Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-19

pump that had to be worked once day.
The mistress did this herself, much to the
to do she explained. tits the best motion
in the world for an exercise" 1t was the
same with the furnace. The first cool day
she remarked that she was going to build
a fire. "Oh, that is terrible said the
maid. mot to have man to attend to the
furnace" Il don't mind 1t at aii-it's no
more than making fire In the CRATE an
swered this woman who stood pat by maxi
ing the fre-without assistance. The re-
suit that the maid was interested
enough to watch operations. and has since
taken the work upon herself.
What would you have done If she hadn't
fallen in and done these things?" was asked
II would either have kept on doing them
myself or hired somebody else to come
but 1 would never ask maid to do all the
extras that they are right in not consider
ing their kind of work., was the answer
Now that she has taken these things upon
herself-she even cleans my rubbers-l see
that she has a little present once in While
that | know villa be welcome. But l don't
make any reference to it in any other way,
and we understand each other
Not book lovers flourish in the large cities,
where the great libraries make it possible
to slip away for q few hours for reference
work and to borrow endlessly for reading
at home.
q always have declared that l loved
books" said a rich young woman, the IL
brary in whose house had stood for years
without any additions. but find that peo-
pie who love books want to possess them.
and I don't do anything more than to hold
tickets in half a dozen libraries. To be
accurate, | love to read, but l don't love
books
There is reason for the disappearance Of
the bookcase from the unspacious fiat but
even here there is usually q passage or a
deep window around which the carpenter
can install cheap shelves. A high window
is prettily finished by having shelves built
down from 1t to the floor, or if 1t Is a
wide window, to the couch or seat which
may stand under it. The pretty fashion
pertaining more and more to fat dining
rooms of not having the sale manger
most strongly in evidence helps in disposing
of the books.
In one dining room that answered for
library shelves running half way up Dor
dered the entire room, only stopping at the
seat which reached across the bay window.
The space underneath the seat was also
finished with shelves, the back part of them
being filled with magazines and the front
with rows of books. The more substantial
furnishings of the table. as sets of trays,
platters and heavier pieces of silver were
arranged on the top OF the cases, which
We're low enough to be within easy reach,
10 serve as a china closet. Instead of the
glitteriHg aspect of the usual cut glass and
china room, this one had the inviting look
Of the coolest of reading and writing rooms
from the minute the cloth was taken off
the dining table.
1t is the man or woman who goes every
Saturday to put part of his money into
book who invests his fat with the air Of
artistic comfort which everybody aims at,
Out of necessity he contrves coy corners.
s'That Is My Wife's-
Department" says a certain type of man,
referring to the social and religious train
ing of his children. Two motherless little
boys were fortunate enough to be put into
the hands of the woman of sixty who acted
as mother and household director. Her in
fuence bore down the fathers opposition
to their having a small amount of musical
training and going to dancing school. II
don't know a more pitiful object than a
growing boy who doesn't know what to do
with his hands and his feet" she said,
and so far from its hurting their chances
of being good business men, these things
open doors of opportunity to them that
would never be opened any other way
everybody has seen those lonely men who
have grown up entirely under masculine
training, wishing but never having the OBJ
portunity that makes for ease in all phases
of social life And there also is the at
tractive butterfly girl, whose mother alone
SPOT that she wouldn't have had if the
mans outside point of view had entered
into her training
The father who uses his authority to pre-
vent his children having any of the smaller
social advantages or any other teaching
that Is dear TO the heart of the mother, has
mother has who connives with her children
in taking any course in their outside life
not approved by the father.
He is fortunate who has both the mans
fEa ,1,,fs. mint pf iat-- in tic
ing, and there IS not anything much better
in the way of family backing than the de-
partment plan which gives to the mother
the ethical training and the father that
which fits for strenuous outside contact.
Popularity
Is the smallest of the rewards of a good lis
tener. 1t is impossible to listen sincerely
without banishing all thoughts of self and
getting into that mental condition which is
known as an open mind. The open mind
is The requisite for extracting the finest
fragrance from people and things. We
often wonder that there are so few people
in whom we can find Inspiration. but If we
look back we find that at the interview we
have been self-centered or have been think
ing OF other things.
He who has the open mind regards the
problem of his friend in all it's aspects,
while at the same time unconsciously not
ing his manner and his personality. 1t is
given to him to hear many humdrum de-
tails, but he refines them by mental pro-
cess of his own.
woman who was an artist at cookery
declared that she never took the plainest
meal at the plainest home that she did not
get some little new idea to apply to her ia
vorite accomplishment. 1t was her own
receptiveness which could see possibilities
in the little things which to others would
have seemed of no account.
Whoever can see and listen in this way
gets many a view that gives him inspira-
ton while the talker is giving endless snap
shots of himself and his own personality.
GRACE RILEY CLARKE.