Life — February 23, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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154 “Lal i * Sham Puesne. for their destruction, columns of counsel in the daily Tan was a small boy of DuQuesne, press. The workingman’s wife is told she can pro- Who bad a most terrible puesno; vide a meal, at once palatable and nutritious, for a few Tho doctors, in doubt, cents. She knows, poor soul, she can do nothing of Tagned: the fauloside-cabt, the sort, and she is far too sensible to try; but her And ho never has felt it aguesne! 7 ‘ . husband, who, like all good American citizens, believes everything the newspapers tell him and nothing else, takes kindly to the thought of such HERE is a subdued mur- reduced expenditure, and reviles his spouse when mur of resentment to be she mentions the price of butcher's meat. The heard from that very large experienced housekeeper remains undazzled class of women who spend by wonderful “ prize dinners,” purporting their days in making nar- to feed a family on the fat of the land and row focomes cover the on exactly the proper proportions of carbon- crucl cost of living. This aceous and nitro is an art in which femi- genous food for a ninity ispresumed toexcel; dollar. She may and, if practice makes per- know very litle fect, there should be by this about carbonaceous time little left unlearned. and nitrogenous Ever since Eve exchanged foods, but she is the simple housekeeping well aware that if and simpler costume of she buys eggs for Paradise for the great, grim — twelve centsadozen world of toil, berdaughters — they will be rotten, nave faced as best they could the prob- and that ‘sponge lems of domestic economy. But now cream boxes” made they are expected to accomplish miracles with ove egg—and of refined tbrift, and experts are writing, that a penny egg— Experimental Economy. Uncle Sam (to Pitipino): WHICH MAND WILt. YOU TAKE? may have aseductive sweetness in print, but will fail to awaken € enthusiasm at the dinner table, To the masculine fancy, how- ever, the prize dinners sound both cheap avd good, and in the masculine heart doubts are awakened concerning the justif- ability of the weekly bills. The girl who reads in the evening paper that she cao dre with quiet elegance and simplicity” on a hundred and twenty dollars a year, smiles or sighs, according to her temperament and her purse, She notices that she is advised in the first place to remodel her last winter’s cloth walking-dress and her last summer's India silk, and wonders why she is sup- posed to have been a Rothschild one season and reduced to penury the next, But the young man who contemplates matrimony, on the strength of his general unfitness and disability, likes that phrase ‘‘ quiet elegance and simplicity,” and takes heart of grace, reflecting that wives are not costly to keep. And in this wise comes much trouble into the world. EUROPE TO LAND IX THIS COUNTRY. In Philadelphia, an expert of experts is showing the public to- LESS HE WAS A TITLE.” day how a workingman’s model home should be run, and proving,