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Show The Housekeeper Needs a Rest Too CHE liousukeeper novcr grows tired. The housekeeper's duties are of ao light an order that It is not necessary sho shall tako a f! hummer rest. Housekeeping Is the ? simplest of occupations, and a recrea-i recrea-i tlon In Itsolf. m Uieso sentences Is comprised the If' belief of nearly every man; of nearly M every one indeed, except tho house-jf house-jf keeper herself. One of tho latter sat . down wearily the other day and slgh-jj, slgh-jj, Ing. remarked, "How I should like to go somewhere where I would not have to order a meal for aces; where I R would not know that the roast had ft cost a dollar and a half and therefore mi must do for two dinners and a lunch-I lunch-I i con; whero I would not have lr break t tho news to tho cook that tho soup l( L was not properly flavored, and to tho r maid that I was awaro she had not But In This Opinion Few Husbands Hus-bands Nor Blood Relatives Rel-atives Concur. written out fourteen menus, and handed hand-ed them ovor with a triumphant smile. "Just like falling off a log," ho commented. com-mented. "I wish 'I could do It for a living." Hid Wife looked at him with ardent admiration, an admiration which swiftly faded as sho took In the details de-tails of hl3 work. In his bills of fare ho had not taken left-ovors Into account ac-count at all. Each day's dinner commenced com-menced with a roast from ono of the animals which wo use as food, and then never appeared again. More than that he had arranged to havo shad at a time when thcro wa3 nono In l KEy 1 MZ 1 F III I! l ' PT rW ' h ' 1 7 u t ; i ii rv iipfiiiSlli v liJBBHIHHHaBHBSRHHBBwBBHMBHBii(BfiilHHpl 1- That The Legs Of Tho Batlitub Had Not Been Scrubbed. m scruDDea mo legs oi tno Datn-tuo. '! And at this her husband laughed 9 conaumcdly. "Tho very Idea of your A' being tlrod," ho cried. "The very idea $ of a woman who has two sorvants to & work for hor, who has nothing to do I but to give orders, needing a vacation. .& Housokeeplng,"cald he, "Is tho simplest r of all Indoor sports; I wish I had It nothing moro difficult to do." Sho turned on him at that Inwom- j an's disconcerting way. "If It Is bo 'l easy," sho domanded, "mako mo out a few dinner menup." 'i So ho accoptod the challenge llko I a shot and sat himself down at his ' dosk and In twenty minutes ho had tno marKot; ne naa oraoroa ceiery whon that vcgotablo was both scarce and high; ho nad mado nothing of demanding French artichokes at 36-cents 36-cents apiece, nor cndlvo when It could not bo had at any price. Though it was August and hot as only August can bo, each dinner began with a heavy and hot soup. Fruit appeared but seldom. "I do not llko fruit," ho explained naively. "In as far as I am able," said tho wife, "I will follow your menus If you will promise to pay tho dlffcronoo between what I shall have to spend for them and what I would hnvo spent If I had ordered.' The husband agreed to this and the dlfTcrenco In tho tablo expenses for those two wcek3 was exactly $16. "Which shows," said tho housekeeper, housekeep-er, as sho broko the news to her better half, "that after all thoro is soino technique In my profession which must bo learned." And so there Is; much moro than tho layman suspects. Even If tastes were not diverse, appetites capricious, servants unreliable and tradesmen disappointing, dis-appointing, keeping house would be no slmplo Job; as It Is ! Well. For It's, "Plcaao m'm tho grocer only sent six green poppers, when thero are seven people for dinner." And It's, "No I thank you, I never .eat veal; I think I should find baby moro appetizing." Or It's. "Are you having Spanish cream for dessert twice in tho same weok, dear? Really with a cook-book full of recipes It does seem as If you might give us more variety." Frequently tho housekeeper's only "rest" consists In being transported to somo cooler cllmo where sho must keep houso just tho samo as ever with the possible difference that vegetables and sorvants aro harder to sccuro and higher In price. Surely for at least ono month In each year every woman who Is at tho head of a household should havo tho comfort com-fort of sitting down to table without knowing to tho last Item what she Is going to havo to eat, how much It cost, and what dish will be made from Us remains on the morrow, but this Is not the popular opinion so It Is tho housekeeper who soldomest of all tho family takes a vacation. |