The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-02-01
THE EASIEST way.
Households Managed With Slight
Expenditure of Physical Effort.

Society Highly Organized Game 70,
Catching Husbands-An intsrrupts
Beach Partv-croehstsd Spreads Re.
vived Fad.
Dear Elsa-l am going to preach
and the sermon is meant to do you q
whole heap Of good. Won't you hats
It? However, you're going to get II
this time, and the text is THE Easiest
Way" 1t has nothing to do with the
play which had such a successful run
last winter and which some people
found perfectly horrid" and others
considered fine object lesson" No,
my easiest way has to do with house
work.
Look about you, my dear, at house
keepers and see how few know how
to take care of themselves. How
many women sit down to dry dishesi
How many sit down to peel potatoes
dow many sit down to beat eggs7 Not
one in fifty.
OF course there are some kinds Of
work you can't do sitting down. You
can turn a bread mixer while you are
sitting down. but you can't knead
bread unless you stand up to 1t. You
can't do washing seated, though you
can have a high chair and press of
some small pieces on the ironing board.
You have to stand while you are doing
some kinds Of cooking; also you have
to be on your feet while you are sweep
ing and busting and making beds and
the like.
But how many women have had the
wit to study out what work they can do
while seated and then lived up to their
discoveries? 1t would be awfully in
teresting to make 4 canvass Of the
question.
But the most discouraging part
about the Investigation would probably
be that it would show how few wom~
en- have brains enough to run their
own business at least expenditure Of
effort in proportion to the result
gained.
Now. dear, Of course I'm not knock
ing. But think it over-this sitting
down at work question.
Tho Foxy Up to Date Girl.
To change the subject suddenly,
was so disguised by remark made
by girl recently. who, being asked to
meet man. dippantiy inquired,
Bachelor. widower or husband?"
This very direct method was a new
one to me, but reckon I'm something
of back number. for it seems quite
the thing for the up to date girl to
ut men according to their eligibility
for marriage. There are girls who
quite without realizing It always men,
ton a mans state "a TO matrimony
whsn speaking of him. VI was taken
in TO dinner by Mr.. May, a charming
bachelor" this type Of girl remarks
atrRy. II golfed with Mr.. Gray. In.
tsresting? Oh. yes, but he's married. :"
1--WE had an invitation to motor with
Mr.. jerks, such a delightful yosng
widower and rich, they say"
Mr. May may be poet. Mr.. Gray an
inventor. Mr.. jerks 4 wrecker Of other
mems fortunes on Change. but she
doesn't know or care.
A girl of this type got 4 well. de-
served rebuke from Mrs. Van 6. the
other day. Mrs. Van s. asked tho
~ to dinner and mentioned that Mr..
eo-and-so was coming.
~l vrAx
you ask him? You know can't marry
| Q man of his age"
Don't be an idiot" retorted Mrs. 8.
I'm not asking you to marry him, nor
does he want to marry you. I'm only
asking you both to est q very good
dinner"
| Girls Of this class have wonderful
propensity for seeing sentiment in the
/ amplest attentions from a man.
Which Is why the girl who b ont for
Z good time and can golf, dance or
Dirt without thought Of anything fur.
ther Is SO refreshing to man. 10
elety may be highly organized game
for catching husbands, but men lks
Girls who don't view It that way.
An Unexpected ints~rup4ios.
Don't you love marshma1iov ToaSt1
I know you do. especially on a MOON
Night night on the beach. We had
su1h party at Belle Harbor recently
and a dandy big blaze was started
with seasoned driftwood that W had
been saving for several days. Each one
of the party was given Z long pointed
stick on which to spike the marshmal.
bows and roast them In the flames
We were al. browning our candles
singing merrily and joIlying, whs0 Z
man OF the vendetta type noiselesly
approached and asked Dorothy IL any
enc had lost these" holding up at tn
same time perfectly new set Of false
teeth. You can imagine the effect d
such q tableau. ElinOr went of int
Ustefics. Helen looked scared to deatf
ard the marshmallows tumbled into
ne flames unheeded. The intruder
Ill unconscious OF the sensation ht
created, mumbled on. I'D like to re
nore them ~ the owner" Finally
Dick grunted out, i think she'd hkl
to have them We all roared, an(