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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23

enough to do their own dressing or any
part OF At Let me take it for granted that
they are not and also that the breakfast
hour cannot be later than 7:30.
Leave the preparation and the service of
the breakfast to your maid. You say she
is willing though not experienced, but g.
little training will easily enable her to cook
and make ready the simple breakfast you
probably are sensible enough to have. In
sist upon system in the work of the maid
as well as in your own and teach her that
tasks must be done in a certain order. Let
her have everything in readiness the night
before so that there may be no last-Tninute
rushing out for necessaries. If you use a
cooked cereal have this in the double boiler,
and keep order in your kitchen and din
ing room which does away with uncertain
ty as to where to find anything that Is
needed in a hurry. The table should not be
set until the morning, but this the maid
can do while the kettle is heating and the
water for the cereal coming to boil.
If you can possibly manage It, let me
advocate early rising. There Is g. great
deal of truth as well as poetry in the
proverb that the morning hour has gold in
its mouth and in the other saying that a
half hour in the morning is worth an hour
later in the day. IF you have restless
nights with the baby it may not be the
easiest thing in the world for you to rise
betimes but 1t is better to do this and try
to make the space for half hours nap
later IN the day than to hnger in bed until
there must be a scurry all along the line
to get to the breakfast table in season.
I speak whereof I know when cham
pion the early hours. For years have
risen at in summer, at In winter. and
the quiet of the und1sturbed time before the
household is afoot enables me to plan for
my occupations and to gather UP the
threads which are to be woven into the
pattern of the days toll. Try my habit
and see If you don't gain enough by It to
recompense you for giving up that last
hour in bed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
Theories About Babies.

&c must tell you of book have just
been reading upon the care and training
of children, called Little Talks for the
Mothers Of Little People It expresses my
Views exactly SO far my experience goes.
That Is up to the age of my eldest blessing.
I have four, and the seniorest of the lot is
Just 10 years old.
We spent last year in Germany and
am just aching to tell the author of that
bewttching book of a device wish she had
known Of when she wrote it. 1t goes under
the name of g. nickel commode,' but that
does not describe it AS I wish American
mothers would make practical test of it's
merits I am writing TO represent these as
well as can.
" It looks like a broad topped wash stand
full of drawers, and covered with a hair
mattress. 1t Is Just the right height for
the convenience Of the mother who lays her
baby upon 1t to be washed and dressed, and
bandaged and tended generally. At FIRST
I laughed and would have none Of the mat
tress, but took the commode for a nursery
bureau. Then sheepishly bought the mat
tress-'just for fun'-and brought the whole
anair home across the sea to show how
they do these things in Germany. Now
would rig up table in like manner If I
couldn't get my commode. Our baby, who
is under months old, squirmed Off 1t once.
So that may happen, and we are trebly
careful since the mishap.
If any mother once makes trial of the
foreign contrivance she will never try to
wash or dress baby upon her lap again
1t saves a nervous baby from the fancied
terrors Of slipping of the mothers or
nurses knees, and spares the mothers back
which means more to the young mother
than to robust nurse. Yet my nurse says
she would make commode of dry goods
box rather than not have one
Il X
Another thing have learned: I dress
Cor undress) a baby but once g. day for ever
so long after It is born. 1t wears the band
only as long as is absolutely necessary; a
little soft shirt, yeager (when can get it),
a flannel slip like wrapper. It has sleeves,
but is cut wide without plaits or any full
ness Then straight, plain gown of hne
nainsook with five box plaits in front an6
back, and plain full sleeves. Around tho
neck and cuffs sew a bit Of the finest valen-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23

