The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-07
housekeeping on
Business Principles

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follow the example OF a housek copper
whose business like ways Of doing u
marketing Inspired q story in the New /:
York Evening Post to this effect: s9
lawyer recently accompanied his
wife to Harlem market, New York and II
utilized the time occupied by her insf
selecting and giving orders, to look
ABOUT him at other purchasers.
Among these WIS a woman who was
buying meat In largo quantities, and !.
doing Il In lcisurely and careful way.
that showed her exercise of good judE a
mcnt and care. qualities most needed
Tor demand that she was me e ting. The 4
man grew much Interested in looking,S
on and hearing what passed between Z
the dealer In meats and the buyer, and Z
after she had gone away, he asked the
former: issif
will you tell me the namo OF that
woman? consider her the best buyer
! I ever saw" III
"sho is Mrs. BlanS." was tho answer,
/ and she keeps large boarding house
ct number almost opposite your resi-
dc1co. She makes personal Inspections
| of every piece of meat that goes on her.
table and gets the best always, be-
| cause II would be perfectly useless to
offer her second best al
Tho inpuiring lawyer had been a
| frcduepter Of boarding houses In the
days of his bachelorhood. but this was
the first tiino no had been. 30 to speak Il
taken Into intimate. IL lnvoluntary;,
| confidence behind the screen Flo lin d 2 !,
new estimate and added respect for the
class of women unlntcntionnlly bestow-@
ing tho confidence. and made n resolu-H
ton at once that in a probable future
| domestic crisis no would know where
| to tako his meals 5St }S.5
Women would be spared much COM
plant and worry II they trained them
selves in the Knowledge of buying and
lo<sn enIr y,at T..
and economic reasons. To be first-f
class buyer ia business requirement
underlying all successful housekeep-&
Ing.
His Time for Leaving.
a funny story, that may DO repeated
! in the experience of the average young
society woman. concerns Itself with a.
bashful young man who was visiting
! tho girl OF his preference when her
father came into the drawing room
| holding his witch open in his hand
The young man. at tho timo of the
| fathers entrance, had mounted chair
/ to straIghten n picture hung above the
! piano
Tho father asked him grnfrly: "Do,
! you know what time it is?' M
The young man got down immedi-
ateiy from tho chair. Yes sir" he
answered. II was just going" 5l&
And he went without further DELAY
| merely pausing long enough in the
hail to secure his hat and oyercoat.
Paterfainilias followed him. and as
the caller fumbled tho door knob,
paters voice camo again inslstentl,,l
demanding: DO you know what timo
1t is2" l]3iE.
Yes. SIR" once more the youth
answered. goodnight. And then ha
ran down tho steps before putting hts
overcoat on. 4N IiI3 IS!
Pater looked more than little SUR
prised. He turned to his daught err to
Inquire; What the deuce is the mat
ter with that fellow? My watch ran
down this afternoon and 1 wanted him
to tell mo the time so could SGT it.:
Tho time was Just $3.50 o'clock.
The Three EsaentiaIs. M
Not many OF the women who have
known Lucy Larcom through her
literary work have imagined that sho
I begin life as n factory girl Youths
Companion tells that when shn was
fourteen years old. she worke ed IN n
cotton mill at Lowell. Massachusetts.
AFTER she had been In the mill short
while. she received permission to have
under her charge some frames near a.
\ window, through which she might look
out on the picturesque banks OF the.
Merrimac River. S
After she had been for little longer
- ''St N'iANoW ilpoiNr SIG logan TO trans
form it's appearance by pasting over
the Grimy paint clippings OF verse, cut
by her from magazines and newspapers
as fell in her way. tig
So, gradually. Lucy Larcom. even in
factory. secured for herself, little
oy little, three essentials for human
4 happiness work, the sight of the world
outside. and the poets vision Of beauty.
No doubt. Lucy Larcom, like all girls
often found her work wenrIsonie. Por-
haps some OF tho poetry was not in-(l
spring But tho outside world framed
by the window pane. with its meadows
and hills. must have always been re-
freShing and an uplift to the spiritual
nature OF young woman. always de-
string SO ardently the best in tho
world In work rs In all else.
The Degenerate Sundeyr. as le
Women who have no ideas and inde-
pcndence of their own. who are de y
J pendent for all they do and say on.
some strongly mentality than their.
own, are strongly cmblematic OF n
curious little marsh plant called the
| sundcw.
a small fy alights on ono OF the
leaves OF the plant attracted by Its
crimson hairs. and by a sticky liquid
called dew" When the fly struggles
10 set free the hairs slowly close
round ana trap him, ut the same time
pouring out more OF the dew. Present
~ the insect dies in the trap. because
the dew Is an acid which dissolyes its.
body. so that the plant can absorb for.
It's nourshment the nitrogen which tho
body contains.
The sundcw was not always an Idle
degenerate, 1t belongs to tile saxi-
4 fragc family OF plants. other members
OF which are respectable and hard
) working, getting their living by honest
root work III extracting their nitrogen.
+ from the soil.
The sundew BY contrast has scarcely
anything worthy the name Of n root.
It long ago gave UP the effort OF
thrusting its rootlcts into the ground
and hnding It's suhstenance in n iegiti-
mate way. Instead It choose to settle