Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-29

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buttonholes to be repaired and the in
Vulnerable buttons to be sewed on. This |
little woman, the American working |
wife. is too busy planning or making |
the Winter wardrobes of the whole fam
lily to permit complaining thoughts 10
register in her active brain.
Busy Thursday.
Coming back to the weekly schedule. !
Thursday is our busy executives day
for such odd jobs as making jelly ant.
apple butter, or giving fresh coat Of
paint to the hall and stairs, or varnish-
ing the furniture in the boys room to
cover up many hard knocks or going
downtown on shopping expeditions.
Friday Is cleaning day, when the
whole house must be swept and busted,
and the bathroom kitchen and porch
floors scrubbed, the front and back !,
yards picked up" and the gas stove,
cooking utensils and silver polished.
Our busy executive goes through this
humdrum program every week without
complaint. but with the wish that she
might have a few accessories like a
vacuum cleaner. an electric refrigerator
or maid of all work, when she is feel
ing tired out.
And what q day is Saturday! The |
older children are home from school to |
help with the chores and to mind Nellie |
and Jimmy and keep them out of mis- |
haps. But there is a lot of extra bak- |
ing and marketing to be done. i failed |
to mention the provision OF food. the |
cooking OF, three meals day, always a |
big part of every days schedule in look |
ing after family.
Then there is the Saturday catering |
and cooking. It is something of q job |
to buy enough food along all lines to |
last until Monday and enough dry gro
ce-ies to supply the whole week. Mother |
goes to the store, but on this day not |
alone, because she couldn't manage to |
hing everything home without the help |
of her right-hand man, her son John. |
anC his express wagon. Saturday after |
noon. when her husband is at home. |
his wife and oldest boy help him weed |
the onion bed. prune the rose bushes |
and plant few flower seeds.
Not a Day Of Rest.
Then comes Sunday, the day Of rest, |
but it is no day of rest for this execu-
tive of ours. She is up bright and early |
to cook the breakfast and get the chill |
dren ready for Sunday school and |
church, to sew up sudden run in a |
stocking, TO brush off this ones coat |
and comb that ones hair, to find |
Sunday school lesson book, and to get |
the whole crowd in order and Off |
There isn't even time to draw a breath |
then, for she must clean I'D from |
breakfast, make the beds. straighten
the house, dress herself for church, and I
go and collect and coax the whole tribe |
until she gets them all, safely landed |
in the pew In her place OF worship
4 After church she has to hustle home /
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be late.
And so the DAYS of the week mass, |
each full and overlooking with activities. +
But her evenings, surely she has some |
time to rest then" you say. But peep |
into her little home after supper and |
you see her washing the dishes,
Strengthening the kitchen and three |
nights week making bread and set
ting 1t to rise. Then there are the |
children's lessons to be heard almost |
every night. for mother is quick about |
ngureS from handling her own accounts.
and knows how to drill her young ones
in this spot. -
BY the time she has undressed the |
younger children. heard their prayers, |
tucked them in bed, and made her plans |
Tor the morrow, it is after 10 O'Clock
and she Is too tired and sleepy to do |
anything else but put out the milk
bottles. lock all the doors and windows, |
! turn out the lights and tumble into !
ped with the thought of being ready |
10 get up early the next morning.
Needs Expand Yearly.
This keeuing OF accounts is no small |
matter with our big business manager, |
but task that requires good Judgment |
and planning. Although her husbands |
earnings from year to year increase |
| only at snails pace, the needs and |
wants Of the family seem to advance |
each year with a giant stride. The
older children get. the longer grows |
the list Of essentials for their develop |
ment. To be sure, her husband turns |
over to her his pay envelope each |
week: Experience has proved that she |
Is better financier than he. In fact |
her skill in getting the necessities for |
the family out of that pay envelope |
Is equal to magician's.
The problem of feeding a family of |
elgnt, including several growing boys
ana a huSy man in this present age, is
almost enough to dishearten any one. |
! But the working wife tackles the situ-'
alton like foot ball hero. And she gets |
there every time! She watches the
papers and advertisements for sales and
knows when and where to buy the bulk
and how by saving few pennies here,
there, and all along the line, to get the
soap for 6la cents, 15-cent canned
goods for 1879 cents, and sugar, -four. |
meal and coffee each for a couple of
| pennies pound less, in the long run
makes possible the purchase Of quite
bit more. She knows where to buy the |
/ cheaper cuts of meat and how to con-
vert them into appetizing dishes. She
! knows the fine art of furnishing plenty
OF nourishment for her family out OF
the less expensive vegetables, cereals
| and fruits. She keeps her youngsters
well fed, happy and healthy because
\ she Is a good and economical purveyor.
buyer and cook and one who knows how
TO save her husbands money but who is
lavish in the amount Of her own
| thought and energy.
In buying clothes she is Just as wise
! and just as skillful as she is with food.
She has a real nose for bargains. Being
, a normal woman she loves bargain for
Its own sake, but she loves bargains
: more for what they mean. Without bar
gains and special sales she could never
keep her family decently and properly
clothed. She always knows when and
where there is to be a remarkable re-
duction in the price Of mems shirts or
! childrens Shoes
Mother Meets Bills.
1t is the mother who also parcels out
a portion of the limited income for the
regular payments on the little five-roorn
house which she and her husband hope
TO own some day. She must nav with
out fail the gas and electric bills once a
month, and the coal and wood bills. Out
OF her roll OF billS-none too fat--which
the one and only real breadwinner in
the family brings home to his wife
every Saturday, she needs to set aside
the sums necessary for his insurance,
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