, besides bringing up all the
| men for presentation to arriving women
| VINO happen to be unacquainted with the
company already gathered. 1t is he like
wise VINO attends to the family CORE
! spondence.'
Equally singular to the American mind
| Is the morning routine of this German
| husbands better half, the hausfrau. II is
| worth quoting, if only for its medieval
! ism: -
| Beginning with the cellar, she proceeds
TO the stalls. Here she is met by the
inspectors wife and the. head stable maid
VINO report to her the quantity of mill,
that has been yielded and consumed on
sold She listens, and when they are
done, she lifts her skirts mounts the
steps that lead to the long gangway be-
tween the rows of stabbed cattle. and
comments to the stable maids waiting
ABOUT, as she passes along, upon the con-
| dition of the stalls and the ASPECT of the
animals. The head stable maid then re-
tires for there is to follow an inspection
Of the dairy and poultry yard These
departments OF the estate are under the
/ direct charge of the inspectors wife
alone When matters concerning them
! have been discussed. others come IN
One maid is recalcitrant, another has
/ proved dishonest: or one of the innbeeile
children of the court is growing mis-
| chieVous; or Crete the gooseherd maid
has wrenched her foot on the manor
4 meadow, and would be thankful for some
lininent, or old mother (aged re-
/ tainer) has singed her pefticeat to pow
der and needs supply of flannel In
short. nearly every visit to the stalls
has the opening of the medicine closet
and supply chest as its sequence. Sc
my lady returns to the house and un-
locks them TO intrust drugs and cloth
to the inspectors wife by messenger.
She then continues her daily routine
OF duties by looking after the chamber
maids. Every room ia use is visited
and every one must be found tidy and
clean. She goes next to the sewing room
uniocks hampers of linen to be mended
and locks away pieces that have been
mended. Nearly always dressmakine is
consulting with her maid, who both sews
going On also, hence much time passes in
and superintends the sewing of the other
| maids
Finally, the nursery and schoolroonl
open up their condition to her yigilant
/ survey.