The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-04
NEHW WHEY

Now DR.. Wiley is an authority
probably the greatest in America-up-
on what certain foods, under certain
conditions, will do to a man. In the
course of experiments in that direc-
ton he has presided over many poi
son" squads.
Il remember once going to a farm
ers' institute used to go to a good
many of Them" he said-'and hearing
a Very nice lady read a very nice pa
per on how to keep husbands at home.
We all listened with deep attention
while she told the ladies' all about
greeting him with Il smile and always
taking the trouble to dress prettily for
him. and, of course. having the house
spotless, and seeing that there were
a bright fire burning cheerfully on the
hearth in winter, and so on and so ON.
when 1t was all over. an old lady
sitting on one of the back seats arose
and said: I have been greatly edited
and interested by what Mrs. Blank has
said; but fancy I have had more en-
perlence in this matter of keeping hus-
bands at home than she has, more. per-
haps, than most of you here present.
and l want to say that in all those
years of experience / have found that
there is just one way, one infallible
rule, beautiful in its simplicity. unfail-
ing in it's application. and that is.
FEED THE BRUTES!'
And that old lady was right. If q
man comes home to three good meals
q day, good food and plenty of it, We'll
cooked and we'll served. with IA reason
able Difference to his individual tastes
do you think he's going to quarrel
with his luck? Why" with deep con-
Nlction, he'd be a fool!
But coming home to the sort of
meals that too many men have to put
up with, because their servants. if they
have them, don't know how to cook.
and their wives don't know how to
teach them, they feel q natural human
-hn'lan at any rate-desire
to change their boarding house. And
the only way they can do it is through
the divorce mill.
1T is fashionable to deplore the de-
cline of domesticity. and the increas-
ing popularity of boarding house and
blame for this upon the Servant prob
!em. AS a matter of fact, the decline
OF domesticity is coincident with and
proportionate to the decline of the
knowledge, Of the gentle art OF cooking.
Our grandmothers were troubled
neither with a servant question nor
yet with a divorce problem'-and the
two are. in the final analysis, closely
allied-because what their servants did
know they We're qualified to teach
them. And this ability to teach their
maids, Of course, involved the ability
10 do the thing themselves. Hence the
departure of a servant was not quite
the tragedy that it is today. Nor was
the maid who knew how so scarce that
her price was above rubles, so that she
was ever seeking greater and yet again
greater compensation for her services.
'Iheir gra~nddaughters don't know
now. 1T is their w helplessness that
creates a servant problem, that drives
their families to boarding houses and
hotels, to the eventual loosening of
marital ties. and increasing disregard
for marital obligations.
ways the man who seeks the divorce.
More frequently, perhaps, it is the
oma She seeks it on the grounds
of 'incompatability,' abandonment
cruelty drunk enness,' more often
thar for scriptural cause. And more
efficient cookery would go u long way
toward removing these causes
Some of the meals that the man in
circumstances has to sit down
70 are enough to drive any man to
drink-Im not saying that they do. But
mes a long-suffering angel, more or {.
less. II they don't They certainly are
calculated to produce chronic indiges-
..lon, and that in turn breeds the chron-
&c irritation which means constant
compatibility And that is generally $
the cause Of abandonment. /;
Making a drudge Of a woman? NOT t
In sorry that ONE have to work {
at al; but this is a country where we {
an work, r. why should women want {
neglect SO honorable and necessary
an art as housewifery in general, and s
eoohery IN particular. for the sordid S
life? AAA0ees VI business :
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