,0V OUR talks anent maids Interest
me 80 much that am often
tempted to put in my six cents.
Earlier In life always kept
maids-really and truly kept
them, without friction Then for a while
there was a fear lest we might not be able to
keep what means we had, and until matters
were Strengthened out we got along with
out servants. And o. how I did-and do
hate the kitchenl All the more, think, be-
cause I just can't slight my work. MY
housekeeping Is certainly q hard task
master to mel
Yet cannot Join in the reprobation OF
our American domestic system that comes
no naturally from the lips and pens of a
majority OF women. For more than g year
now have had the sister of maid had
for SIX years. and nothing but her ap-
preaching marriage would take her from
me. When she leaves. the next youngest
sister Ia coming to me, and they tell me
that II she gets married they will send to
Ireland for the next sister, and keep this
up as long ca I want a maid They will
nsver let me be without one.
They are Scotch-Irish Professionals from
near Belfast and excellent maids. The one
have now has not taken three days or
in the year. When for while insisted
upon her taking her day or she said at
last:
T am tired OF this horrid going out every
week. would rather be at home working
Honestly, I nearly dropped in a swoon
had thought her sister who preceded her
was the only maid of that stamp alive
To-day she 10 in town, seeing a play. I
sent her q little treat. She Is sure to be
back in time to get dinner.
IS You see there are two sides to the
vexed question: But all my life I have
treated my servants as should like to be
treated were I in their place They are
human as well as myself. They have but
one pair OF hands and one pair of feet, and
their bones are no larger than mine. If
women would try for one month to do all
they expect of maid, there would be less
cry OF dissatisfaction on both sides.
NEW JERSEY HoUsEMoTHER"
While admit that yours is by no means
so singular a case as perhaps you may
think, I cannot agree unquaHfedly in what
you and hundreds OF other writer's upon the
subject assert-viz.: that good mistresses
are sure to make good servants. You rec
oiiect David Copperfield's oismay at dis
covering after months spent in trying to
reform Dora's mind that :" perhaps 1t was
already formed - before he married herr
If you or /, we win say, had the making of
the model maid from the start, the finished
product might equal our expectations. But
so many forming hands have had hold of
the raw material before she fell into ours
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23

they are aroused. Put away the clothes
you and they took off and left to air the
night before. Straighten out small dis
orders, rearrange what needs setting to
rights. BY the time you have done part
of this one or more of the children will
probably be ready to be taken up and
washed and dressed If you can plan to
give them their baths at bedtime it will
save you work and time in the morning and
will be more comfortable and convenient
If there is a dearth of heat or of hot water
when they arise. The business of getting
them into their clothes will be a compare
lively simple matter and there need be
little effort in getting them to breakfast
at the proper time.
wish to interrupt my directions for
work just here to beg you not to do all
this without food. If you take nothing
more, break your fast with a cracker or g.
piece of bread and butter and save yourself
the fatigue that follows exertion on an
empty stomach, and possible headache.
If the baby sleeps late you may have to
delay its tub until after breakfast. I hope
your training has been of the kind that
makes the youngster willing to lie comfort
ably in bed without attention or to sit in
the high chair at the table, a little wrapper
concealing the tumbleG night clothes, until
after breakfast.
System applies again here AS soon as
breakfast is on the table for the family the
maid should take her morning meal and
then turn to the next work you have de-
cided upon for her. Have regular days for
your cleaning-sweeping, scrubb1ng, win
dow washing, etc.-as you do for your
laundry work, SO that the maid may waste
no time in settling what Is the next thing
to be done. Divide the work you assume
from that which evolves upon her and
each stick to your own.
For instance. you may take the bedroom
work. This will enable you to keep an eye
on the children at their play. While you
are making beds. busting and putting to
rights the maid will wash the dishes, brush
up and dust the dining room. She may
have had time to dust before breakfast, and
you may have busted your parlor then. If
not, do that after you finish the bedroom
work. But before you either of you go to
your other duties inspect the pantry and
the ice box and plan for your days meals
SO that you can do your marketing when
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
Cleaning Can't Be Escaped.

