Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-01-27
RUNNING A HOUSE;
MAKING A HOME
There's a Wide Difference. as
Many Men Know.
The Story of EmeIine and Her Bring
inq-Up Told to illustrate
Domestic Science.

Once upon time there was girl
whose name was Emeline. She had
a home of a kind, a father, a
mother and brothers and sisters.
Emeline's father worked steadily and
earned five dollars a day; he was an
expert workman. One steady young
brother earned eighty dollars a
month, the other one sixty-five dol
lars. The father and brothers turned
most of this money over to the
mother who iran" the house; only
INA" didn't know how to make a
home. Running a house and making
a home are such widely different
occupations and are so closely allied
that it takes a brainy woman to
combine the two-successfully
Emeline's mother was not success
full in either capacity. Her children
never knew what it meant to come
home to a CHEEKY, orderly living
room or a well-set table in a clean
dining room. Everything was just
as it ought not to be and the family
income was we'll toward three hum
dred dollars each month.
Thus Emeline grew to womanhood
believing that for poor people who
had to struggle along with such an
insufficient income there was no out
look, no comfort and very little hope.
In the course of time Emellne went
- Oh 1aff
home. After several years she
married. Emeline had no knowledge
of the first laws of hygiene or
sanitation or household management.
She didn't know and she didn't care
that some foods refresh, build and
energize and that others are injurious
under certain conditions. She had no
standards of orderliness or frugality
or thrift. This story does not end
with Emeline and her sordid life for
she had daughter and this daugh-
ter-what of her,?
What chance had Emeline's daugh-
ter to learn the things a woman
should know? How could the daugh
ter of such a woman learn even the
rudiments of 1.-The Business of Being
a Woman?" Emeline couldn't teach
her. When the parents fail in their
duty or are too busy or too in
different or too unframed to instruct
, their daughters, upon whom does
the obligation fall? The duty of
Il 4bo hot
should know to be successful, use
full, wholesome happy citizens and
home-keepers of this, our republic,
devolves upon the public school, and
there it rests. A deservedly popular
writer is telling the story of
Emeline's daughter in one of the
current magazines. How she solves
the problem. of this girls life do
not know yet, but | am much in
terested.
| do know what is being done to
save other girls from facing such big
problems unprepared and unequipped.
The American Society for Thrift
makes the statement that in the year
1913, trusted employees in America
embezzled more than $40, 900, 600.
A great proportion of these embezzle-
ment were charged against fathers
of families who had lost all sense of
honor in desperate attempt to 60
on supplying the extravagant de-
mands of families, unframed on saw
ing or proper spending, and utterly
ignorant of the real value~of dol
lar.
Experts agree that it is more
difficult to spend money wisely than
it is to earn it. Lessons in costs and
values are most important.
Girls should be trained to consider
the difference between their needs
and their desires
ITO work out scheme for oneself
in which the amount one has to spend
is divided between the vital needs,
the wants, and desires in such a way
as to give the best and most salts
factory results-this seems an ideal,
worth putting forth effort to attain.
What we think we need we work hard
to obtain, and often we find we have
much that we do not need or even
want. Dissatisfaction comes not so
much from a lack of income as from
the misuse of income. The woman
who longs to get where she won't
have to count every penny" will
never have her longing satisfied until
she first makes every penny count.
The burden of life is not lifted when
every desire is gratifed, but when
the needs of life are satisfied to the
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