The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-05-16
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When sick man is able to grumble,
growl and wrangle he is able to get up
and do his own chores at least.
The average weight of eggs is about 8
to pound. SO that a dozen eggs would
weigh about one and half pounds. A
pound Of eggs contains more nourishment
than pound of meat. There is no flesh
food that may be served in so many pal
atable ways as eggs, nor as easily obtain
ed by farmers. Eggs are perfect food.
containing all the constituent elements
of nourishment.
A woman must wear No. boots on
No. 3 feet and she must manage to dress
well on rs cents on week. and she
must be vain; and she must be kind to
the poor, and she must go regularly to
the sewing society meetings and be ready
to dress dolls and make tides and aprons
for church fairs. She must be a good
cook, and must be able to do up" her
husbands shirts so that the Chinese
washerman would groan with envy.
"A otOIy tOIU vi q lduy WHO
compared her husband to handsome
piano lamp that he had presented to her.
Her husband felt quite fiattered until she
mentioned the particulars oil the resem-
blance. ''Well," she said, 'you know
my DEAR it has a good deal Of brass
about it, it is handsome to look at, it IS
not remarkably brilliant, requires good
deal of attention, liable to explode when
half full, flares up occasionally, is always
out at bed time and is bound to smoke.
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A good neighbor is always the most
desirable Of possessions, although in
some cases their social value is under
estimated. What constitutes a good
neighbor is also frequently misconstrued,
although the sensible acception of the
term is, the neighbor who is friendly
without being officious, helpful without
being superflously so and finally, one
who respects the privacy of others house
hold affairs by certain degree Of formal
ity of manner.
We believe there would be more fru-
gality in the homes if men would give
their wives reasonable amount OF mon
ey for household expenses and let them
have all they can save out OF it for their
own use; and men, too, would be better
off than in the unmethodical and haphaz-
ard way in which most homes are run.
Women would be more apt to study
kitchen economy if they would see re-
ward ahead. A nation Of thrifty men
cannot be born of thriftless mothers.
Women have need to know more of busi-
ness, and think more Of means to ends
than is usual among them.
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There is one class of laborers who
never strike and seldom complain. They
get up at five o'clock in the morning and
never get back to bed until ten or eleven
O'Clock at night they work withoat ceas-
ing the whole of that time, and receive
no other emolument than food and the
plainest kind of clothing; they understand
something Of every branch Of economy
and labor, from fn2nce to cooking;
though harassed by hundred response
billties, though driven and worried,
though reproached and looked down
upon they never revolt, and they cannot
organize for their own protection. Not
even sickness releases them from their
posts. No sacrifice is deemed too great
for them to make and no incompetency
in any branch of their work is excused.
No essays, books or poems are written
in tribute to their steadfastness. They
die in the harness and are supplanted as
quickly as may be. These are the house
keeping wives of the laboring men.