| Show WOMANS MANY WORRIES The Crying Sin of the Ambitions and Busy Housekeeper A mistaken idea is that any one can keep house As well say that any one can run a business practice a trade or direct a vessel Al these employments have to bo diligently j studied before thoy can be mastered The same routine should be pursued in fitting girls for homes of their own Many mothers moth-ers are beginning to see this having learned bitter lessons from their own experience The daughters too with that practical good sense which characterizes a large proportion ol the much maligned American girls are taking matters into their own hands attending cooking classes and making mak-ing practical tests of their efficiency at home Keeping house for S mother to whom to I turn for advice whoso trained servants oodnaturedly strive to make things easy for what they consider the young ladys whim Is a very different affair from the I same business pursued with undivided wih responsibility re-sponsibility and with unaccustomed assistance assis-tance One of the first things to learn is the I power of oiling the domestic machinery to II I save both it and herself unnecessary wear and tear Still while many n woman may so direct her household affairs that they run smoothly it may he at the price of such a strain upon herself that the success will LI I cost her dear One of the crying sins 1 it deserves to be called by so harsh a name 01 tho ambitious bustling housewife is worry She lies awake at night thinking of whit has gone wrong during the day and planning how she shall remedy it on the morrow dwells upon the thought that the pickles may be fermenting or the preserves spoiling bemoans be-moans herself over the rapid lowering of the contents of tho flour barrel and groans mentally the thought of the housekeep ing hills She wakes unrefreshed and more prone than over to fall a victim to the dozen worries that are awaiting her descent to the culinary department in the shape of a late breakfast a sourfaced cook an untidy cellar cel-lar or an uuswept diningroom It is often a misfortune of temperament or nerves and not a fault of temper Nevertheless Never-theless the fact that it grows rapidly by exercise renders it incumbent upon every woman to do all she can to minimize the fretful disposition that makes such anxieties anxie-ties a burden not to the bearers alone but to all about thorn IV Y Recorder |
