1889 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
827 
calling hard names. I happen to know 
that she is a hona fide girl: that she says 
these very things and Bert lives and 
breathes to-day as reckless, as warm-heart¬ 
ed, as careless of his sister as ever in the way 
of work-saving. He lets her wait on him, 
hunt up his cap when he throws it under 
the table, pick up after him continually, 
and I do not wonder at girls on lonely farms 
sometimes comparing their lot with that of 
those who have every facility for taking life 
easier. In fact, I can point my pen to 50 girls 
like Charity in their aspirations for better 
things, that will not be put down by sneers, 
or helped by jeers. They are girls who 
do their duty and work on in their little 
sphere trying to “ make things pleasant in 
one little place,” and many of them you 
would never suspect of deeper feelings: 
but they feel all the same the necessity for 
something else, and inwardly rebel against 
the dreary routine. Especially is this felt 
when city people come who have so much 
easier, broader lives—no pig-killing, sau¬ 
sage-making or lard rendering, etc. ; no 
bread-making, dairy work, calf-feeding or 
poultry tending, to say nothing of the im¬ 
proved appliances which they do have for 
regular housework. 
“ Oh ! ” said a “ Charity ” to me the other 
day, “ if we only had a kitchen like Mrs. 
Townhouse’s—hot water and cold, no 
pumping and heating in pots, stationary 
tubs and a washer-woman. It seems like 
entering a housewife’s paradise to go into 
her kitchen.” Oh, do not blame such girls, 
and when the brothers make things harder 
by their carelessness and want of thought, 
what better outlet than the Rural New- 
Yorker for telling their troubles, even if 
•one of them sometimes forgets that “char¬ 
ity covers a multitude of sins.” 
The Rural New-Yorker is not kept up 
specially for successes. Its editors bid us 
tell of our failures, of our reverses, and our 
trials, and if but one “Bert” should see 
himself “as ithers see” him, the space will 
not be lost that 1ms been given to the let¬ 
ters that have brought forward such com¬ 
ments. No one can tell another’s trials 
without living the other’s life, and the 
picture presented by Charity is one not 
overdrawn. In fact I am of the opinion 
that its very truthfulness causes all the 
trouble. Charity is not a perfect girl by 
any means; but her outspoken protests 
would not tell against her if I were judg¬ 
ing character. 
Why, she said to me lately : “ I had no 
idea they would put such severe and ab¬ 
surd constructions on what I wrote,” and 
I replied : “ Well, little girl, you will find 
out if you write for the newspapers that the 
public is Janus-faced, and can take any¬ 
thing you may say just as it happens to 
suit them.” All this my wife indorses. 
JOHN REAL. 
COMFORTABLE HOUSE-KEEPING. 
A LL good housekeepers have a system, 
a programme for each day of the 
week, a special day for this and for that 
kind of work, and the more thoroughly 
systematic the housekeeper the more thor¬ 
oughly disconcerted is she when the “mill 
does not turn round with a free good¬ 
will,” with the exact grist for its particu¬ 
lar day. 
When a woman finds her world all going 
wrong from any one well known cause, in¬ 
terruptions that have kept and will keep 
right on occurring all through life, she 
should ask herself if she is simply existing 
to wash on a set day, that she may iron, 
bake, sweep and wash again, just as the 
Western farmer, according to a humorist, 
“lives to xaise corn, to feed hogs, to sell 
for money, to buy land, to raise more corn, 
to feed more hogs, to sell for more 
money,” etc., till the Omnipotent steps in 
and puts a stop to the business. 
There is always a sensible and a com¬ 
fortable medium between all extremes, and 
it exists between too much “ system” and 
no “ system,” and it can be found by every 
progressive woman. The most contented 
housekeepers that I know, are those that 
have no “special days;” who plan for uot 
more than two days ahead, doing each day 
whatever is the most necessary. Necessity 
first, then convenience. Preparing meals, 
washing dishes, making beds, and keeping 
living-rooms in order are necessities that 
belong to every day of the week, and should 
never be interfered with by any other 
housework. 
To devote the whole time between break¬ 
fast and dinner to auy one kind of work 
means to a woman of average strength, the 
eating of a dinner in anything but a com¬ 
fortable state of body and mind. It is well 
known that if we change our work the labor 
will be less tiresome than continuous work 
of one kind ; but some women are so consti¬ 
tuted, they are such slaves to “ habit,” that 
in preference to dividing work—washing 
for instance—between two mornings, they 
would rather prolong the agony even till 
afternoon, and spend the remaining day in 
restoring their strained muscles and nerves 
to their normal condition. It is an easy 
matter to divide a washing between two 
days in winter or summer, and thus take 
advantage of both warm and short fore¬ 
noons, and lessen the labor at the same 
time. 
It is better to combine one-half of a wash¬ 
ing with as much sweeping as can be com¬ 
fortably done before the dinner hour than 
to devote the whole time either to washing 
or sweeping. A divided wash can be fin¬ 
ished in connection with bread-baking, and 
the clothes can be out drying earlier than 
otherwise possible. Cake or pie-making or 
both can be followed by as much plain 
ironing as time w'ill admit, while the 
sweeping of one or more cool rooms will 
give a needed change from the starched 
clothes for an hour or more. 
I know the objections that many women 
have to dividing work in this way, and yet 
the same amount of labor is accomplished 
and with a degree of comfort not found in 
any system that does not make allowance 
for rainy wash days and unexpected com¬ 
pany. Ought a well-kept house to need 
sweeping from cellar to garret upon any 
one day of the week ? Do prudent house¬ 
keepers allow a dearth of bread, pie and 
cake to occur at one time ? Nothing sht rt 
of sickness or poverty should compel one to 
do a washing under unfavorable circum¬ 
stances. 
It is no wonder that so many girls dislike 
house ork, when they see old housekeepers 
sit down during the valuable hours of a 
forenoon to pare pumpkins for stewing, and 
pass the afternoon in making pies ; to pre¬ 
pare fruit for cooking, and be canning or 
making jelly or jam till the going down of 
the sun; wading through wet grass for 
fruit or vegetables; hanging clothes out 
and bringiug them in, thawing them out 
and drying them by the fire ; never wash¬ 
ing one window without washing twenty ; 
never cleaning one room without cleaning 
the whole house through, and never cook¬ 
ing a mouthful for themselves, but all for 
the “ men folks.” 
Personal appearance has more to do with 
making housework pleasant and in creat¬ 
ing a dislike for it in young women of nat¬ 
urally refined and sensitive natures, than 
the real work itself. To any who may 
doubt this assertion I would say : “ Please 
comb your hair and dress yourself through¬ 
out the same as you would if expecting 
company to dinner, and protected by a 
good, big apron, go into your kitchen and 
do your work carefully, daintily (an ac¬ 
complishment), and then note your feel¬ 
ings and see if you have not discovered 
something—something that will add to 
your own contentment, and may add to the 
happiness of some other woman not as 
large yet or as old as yourself.” 
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