Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-25
"M.v Have" and "Must Bes."

ings to a magnet is of the dead beat
who could do without clean shirt.
but was perishing for the want OF a
buzzOm-pin."
The story REQUIRED to me often
and with force in the Orient, where,
money being scarce and time of lit
tle vaIue one secs exquisite en-
broidarv. representing months of
labor and expenditure of eyesight
and nervous forces, wrought upon
coarse cotton or fiimsy silk webs.
1t recurs more frequently and force
fully 10 me in my observation of
American domestic life, the plcn-
ishing and management or our
houses and our homes. A critical
eve for general effects and just taste
in the matter of harmony in color and
form arc prime factors IN furnishing
our Young housewives cottage or Hat.
Better than either and both OF these Is
sound common sense that separator
and keeps apart the Must-havcs from
the May-bes, writes Marion Harland III
the Pittsburg Dispatch.
We know what they are-all of
us-and, when judgment is sane and
COOL Just how to rate them. Must
HAYES" represent comforts. MAY
hes" stand for luxury. Some who
read this have been brought up to
reckon them as identical. The fable
of the princess who slept i'll because
of dumps in her bed" three peas
having been sccrcted under fourteen
feather beds. is not without paral-
le.s in Republican America.
The provcrbial beggar on horse
back, riding a-gallop as soon as he
finds himself in the saddle. has Il
thousand reproductions where our
pampercd princess has one. The
working girl who changed her coarse
underclothes once a week in the hot
test weather and lived upon toast
and tea prepared in her hall bed
room. that she might sport white
fox furs and tailor-made "Suits" in
avenue and park one day in the week.
ana be the elite owner of one new
ball dress per annum, will carry the
like policy into her married life.
hay" quoted wise Leslie Gold
thwaitc's "Something must be crowded
out" until | fear me that my we'll
beloved and, up to now, patient read
crS must be tired of il. The truiSm
holds good and cmphat ically in the case
nf on" hoaecnother of marrow means"
who would fain have her living lib
cral."
What must have if we would
| live in decent comfort? What can
| be crowded out with least damage
to the general good" is the prob
lem that turns itself over in her brains
through tolful hours and wakeful
| nights.
AZ thu keynote to an opus which
has a dignity of its own-fix in your
| mind tho resolution to bn consistent
throughout. Make your living even
threaded. ] have said that before.
too, and more than once, but it is
good enough to bear several rcpeti-
tons
To illustrate: Do not have ORR
| entail rugs or velvet carpets in your
parlor and cheap, thin ingrains up
stairs. Better mating for all the
rooms-if the floors arc of plain
Zealand lay down rugs Of service
able filling in solid colors. that har-
| monte with furniture and wall pa
pers. Euy the filling by the yard;
| cut it into the desired lengths and
| fringe out the ends. An excellent
! quality may be bought ut one dollar
Il yard, land, being alike on both sides.
| it will last twice as long as if ii were
not reversible.
Buy sheets and pillow cases in the
piece and hem them at home. Linen
| pillow slips arc luXury-not Il Must
have. If your choice lies between three
| more pairs of cotton slips or "a change"
| of hcmstitched linen. give the prefer
| erce to cleanliness and health. Buy
| the cottOn-aS fine in texture as you
| can afford-and iron it so cleverly as TO
| i;mpart a "lnien-laid" surface.
The silk duvet, tufted and bordcred
deeply h. the bright silkcn lining
which gives style to your neighbours
| spare bed-chamber. cost fifteen dollars,
as she is nothing loath to let you know.
| Content your moderate desires with ono
| of 'silkoline'' or cretonne edged with
| silk of II pleasantly contrasting color,
| and save ten dollars.
| You must have generous supply of
| towels for chambers and bathroom, and
| they should be of lincn-unlcsS. indeed
| you happen to find, as 1 did ten years
| ago in Paris, a sort of cotton stuff in a
| fine honcycomb pattern that looks well
|
| linen. Frequent the bargain counters
of really reputable linen diapers and
| ask for odd lots of towels and nap
! kins- That you pick up there three of
one pattern, two of another and one of
| "a third is Il matter of small consc-
| u'lcnce, even in table napkins. 1t is
less than nothing when you arc buying
| towels. Certainly YOU would rather
have towels of different designs. but of
| excellent tcXture--cVen-thrcad like
| your livinS-thnn Il set woven in an
| artistic pattern and so highly dressed
as to pass for something far better
! than this. which yet will show in al
| their uneven coarscncss after the first
| washing.
Provide things honest in tho sight of
| all men writes the Apostle to his con-
| vcrtS. Do you provide things honest
and wholesome in your own eyes and
| to your own conscience, leaving all men
and other women out of your caIcula-
| tons.
| Don't buy al Indifferent quality of
| table linen. Turn n blind eye upon