Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 25, 1916, Page 15

Tealth Hints -:- emtage of the Wife By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. “Don't talk about belng master in your L @wn house. You may be while you are ) ! ‘ fhere, but you have to go out.” A man friend voiced this advice to hus- Bands some time ago. Is his view the .!r!(‘l one? do not think it is. I maintain that it B the wife, not the husband at all, who master of the house all the time. There no “may be" about it 1 am speaking domestically, d 1 take it that my friend was speak- of course, hg domestically also. I do not see how y sensible-thinking man ‘‘may be" aster of the household, even while ere. The bouse, and all that in it is, s em- phatically the wife's province, The man's fluty begins and ends in paying the rent jand taxes and providing the housekeep- ing money. He has no more right to boss the house than his wife has to interfere in his business affairs. Of course, the husband comes after the wife. It must be so. In a sense & hus band is a privileged lodger; he has rights that no ordinary lodger has, but there is a limit to his rights. 80 long as a man has a capable wife, the control of servants, the condition of the house itself, the provision of meals, and the ordering of domestic aftairs gen- erally is entirely and completely her af- fair, The man who does not let his wife run her house in her own way is reducing her to the position of a pald housekeeper, and no woman of spirit should submit to that, her very pride ought to prevent her allowing her rightful position to bs usurped. There are, it may be argued, certain | occasions when it is necessary for a man to interfere. That is true. But he should only do 8o at his wife's request. Servants often take more notice of what a man says; but that is because, if he 1s sensible, he rarely says anything to them. A husband who has to dismiss or to save his wife the disagreeable task, and not for any other reason A household that is bossed by the hus- nd is seldom a success. No matter how omesticated and fussy a man may be— and most domesticated men are fussy— he cannot run things as smoothly and satistactorily as can & competent woman. He is attempting to perform work that nature never intended him to perform It is faulty argument to say that be- cause the husband pays he should be the master. Before he married, whether he lived at home, in lodgings, or in a board- Ing house, he was more or less under feminine rule in household affairs. He probably never dreamed of interfering in fomestic ways then, so why should he expect to do so on getting married? To flo 80 is to affront his wife. It is as good us telling her that she is incompetent. And for any man to think that he can be boss of the show while he s at home, nd relegate his authority when he goes out, ia nothing short of pure cheek. He tannot run his house like he can his bus- mess; nor, if she is worth her salt, will “sis wife allow him to try and do so, She san't possibly hope to please him if she (repnmmd a maid should always do so | ter of the house in v very few well-defined ways. Broadly wpea.ing, running the house is A wife's seritage. She is the true “‘master.’ Unless there is an infant inmate! Then Miss or Master Baby usually takes con- irol. He doesn’t spend the money, true; sut it is spent for him. Everyone bows io the rule of the tiny monarch, whose iceptre is & rattle, andwhose smile is the sweetest sunshine in the home. What Women Are Doing ©ne of the features of the New York nnial of the General Federation » Women's clubg will be the evening de- voted to the reports of the Endowment tommittee. The founders of the endow- ment and those on the honor roll will be »n the stage under their state banners. Twenty-one states are represented in the §st of founders, and thirty-four states we on the honor roll. A Minneapolis paper has been asking “How much salary must a man receive before asking a girl to be his wife?" The majority of the answers, it seems, place the amount between $800 and $1,000. Some of the girls declared that they could live on any sort of salary “with a hus- band and a cottage.” Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch of New York announces that among the New York state women who will accompany her to Kansas to establish a residence #0 they can vote at the next presidential election will be Mrs. Ada Muir of Cazen- ocla, Mrs. Frank Payne of Corning, Miss Harriet Payne of Elmira and Miss B. Osterhaut of Ilton. The teachers of the schools of New York are to be organized into a union to se affillated with the American Federa- don of Labor, if certain efforts can be uccesstul. An official French order decrees that en must replace auxiliary soldiers in he army clothing stores, uniform repair hops, hospitals, and so far as possible n the shell making factories. Before the outbreak of the war there vere in Germany 800,000 more women than nen, and in Austria-Hungary, women witnumbered men by 600,000, making a otal of 1,400,000 superfluous women, and ince the war the disproportion has in- treased largely. Mrs. Russell SBage has given 