OF course we can none of us escape gen
eral cleaning of different kinds. Dust will
accumulate and have to be swept and
secured away and even daily work with
a carpet sweeper and a dustcloth Will not
spare us sweeping and scrubbing days.
But the work of these may be greatly les
sened and although we may have to scrub
kitchen and pantry shelves once in SO
often, we may yet keep them so clean as
we go along that we will not be haunted
by thoughts of dust heaps In corners wait
ing until we have time to sweep them
away. More than this, order Is possible
all the time If every cup and saucer, every
knife and spoon, every sort of clothing
has its own fixed place and Is put back in
it as soon as its period OF service is ended.
I grant that this is not always easy at
the moment. When you come IN tired after
a walk with the children it Is much easier
to toss your hat and gloves on the bed and
kick your overshoes into the corner and
to let the children follow the game course
than it IL to put each article where 1t
belongs. But to quote the old woman with
the toothache: 1T feels SO good when it
stops aching!" In other words, 1t is q
comfort when you recover little from the
first fatigue of the return to know that
there Is not awaiting you pile Of gar
ments to be gathered up and slowed away
just when you want to do something else.
There is something to be said for the
comfort OF slack ways a woman said to
me the other day. They make the fam
lily much less trouble than the other kind.
My husband and I have been married for
twenty years and in all that time we have
shared one bureau Of three drawers and
one small writing desk. II I had been
one of the people who Is fussy about house
keeping we never could have got along as
amiably as we have done"
Perhaps not-and yet, wouldn't system
have simpnied matters and made the hus-
band and wife more comfortable with the
limited space at their command? Are
amiability and good system in housekeep-
Ing incompatible?
Try It and see!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
IMPORTANT NOTICE

BECAUSE Of he enormous number Of
IL letters semitic The department must ask
contributors to limit their communications 10
100 Gcords. except in cases Of formulas or
geefpes Which Eequire greater space. 7 Want
al my correspondents 60 hGes shouting In
The Corner. and If my request In this respect
Is complied vfh IL tOil Be possible to print
many n1ors letters.
Ahenifca Is called % tRe fact Mat Morton
RarlGn4 cannot reeefos money for patterns,
as she has no connection ofh any department
Aat sells them. Marion RarLand.
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Study to Keep Order.


Study to Keep Order.
Here once more is where system comes in.
You should know from day to day what
you will have to eat, at least in general
way. SO that if bad weather detains you at
home until the afternoon you will not be
seriously Inconvenience or be forced to
do that most expensive thing, market by
telephone
If you have made an early start the
routine of daily work like dishwash1ng,
bedmaking, and busting should be done
by 10 o'clock, and you will be free to go out
with the children If the weather permits. or
to sit down to your sewing or get at other
work. Direct your maid in the same system
and see that she lives up to it. I don't
mean that you are to be martinez and
follow her up all the time. Nothing dis
heartens and irritates a maid more than
this. None of us would like it. But en-
courage her to be methodical and show her
that you appreciate her efforts and the
good results she wins.
have spoken of certain days for certain
duties. If the washing and ironing are
dispatched by Tuesday night, you may
have the sweeping and scrubbing appor-
uOQeQ dI1OHS the 1Sn14A4AALS 0d~S OA Tic
week, leaving Saturday free for prepara-
lions for Sunday and extra cooking. Divide
your own work in the same way. doing your
mending when the clean clothes are fairly
in and never letting It accumulate unless
in sickness or some similar emergency.
Above all, study to keep order rather than
to make order!
Haven't you known housekeepers whose
ideal of tidiness was to let everything get
into a general messiness and then have
q grand cleaning up? I have. Don't
follow this plan. Force yourself to put
away things where they belong as soon as
you have done with them, and train your
children and your maid to do the
same thing. Your husband was probably
already trained when you got him. and
1t was a matter decided by providence
whether he Is the sort of man who picks
up for himself or who permits you to pick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23

