Show NEEDLESS HOUSEHOLD DRUDGERY corn think women coald get without doln so much work are women beaves of much needless household coald many falla and fancies now seemed indispensable be done away with by housewives who do most of their own work if not all A western girl who had been accustomed in her own home to often see all the household arrangements made to harmonize with biome pleasure trip found afe ufe at her aunts in an eastern country town almost unbearable owing to the att ironey of housework which gan monday mora bright and early saturday night fo thing was interfere with a as the of the to put ff an ironing 1 to change the day of weeping for donld have been awarded as little short of lunacy ebere is no instance of serfdom more complete than that of the woman who is bound hand and foot to a hereditary sya in of housework who cannot adapt herself to the new situation which demands something more of her than that if ahall b a faultless housekeeper and at onea eummer travels reveal the fact djs there many just anch women women who would rather stand on their feet whole day and perhaps half ofin other than wear gan which fiad not been just BO carefully smoothed limply because their mother and their mother always took great pride o weekly ironing every auch town also has its ocial clab a gathering which through b is increased by members anure or less revolutionary to the exis of things by varied expert acea the greater part of the year away from hornet and it was by some of them that the preceding questions were dia inthe poor aeouls could only be convinced that much of this toil is not only amt necessary necea sary but that it is absolutely mong to devote hour to nn essentials much more essential are detected and that probably one would att josf as long if there waa no such a honse holi science as and as for torching tor ching garments why no one con lidah thatah all artistic nowadays breathlessly a tall slim yellow faced divinity who had discovered of clinging draperies w such a view of the case was startling enough to bring out exclamations on all aide what a heaven this would be with no ironing every tuesdays or the ideal is too absurd to even think of well even if it is too absurd said another 1 I have made my work a great deal easier lately by only ironing about half what I 1 used to the pillow cases table linen those pieces just folding up and putting away the rest rough dry and who knew the difference for my part I 1 am convinced women have much to learn in domestic economy but what about diah washing naw it there is one kind of housework more than another against tired woman rebels it is washing dishes there laa certain feminine satisfaction in preparing well cooked meal in making a tempting display of pretty accessories laut most women agh before the piles of which are the inevitable conse ot to troth ro lam cross nd tired like smashing every diab yes BO do I 1 but you know what happened who really did throw her dirty dishes out of tho kitchene kitchen 4 window v though ahia was the only evi benco her friends concluded she was insane and ant her in an asylum for my part 1 prefer to think she was more sano than th cherest erest but still yon see it ia rather hazardous to carry your revolutionary ideas too far the only sensible thing to dois do is to which can start cups and plates which can b manufactured something like the traya used now by stores for butter and which can be bought as cheap as kindling wood this was a decidedly new idea but of course met with shouts of derision by those who took great in their array of fina china and barkling par kling glass then some one told about dish washing machine a sort of churn with wire shelkea in which rows of dishes ao securely held while the sadaar washed over them someone some one fuated that children would b not more so in un and panta ata it would be better for the whole family if many a mother would try and simplify her housework so that she could read more and take more pleasures A well regulated house is a great comfort and a good housekeeper is worth fsr weight in gold but all the am there is not the slightest doubt that she could economize time and strength in many departments if she would persuade herself to invent methods of her own and not be BO bound to those he has inherited brooklyn eagle |