36,000 to he Ballors' Home and Institute in New Fork, according to the secretary of the American Seamen's Friends' assoclation. At the institute more than a million and ¢ balf seamen have been served in one way or another during the last five vears. Miss Kathleen Burke, granddsughter of fir Edward Burke, gave a talk in Palm Geach the other day, telling what she 1ad seen in the nursing camps in Kurope She brought tears to the eyes of those w#ho heard her, and it was not very won- lerful that when the collection was taken Wp for the cause $1.000 bills were numer- we Twelve thousand dollars was col- ected. Women at last have had the doors of Solumbia College of Physicians and Sur- iggs opened to them. For more than enty-five years an effort was made to five women an opportunity te study in his superior school, and it seems rather dgnificant that the chance should come it & time when there is so much suf- ruge excitement in New York. As soon s the buildings can be arranged women vill have their opportunity in the medica choal. Devices L?gbten Kitchen Work “Which do you dislike more, dishwash ng or wiping?" 1 asked my friend, Daisy Breen, as we started to clear away the table after my first meal in her hospita ble home. 1 was brought up women who “do their own work,” was trained to the Golden Rule of dish washing, “Help your bisy hostess with the dishes, even as you would that she should wipe them for you." “You're like nirety-five and a haif other women, Bl Dalsy laughed. “She & rare housekeeper, indeed, who does dread dishwashing. Of course, it y it you think so! As to the two | ons of the cleansing, T hardly have | a choice, for 1 have eliminated the tea towel from my kitchen except for polish- ing the silver and glasses. I can't even | say 1 dread greasy d'shwater any more, | for 1 don't have it," | Such surprising doctrines nearly made me drop the cups I was stacking, but 1| remembered they were Daisy's best and [ gripped them hard ‘Well, just pre- tend I'm from Missou 4, Daisy, dear. I'm | willing to be shown!" | To start at the beginning," gan and is Dalsy be. “‘most women do not commence the work right and they are disgusted by haphazard heaps of tableware not prop- y prepared. When there were only two us 1 set the solled dishes directly tray and carried them Kitchen, set my garb- of upon a waitress' in one load to the age strainer in the sink beneath the fa | cet, rinsed the dishes in the running| water, and atacked them in regular piles, all of one kind together, upon the sink | drainboard at my right | “That's a good method for a small family. Since mine has trebled. I have bought this wheeled tea cart with its two trays and use it to carry out dishes nd left-over food and to return | the clean china to its cupboard. With | | 80 many dishes to handle T tind it better | | the dirty | | to scrape and stack them at the dining | tabie She had nearly finished this process, clearing each plate with a | wadded paper napkin and using an emptied vegetable dish to receive scraps. “A 10-cent rubber plate scraper or m soft crust of bread might be used In the sunny kitchen we continued discussion of the work in hand. As she lifted the dishes to the drainboard, Daisy explained “a right-handed woman should | pile the soiled dishes at her right, up:n a drainboard, table, shell, tea cart or tall box, and by thus routing the work from | right to left she will atoid useless, waste | motions. | Two drainboards are most desirable, | but the second may Le such a substitute as my hostess mentioned. The empty | cart was wheeled beside the left-hand hoard to receive the clean dishes. Daisy then spread out a folding dishpan rack of heavily tinned steel ribbon, three | inches high, set her biue enamel pan upon | it, filled it with warm water to which s0ap powder was added, set a crock of scalding rinse water immediately at her | left, in the sink, and a wire draining | rack upon the board just beyond it, From beneath the drainboard she drew out a stepladder stool, twenty-six inches high and sat down to her task. As my hostess hed and rinsed the silver and glass, laying it in the rack to | drip, I wiped it and placed it upon the | cart. “Now sit in my chalr and watch | me finish,” Daisy commanded, “for there is no more wiping. 1 find it so restful to sit at this work, for it saves me much energy that I need worse for other duties. I find one can work quite as well and as rapidly, provided her equipment is adjusted in helght. My stool is the same as the bed of the sink and 1 sit a.little sidewlse to get knee room. The boards are six inches higher than the sink bottom and in order to get the pan nearly the same height 1 use this stand.” “Right there I can tell you a piece of news,” 1 interrupted. “There is a new ! dishpan that has legs to raise it to a more convenlent height. The feet are rubber tipped to keep from marring the sink. It is oblong, this pan, instead of | round, and very capacious. Sink-protect- | ing s its principal idea and it has a| drain plug In the middie of the base and beneath it is a sliding drawer of wire mesh to strain the water and prevent clogging the drain pipe.” “Good