GLIDING. as do. a finger upon the
Il pulse of my well beloved constit-
uency. 1 welcome the opportunity
to put before them a letter from
one of the number which indicates
the need of many. The following note
voices the perplexities of more than one
young housekeeper and mother who longs
for a guiding hand out of her labyrinth
of work and worry. The word that helps
her should be an aid to them also.
Dear Marion Harland: 1 have three
children-the baby still nursing-and the
help I keep. although not experienced, IS
willing. I work constantly, but somehow
my house does not always look as nice as
l should like to have it. My conclusion
is that ought to regulate my work in a
more wise and systematic way. 1 have
tried, but couldn't succeed. Could some
one trained in the affairs of housekeeping
kindly help me with advice? I should like
to learn in detail how to go about my work
day by day. allowing. of course, a good
part of the time for taking my babies out.
Also where the duties of the maid shall
end and mine begin. I am sure this ad-
vice will greatly help many troubled young
mothers EARNEST HoUsEKEEPER.
Your letter is a type of many others
I receive, so that feel with you that ad-
vice such as you ask may be needed by
other perpIexed housekeepers. A large
number of years has passed since myself
was young mother who had to plan her
work closely but have not forgotten those
far off days, and from them learned GER
tain things which I believe may help you
now.
You make a long step in the right direc-
ton when you recognize the fact that your
work should be regulated Systematically.
The haphazard method of housekeeping
may possess certain advantages over the
nasty particular " variety, but If you
have ideals of neatness and order in your
home, system is the only way by which
you can attain these.
Begin. then, by taking time to sit down
and plan your outline of occupation. Make
a general scheme of work and live by It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
Divide Work NTH Maid.

If your children do not awake early
and confess to prejudice in favor of let
ting them sleep as long as they can-dis-
charge some OF your other duties before
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for him. If the former, return hearty
thanks to heaven; If the latter, make the
best of the situation, for It is not at all
likely that you can change it or him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
Rise Early if Possible.

You do not say in your letter If you are
obliged to give your husband an early
breakfast or If your older children are big
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SYSTEMATIC REGULATION OF HOUSEKEEPING

you take the children out for their morning
airing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23
Berwick Sponge Cakc.

saw the other day a request IN the
Corner for recipe for the far famed Ber-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-23

,9V OUR talks anent maids interest
me 30 much that I am often
tempted to put in my six cents.
(" Earlier In life always kept
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-02-16
THE NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN.

1uc hui. ltODCib LhlhBB PiOPAA-
etor of the Daily States and leader
or boss" of the Tenth Ward of
Orleans parish, has announced his
desire to succeed himself as a men,
Der of the National Democratic Com
mittee from Louisiana.
The Gazette is opposed to Mr..
Ewing's candidacy. We regard the
result of the recent primary as ex-
pressive of the will of the people Of
Louisiana and cheerfully bow to
that will, although the result Of that
election was the defeat of the can
didate for United States Senator
whose cause we warmly espoused
and the candidate for Governor
whom the Gazette also supported.
But why should Mr.. Ewing get
the endorsement of the reform ele-
ment in the party which SO recent.
ly signally defeated John T. Michelf
The chief cause, if not the only
cause, of Mr.. Michel's defeat was
that he is the leader or boss o.
the 18th Ward. Why should tn,
boss Of the 10th Ward, Mr.
Ewing, be spared?
No, let us be consistent and max,
a clean sweep. Surely none of Judg,
Halls supporters believe that Mr.
Ewing is a real reformer like them
We cannot conceive the possibilit.
of a Ward Boss getting the supper
of the Good Government League
1t looks as if Mr.. Ewing win hav
70 srr
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-02-16

The following telegram under al
New York date Of February 1, win
be of interest to the people Of Ten
sas and Coneordia, especially the
latter, where the Yznaga family re-
sided and possessed vast estate,
now the property of Hon. E. c..
Rhodes:
The transfer tax appraisal Of the
estate of Consuelo (Yznaga) Dow
ager Duchess of Manchester, form
erly of Louisiana, who died in Lon
don in 1909, shows that she left
an estate of SO, 100000, largely in
American securities.
THE Duchess directed that her
jewels, including her necklace OF
fifty three oriental pearls. he held
in trust with the understanding that
the present Duchess, who was Miss
Zimmerman, may wear them if she
complies with strict conditions. Tho
jewels, especially the necklace, must
be protected at all times by burg
larry and fire insurance and the
Duchess of Manchester must pay the
insurance, if she uses the jewels. =
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-02-16
ELECTION OF JUDGES.

