St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-06-25
A SOLOMON I'M SKIRTS.
Difficult Situation Easily Sized Up
AID Simplified by the Wise
Woman,

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were keeping house, and somehow things
seemed to go wrong, relates Elliott Flow
er, in the Brooklyn Eagle. Although
! each Of the bachelor girls considered
herself too far advanced" to be bousd
down to mere matter of housekeeping;
nevertheless, each had her own ideas
as to how things ought to be done.
When one bachelor girl planned one
thing, the other was sure to plan some-
thing else, and there was conflict of de
rections for the maid they employed. In
brief. the cozy little fiat suffered from too
much supervision. So the two bachelor
girls finally decided to alternate in as
Stunning supreme charge of the household
arrangements, but each invariably
shifted and criticised during the week
that the other was in charge, and other
wise intimated disagreeably that her way
was the better way. For, be it UNDER
stood, neither Of these emancipated girls
could possibly avoid interfering in the
management of home to the support
Of which she contributed; in her home
things had to be done her way, for no
other way was the right way, and it
just naturally distressed her to have q
home managed in any but the right way.
However emancipated she might be,
this was something that was ever on her
mind, which may account for the fact
that boarding house keepers do not look
with favor upon women boarders.
Now, short distance away there was
another cozy little fiat which also suf-
fered, but in different way. In this
fiat two young men were domiciled, and
it suffered from lack of supervision.
Here, too, an attempt was made to work
theproblem out on an alternate basis, and
here. too, it failed. Just at the time
when one of the bachelor girls was up
braiding the other bachelor girl for pre-
Stunning to give any directions during
the week that the former was in charge,
one of the young men would be "roast-
ing the other young man for neglecting
to attend to his business and make prop
er provision for the care Of the fiat and
the meals necessary to comfort, not to
say health.
rules, were constantly occupied with the
details of the management Of one fiat,
two other people, also in spite of all rules,
were constantly occupied with efforts
to escape the details of the management
of the other flat.
For Heavens sake!" one of the young
men would say, you'd better take en-
tire charge here, for you're good deal
better at this sort of thing than am.
Goodness mel" one of the bachelor
girls would exclaim about the sans
time, you'd better leave all of the
housekeeping to me, for simply can't
stand careless management In the
home"
But neither the other bachelor girl nor
the other young man would agree to such
propositions, and things grew so stead
lily worse in the two flats that all four
finally sought out wise woman to learn
wherein the trouble lay.
rs it possible" asked the girls, that
two people cannot live tremendously in
one coy little flat? In spite of our best
resolves, there is constant friction and
we are ever striving to usurp the tenn
porary authority and responsibility,
each of the other"
'Can it be-" demanded the young men,
chat two people cannot live Together
peaceably in home of their own? In
spite of our best resolves, there is con-
slant friction and we are ever striving
to escape the temporary authority and
responsibility that is necessary feature
of domestic success
Thereupon the wise woman smiled in
superior way.
This she said, is, one OF the sim.
plest problems that ever was brought to
my notice. The explanation of your
troubles is easy, and the solution quits |
es easy"
Shall we give up the fats?" they
asked.
INC" replied the wise woman. "Keer
both flats, but get a clergyman and two
marriage licenses. You are divided up |
wrong"