The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-15

LIN Three Points of View on economy
~ and your comment on the same find
much that is of interest My idea is
much like yours-that every house
keeper should arrange her work to suit
her own ideas, not because her mother or
her grandmother did SO and so. My mother
was considered a first class cook and house,
keeper and everything In her home was
done in the same manner at the same time
day in and day out. Yet am satisfied that
my way of managing my home is by far
more economical than hers. and just about
as orderly. do all my own sewing. even
my husbands shirts, for a family of four
teen. bake bread twice a week. have a
laundress every other week and wash
underwear towels. napkins. and other me-
cessties the week she does not come. BY
soaking and soaping them the night be-
fore this is an easy matter. pay rs cents
for two weeks wash. find time to go out
a little, to do little church work, a little
fancy work. play and sing little. and
in fact have just enough enjoyment to
make me feel that life is worth living.
, am busy nearly all the time-but then who
is really happy who is not busy?
g MRS. M. G."
Certainly no one can accuse this houses
keeper of living an idle and self-indulgent
life, and / am at loss to know how her
mother and grandmother could have put
much more into their days than she gets
into hers. I am glad she has arranged her
work SO that she gets some of the sweet
out of life, and only wish she had given
us more details as to how she does it. Such
suggestions are of value to us ALL
4; 4.
Orphan Baby Needs a Buggy.
"Will you please ask il anyone has a cast
off baby buggy or cart to give to little
orphan baby? The woman who has adopted
the child is not able to buy the carriage.
but is trying to- opraise the baby and be
mother to it. Miss s.
l have the writer's address to give on
application.
Advicc TO Country Woman"
Dear Country woman': My heart
,oes out to you. as read your letter. With
Sut doubt the answer is. in many ways
correct, but If these few words from one
who, although by no means arrived has
been through the training and has reached
the goal of some of your ambitions will
help you. then read on and profit.
marion Harland is right when she says
that the ranks are full, but old you ever
stop to think that far far too many are
striving for the authorship of books
who may never gain it. but who might have
gained great deal by doing the work
which lies nearest at hand :? The writeres
a New York newspaper woman. who is now
living in Arkansas. where my husbands
business keeps me- am doing free lance
work. but / shouldn't advise you to turn
toward a journalistic career. Journalists.
like poets, are born. And one has to go
through many long month of tfaining and
endure many knocks in the process OF TAX
ing away the rough places to make the fine
stone. Besides. one must be in the thick
of the fight and the farm is not the place
for that
But why not write about what YOU
nowe You call yourself a country
woman Then YOU are probably house
keeper. YOU own few cows. you work
truck garden and doubtless you are splen-
!. did cook. But which one do you specialize
IN: For the world pays for those who spc-
alise. Only experienced hands are
eeded.
Look over what you have accomplished
he things you have done differently than
err Then write about them. And don't