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Show HIED LIFE ON $80 A MONTH I H Mrs. Eva Leonard's Story of Married Life on $80 a Month 1 Household Hints Keep List of Things to be Done To B Embroider Rose Design Recipe for Rice a la Conde H "All this fighting of germs comes H from marrying a doctor, I suppose." H Mrs. Dunn's tono showed pained irrl- H tatiou. "People were as well and far H happier whon everything they touch- H cd did not hare to be boiled, steamed H and baked to be sterilized. One would H think the human touch was poison- H our from the fuss that's made." H j Olive laughed and her mother con- H "Everything one buys is done up in H waxed paper or pasteboard cartons, H and is sealed and stamped germ proof. H, That's what makes things cost so H much more." j "Ob, mother!" objected Olive. H "It certainly has increased the cost H of living very appreciably," Insisted Hl the mother. H "Well, you certainly are willing to Hj pay for having your bread done up H in waxed papers and your milk put H in bottles, aren't you? They certainly H are cleaner." Olive was amused at H her mother's irritation. H "There is nothing so certain about H that; it depends on how the papers B arc handled," persisted Mrs. Dunn. H "That is nonsense, mother," said H Olive. "You can see that as the bread H is to be handled by so many different H people, it would bo much safer to H have it wrapped." H "Oh, I have no objection to their H wrapping the bread. I suppose it is a good scheme. It isn't that; it is B the constant trotting of the subject H to tho fore. I think it really hurts H the health more to be forever safe- H guarding it than all the germs we so H unconsciously swallowed years ago H ever did. Really, if I lived according 1 to scientific rules I could not have a H free moment in the day. It's regular H bondage." Mrs. Dunn patted her H braids and adjusted her skirts to a H "You must admit that the death U rate has been greatly lessened by the H hygienic improvements science has B introduced. Take it among babies, H for instance." Olive smiled cheer- H fully as she crocheted on a little H "In the slums, yes," admitted her H .mother. "People are teaching those H 'slum dwellers how to be decently, or- H dinarily clean. They are supervis- H ing their food supply for they are H too ignorant to do it themselves. H When they can get them educated to K be just old-fashioned clean, I hope H there will be less hue and cry over H germs. Nobody wants dirt, but I am H tired of hearing about it all the time." H "So am I, mother. Let's change M the subject" Olive was losing her H cheerfulness in some degree. H Mrs. Dunn rocked jerkily for a few minutes in silence. Then she raised her head and, looking at 'Olive, said solemnly: "I was very much surprised, Olive, to have you speak of. your expected child before your husbaud and me. It was. very Indelicate to say the least." Olive laid down the sock and went off into a gale of laughter. "I do not think it was much of a surprise to either of you," she said. "In my time," said the little lady, bridling, "people were not expected to speak of such things in a mixed company." "Oh, mother, I shall never get over shocking you, I fear." Olive wiped the tears of laughter from her eyes and picked up her work. "How did you ever happen to have so unconventional uncon-ventional a daughter?" she sighed. (To bo continued) |