idea! You're waking up, Ellen. With such a start you may cease hating dishes, too. Be sure to get & drain rack when you go home. China sterilized by bolling water dries quickly and is clean. Really, it is a more sanitary method than wiping with a cloth. Of course, a little warm water will not do, but you can save the rinse water to wash you: dishrag and clean the sink." Daisy's dishcloth was new to me, being of stout, coarse cord knotted into an open me Daisy says when all women can have unlimited supply of hot or mechanical means of forcing water under pressuré over dishes the dishcloth will be dispensed with. “Until then, choose a cloth that is rough, to give much friction, and that is very open in weave, letting suds swirl through holes to make it easy to cleanse after using.’ “Do you suppose we will ever have machinery for washing dishes?’ I asked “Why, yes, Ellen. A household dish washing machine is already a reality | I actually saw one when I visited Sister Kate last month. It is about the shape 13 of a baby's bathtub, emameled outside and within, and with a cover to pre vent splashing when iIn operation 1 1s of a size to sit in the sink a drainboard or table, Kate puts the dishes Into a special | wire basket, pours in scalding water | and washing powder, and turns the hand wheel a few minutes. The suds have been forced over and between the dishes by a fast-moving propeller wheel at one end of the pan, outside of the basket After the washing she pulls a drain plug and empties the water into the sink The dishes are rinsed and sterilized by a second application of bolling water and they dry in a jiffy. The same ma chine can be had with a small electri | or upor motor attached, Kate sald.” As she fin ished talking, Daisy slid the stepladder stool back In place under the drain board.—~Woman's World, I n-§;;;ots When you know some men they prove as disappointing as a plate of deli tessen potato salad. We have but little regard for the word of the woman who says she does not like ice cream. Do not think the man who calls you “brother” wants to pick your pockets He may be near-sighted It is safe to assume that the man who yells for an equal division of wealth is t going to lose anything by the allot { ment among | | was alwa: THE B Fashions -:- A Characteristic Pose of the Gifted Grace Darling By GRACE DARLI The Charming Young American Moving Picture Star. 19186, International Copyright, rvice. A girl asked me how she can make Lerself popular with men. I wish I knew how to answer that question, but it's the riddle of the 8phynx ithat women have been trying to guess ever since our first mother discovered that she was the only woman to our original papa. Nobody has ever been able to explain why men flock around some one girl like bees around a honey pot, girl just as good looking, as intelligent and as well dressed is left papering the wall at every party to which she goes; nor why one woman can marry six hus- bands and another woman never even gets one poor little proposal of marriage From what I can learn, the secret of popularity is a conjure that varies with different generations of men. According to old-fashioned novels—which may be supposed to reflect their day as our novels reflect ours—the things that made a girl a belle were fragility of body and weakness of mind. All the most admired heroines fa at every slight shock; many of m were invallds that spent their time re- clining on couches, and none of them ever expressed an opinion, ‘hut clung to the nearest man and let him do her thinking for her. And they were all raving, tear. ing beauties, and were very cold and dis- dainful to the suitors who came a-woo- ing. That kind of a girl wouldn't be popular now. No man would go near a girl who swooning for fear he might get a sickly wife If he married her, and anyway, he likes a girl who is an outdoor girl, and can walk and play golf, and row a boat, and be a good chum, Men also like girls who have got good sense, and thelr own point of view, and with whom they can carry on an intel- ligent conversation. And 1 don't think men are so particu- larly keen about beauty. They like a girl to be nice looking, and well dressed, and to present a good appearance, but they dom’t Insist on her being a living picture. Look about you and you will see that there are very few married women who would ever have gotten the blue ribbon prize In a beauty show My edvice to any girl make herself popular with men, would be to learn how to do the things that men like to do—how to dar how to play a good game of bridge, how t play golf or tennis. Men are not bullt of who wants to the stuff of which martyrs are made, and | no man is going to ask a girl to dance who treads all over his feet, or to play bridge with him if she trumps his ace. Nor is he going to refrain from amusing | News while another | OMAHA, SATGRDAY, MAR( 1916. Woman’s Work - h|n|mlf in the way he likes best in order lo sit around a house and entertain a &irl who doesn't do things. | in these days a girl who wants beaux has got “to put herself in an attitude to receive the blessing.' as old-fashioned Methodists used to say Then a girl should cultivate taet in | dealing with men. When a man takes a gmirl to the movies she shouldn't dis- course about her passion for grand opera. When he ‘treats her to beer and sand- wiches she needn't spend the time talk- ing about truffles and champagne, nor, when he takes, her on the street car, need she tell how wome other man always brings around a limousine. Yet I have heard girls commit these very blunders, and then wonder why the man that they had made feel small and stingy didn’'t come back (o see them |and you'll always find that the popular Grace Darling’s Talks to Girls | | No. 5.