The Picayune in an editorial con-
corning the election of successor
to Chief Justice Breaux has some
well considered things to say about
the election of the Justices of the
SupremeCourt, which that journal
opposes. The Gazette is heartily in
accord with the Picayune's views.
Says the Picayune in part:
Without desiring in any way to
reflect on the State Constitutional
Convention which changed the
method Of creating state Judiciary
from that wise and thoroughly test
ed and approved plan created by
the statesmen and patriots who
founded the government, the Pic
ayrine has constantly deplored the
change.
but under the law as it stands,
when there is vacancy on the Su-
preme judicial bench the candidates
for this high office must set aside
the judicial attitude and enter the
turmoil Of politics to win success.
The judge upon the bench either
must give part OF his time to the
care of his political interests, else
see others, who are unhampered,
leading active campaigns for his
displacement.
TO what extent will the quail
fications of candidate for the Su-
preme Court be measured by an
electorate? What opportunities have
the individual voters to measure the
comparative merits Of each candi-
date?
1t may be that the one who is the
best vote getter in such an election
may be the one least qualified to
make jurisprudence, and still none
would suffer but the people because
Of the failure to recognize the prop
err man for the place. The Itigants
pay the costs and bear the burdens
OF litigation. 1t behooves them to
keep the bench above the wiles Of
the politicians, and this they may
do only by giving support to a can
didate because of his qualifications
for the bench and not because Of
his political prowess.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-02-16
Saturday the End day Of March
hl. 1872.

offer for sale at the Court House door
o. the town Of st. Joseph in this parish,
between the hours of ii O'Clock a. m
and o'clock d. m. the following de-
scribed property, situated in the Par
jsh of Tehsas, State of Louisiana. and
seized in the above styled and num-
bercd suit as property OF defendant
herein, to-wit:
All that part of the Southwest quarter
and the West half of the Northwest quar-
Ter of Section Ten, in Township Il, North,
Range 10 East, lying West of Boilers
Bayou or Lake, containing one hundred
and forty-two and 70-l0O acres, more or
less.
Also that certain part Of the former
Hopakab plantation situated in Tensas
Parish, State of Louisiana, inherited by
Mrs. Sarah Nichols, wife OF w. W..
Drake, from her deceased mother, Mrs.
Mary c.. Nichols, wife OF j. f.. Mich
OILS, acquired by her deceased mother by
private act of Partition between her said
mother and Mrs. Harriet Reynolds, wife
of HI. S. Nichols, deceased, as same APP
pears recorded in the Records OF the
above Parish and State, and being de-
scribed in said Act of Partition as THAT
part of the West half OF Section 10,
| Township u, North, Range 10 East, ~
/ ing North Of theTline run from point
on the line dividing the East from the
West half of said Section 10, one hun
dred and fifty feet North Of the dwelling
house due West to the dividing line be-
tween Sections Is and l6.
Also all bis right, title and interest in
and to the undivided half of the acre Of
ground of the said Hopakah plantation
on which the gin house stands and the
gin thereon; together with allthe build
ings and improvements thereon or there
to attached as well as the imrnovables by
destinations thereon or attached thereto
all situated in the Parish of Tensas, Stat'
Of louisiana.
Terms Of sale-Cash. without benefit
Of appraisement.
JOHN HUGHES. Sheriff.
ST.. JosxPH, La, January Is. 1912.
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JUDGE LAND WILL LAND.

Justice Alfred d. Land has al
ready started the boil rolling-or at
least his friends haye-in the inter
est of his candidacy for his return
to the Supreme Bench to fill the
vacancy created by the election Of
Judge Luther E. Hall to the Gov
ernorship.
1t was thought that Judge ]. C.
Theus, of Ouachita, might be a can
didate for the honor, but that gen.
tleman has stated that he will not
be, which leaves only Judge Wat
kins, Of Webster, as a possible can
didate, his name having been men,
ton, but he has made no statement
as far as is known relative to bis
possible candidacy.