South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-08-07
His Bride Was
Super-DOnestic
oiled Wheels of Household
But Insisted on Using old
Fashioned Machine
By HELEN M.ANTON.


Her mother has trained her in all the
arts of dOmesticity." . Il hear
she can actually cook! So useful to
know how it is done; gives a mistress
suclr authority over her servants"
The bride can bake bread and
make all the old fashioned dainties,
such as damson cheese and frumenty,
whatever that may mean"
Such were the enconiums | heard at
my brothers wedding said in praise
OF his vile, and they were quite true.
MillIcent has been and is a very clever
housewife, and yet she is just the one
VINO oOes not SUIT the times IN when
she nNes, nor my HbrOtners needs.
For she rules her nousenOld and her
home on the TlgI0, Old-1asnlOned lines
tnat served ner grandmother and ner
mOtner, out that are reany obsolete
Tor present-day purposes.
In Mllhcent's mouse, AFTER the bOule-
versement that goes Dy the eupho-
NOUS title, sprinS cleaning, mas taken
place, and everyone temper except
ner own mas been tnOrOugnIy tried,
the furnace is put out not to be
hghteu again unuI October. The con-
sequence IS tnat during cold spell,
my brother sniVers unul ne came TO
us for good warm-up, at our nOspIt-
able hearth.
1t is a pity Miilicent is SO super
dOmesticated woman. ON Old-Idsn-
Toned lines. II she were not she would
he able TO blend the excellence OF ner
training ana an intelligent apprecIa-
! ton tor modern resources with the
result that her house would be well
1 or ~ fnrts.
tatiOns that rule it.
My brother, tor example, has never
been able TO coax or tease her away
from the rigid meal-time rules in
which she was brought up.
It does not hurt him to be in time
I for dinner for his custom is to come
home at given hour eacn day. Nor
is he in for luncheon But ne dis
likes immensely the inelasticity OF his
households breakfast time, and says
II ought TO be the movable feast il is
in most houses instead or a pompous
meal TO which everyone must arrive
at the same moment and from which
all rise together
In vain has he urged the merits of
those modern contrivances that keep
bacon hot, boil eggs, make coffee, and
toast bread He presented TO MILL
cent coffee pot armed with a whistle
which when it's work of boiling the
fragrant beverage is accomplished APP
prises everyone of the fact by a long
and shrill alarm. A little tOaster he
also gave her, the neatest and clever
est provider for fresh crisply Drowned
bread and urged the delight of cook
ing for ones self by the aid of these
contrivances and the usual electric
kettlees and spirit breakfast dishes
Millicent. however, was adamant,
and quite determined to defend her
principles against revolutions SO dire.
She cOntended on the one hand that
the new-fangled notions that her hus-
band recommended were impossible
and undignifed, and on the other that
detached breakfasts, with everyone
coming and going as they liked, were
bad for the srevants and the routine
Of the house.
Millicent cannot accustom herself
to the fact that everyone in these
days tries to do about twice as much
as the days allotted span permits, and
must get through their program in the
way that best suits them individually
Ii is a pity she cannot grasp the sit
uation, for then she would be able to
reconstruct her domestic arrange
ments and so help instead of hinder
those Of her family
She would certainly alter her
menus. Millicent's meals are very
dull. She gives her husband and
children the heavy repasts that suited
a generation with plenty of time for
forty winks after food and no fear of
indigestion and kindred ills. No one
has ever found it possible to plough
through the whole OF one of her din
ners and the consequence is that
there is "A good deal of obvious chafing
and fidgeting and longing to go. which
renders the repast far from happy.
| am hoping that ere long an APP
pendix will be added to her education
by her eldest daughter, and that then
| shall rejoice in more modern and
less domestic Sster-in-laW than the