South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-08
Learn HoU to
Shirk q Little
Do Not Let Petty Tasks
Interfere With Little
Pleasures

Learn conscientious Sinking, my
dear. learn conscientious Sinking!
know that sounds paradoxical, but be-
lieve a woman who has been married
more years than you have been in the
world what most women need is
ability TO discriminate between their
duties of commission and those of
omission. woman can show as
much righteousness by what she
leaves undone as by what she does.
SuppOsing, just as you are finishing
your after dinner coffee, your husband
suggests. How about a show ?" For
PHYS sake, don't say. But it's nearly
now dear, and l have all the dishes
To do" Forget the dishes-they will
all be there in the morning.
And If, about 4 o'clock in the after
noon, just as you have come in from
a shopping trip, your husband phones
that he has just run into a couple of
old friends whom he wants to bring
home for dinner, don't make the oc-
casion one for a general houseclean-
ing, says the New York Times. Think
up the best dinner you can get with
least eXertion and serve with least
fuss-and never mind the dust under
the bookcase or even on the top shelf
On the way nome in the train you
can wager your months pin money,
my dear. your husband has not been
telling his friends how clean you keep
the, corners or how often you have a
man in To clean the windows. Not
he. you old bachelors will change
your tune when you meet my wife.
Prettiest brown eyes you ever saw,
and hair-masses of it-reddish. Wait
till you see our place, then you'H
each go out on a wife hunt" No,
my dear. he hasn't described you as
an excellent cook or a model house
wife. Smile on his friends in your
own gay little way, and they won't
ever notice that you have not served
dessert
And when the Riddles come-ah,
that is the time when a woman must
know what TO do and what not to do.
No woman ever lived who took care
of a family of children and kept house
without servants, who didn't always
have some duties undone, and l tell
you it's the woman who has learned
scientific and conscientious Sinking.
the woman whose prayer has been
not, 20 Lord, teach me how to do all
this work. but 20 Lord, teach me
how not to do all this work., that
reaches middle life with her husband
still in love with her and her chill
dren proud TO introduce their friends
to her.
She can converse with her husband
about the copper market and to her
sons about baseball. as we'll as TO her
daughter about party dresses. Her
husbands socks may have been often
undarned, but his wife's eyes have
been all the brighter for that. Very
likely her sons have had to sew on
their own buttons, but think how
much their knowing how to do it is
going to help the next generation Of
wives!
Maybe when the children were little
and soiled their frocks she let them
stay soiled until the Riddles went TO
bed, but did you ever know of
child's life made miserable because
of being left half a day in a dirty
frock?
And here is another tip, dear. 1t
took me years to learn this. Do not
make Saturday housekeeping day.
It's a holiday for the children, it's
half holiday for the men. Why not
be ready to answer Certainly" when
your husband stands at the foot Of
the stairs and calls up, Nell, will
you get your racket and come over 10
the courts with me?" If you have TO
answer that you have just started to
clean the attic the chances are that
next Saturday he will lunch in town
and go with the boys TO the ball game.