, 1905-03-08
Feminine
Snapshots
cooperative HOusekeep-
ing, Like Marriage,
Sometimes a
Failure

Lately there appeared in a newspaper
IN amusing account of how some girls
tried to realize the harmony of commu-
nifty housekeeping. They began beauti-
fully-new furniture, pretty china and
stuffy little 'cozy corners till you
couldn't rest. 1t was SO sweet, SO
homelike, so restful and all that, they
said. Presently one girl determined to
make all the others keep their rooms,
even to their closets and bureau draw
ers, in the exact apple pie order in
which her own were maintained. OF
course there was a grand kick, and
feminine irritation followed. Next the
girl who managed the cooperative
housekeeping purse invited one week
several of her friends to dinner, thus
entailing added expense. OF course her
sense of justice should have prompted
her to pay the added expense herself.
But she apparently had no sense of
justice, so she told the cooperative
family they must economic the next
week, and that girl was mean enough
to cut down the meals and skimp all
the rest to pay for her hospitality.
Next there was a girl whose special
brand of theology was not approved by
some of her mates, and they undertook
to reconstruct her. If there is one thing
the powerful feminine mind is strong
on it is theology, and the girl refused
to adopt a more fashionable creed than
the m she held already. More fric-
ton. At length some of the women I'M
dertOok to tell one of their number
how she should dress herself, and that
was the last drop in the bucket. "Har-
mony fiat" broke up in disorder. Will
ONE ever learn to mind their own
business and not NEEDLE with one an
other?
If you are obliged to speak disagree
able truths, practice gentle ways Of
uttering them, that you may give as
little hurt as possible.
"There's an old lady here who looks
like a perfect picture. She's n of our
saleswomen," said a girl in the suit
department of a great store. "She
must be seventy years old. She has
been here years and years, but she
never misses Il day or an hour from
her work. Some of the girls give up
least little thing gets the matter with
them. Mrs. Blank goes right along.
She's got more grit and more endurance
than a dozen young girls" Later ]
saw Mrs. Blank. Really, seventy years
old though she was, she had the hand.
soonest face on that floor, although il
was the suit department, where the
good looking saleswomen are generally
placed. She had fine features, softly
waving gray hair and a smooth, pref
ty complexion. She had also a sweet
gracious manner that was nightly
taking. Here, then, was a woman who
had passed through all life's storms
and sorrow and come out at seventy
years of age handsome and peaceful
faced, her powers of body and mine
perfectly held and she earning her liv
ing as n cloak and suit saleswoman
This item is for girls.
b. 3
Note this remarkable clipping from {
newspaper. During Il fire in Il hote
Il woman dressed herself in less than
fifteen minutes" The unfeeling editor
aGC3, This record is likely to stant
for ut least Il century"
b b
Among the cabled dispatches at the
beginning of the St. Petersburg out
break was the following highly signifi
cant one: ut appears. that the womer