Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-04-07
Learn Homework, Brides-to-Be!

Learn Homework, Brides-to-Be!
A girl should marry when she is ca
pable of understanding and fulfilling the
duties of a true wife and thorough home
maker. and never before.
No matter how old she may be, if she
is not capable of managing n house i'll
every department of it she is not old
enough to get married.
When she promises to take the position
of wife and homemaker the man who
holds her promise has every right to
suppose that she knows herself compe-
tent to fulfill it.
If she proves to be incompetent or UNI
willing, he has good reason to consider
himself cheated.
No matter how plain the home may be.
if it is in accordance with the husband 5
means, and he finds it neatly kept and
the meals, no matter how simple, served
from shining dishes, and clean table lin
en-. that husband will leave his home
with loving words and thoughts, and
look ahead with eagerness to the time
when he can return.
Let the girl acquire every accomplish
ment within her power. the more the
better, for every added accomplishment
within her power will be that much
more power to be nsed in making a hap
by home.
At the same time, if she cannot go
into the kitchen, if necessary, and cheer
fully prepare as good meal as any one
could with the same material and serve
it neatly after it is prepared she had
better defer her marriage until she learns
how such household matters are per
formed.
If girls would thoroughly prepare
themselves for the position of intelligent
homemakers before they marry there
would be fewer disseminated, unhappy
wives and more happy homes.
On you, dear girls, to a large extent
depends the happiness of the home you
are about to enter; on your management
Of money, goods and (whlsper 1t low
husband.
As regards the first Of these-money-
the idea is largely prevalent among men
that women are. as rule, Incapable OF
managing money in a business like fash
ion, and that the only remedy Is to keep
tnem as short as possible.
Needless to say this leads to trouble,
indeed oftener than not the first dis
agreement in married life is about
money.
1t is true that many women are really
unbusineSslike in their handling OF
money, especially the money for house
hold expenses. An imperfect and one
sided education is no doubt the cause OF
this, and very often girls begin the bust
HeSs-for business it is-Of hOme-making
in utter ignorance of the most rudi-
mentary notions of laying out money to
advantage.
How often we hear housekeeper
say: Money simply flies, | don't know
Where it goes to- You must keep Il
rigid account of your expenditures, for
tie woman who does so knows very
We'll where the money goes and unless
She is forced to put down Il great many
"Sundries' which have no business to
be there at all, she has a feeling of
satisfaction that the mere aimless spend
er never experiences. This habit also
cuGenders thrift for looking over the
weeks items you will be forced to &C
knowledge there are many little things
You could have done without.
on must learn to market properly.
Il Is one of the duties belonging to the
houSekeeper
What storekeeper does not know the
woman who rlmidiy asks for so many
pounds of meat for boiling, please" or
Who vaguely intimates that she wants
q ''roaSt?"
Storekeepers are not bound to go out
~ their way to set people right and
II there happens to be a piece of meat
winch sharp woman would reject, then
@epend upon it, it is disposed of to the
other customer.
we might multiply instances. but
TANK better plan would be to instance
number Of things that girls ought to
know who are about 10 marry In the
UfSt place, Il house ought to he looked
upon as an investment out of which you
want to get the largest return for the
siI4ile>t possible outlay.
We do not mean only expenditure of
money, but of health. nervous force and
energy. If girl during the first few
years Of her married life has to buy all
hef experience, if She pays double what
SHo ought to for food. either because she
d ignorant of prices or because Of the
quantities she buys: if the meals are not
NueeeSS-and meals are not success il
Trey are not at once nice. and yet within
1br lncomc--if the choosing of her house
.'9 requisites has been a failure, if she
i'eiS kecnly her husbands evident dsap-
{i'Ndl and disappointment, and worries
herself out of health without being able
~ remedy matters, then her outlay has
"'th too much the expenditure alto
',Hef out of Keeping with the return.
IL II curious thing that boys should
get special training for any business
''! choose to enter, while girls are eX-
lNttd 10 pick up their special business
cry NE ny sort of instinct. helped. per-
UPS. 10y SmatterinES of well-meant adj
'i1a from elderly ladies who have found
'sF5ain methods suit their own particular
cases.
Oh must study the laws Of health and
refuse 10 violate one. You intend that
our home will be- sweet and clean. fire.
rom impure air and disease germs
or TINS purpose You not only practice
.'HSeWork. but Won study hygiene and
+ laws of the distribution of gases. also
re haRIis Of the deadly microbe acquire
Tor you perfect fascination.
lie markets and windows Of tho