The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-12-07
pooR MIDDLE CLASS.
e,,mers Fail to Consider sad
Plight.

TtiStle
chile Mrs. Norton and her sister
,,lsnthropists are deyoting their lives
L .be comfort Of the poor. and Mrs
r,sine is erecting model habitations
~ the HELPLESS rich, who is giving a
tpopght to the sufferings and annoy
noes Of tie middle classes? Why
aboaid so much time and energy be
1-nsaded on extremes while the mean
i struggling against the most discour-
ICING conditions? The rich have
tgeir troubls as who has not-and
tho poor are entitled to a measure of
buraan symnthy, but what are their
natty griefs ind discomforts as com
nared with tie overwhelming burdens
If downtrodlen middle class The
rich buy ther assistance and relief;
tbe poor areaccustomed by habit and
circumstances to assist and relieve
themselves; the plain middle class
folk cry out in their dire extremity:
save US, o. we perish"
The mode tenement or apartment
for the middle class should be com,
nromise betreen the Ghetto plan and
the Lake Shire drive idea. 1t should
he entirely eyoid Of the frills that so
Mainly amy Mr. Bartzen. Or, if
there are am frills at all, they should
he in the rea of the apartment, where
the frilly lay commonly resides. The
usual apartment occupied by the mid
die class peson who has an income
not to exceed 100000 a year-a mere
bauble in tbs area of prosperity-is
ridiculous ii it's failure of provision
for Scandinavia. The lady with the
linen telescope arrives. takes one look
at the limittion Of closet where she
is supposedto slumber at intervals, or
the basemat room provided for all
domestics, says something probably
offensive) b a strange and unfamiliar
tongue, AMI departs for Mrs. Blaine's
rest cure. where the families have re-
lays of hep and day and night shifts
flow can tie middle class avail against
such oppoition as that?
As a representative of this suffering
stratum Of society, madam asserts
that Bartzsn is wholly in the wrong
and that she speaks up for all the frills
SO dear to Mrs. Nortons heart, includ-
ing the gymnasium, hospital and
amusement hall. The gymnasium and
amusement hall are for the benefit of
the lady help, the hospital for the en-
forced accommodation of the mistress
of the apartment. She believes also
in a rear sitting room, large enough
to hold a piano of ordinary dimen-
siOns, and in a conservatory filled with
horticultural allurements, from the
waving palms to orchids. whittier in
resting periods the lady help may re
sort and dream of the old home and
the Injuries thereof. Other features
have suggested themselves to madam
which are likely to be approved by all
intelligent housekeepers. A guest
room for the lady help is indispensable
a room in which she may lodge q
friend who is temporarily unemployed
and who is resting before taking uI
again the burden of life at the Ray
mond. Just off this guest room should
be a separte bathroom. with a shower
and other appurtenances, in order
that the lady help may not be embar
raised by surrendering her own bath
ing conyeniences to her visiting
friend Special attention should be
paid to closets, large and airy enough
to accommodate the picture hat and
the contents of the linen telescope
The lady help is particular in the mat
ter of suitable closet room
The ideal kitchen is the necessary
concomitant of the ideal apartment
1t should be arranged so as to contain
the icebox and one or more rocking
chairs A kitchen without an iceboS
and rocking chair is an absurdity in
these days of luxurious domestic ser
vice. Special attention should be paid
to the gas stove, and only that design
should be put in which enables the
lady help to perform the culinary func
uons without STOPPING over to inspect
the broiler. A lady help in these days
should never be asked to stoop Oh
Otherwise lower and demean herself
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