Show smooth running routine in the home by JEAN NEWTON THE other day I 1 telephoned to a friend ot mine who had just left the hospital with her second baby to ask how the newly enlarged family was getting on and whether there was anything I 1 might be able to do tor her along with other good things of life she had a well organized household with well trained help when last I 1 had seen her at the hospital she had been well and strong BO strong in fact that she was per matted to go home a day earlier than is usual ordinarily a cheerful person as she was I 1 expected to bear a bright happy voice over the telephone but no things were not going very well everything she said was going so beautifully I 1 was eager to get home and made the doctor let me out a day early with that fine nurse at home waiting for the baby and my wonderful maid taking charge of everything I 1 looked forward to being at home but she said ruefully I 1 looked forward to the routine of everything at home being well managed and not to anything unforeseen happening well it did two days after I 1 got home the maid left of course I 1 got another one and I 1 think shell be all right but when you expect to come home to a running existence and just to slip into your old routine that bort of thing certainly does spoil it don t imagine I 1 gasn wasn t sympathetic but I 1 help beans amused by my friend s assumption that this break ins up of her regular routine by an unexpected circumstance was a very special sort of happening or problem the fact Is that what most of us regard as happiness to be realized only in the Is a chance to just go ahead and do what we want to do without interruptions to be able to slip into a routine which we have planned tor ourselves without the constant breaks of special unforeseen circumstances and special demands upon us which break up that smooth running routine to which we had hoped to be able to devote ourselves it Is just that sort of thing only frequently it Is more serious in na ture than the deflection of a maid that complicates life for all of us were it not for them life would be almost like one of those lovely cruises on green blue waters under a pale blue sky with nothing in the world to do except what you feel like doing at that moment it be wonderful 1 and yet such cruises do get monotonous after a while and it may be that much of the fun in life the zest and tang and never ending interest of it might be lost without interruptions 0 ll 11 bell barraco |