—The Traits in a Gir! that Men Like || ! again, The only way that a ®irl can repay a man for his attentions ix by showing him that she appreciates them, girls are the girls that make a man feel as if he were giving them the time of their lives, no matter how simple is the pleasure, Above all, T think that the way for a girl to make herself popular with men Is to be good natured and companionable, teady to enter whole heartedly into any kind of innocent fun. That kind of a girl makes a man feel that she's just a chum, and that she lsm't trylng to marry him and he likes te be with her for that reason. But nobody can give a girl any cut- and-tricd recipe for popularity. The in- grodients and the flavoring have to be changed to sult each Individual man, Advice to Lovelorn‘ By Beatrice Fairfax You Must Be Dear Miss Fairfax: I am employed by a man, though he I8 very considerate of me is every way, he is entirely too fa- | millar as an employer und as a married | man. I have found it useless 1o sk leave me alone, | upon atel Firm. him to 1 am entirelv dependent myself or | would leave immedi- - He pays m good salary and the very pleasant. WORRIED. | My dear girl, there are plenty of good positions open to you if you are willing to look for them and to work hard, even | it at an uncongenial task. You must do one of two things. Either leave this | man’'s employ or be absolutely firm in taking & stand which will make him | realize once and for all that your rela- tions with him are purely impersonal and of a business nature only. Possibly you | are unnecessarily suspicious. Have | must pay to the uttermost farthing what G;rls M?tst Pad bebts The Rev. Dr. Charles B. Jefferson of the Broadway tabernacle has a sermon to grown-up daughters. In it he gives the following reasons why women must forego the privilege of repudiating their debts and pay up like men, “A woman, no less than a man, is In the grip of inexorable moral law, and each alike on the threshold of most cases a Charm- Ing creature and because of the chival- ric _devotion which Is paid her she Is in danger of losing sight of the demands of the eternal law. She must do her share of the world's work. She must begin at home. She must pay her debts to her parents, and then to her brothers and sisters. Elder daughters can do for thelr younger sisters what no one else can do. Standing between their mother and these young aslsters, they can do much to bring both sides into closer sympathy. Because of thelr wider he owes. A girl womanhood is In plain talk with your employer— a man to man business talk in which there is no element of coquetry. Be honest with yourself and make sure you are doing | nothing to encourage the very thing of which you complain. Don't Be Absurd. Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 an age, have a good position In 18 years n" a bank and themselves to each of young people de sther éntirely vote is out place Grand Prize, Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 Grand Prize, Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1615 DRINK BAKER'S COCOA REG, U. 8. PAT, WALTER BAKER & CO. LTD. | | DORCHESTER, MASS, am in love with a4 girl who Is 16 years old. ‘She is a little coquettish and lets inother fellow eall on her when | am not with her. Now I would like to know how 1 can #top this without a quarrel You have no right to demand that this | =ir! give up her other friends. A friend hip ‘between a boy of 18 and 4 girl of i Is all very well—if the girl's parents approve. But a love affair in which the | experfence they can understand their | mother, and because of thelr youth they | can enter more fully into the feelings of thelr younger sisters."—Woman's Ilum\' Companion. Fashwn s Spring Signs| Lavender, with a fasi of emerald green, composes & fascinating color scheme. | we tunic skirt is still with us, but it has taken the Imes of the draped over-| | skirt of ola Ostrich trimming i« used again. Hata, evening gowns and parasols are decked | with it | If you are clever with the paint brush you can paint the trimming on a lttle girl's hat | Kid in soft colorings trims many of the | martest walking suits this spring | For its Delicious Flavor, its and its High Food Value. GUARD AGAINST IMITATIONS; the genuine pack- age has the trade-mark of the chocolate girl on the wrapper and is made only by Excellent Quality 15 - H ousehold__ Tomce ¢ A Dainty Suggestion QOur Ice Cream daintily served can solve many of your enter- taining problems. 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