New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-22

undertakes the regulation OF your home
from the moment she removes her wraps.
She relieves you of your task OF setting
the dinner tabe-and proceeds to set II IN
the way you particularly don't like she
never inquiries your prejudices In the mat
ter.
She comes out into the kitchen While
Won are in the midst Of preparations and
from a point OF vantage surveys the prem
ises with kindly critical eye. You can
observe her taking I'm the unsystemaric
arrangement OF pots and pans, likewise the
LAYER Of dust on the pantry shelves. In
your agitation you bungle the mayonnaise
and proceed 10 make matters worse until
finally she bursts our, Goodness. child, you
can never do II that way. Here, I'll nix II
in a iiffy.' Humbly You surrender the bowl
10 her hands and sure enough the dressing
comes out smooth and beautiful, whereat
she beams and IS even more amiable than
before. II possible. You must needs he
grateful. albeit bordering in your heart
that had she stayed in the psrior and read
the paper. as you requested her 10 do, there
wouldn't have been any trouble in the first
place.
During the meal she praises everything
and expresses her surprise and delight to
see wha. a wonderful little housekeeper
Won have become. Who would ever have
thought it-vou always seemed such an IN
tellectual. impractical sort OF girl-the sort
~ nerson enc associates with suffrage.
causes and all those things, rather than
with the simpler home duties Then very
gradually and quite incidentally she brings
the conversation back to the question or
SOM making and tells you minuteiy now
Won could bring a much better flavor TO- Tor
instance. this soup you are serving to-
night Then she mentions recipe Tor
tapioca pudding that all her friends are
sin,nIv crazy about. and offers 10 MAKE
some for dessert the very next evening
raobtv Won suggest that your husband and
vourself do not care for tapioca, but you
can't deter her enthuslasms that way
.yes know. and I don't blame YOU, she
agrees You've tasted the ordinary kind
~ tan,oca pudding-whch IS as much like
nine "a hay TO ambrosia. True TO her
promise. she undertakes its Manufacture
Tho next dav. end at the appointed hour
Won politey sample the product anu
rnurmur your appreciation and pralse-wllh
vour fingers crossed. Whereat she exuita:
There I told you so. I knew you'd IKE II.
tere. take the rest Of it. scrap!ng the
dish for YOU. 4 can have all | want when
I'm home. I'll give you the recipe, put
there does seem 70 be a knack In the max
Ing I admit.
.,you hear her banging about her room
like a June bug, and presently she calls
unon YOU 20 survey the improvement now
ct sba has rearranged the furniture.
Then she makes a tour OF inspection OF the
rest OF the house, and calls 10 your atten-
ton a number Of changes that would make
all the difference in the world. II her sug-
restions are so good that you cannot re-
frain from acting upon them, so much the
more annoying for you, for what one OF
us likes to be set right in her own house?
You respect her judgment, but you don't
love her any the more for being your SUI
perior.
"she patiently helps the children with
their lessons. and with sweet, inscrutable
smile on her countenance catches them on
the flv 10 supply pocket handkerchiefs. She
takes II upon herself 10 brush your nus
bands overcOat, femarklns sollletnlls
about moths, ana az Just tHe uionlehI
v-hen you feel inclined TO play the piano
mr. glance AT a rev magazine remarks upon
The heaped-up condition OF the mendlng
5asi,et which her busy fingers are plainly
itching To get at. In short, she makes you
conscious of your shortcomings at every
"Sow. il YOU are faultless paragon Of
bo,,ssxifa or the other extreme, mortal
-, ralIous as 10 be untouched by any criu-
cIsm. why. then she's Just the sort OF guest
for YOU and | hope that she and Others OF
nor 'uk will never long absent themselves
rom YOUR roof. But II you're Just an ordi-
nary. easy going faulty human being. Ike
myself, you'd rather harbor forever within
often maligned. who laZily reflects that all
Sonsekeening-and especially yours-is too
wonderful process for her TO comprehend,
much less TO criticise