The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-24
when parents condone the gross self
ishness and unkind disrespect OF such
a hau SO ids made -.

Miss Cunning.
One of the most beautiful women
folly, rare as 1t is among people OF
quality, and her husband. a duke, said
of the culprit: "She had so little sense
and character that in six months l
coal scuttle or the tongs.' Girls who
have so little respect for the feelings
of their parents as to elope with any
man, fancying it romantic" and "fas-
ing influence over their husbands than
the lovely Miss Cunning, who would
not even wait for a wedding ring. but
was married with ring stripped off
found attachment we often see Of very
handsome men to decidedly plain wo-
men is really an immortal one, because
1t Is a spiritual one, and does not de-
pend upon pink cheeks and golden hair
coming. Being all that is good In the
husbands eyes. they are all that is
fair-torever
English Housekeeping.
Nothing easier or more methodical
or more delightful If you can afford
TO pay the piper has ever been invent
ed than keeping house IN England.
First you rent really delicious house
FOR song and for 500 years. as the
lease distinctly and legally states. It
is as long as Leporello's bill, and al
ways staggers Americans who rarely
want to do anything for even one year.
Then you engage a set of tncompara,
at all in this country save by the
trusts, and at the English legation
where 1t is said they become q, SO soon or
Hick ea out ey tna' two .ve years.. Then
there is a char-woman, who. for few
shillings and untold beer keeps that
mouse like q new minted shilling. linen
there IS a staid person who comes and
wi ND G JraT ~ nolr In
week, and sees that they keep perfect
time;s and then comes another staid
person who puts fresh flowers In pots
all over the house once fortni ght-ln
the windows, on the tables, in the jar
d1nieres, about the fireplace In summer.
Then comes a fluent and humble rag
and bone man, who pays you. Tor all
your rubbish, or rather pays the cook.
window In the house for tuppence each.
Then comes another person. of the cos
termonger tribe, who pays you Tor all
the fallen Neaves on the lawn and CAR
with leaf mold. Then come trades
people a rnany-all- smiling, all-obse-
quious and all-angling for your Gus
TOM The cook tries to, get COM
that the cook keeps as many books
as a bookkeeper. She has whole set
OF them In one she enters the weight
of the bread every day; in another she
lScIS uoWli ue 5WeAs5ilf4 tut QupAhtSs -
all meats and fowls and game sent in,
in tuird she enters the groceries,
weighed. examined; in fourth she
enters the fruits, weighed and eXamin-
ed carefully, in a. fifth she enters the
lttish. oysters. crabs, Holsters, praWns,
soles, whitehall. weighed and exam
ined; In sixth she enters the milk
and cream, BY looking these over
every week and comparing them with
yourSbills you can tell 10 - exactly
what has been furnished, what trades
people are reliable. which ones are
tricky or dishonest. One hour n day
every morning the mistress Is closeted
with cook and gives her orders and
the stock pot and the, drippinss and
| the coal sitter and the ice box and this
| store room. That Is all. She gives
her orders. They are admirably car
ried out
The whole machinery goes like a
i clocf<for twenty-four hours,.' BY IL
o'clock cook and the maids have on
/, their fresh prints. caps, aprons, the
house will bear critical inspection; the
butler goes for his morning walk, look
/ Ing like a peer OF the realm; the foot
man is polishing the glass With his
chamols cloth orithe silver with his
tinanel, the ''bopts' has done ths
knives and CRATES, tGs flowers havt
4 been watered; the newspapers aired
The world can. DO faeed, met, enter
tanned or declined with thanks, Will
entire calmness- FOB o thousand Year,