Show l A fEAST BY MARGARET E SANGSTER 1 CARDINAL point In the hume home management of ot many admirable house housekeepers housekeepers L A keepers leep rs is s punctuality at I t the breakfast ta table table ble biP Breakfast must be ready tEady at the stroke of the clock and every everyone ever everonE everyone one must be seated as ass soon s soon on as it Is s announced The argument for fc this is a 8 specious one onea How a V is the house to be set in order orderY Y w ta is the daily daU work to get itself done ne if breakfast bre krast of or all the meals the most Important Is delayed by b drowsy people who take their ease to the confusion and annoyance of the e mistress and the disturbance of h r system 1 T knew a n family living In a suburb of I New Ne York Fork who were compelled on chilly winter mornings to be up and at atthe atthe atthe the breakfast table at 6 the head of I the house taking a train to busi business ness ress No exceptions were allowed Guests staying in the house an aged end and feeble grandmother and the six sin children hUdren all the Ole way w y from 12 years old to 2 were obliged to come down instantly in instantly instantly I when whan wh 1 the bell rang A pw per p peremptory p rising bell sounded through the bouse house at and if it this did not rouse the th children the equally peremptory peremptory tory summons of ot the mother did so The father apologetic annoyed hurried hur hurried hurried ried would have been thankful to eat eata a solitary breakfast but this madame would not entertain entert ln as feasible When papa has to go away so early earl and arid work so hard to support the children it is little enough for them to be down stairs early and take breakfast with him I cannot have hae breakfast standing for hours nor have hae trays carried to rooms she would say sa I r Iam ram Iam am sure ure grandmother Is better for be ing up early e In 1 short her system was inelastic and Inflexible and all no I appeal could be made from her de decision She was an autocrat as really re 1 as lf the czar and nobody dare protest I am personally it a rebel bells bens in a household They are the proper 1 things In factories prisons and orphan asylums Also In great institutions of 1 every ery description where they the save so ye I time and labor But ButI I dont wish to tobe tobe I be bl aroused In the morning at home by byan byan y an 1 1 intrusive clamor of a bell beH nor to tobe tobe I be b interrupted at noon by its Impertinent Impertinent i nent warning In a family rami there is generally an understanding about the hours for Cor meals and it is perfectly 1 easy for every e ery one to obey obe this unformulated unformulated order so that all may gather in it a central place just before a meal is k served and there may be a general response to the notice of dinner or luncheon and the family may rally rall without fuss and stir 1 A bell ben disturbing the last nap of ot an elderly person or an invalid is a shock shocking ing lag discord In the morning As for children Childre they should never neer be wakened wak wakened ened but should go 0 to bed so early that having baing slept sufficiently they the I will awake as tir Ur birds do without I being called d But they cannot do this unless Jh 3 have the habit babit of ot of early re retiring I tiring h should n ver be e optional with growing rowing children childr n My f housekeeping bOU friends ds have hoe a fancy fan fancy cy that work cannot cannot go on unless or 0 until breakfast be out of th the way 8 Does i sot not something lg depend on the kind and aDd manner of breakfast If the old oid I fashioned d heavy hem breakfast including meat fried cakes cak s and hot bis his biscuits cults be still the rule they fhe have haea a i measure me sure of right on their thir side To pre tare arc serve sane clear oft of and put away awa I this special variety of breakfast Is no I sinecure particularly when added to I It are fruit ruit and cereal as well as cof coffee coffee i itee fee tee and tea But only a hardworking hard work ins man who wh cannot c expect peet a chance to I secure a substantial luncheon lunch n has the I slightest reason for a very ety hearty heart breakfast The rest re of they the th family are i better off with a light one such as fl cm uit rolls porridge and coffee with a abit abIt abit bit of or crisp bacon an egg or toast tont Each grown person who comes com s in turn i ma serve himself or herself and aft afterward erward with little trouble put by the i dishes used No reason exists that j compels a woman to do all aU the dish I washing aft in A boy or man man may I ay do db t I quite quit us s well wen and bJ his h s dignity di dil n be t e d dem by b washing and wiping a acup acup acup cup and saucer The slight breakfast required by bj invalids and old ohl people I may ma be carried c to the Che room and ana an chil children 11 I Idren dren who are not attending school may ivay 11 as woj pick up tip a breakfast as us I the birds do Most of or us eat too much and end too soon after rising School of curs course alters rs the case cage for children I They must be In their places at nine and ind they must m st have bave their breakfast t starting Bu But their necessity I should not control their elders 0 It 0 The phantom that ves its weird I end cad nd m n hand before beCore many a j housekeeper is the fear that the i work stork will not be performed at the I very er hour hoar she has put down do n for it on her schedule One of these the martinet Itous hous keepers hns has so reduced ed her plans pl ns to L a minute system that she had 1 um among among others ot ers framed fram and suspended in her kli kitchen ehen for the maid to follow Thursday at t 1030 wash butter bowl Why the butter butterI owl I was to be washed wash d at a specified hour on a specified day was vas a puzzle impossible to solve Tell me m Miran I da Ga I pleaded you oa ou bare nive h this dt df d so conspicuously I set down tot Cor Bridgets guidance My uy mother was the crushing py ply Pf she her butter but r bowl on un T 7 day morning at half halfast ast 10 ai aido do I T IThe t i The 1 s w n weft war w tat net t I subject to repeal in the ancient N Ither ahr in Sn some som families 1 are aro ar the tb Me WOi t Persian traditions of th lit past Fast U wJ Ur interfered with by b Iconoclastic Ono erns They are sacred Why Wh should s the work be always at th the same precise moment In t 1 L same pre ft Way Wil r Why should Ne i not oc T lt it go goo and paw your our bouillon cups ups or read your n w I hook or embroider your center en tel piece Iee Between Mondays rub and Saturdays Saturday scrub as somebody has said there is l I tim tins enough for the sweeping the lh dusting the rug beating the polishing poU and the preserving time for all I IT stork rork T rk but if you ou live by a cast Iu method there maybe will vIll b no time I Ifor for play To thousands of af toiling I housewives the best message mes g I c can n send is a message to take e life les l lees I fiercely fi less strenuously l Be aisy ais said St Patrick to the im Ire tt serpent serpent shut m nL m in a box boa t botio n o lake B S Baisy Br aisy is the th dictum of common commo sense to the th demon misnamed d con r SeRe that stirring in the pt of the housekeepers heart hean B Il r ralS Ilary ary alS sy and try having an au elastic break brcak breakfast fast tut hour Copyright t 1305 CO by Joseph B Bowles 0 |